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- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
I remember hearing about somewhere - alphabet or meta or something like that - that basically provided adult crèche facilities for the employees. Way beyond just food - On-site nap rooms. Washing machines. Showers. The works. All to enable just a super unhealthy attitude towards work. Thinking about how much that must’ve affected anyone going there straight after uni when they should have been leaning how to look after themselves makes me shudder with cringe
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You have them in comics a lot, I wonder if…
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 1 month ago:
All social media can be anonymous if you want it to be ;)
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
Some trees do a bit, I guess? Like, beech trees will release some chemicals to inhibit other plant growth, and iirc their leaves do that as they decompose, as well as the root system itself. But depends on the plant and mostly bunk I believe.
- Comment on Roses are red in North Carolina..... 4 months ago:
Needs more jpeg. I can still read it
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
Huh, didn’t realise it was that old. TiL I guess.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
15… Years? On the fediverse? How’d ya manage that without time travel?
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 5 months ago:
I think it’s probably fair to say that suggesting that a finger in the barrel of a gun would stop a bullet is a least 10x, if not 100x, worse than the Nazis.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 5 months ago:
*has bleen
- Comment on Science Journalism 5 months ago:
No. It’s all a bit hand-wavy and nebulous tbh; I think the only leg it’ll have to stand on will be if and when entanglement effects are seen to have a predictive power over complex states that we simply haven’t seen; and IMO at that point it ceases to be an argument about consciousness anyway
- Comment on Science Journalism 5 months ago:
Not that I’ve seen