ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 4 days ago:
Heh, I loved the first one and then I tried the second one, hated how they changed the combat, and quit.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 5 days ago:
An exponential function is a specific mathematical concept, like a circle or an even number. I’m not sure what you mean by “asymptote” here - an exponential function of the form
y = x^kasymptotically approaches zero asxgoes to negative infinity, but that doesn’t sound like what you’re referring to. - Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 5 days ago:
It’s exponential along its entire range, all the way back to negative infinity. It also is not an asymptotic function.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 days ago:
Your facial data isn’t private information. You give it away every time you go outside.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
There are a lot of cute people out there walking around with their feet visible, and if you stare at their feet while talking to them, they’ll just think you’re shy.
- Comment on Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI 1 week ago:
That’s really clever. (And the people pissed off aren’t potential customers anyway.)
- Comment on I do it around town all the time 1 week ago:
The guy selling your the property is much less likely to rip you apart with his powerful fangs than the wolf would be in the analogous situation.
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
I saw a guy yell at the gate employee. The guy’s flight had arrived late and the employee was telling him that the door to his connecting flight was already closed so she could not let him board even though the plane hadn’t left yet. Eventually a manager showed up and got yelled at too and he opened the door and let the guy on the plane. So it can work.
- Comment on Calm down 1 week ago:
Divide by zero error.
- Comment on Good morning here is a terrible idea. 1 week ago:
As if 21st century kids have the patience to learn to play a musical instrument voluntarily…
- Comment on Plant shaming should be a thing 1 week ago:
plant has mouth
humans put words in the plant’s mouth
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 week ago:
Obviously the average American isn’t directly participating in making the major decisions, but what the average American wants still generally has far more influence on the future of the world than what the average citizen of any other country wants.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 week ago:
Well, I have the option of leaving. It’s not purely hypothetical for me because I’m not originally from the USA - I was just a kid when I came here, so it wasn’t my decision but it was a decision and I can see myself making a similar decision to go somewhere else. Maybe I will need to leave if things in the USA get a lot worse but for now living in a blue state still seems like a better option.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Eh, at least the USA has agency - we get to choose which stupid direction to take half the world in, while most other countries are just along for the ride.
- Comment on The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild. 2 weeks ago:
What I don’t get are the dogs that are aggressive towards other dogs. It’s like having a person who feels an irresistible compulsion to attack strangers.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 3 weeks ago:
Are you aware that there is a significant population of white people in South Africa and a long history of racial conflict there between them and the black majority? The white minority ruled over and oppressed the black majority until the end of apartheid in the early nineties and the idea that the majority could now be persecuting the minority is not ridiculous per se the way that you imply it is, although the general consensus outside of the circles Trump listens to is that such persecution isn’t happening.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, an “unauthorized modification”. It must have been the janitor pressing buttons accidentally while mopping the mainframe room.
- Comment on Uncultured 3 weeks ago:
Their true purpose is sinister.
- Comment on When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy 4 weeks ago:
There is a very good reason for the super rich to support the rule of law: it protects their own wealth and power. Even if they may want to be aristocrats in a highly stratified society like, for example, 19th century Britain rather than a modern democratic welfare state, they don’t stand to benefit from the transition to a modern autocracy. 19th century Britain was very much a nation of laws where the government would protect the rights and property of the super rich whereas modern autocrats quickly co-opt them into personal lenders whose well-being is entirely at the mercy of the autocrat.
Thus, while some super rich individuals may support populist autocracy either due to idiosyncratic personal beliefs or short-term political expediency, transitioning to it is not in the best interest of the super rich as a class. Rule of law isn’t the same thing as democracy but I don’t see a global movement towards rule of law without democracy - the two are in the present day apparently inextricable.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think they stomped loudly (except maybe when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 4 weeks ago:
I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
That was definitely inappropriate, but it would still have been inappropriate if it was made up by a human rather than by an AI. I think it’s useful to distribute between bad things that happen to be done by an AI and things that are bad specifically because they are done by an AI. How would you feel about an AI that didn’t lie or deceive but also didn’t announce itself as an AI?
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
ChangeMyView seems like the sort of topic where AI posts can actually be appropriate. If the goal is to hear arguments for an opposing point of view, the AI is contributing more than a human would if in fact the AI can generate more convincing arguments.
- Comment on Let's do it 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’m not into gorillas.
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 5 weeks ago:
No kid wants a toy Aquaman.
- Comment on If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves. 5 weeks ago:
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and lived exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
- Comment on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I edited my post to add more specific information before I saw your reply.
The bill had enough support from both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature that the governor couldn’t have vetoed it.
- Comment on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders 5 weeks ago:
A single car with ISA can also prevent multiple drivers behind it from recklessly accelerating, so even a small number of ISA-equipped vehicles could have a dramatic impact on regional or even national road safety.
In my experience, a slow driver will be passed (often rather aggressively) by drivers wanting to go faster if that is at all possible. That feels a lot more dangerous than simply having everyone drive at the rate of traffic. Or is the author envisioning a scenario where there are enough of these slow cars to cause a traffic jam?
- Comment on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders 5 weeks ago:
Republicans? The Virginia state legislature is controlled by Democrats.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 1 month ago:
The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn’t want to go back to China.