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- Comment on OpenAI, Google, & Anthropic Face Hurdles In Advancing AI Models, Casting Doubt On Near-Term AGI 6 days ago:
This just in, something that only exists as a sci-fi trope which has never been demonstrated to be even remotely possible is not on the verge of spontaneously emerging from something that is completely unrelated and comparatively unremarkable.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
Because your example sentence uses the word ‘went’ rather than ‘was’, you need a comma because those are two separate I dependent clauses.
You and Dave were together and then Dave leaves you and goes driving by himself… me and Dave, then Dave went.
If you used ‘was’ then those would not be independent clauses and therefore a comma would not be used. It was me and Dave and Dave was driving.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe that’s accurate.
There are only two things in the list, pig & whistle.
They want more space between pig and &.
They also want more space between & and whistle.
If we were listing three areas where they want additional space we would need at least one comma, and I would argue for the Oxford comma as well, however we are only listing two areas where we want more space and so no comma is needed.
Sure it’s nearly unreadable, but I think it’s grammatically correct.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
They refer to the same and twice.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
Hate to be a shill, but were they of the Bic brand or were they shitty knock offs?
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
Lighters last a super long time and they don’t contain batteries which is the real concern.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 weeks ago:
That depends on who the fuck Vivian Williams is.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
That’s a long and boring response.
The evidence that no one can live past 123 is that no one has ever lived past 123. We have a sample size of billions on that statistic.
Some low quality science journal says that ‘maybe we could live forever, or like, 150 or something’ and I say ‘cool story bro’.
I can imagine that it might be true, but that does not make it possible.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
People like you are why Iemmy is almost as bad as Reddit… talking in circles, saying nothing.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Please forgive me if I have misunderstood you.
I am not sure what relevance ‘pop-science’ has unless pop science means non science.
I get that you are saying ‘maybe, possibly, not completely ridiculous to think’, etc., however until it has been demonstrated to be a possibility, the idea that a human might live until 150 is just about as preposterous as the articles’ postulation of the potential for physical immortality.
Something which is evidenced to be not possible does not suddenly become ‘possible’ just because one can imagine it.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
That article is bunk clickbait.
Here is an article from a better source saying the opposite.
- Comment on United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change 1 month ago:
But, let me guess, the billionaires don’t want them to.
- Comment on The mark 1 month ago:
If you are a 90s kid you have this freckle on your
armboobs - Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB 1 month ago:
Years ago, I tried cities skylines on a sort of shitty PC… spent at least 8 hours trying to get it to work, then just gave up.
Requested a refund and it was granted almost immediately.
I bought a better PC and repurchased, and not it runs fine but the game itself is pretty mod dependent and I have spent more time installing and uninstalling mods than actually playing the game.
So yes, ask for a refund and you will probably get it even outside the 2hour window.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
Because something has not yet been proven to be impossible does not make that thing possible.
Speculation alone does not make a thing possible. You cannot claim that something is possible until you have demonstrated that it is indeed possible.
All things that have not been proven to be possible have a default state of being impossible until their possibility can be demonstrated.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
Gibberish, absolute gibberish.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
You are talking funny friend… we can NOT recreate the human brain. Maybe someday, but so far it has not been demonstrated to be possible.
You say that we can recreate the human brain because we know the human brain can exist.
The sun can exist, can we recreate the sun?
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
Just because intelligence exists does not mean it is possible to artificially create general intelligence… we would need some evidence that AGI is possible other than ‘makes sense to me’
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
Because intelligence exists, AGI similar to the human brain is possible? Your conclusion does not follow the premise.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
Would there be traffic though?
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 2 months ago:
The headline says they make 250k, or around 21k gross. 17k was my estimate of net. Article doesn’t match the headline.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 3 months ago:
Bringing in 17k+ per month after tax and cannot afford a home?? I call bullshit. A $750k home is 5k per month including HOA/tax/insurance. That’s less than 30% of their take home.
They could double their payment and pay it off in 5 years, with 7k per month to live on n, then they live rent free for the rest of their lives.
This article feels like propaganda. Homes are over priced but 250k per year is a lot of money.
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 3 months ago:
Or maybe a little from column A and a little from column B
- Comment on All I Know Is Rejection. When I Was A Kid, My Yo-Yo: It Never Came Back 3 months ago:
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
Boy am I ugly. I’m so ugly that when I was born the doctor slapped my mother.
My mother, she wouldn’t breastfeed me, she said she liked me as a friend.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Then later as I was growing up, when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Boy I was an ugly kid. I had plenty of pimples, one day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
I met the surgeon general, he gave me a cigarette.
Then I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
I told my doctor I want to get a vasectomy. He told me that with a face like mine, I don’t need one.
I told my doctor, “Every day I wake up, I look in the mirror, I want to throw up. What’s wrong with me?” He said, “I don’t know, but your eyesight is perfect.
I tell ya, I know I’m ugly. My proctologist stuck his finger in my mouth.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Fair enough, but reading the comments it appears your edit isn’t explicit enough, or people just read the headlines I guess.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information:
I know we are desperate for content here on Lemmy, and I can google hate circle jerk with the best of them, but maybe just delete the post if it is a complete clickbait lie… you could also reword the post as a fact check, ‘no, google isn’t injecting adds into maps.’
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
The process of science is called the scientific method.
There certainly are people who call what they do ‘science’, but if they aren’t using the method, they are not doing science properly.
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
The only thing that can correct bad science is good science.
That’s the great thing about the scientific method, as soon as someone presents a flawed hypothesis which is then subjected to scrutiny, good science has the opportunity to shine a light on the mistakes.
The process of science is not deeply flawed. Just because capitalism does indeed incentivize some to stray away from the scientific method does not then make science itself flawed.
You are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Capitalism is a big problem, but to say that the scientific method is deeply flawed because of capitalism is not correct.
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
Regarding the masturbation and the dildo, well I suppose I have been had.
But I still disagree with that other person.
Science is better thought of as a verb, not a noun. To suggest that science is inherently corrupted by societies is to conflate science the noun with science the verb. Wank wank.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 4 months ago:
And Dell said “Great, thanks, saved us a ton on severance packages and allowed us to replace our high paid tenured employees with hungry graduates who are prepared to work themselves to death for peanuts”
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
If all scientific knowledge were to suddenly disappear and we were to start from square one, it would all reappear exactly like it is. We would rediscover gravity, evolution, the expansion of the universe, etc.
Just because some scientific research is funded by entities with a bias, does not mean that the process of science is corrupted.
Often times the results of the research funded by biased corporations and institutions results in discovery that is contrary to the goal of the entity and so they just stop funding it. Sometimes they actively try to bury the discoveries, however the process of science will ensure that the truth comes to light eventually.
This meme has a poor understanding of science.