Gsus4
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- Comment on ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t 13 hours ago:
First rule of OpenAI is: “What is OpenAI?”
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 1 day ago:
BTW, does anybody know of an offline encyclopedia which works under Wine?
You can download wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 1 day ago:
What do new generations think the internet is supposed to be? They dont even know what a directory is or what a file path is, because of design that dumbs things down…
It is important, because what people think the internet is and what they value will affect what it will evolve into.
E.g. wikipedia is reflects somehow my view of the internet in the 2000s…but for some people the internet is social media…
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 day ago:
“great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 day ago:
Why did they remove it in first place, was it to promote their cryptoscam?
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 day ago:
Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
Say one decides to pay…what guarantees do I get?
- Comment on The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. 2 months ago:
I’m still stuck in 2022 in my head, so this is still pretty fresh :o)
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 3 months ago:
That reminds me of a funny story from Encyclopedia Geopolitica where an expert in money laundering describes bitcoin around 2016 as being an el-dorado for financial forensics. It was so good at tracking funds that there was a bitcoin wallet on a terrorism website on the deep web and they could see the donations arrive in real time and catch a pile of 'em. Maybe now they are more cautious and use more mixing layers, but it is still a terrible use case for that if you don’t control transaction entry and exit nodes: the ledger is public and every transaction is traceable.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 3 months ago:
There are two possibilities: railway/dotcom bubble or monorail/bitcoin bubble …and I’m not sure which one it is going to be yet. In the first case, a lot of people lose their investment, because they got too greedy and believed in huge returns…but the infrastructure remains and there is a net good to society and time spent specializing in it is worth it afterwards. The second, not so much, it is just a hype cycle with almost nothing of use left once it is gone and a lot of wasted time. I’m leaning towards the first, but if they don’t find a way to bring energy costs down, it might end up in the monorail/bitcoin scenario…maybe 10% chance.
- Comment on Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream 3 months ago:
The people still back on the
matrixmajor platforms still do things that affect you indirectly like voting, buying things that shape everyone’s market, having their cognitive flaws exploited in ways that yours may also be… - Comment on We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years 3 months ago:
Still better than learning from LISP :)
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 5 months ago:
Wirelessly?
- Comment on Bing loses search market share to Google despite ChatGPT integration 5 months ago:
Yea…gpt just dresses your Google search with an essay It’s good for cheating on essays if you’re confident that the markers don’t spot the hallucinations, but if you need good sources, you still need to do a Google search and that’s cheaper, faster, less parsing to get your key information.
It’s just a shame that some search engines are also mangling themselves for enshittification e.g. no word filtering using “-” because of advertising losses. I’ve noticed this with ddg and Google sometimes.
- Comment on A really nice Lions Mane is fruiting! 6 months ago:
Y’er a fungus, harry! 💮
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 6 months ago:
You could tell them that your dog made you do it, then the ball is on their court to act crazy :D
- Comment on Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not 6 months ago:
A hard determinist would say that humans have as much “free will” as a rock, but there is a difference in agency where a human system bases its decisions on a large spatial, time range of experiences (moments to life-long experiences and multi-generation planning, tiny tools all the way to architecture planning) to make “decisions”. What do you call that?
Because it exists and if it’s not called free will, that’s probably the closest thing that scientifically can be measured and associated with “free will”.
We may just be “transistors” responding to the environment, but we are complex enough to introduce chaos by connecting lots of unrelated things to the point of being as close to being unpredictable as any random system in the universe.
- Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them 6 months ago:
I know, maybe trust was not the right expression. The issue is that we still buy them, even if we know they’re pumped full of spyware.
- Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them 6 months ago:
Electric cars are just “phones with wheels”…so if you happen to “trust” their phones, it’s not a huge jump to cars…but it’s a jump 😅
- Comment on ‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun 6 months ago:
look at me perpetuating stereotypes under the guise of humor
- Comment on I think this is a ringless honey mushroom. Anyway, already made stir fry out of it and I'm not dead. 6 months ago:
Thank you for your service…what did they taste like?
- Comment on ‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun 6 months ago:
Wait wait, how are you calculating that? If you take a generic solar irradiance of 6kWh/day/m^2^ and let’s assume the car has a solar panel area of 3m^2^ with a solar panel efficiency up to 30% and the cosine for solar angle (say ~0.7), given the best 137 Wh/km around, that gives around 30km a day. That’s already enough for my commute.
All this neglects shade, won’t work for all latitudes…but it can also be upgraded with improved battery storage/weight, improved solar panel efficiency and maybe even the area of the car top and shape of panels can be improved (e.g. make them extendable). At worst, you just top it up to 500km from the grid every weekend and that will make up for the difference.
- Comment on ‘Survival of the fittest’ may also apply to the nonliving, report finds 6 months ago:
Same for universes if you adhere to the anthropic principle: the universe is the way it is, because that is what enables life somewhere to talk about it.
- Comment on ‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun 6 months ago:
The car was built by a team of students, wtf does it matter if it’s ugly to you?
- Comment on ‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun 6 months ago:
How come there are so many here heckling prototypes for being ugly when the ford T was so popular?