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- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 days ago:
Thank you, I will now internalize this for future silly misuse
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 days ago:
Can it work the other way too? Like an excessively high energy person makes a normal energy person seem less so?
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 days ago:
I would like to request a translation
- Comment on The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk 1 week ago:
OP is the kind of person who shits in the punch bowl for attention
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got nearly a decade of experience in competitive pistol and three-gun matches and I was never by any means competitive. The footage of what he accomplished in his training is impressive and requires a significant amount of practice and skill. Even if what I saw was only the best roll, it was no accident
- Comment on Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review 2 weeks ago:
I’ll crack some open and give it a shot. If I find anything that consistently works I’ll update here
- Comment on Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. 2 weeks ago:
Dude, what is this book. Who writes like this? I fucking adore it
- Comment on Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review 2 weeks ago:
I’ve thought about doing this with my resume, but I’m no prompt engineer
- Comment on Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. 2 weeks ago:
Oh fuck yeah, buddy! I’m grabbing it right now! Might buy the audio on libro.fm to support the author too
- Comment on Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. 2 weeks ago:
I’m a sci fi nerd from foundation to Hyperion to the expanse but I’ve never heard of Blindsight, and you’ve absolutely sold me on it
- Comment on Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. 2 weeks ago:
Ooo added the book to my list, thanks!
Also, Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined explores whether we’re conscious or not based on his work in neuroscience and primatology. It’s like a book length version of the quote you posted
- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 3 weeks ago:
They found a way to create a high surface area capacitor made largely from abundant resources. Even a proof of concept is a discovery. We may not see it in practice in our lifetimes because science and industry take time, but that doesn’t diminish the value at all.
Why is this a false equivalence? I’m not saying this is the next Faraday. I’m comparing contemporaries. You can’t know what technologies will make what kind of difference in the future, but there’s no harm in being excited about our interested in them and their possibilities. I think my comparisons are fair, especially if you consider the technology of each contemporary era. What about Turing? He created a mechanical computational machine and extrapolated the future possibility of machines that could mimic human communication. That is absolutely an edge case assumption given the technology of the time and yet here we are with LLMs running rampant.
- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 3 weeks ago:
A couple of guys doing cool stuff in a lab is how progress is made. If we stopped people like Tesla, Newton, and Faraday because “candles are readily available and whale oil is a natural resource” we wouldn’t have any of the tech we take for granted today.
This discovery is super cool, like imagine its applications in walkable cities where the entire pedestrian pathway is also storing energy from wind and solar
- Comment on Official Voice of Frieren Reassures Fans She Isn't Leaving Award-Winning Anime Series / Frieren mini anime 4 weeks ago:
Lycoris Recoil is doing something similar. Seems like a smart way to keep people engaged and show the studio that the numbers are strong enough to keep the show alive, but I am a little concerned that the studios might start pivoting to shorter form productions to cut costs
- Comment on Posting a new delicious meal daily for a week [Day 1] 5 weeks ago:
Looks like the swedish meatballs I had in Stockholm. They told me it was a national specialty, but I think they just wanted to sell them and I, an ignorant American, bought it
- Comment on Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle? 5 weeks ago:
Unironically, for sure
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 5 weeks ago:
I never spent enough time on YouTube for it to develop its algorithm for me. I watch like 2 videos a week maybe, usually searching for something specific, and most of the recs for me have always been obscure clickbait I’m not interested in seeing
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 5 weeks ago:
I see no problem with this, what with all the recommended slop
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 1 month ago:
I have never been able to figure out how to block fingerprinting without entirely disabling my browser and it looks like the race to the bottom is accelerating
- Comment on Felling whimsical, might kms later 1 month ago:
- Comment on slrpnk.net is back 1 month ago:
Hell yeah, I knew my feed was missing something
- Comment on It burns! 1 month ago:
False Knees? One of my favorites
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
Gotcha, makes sense
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
I misinterpreted “not a professional pilot,” thanks. Also, I still don’t understand and will probably never watch the show, sooo I guess that’s that
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 1 month ago:
He flew a plane? Without a pilots licence? And that saved lives?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My old job force migrated everyone to Okta the week it got breached
- Comment on Google Is Burying the Web Alive 2 months ago:
Still sounds like an advertising racket, except instead of paying Google to show ads, companies will pay Google to include an ad script in its AI responses. The extreme case scenario is that websites no longer exist and all Internet searches are queries to a highly regulated AI agent with zero transparency. I doubt it will get exactly that far, but the closer we get the more harm we do to accessibility of the sum total of human knowledge
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And cayenne
- Comment on I always get into to the wrong mlm 😫 2 months ago:
Fry making Walter Koenig say it as Chekov
