testfactor

@testfactor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrono Trigger Is Timeless⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will say, the longer I look at that, the less confident I am that there is any difference at all, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using the honor system⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I saw this, I think I’d take and eat one? Like, I do love a good raisin…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It kind of depends on the facts and your jurisdiction. With the button, maybe? With a death note book, almost certainly not.

  When proving the elements of attempted murder (or any non-statutory crime), the state has to prove both “mens rea” and “actus rea” (that you intended to do the thing and that you tried to do the thing), but when you’re being charged for something “attempted” you have the defense of “impossibility,” when the actions you are trying to take couldn’t have possibly worked.

  Now, that doesn’t cover cases where you were only wrong in point of fact. For instance, buying fake drugs from a cop. But it does cover instances like using a voodoo doll.

  There’s more detail on all the above in the illustrated guide to law, which is a pretty solid resource for stuff like this. Here are the relevant sections:

  Actus Rea Explanation: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=261

  Attempted Crimes: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=344

  Impossibly Defense: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=416

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The gospels were, while written decades after the fact, written by people who were alive at the time. It’s not really a game of telephone.

  It turns out that when a guy dies in his early 30s, most of his buddies are still alive 30-50yrs later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 1962 Phillip K Dick put out a book called “Man in the High Castle.” In it there was a scene that stuck out to me, and seems more and more relevant as this AI wave continues.

  In it a man has two identical lighters. Each made in the same year by the same manufacturer. But one was priceless and one was worthless.

  The priceless one was owned by Abraham Lincoln and was in his pocket on the night he was assassinated. He had a letter of certification as such, and could trace the ownership all the way back to that night.

  And he takes them both and mixes them up and asks which is the one with value. If you can no longer discern the one with “historicity,” then where is it’s value?

  And every time I see an article like this I can’t help but think about that. If I tell you about the life and hardship of an artist, and then present you two poems, one that he wrote and one that was spit out by an LLM, and you cannot determine which has the true hardship and emotion tied to it, then which has value? What if I killed the artist before he could reveal which one was the “true” poem? How do you know which is a powerful expression of the artist’s oppression, and which is worthless, randomly generated swill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. I presume that they meant publicly available in the sense that it was accessible to the public, not in the sense that it was necessarily free.

  The article says they are using PimEyes, which I assume means that they’re paying for a subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They did mention a name. Publicly available database called PimEyes apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in the article. Public database called PimEyes.

  It doesn’t go into much more detail than that. Says it’s an open to the public face searching database.