ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on rinse 1 day ago:
That and the sign is probably not real too.
- Comment on rinse 1 day ago:
Isn’t this a very reasonable rule? I really would prefer that you did not wash your balls in the Baja Blast.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 days ago:
I think that then we actually agree.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 days ago:
The policy goals of the 0.01% are basically in lock step, why would they bid against each other?
The Democrats and the Republicans both raise money.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 days ago:
Yes, and so what? $5.5 billion was spent on the 2024 presidential election. That’s very little. There are individuals capable of spending more than that. So if spending more could actually affect the outcome in a significant way, why wasn’t much more spent? Surely the difference between Harris and Trump is worth more than just $5.5 billion to some group. My conclusion is that while some amount of money is necessary to run a campaign, even the relatively small amount being spent now is so far past the point of diminishing returns that spending more isn’t worth it even to billionaires who could easily do so and care a lot about the outcome.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 days ago:
I haven’t noticed this behavior coming from scientists particularly frequently - the ones I’ve talked to generally accept that consciousness is somehow the product of the human brain, the human brain is performing computation and obeys physical law, and therefore every aspect of the human brain, including the currently unknown mechanism that creates consciousness, can in principle be modeled arbitrarily accurately using a computer. They see this as fairly straightforward, but they have no desire to convince the public of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This isn’t the Cthulhu universe. There isn’t some horrible truth ChatGPT can reveal to you which will literally drive you insane. Some people use ChatGPT a lot, some people have psychotic episodes, and there’s going to be enough overlap to write sensationalist stories even if there’s no causative relationship.
I suppose ChatGPT might be harmful to someone who is already delusional by (after pressure) expressing agreement, but I’m not sure about that because as far as I know, you can’t talk a person into or out of psychosis.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 days ago:
Yes, the first step to determining that AI has no capability for cognition is apparently to admit that neither you nor anyone else has any real understanding of what cognition* is or how it can possibly arise from purely mechanistic computation.
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”
Given? Given by what? Fiction in which robots can’t comprehend the human concept called “love”?
- Comment on I dont even know where my shit is. 4 days ago:
That advertisement had no effect on me whatsoever.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 week ago:
Nah if I’m going to shill for any Manhattan grocery store, it will be Fairway. It’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off. Their cheese counter has prices per 1/4 pound for some of the cheeses but then if you get some $15 per 1/4 pound cheese it will taste so good that you’ll think it was worth it. I haven’t been in years but I still long for that cheese.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s actually an unusual conversation for people who live in Manhattan to have. The comments about relative prices are accurate in my experience - I live on the same block as a Gristides and I still never shop there because of how expensive it is, even compared to Whole Foods. I get most of my groceries in Brooklyn on the weekends.
- Comment on Good luck, mom 2 weeks ago:
My mother loved Dr. Mario. She would sometimes encourage me to skip school (“Are you sure you feel alright? You look like you might be sick . Maybe you should stay home just in case.”) and we would play it until my ten-year-old self got bored first. However, she had zero interest in even trying any other games.
- Comment on Deez peets 3 weeks ago:
As if human legs aren’t the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.
- Comment on Fabulous through the ages 3 weeks ago:
I see a dimetrodon.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
Serious answer:
That’s cool. What makes it special?
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they’re proud that they could afford it and even when they’re being tone-deaf, there’s no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they’re stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you’re the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren’t so expensive that a middle-class person can’t plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. My former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say “I really like the 2008 model.” She couldn’t argue with that.
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Divide by zero error.
- Comment on Good morning here is a terrible idea. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
plant has mouth
humans put words in the plant’s mouth
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 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. 1 month 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.