aesthelete
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- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 day ago:
These are awesome thanks for sharing. Also, if you can do magic eye and stereograms, try crossing your eyes when playing those “find the differences between these two pictures” games. They are incredibly easy if you cross your eyes.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 day ago:
ucdavis.edu/…/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-…
This is America, you aren’t getting a good regulation regime on anything. Especially not for things you buy from vape stores (stores covered in ugly ass led rope lights that look like they are exclusively by and for juggalos).
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 day ago:
anti science denialism
Wouldn’t anti science denialism just be science avocation? 😆
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 day ago:
They’re starting to get into the science of it, and it ain’t looking good. Yes, disposables are a big part of the problem.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 days ago:
Nah, vaping will be the Gen z all have lead poisoning of Gen z.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 1 week ago:
They always say “we have a few bad apples” and never complete the expression, which is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. I think the full expression makes the analogy correct.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 1 week ago:
A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.
Maybe it’s pedantic of me to say this but was not a state monopoly on violence and there certainly isn’t now. A lot of goon squads are composed of private security forces.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
What does any of this have to do with anything anyway?
Humans invented the first human language. People have ideas that aren’t simple derivatives of other ideas.
- Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 1 week ago:
Cuz it sucks and it’s worth all of the zero dollars it costs. 😆👍
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
I work in that myself, which allows me to be a step or two removed from being a complete piece of shit, but still pretty close to the shitscape.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
What’s the “right career”?
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 week ago:
Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it’s just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 1 week ago:
There it is. “Use AI” is the new “learn to code”.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
I now hate income tax because it’s just giving a handout to billionaires (and military contractors, but I repeat myself).
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
A big ol pile of shit.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
Yup and add intelligence to the list as well. Smart means nothing if you can’t back it up with being an amoral pile of shit that takes advantage of people every opportunity you get.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Are you saying human languages are a derivative of bird language or something? If so, I’d like to see the proof of that.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 1 week ago:
That’s fine but regular art isn’t 2/3 theft either.
I do buy the 1/3 shite though. It may even be a bit higher than that. Though beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc.
It’s a matter of taste for sure but I’d say AI art is >90% shite, 100% theft.
I don’t like the glossy looking hyperreal shit it puts out at all.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 1 week ago:
I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band? There’s tons of shit out there!
You said regular art is 1/3 shite and 2/3 theft. Maybe math isn’t your strong suit but that’s 3/3 which is 100% so by claiming regular art is the same you’re saying all art is either theft or shit.
It uh, it isn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
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Fucking thing sounds like a sovcit.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
That’s right. If you cannot win the argument the next best thing is to call for civility.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
I’m summarizing your shitty argument. I never said it was a direct quote.
Though, at one point even that tired ass quote and your whole way of thinking was put into words by someone for the first time.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Yeah dude at one point there was no languages and no songs. You can get into “what counts as a language” but at one point there was none. Same with songs.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
What language was the first language based upon?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Bye!
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
Through what fucking program? Magic?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
All I’ve said was that humans thoughts are also probabilistic based on the little we know of them.
Much of the universe can be modeled as probabilities in action. So what? I can model a lot of things as different things. We don’t really understand how light particles behave because we don’t have a good model for them. Scientists are still doing what scientists do: being skeptical and making and testing hypotheses. It was difficult to prove definitively that smoking causes cancer yet you’re willing to hop to “human thought is just an advanced chatbot” on scant evidence.
This is just more of you projecting your insecurity onto me and accusing me of doing things you fear.
No, it’s again a case of you buying the bullshit arguments of tech bros. Even if we had a machine capable of replicating human thought, humans are more than walking brain stems.
You want proof of that? Take a look at yourself. Are you a floating brain stem or being with limbs?
At even the most reductive and tech bro-ish, healthy humans are self-fueling, self-healing, autonomous, communicating, feeling, seeing, laughing, dancing, creative organic robots with GI built-in.
Even if a person one day creates a robot with all or most of these capabilities and worthy of considering having rights, we still won’t be the organic version of that robot. We’ll still be human.
I think you’re beyond having to touch grass. You need to take a fucking humanities course.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Is it tech bro of me to not assume immediately that humans are so much more special than simply organic thinking machines?
Yep, that’s a bingo!
Humans are absolutely more special than organic thinking machines. I’ll go a step further and say all living creatures are more special than that.
There’s a much more interesting discussion to be had than “humans are basically chatbot” but it’s this line of thinking that I find irritating.
If humans are simply thought processes or our productive output then once you have a machine capable of thinking similarly to them (btw chatbots aren’t that and likely never will be) then you can feel free to dispose of humanity. It’s a nice precursor to damning humanity to die so that you can have your robot army take over the world.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Is that why you love saying touch grass so much? Because it’s your own personal style and not because you think it’s a popular thing to say?
In this discussion, it’s a personal style thing combined with a desire to irritate you and your fellow “people are chatbot” dorks and based upon the downvotes I’d say it’s working.
And that irritation you feel is a step on the path to enlightenment. I know why I’m irritated with your arguments: they’re reductive and dehumanizing. Do you know why you’re so irritated with mine? Could it maybe be because it causes you to doubt your techbro pitch line bullshit a little?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t think humans can conceive of new ideas wholesale, then how do you think we ever invented anything?
Also, you’re the one with the burden of proof in this exchange, btw. It’s a pretty hefty claim to say that humans are unable to conceive of new ideas and are simply chatbots with organs given that* we created the freaking chat bot* you are convinced we all are.