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- Comment on Smöl 5 hours ago:
usually we talking about insects that are little more than muscle automata
i think you vastly underestimate the complexity and engineering in insects and microorganisms
- Comment on Smöl 5 hours ago:
The scale of the world is crazy, and we are already giants in it.
“What would it feel like to rule over a vast empire composed of literally billions of cells?”
Yeah, ask yourself.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 8 hours ago:
reddit and all commercial social media make more money when they have more users, so they attract a lot of users with ragebait and clickbait.
we don’t profit if we have more users, so we don’t have an incentive to send clickbait and ragebait, and the absence of these toxins alone will probably drive up the quality a bit.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 8 hours ago:
it’s back to the old journalistic practices of verifying sources with a second source.
that has as a necessary pre-requirement that people are actually interested enough in an objective truth that they’re willing to pay some journalist to do the research.
is that really the case anymore? I can see it being useful in the 20th century when people were interested in new economic developments and stuff
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 8 hours ago:
I’m saying it again: We can’t know what’s true anymore. Whenever something happens more than a few miles away, chances are high that you know nobody who was involved there physically, so there’s no reliable way of knowing what actually happened anymore.
I think we can only make reasonable choices about things that are close enough to ourselves; not about very far-away entities.
- Comment on I Quit 1 day ago:
ability and willingness
- Comment on I Quit 1 day ago:
Very interesting. I imagine an even simpler explanation for why poorer kids do less well in school:
You simply can’t focus on abstract thoughts if you’re lacking basic ingredients in your life.
It’s something like the pyramid of needs:
When you’re hungry in school because you didn’t have proper breakfast because your parents had too little time to prepare one or were unable to actually buy proper-quality ingredients, your brain simply can’t focus on geography of the other end of the world or god forbid, calculus.
I guess that if schoolkids were given free meals before school and during midday break, their performance in school-related activity would improve by at least 50% in poorer regions.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 days ago:
Whatever ideology a group is pushing has little to do with having the moral high ground and will typically result in their own benefit.
what little you can do to improve the quality of politics is to educate the people so they can analyze and decide whether the policies are meaningful for common good or not.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 days ago:
treat it as a spectrum
a spectrum is typically 1-dimensional as well, though; at least the spectrums i think of
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 days ago:
People that feel disenfranchised will vote for change regardless of the change proposed.
hahah yeah unfortunately that’s accurate :D
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 days ago:
Something common I see in all these parties is strong disaffection with the current state of their countries and a longing to an idealized past they promise to bring back, to make countries great again…
The past cannot come back, neither will it come back just because some people want it to. It’s completely futile, but people are not rational about this, they’re completely emotional and tribal.
Yes, societies are going through the five stages of grief:
- denial (that there are problems)
- anger (vote for a strongman) <-- you are here
- bargaining (maybe we can partially go back to the past)
- depression (this sucks, nothing can be done about it)
- acceptance (well, let’s look forward and make the best out of it)
- Comment on Does anyone know? 3 days ago:
We’re entering irrational times, ones that you can only navigate with your heart.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 days ago:
where would i send them to?
- Comment on US | White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland 5 days ago:
how is this “global news”?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
i don’t get it
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Actually it makes sense to calculate “analytically” as long as possible and only after that doesn’t help anymore, go to “numerical” calculations.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.
Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.
But right now i’m worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as “profit” while the studio gets almost nothing.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Well the advantage of having the subtitles be a text overlay over the video is that the subtitles can be separated from the video; like, you can switch them off and on and change languages (which i sometimes do as i speak multiple languages and am interested in how they translated it) without having to store multiple GB-sized video files for the same episode.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Netflix makes dope original productions in my experience; I’ve watched many of their shows and enjoyed them.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
I’m looking for an ethical anime streaming service rn, and i’d be willing to pay for it (like, $10/month). Any options at all?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Funnily enough, i was considering just today whether i should re-open my old Crunchyroll account. But i guess i won’t do it now after all. IIRC there’s been a streak of bad press about crunchyroll; like, this today isn’t the only issue.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 days ago:
the more meaningful way to map australia
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 days ago:
thanks, that makes sense. i gotta bookmark that comment.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 days ago:
I honestly tend to think that instead of using search engines where you already have to know what you’re looking for, it might be better to use something like lemmy where you can advertise what you made with a post in a related community.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 days ago:
lemmy isn’t a static vintage web, and that’s a good thing, i guess.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
I mean i just want to note for a second that the aging retardant properties of humanity are one of the great miracles that puts us above other species.
Most other mammal species, including dogs, cats, camels, zebras, horses, cattle, sheep, whatever farm animal/pet you can think of typically lives no longer than 20 years, while for humans it’s routinely 80 years, about 4x as long.
That, it turns out, is one of humanity’s great strengths. We age significantly slower, and that includes a significantly longer childhood. Most feral animals grow up and reach puberty within 1-3 years, while for humans it takes at least 12 years (even longer if you wait to be socially accepted as an “adult”). This gives us more time to play, figure things out, learn, and develop. It is for this reason that we’re able to pull off more amazing things than other species, because our long lifes warrant that getting a long, proper education is worth it. Because if we only lived for 20 years, it would hardly be worth it to study till you’re 25 years old.
So, aging slower, and staying childish for longer, is actually one of humanity’s great strengths. It is unfortunate, i believe, that we’re trying to remove that human specialty in these days and trying to make people grow up faster.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
This reads a lot to me like Sokrates’ speech that the children are all spoiled today. I.e. it has always been that way but people continuously assume that they have it especially bad in that regard.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 6 days ago:
self-chosen
- Comment on Cause and Effect 6 days ago:
We need to split the US up into two parts so we can do A/B testing.
As others have said, the problem of vaccines isn’t that they don’t work. The problem of vaccines is that they work too well. They have completely eliminated the diseases that motivated their development, so people can’t imagine a world where these vaccines don’t exist anymore.
We need to split the US up into two parts. One gets vaccines, the other one does not. Wait 30 years. Then the people will see the effects and then the people will understand why we should have vaccines. If the people don’t see the alternative scenario, they can’t see the difference that vaccines make. We need to make these differences more visual, by making practical experiments.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve read the giving tree recently and i must say, it kinda makes me angry, but not so much because of its sad story, but because i think that that is not a good way of life. you can’t give away your life, i think, and you shouldn’t look at yourself like a candle that is pre-destined to burn down through its course.
i believe that to truly live well, one must always live as if one had a very long life and must be sustainable in any action. this includes not giving away parts of your life that don’t regrow. that is why the giving tree made me so angry.
