benni

@benni@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky hits 20 million users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking as a layman, isn’t it well established that the stock market is extremely efficient and that active trading underperforms (for the same risk level) towards passively buying the market? Or does this not apply to very local markets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever get a profound sense that everything in your life has happened before?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All that I wanted were things I had before.

  All that I needed, I never needed more.

  All of my questions were answers to my sins.

  All of my endings were waiting to begin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nazposting! - A community for posting about everyone's favourite rat girl, Nazrin!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry bro, I voted them back up for you. Except the Peter Griffnyan one, I downvoted that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your sentiment about positive social interactions being important.

  But the thing is, and I think that’s what the poster you were replying to meant, that you need zero knowledge about evolution to notice that. Everyone notices it in daily life. Scientific studies give us evidence about our social nature. If we didn’t know about evolution, the conclusion would still be the same: we are deeply programmed to be social. If the same conclusion is reached with or without a specific piece of information, then that information is useless for predictions, like the previous poster said. Or are you in all seriousness telling me that the reason you gifted your XBox to a kid was that you have an understanding of evolution??? And without that understanding, you wouldn’t have thought of making that gift?

• The popularity of Minecraft has probably led some children to believe you can swim up waterfalls
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate him so much bros

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they were proven right, got a lunch, and paid nothing… The conclusion is that there is a free lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is assasin's creed origins good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a background, I loved the Ezio games and also enjoyed AC3 somewhat. I also love open world RPGs in general. But I hate grinding and mandatory generic side quests.

  I tried it years ago, but did not like it and stopped playing after some hours. Assassinations via sneaking up and one-shotting were not possible AFAIR, which ruined the fun on assassinations for me. RPG mechanics like leveling and skills were present, but were designed in a way that added nothing of value to the experience while requiring a boring grind. There were many side quests, but they felt boring and generic and. I could have overlooked these things and concentrated on the main story, but engaging in the level grind and the generic side quests was to a large degree mandatory to be able to continue the story. That made me feel like I’m wasting my time and made me stop playing.

  Overall I felt that the game tried to find some compromise between story-based action adventure and open-world RPG, but just ended up combining the worst of both worlds. It felt like the RPG features were pushed in top-down (“everyone is doing open world, levels and skill trees now, we should put that in the game”) without any regard to WHY these features work well in some games and how they have to be integrated in order to make the experience more fun.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is only one type of job. Doing something someone else doesn't want to do.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, for all jobs there is only limited supply. If more people want the job than there are jobs available, some of the people who want the job must necessarily end up not getting the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case it actually makes sense because the main goal is to make an artificial entity appear intelligent to the player. This is not the same as calling all ML algorithms/models AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of dissatisfied with the answers here. As soon as you talk about actually drawing a line in the real world, the distinction between rational and irrational numbers stops making sense. In other words, the distinction between rational and irrational numbers is a concept that describes numbers to an accuracy that is impossible to achieve in real life. So you cannot draw a line with a clearly irrational length, but neither can you draw a line with a clearly rational length. You can only define theoretical mathematical constructs which can then be classified as rational or irrational, if applicable.

  More mathematically phrased: in real life, your line to which you assign the length L will always have an inaccuracy of size x>0. But for any real L, the interval (L-x;L+x) contains both an infinite number of rational and an infinite number of irrational numbers. Note that this is independent of how small the value of x is. This is why I said that the accuracy, at which the concept of rational and irrational numbers make sense, is impossible to achieve in real life.

  So I think your confusion stems from mixing the lengths we assign to objects in the real world with the lengths we can accurately compute for mathematical objects that we have created in our minds using axioms and definitions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cycle or spiral?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a lot of hate against the concept of doing one’s own research on the internet and it really bothers me. The problem is not doing one’s own research. The scientists that wrote this paper also did their own research. All scientists (should) do their own research. That’s inherent to science and that’s part of what got humanity this far. The problem is that some people lack the capabilities to properly assess information sources and draw correct conclusions from them. So these people end up with incorrect beliefs. Of course they could just “trust the experts” instead, but how are they supposed to know which experts to trust if they’re not good at assessing sources of information? Finding those experts is in itself a task that requires you to do your own research.

  TL;DR: I think this hate on “doing your own research” is unjustified. People believing nonsense is a problem that is inescapable and inherent to humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too Damn High...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of which sugars: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NOW I CAN SEE THE WALES LOOMING OUT OF THE DARK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can willpower be trained ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this not just a (mildly oversimplified) framing of what psychologists call ego depletion [1]? This appears to be a well-replicated finding. I don’t see any reason to call it “wildly incorrect”.

  [1] The strength model of self-control. psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-18261-013

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can willpower be trained ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This blog post summarizes the science nicely: …stanford.edu/…/a-conversation-about-the-science-… TL;DR: You can train your willpower. It does act like a limited resource. But most importantly, it is strongly affected by your sleep, nutrition and stress level.

  I found that mindfulness meditation was helpful for me. Practically, you can achieve an effect that is similar to having strengthened willpower by organizing your life in such a way that you don’t encounter many temptations in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oldie but a goodie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t feel like sexual harassment to them because it’s directed towards a straight male. Change the words to “stable girl” and everyone would call it creepy instead of funny (as they should, because it is). Don’t try to reason with these people, it will just needlessly make you angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think these guys should expand to the international market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “Büromöbel” (office furniture) company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Users be like “I’m encountering mostly promotional articles in my RSS feed”

  My brother in christ, you curated the feed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: if a person living in the west in the 21st century thinks they should have the right to take people of a different race as their own personal slaves, do you think there is no basis to call this person immoral? The best we can do is say that this person is incompatible with the time and place they are in?