L0rdMathias
@L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 3 days ago:
Investors have invested lots of money into these companies. This means in some form or another these companies have agreed to pay back these investors in some way. You can answer this by quite literally thinking of money like a river, and the motion of that river is what gives energy to businesses so they can do their things.
In a normal not-bubble market, there is a flow of cash that goes from investors, into the company, and then back out to investors so they can do other things with it.
In a bubble market a lot of cash is flowing into the company, but little or no cash is flowing out back to investors. There are two possible things that happen here, either the cash eventually starts flowing again and we’re all good back to normal after some stabilization period, or people stop pumping cash into the business and the dam breaks. All that money is lost, or all that potential business energy is lost, or some combination of the two no matter how you slice it it’s wasted effort.
To keep with the water metaphor the AI market is like a hose that’s wound up in a box we can’t see into. We’ve pumped a ton of water into this hose and haven’t seen anything come out the other end. There could be a leak somewhere, or maybe we don’t have enough water to even get through the hose and people will want to use their water for other things instead. One thing we do know is that we’ve devoted so much water to this operation that if something does go wrong it has to go wrong spectacularly.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 days ago:
What is with all these wall of text answers guys?
Twitter people like Twitter and Twitter man for making it. Twitter now not Twitter is now X and no more Twitter man. Twitter people not like TeslaSpace man. Twitter man make BlueSky.
No elephant needed to make this story work. Remember: twitter brain cannot handle too many characters.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 1 week ago:
Just teach them tic tac toe first.
- Comment on Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week 2 weeks ago:
Intel QA failing to audit third party suppliers properly is Intel’s fault.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy! I’m so excited to wait months for an update to a buggy mess for the update to simply adds a new texture for cans of beans and a new style of jeans.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
Circles are good at math, but what to do if you not have circle shape? Easy, redefine problem until you have numbers that look like the numbers the circle shape uses. Now we can use circle math on and solve problems about non-circles!
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
The internet is serious business.
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 3 weeks ago:
They’re finally ending the official servers, releasing the source code, and allowing private servers?
- Comment on They're Bot's BAtman, thEres No ruLes about Bots 3 weeks ago:
TAS runs are often are less about the challenge of beating a game and more about displaying mastery in knowledge and understanding of the game’s code.
Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get it right off the bat, even just casually viewing them requires a fundamental understanding of how games and computers work.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 weeks ago:
Both answers are correct. 20 years divides into 5 sets of 4, but that’ would only be 5 elections if you started counting on an election year.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 weeks ago:
That’s less than 10% of the country’s life. Just because you didn’t exist before you were born does not mean that others did not.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
“They found the smart TVs did not appear to upload any screenshots or audio data when streaming from Netflix or other third-party apps, mirroring YouTube content streamed on a separate phone or laptop or when sitting idle. But the smart TVs did upload snapshots when showing broadcasts from the TV antenna or content from an HDMI-connected device.”
The world is owned by a big club, and you’re not in it.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
You can’t just go out and buy a perpetual license for any random thing you purchase.
- Comment on Just tri to watch this.... 1 month ago:
Q1: Assume the blue wind is blowing at an average rate of 12m/s, at a heading of due South. An angel with a mass of 3000kg is heading towards Tokyo and has a heading of 14 degrees north of due West. It has a maximums thrust of 400kps and is 2 miles from the city. How long can Shinji reasonably avoid getting in the robot, keeping the door to his heart shut, if we are to assume the angel has an attack range of 100m? What about an attack range of 300m? Assume the angel can destroy 4% of Tokyo per minute of it’s attack. A city survival rate of 70% is required.
Q2: Assume Shinji is too much of a bitch to get in the robot. A backup pilot is available on hand, but has suffered severe injuries. She will operate with a combat effectivness of 40%. A second backup is available, but needs to be imported from Germany. Which pilot would you choose in place of Shinji for the best chance of victory and why?
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 1 month ago:
Impossible to say. He certainly wouldn’t have been a real estate icon in the 80s and would probably not have been born a silver spoon trust fund baby.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 2 months ago:
I agree with the sentiment, and understand completely what you’re trying to say. But I digress, because the lack of logic in this sorry excuse for an argument has to be dealt with.
So along with insulting me by assuming that I didn’t click on the link and was unable to figure out that In-N-Out was in the second position in that list, you are also trying to imply that the a burger place doesn’t belong on a list of 400 companies that are good to work for, simply because it’s a burger join. Simultaneously we must assume that being a burger joint is irrelevant, while ending the statement with the implication being that anyone can be a good employer if a lowly burger joint can figure it out.
Is the argument that a business built around the production and sale of hamburgers appearing on a list of good companies is a bad thing? Cuz that’s what the words say, it I don’t think that’s what you are trying to communicate.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 2 months ago:
“Ur wrong lmao, source: because I felt it in my heart”
Are you actually willing to take that bet? That no employee hired within the past 5 years will ever make a comfortable salary working for the In-N-Out corporation? I want the cash value you are willing to lose for this claim written down before we proceed.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 2 months ago:
Bro what?? In N Out burger is one of the best employers in the nation and are repeatedly recognized for their absurdly rare good treatment of employees. They’re one of the only businesses in that industry that focus on employee retention and career growth.
You really out here bashing the guy living his best life, making ends meet with minimal effort and maximum efficiency, under one of the best employers in the US, just because burger flipping “isn’t a skill and can teach nothing”.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 2 months ago:
It’s intentional damaging to sell the illusion. A near mint quality already opened and played cartridge from 20 years ago would be extremely suspicious.
- Comment on Harvard wouldn't lie 2 months ago:
THE BEST
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
do nothing
Win
The gaben method works again
- Comment on Why did Hamas choose Oct 7 to strike? Instead of say another day? 2 months ago:
Because OCT 7 8 9
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
“Guy who was fed a pay-to-win degree at a nepotism practicing school with a silver spoon shares fantasy, to his fan base that own large publications, about replacing hard working and intelligent employees with machines he is unable to comprehend the most basic features of”
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 2 months ago:
Low effort high sentence crime like credit card or check fraud. Represent yourself in court and be a complete ass to maximize the jury’s dislike of you, no sob stories reveal zero empathy for what you did. Try to find that sweet spot between minimum security prison, but long sentencing. Make a friend in jail and start a “fight” with them the day before your probation hearing or something to extend the behavior without angering the guards/warden too much?
It’s a pretty high risk low reward strategy, but the risk is mostly because it’s hard to get into a “good prison”. Also make sure you do it in a state with free prison, some states are pay-to-stay prison, though I guess that could open the opportunity for loan fraud and another sentence if you do get out?
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 2 months ago:
Wait what, jow many kilominutes per hour is one mile per stone?
- Comment on Lets hit them with their own weapons 3 months ago:
It was clearly staged. You expect me to believe that an American, a person from the land of guns, a person who grew up in schools filled with guns somehow can’t manage to hit his target with a gun; While a little over two years ago some Japanese dude, from the country that abhors guns, where guns are all but completely banned was able to not only make a cave-gun but also managed to lethally hit their target with it?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yes, I have had the same experience for a few months now. Unfortunately a few communities I’m part of are still bound to that site so I have to sift through it constantly.
Twitter died a few years ago and was replaced by something else, now the skin-suit is starting to rot and peel revealing the beast that assumed its flesh.
- Comment on 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots 4 months ago:
Good point. There is a theory somewhere that loosely states one cannot understand the nature of one’s own intelligence. Iirc it’s a philosophical extension of group/set theory, but it’s been a long time since I looked into any of that so the details are a bit fuzzy. I should look into that again.
At least with computers we can mathematically prove their limits and state with high confidence that any intelligence they have is mimicry at best. Look into turing completeness and it’s implications for more detailed answers. Computational limits are still limits.
- Comment on 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots 4 months ago:
I think we should still do it, we probably will never understand unless we do it, but we have to accept the possibility that if these synths are indeed sentient then they also deserve the basic rights of intelligent living beings.
- Comment on 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots 4 months ago:
That raises a lot of ethical concerns. It is not possible to prove or disprove that these synthetic homunculi controllers are sentient and intelligent beings.