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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  sqrt(-1) = ±i. The negative answer is also valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m predicting the whole AI industry is crumbling into chaos. Not now, but soon; let’s say, in two or three years. It’ll be like the dotcom bubble, except way worse, and it might blow up even organically useful parts of the industry.

  When it reaches that point, you’ll see corporations rebranding themselves every bloody where - because even “they used to invest in AI” will be seen as brand damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not exactly sure, but perhaps people are a wee bit less eager to swallow bullshit from someone who has been shown bullshitting before? Just a thought. ¬¬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmm...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  >be me
  >working since midnight (4AM now)
  >see this
  >“oh I got half a Berlin ball in the fridge!”

  The fun part is, it works even if you’re aware of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Painful but not deadly. Wikipedia mentions someone complaining about the pain a month after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has quantum physics become a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  inb4 sorry for the wall of text.

  What you’re noticing is not one, but three problems. None exclusive to quantum mechanics, although I think they do affect QM a bit more.

  The first one is an academy full of old fucks, busier making sure their positions remain unchallenged, than investigating their own fields. They do it by nipping the buds of any research that might challenge the theories they support.

  Publish-or-perish culture further solidifies the position of those old fucks, and gives them ammunition against their opponents.

  The second problem is a society full of clueless muppets, eager to worship: the scientific institutions, some scientists of the past and present, and some discoveries. They do it while shitting on science, demonising the process while deifying its output.

  Science is all about the “I don’t know”. It’s about building hypotheses nonstop, so you can collectively tear them apart; including the well-established ones. But that doesn’t work if you want certainty, if you want truth, and society is a bit too eager to wallow in both to get science right.

  The third problem is… well, Reddit. And social media in general. There are four types of “collective idiocy” you’re supposed to follow in that shithole, and one of them is genetic fallacy - “focus on who says it, not on what is said”.

  What the mod there did is a subtype of genetic fallacy, argumentum ad hominem; it boils down to “Spekker said it, thus it’s invalid”. (The “trust me” is also genetic fallacy, appeal to authority.)

  As I said those issues plague science in general, not just quantum mechanics; but since QM is specially prone to attract quacks, it creates a strong knee-jerk reaction from the scientific community - such as fallacious (i.e. idiotic) shortcuts to gauge the validity of a claim, like “this contradicts the status quo, so I assume it’s quackery”.

  People often poke fun at String Theorists for proposing things that don’t have immediate practical use, but that is kind of their job to do that, no?

  It’s more than that: those hypotheses* are not falsifiable. They offer you no way to say “if X happens, then this is bullshit” - like the theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics itself do. (Note this does not mean either theory is “the truth”; it means they’ve been tested, and survived the tests, warranting their current positions.)

  *Let’s call bread “bread” and wine “wine”, OK? String hypotheses. Not theories.

  Note that this post has nothing to do with me. I am not saying that I shouldn’t be made fun of if I try to publish an alternative theory, because I have no PhD in physics.

  PhD is a title. It does not tell you how valid what you’re saying is. As such, neither you nor the PhD should be made fun of, provided both are in good faith and playing along the method. But what both say should be tested, and potentially made fun of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally what I hate is not the tech developments being labelled “AI”. It’s the industry behind it, and how much it filths itself with deception.

  This sort of neural network is good for small and menial tasks, where accuracy is not too important but volume is. For that you don’t need large models, you need smaller ones, that take a fraction of the data and energy to process (“train”). Then you’d advertise them for what they are - a bunch of useful tools.

  But we’re talking about an industry led by con artists, billionaires, liars and vulture capital. Their eyes get bloody in rage, if they don’t see smoke and mirrors; they don’t care about truth, but appearances. It needs to look “grandiose”, it needs “hype”, it needs “marketability”. It needs all that “AGI SOON!”.

  So the models get bigger, bigger, and bigger. But not necessarily better; more sycophant, more assumptive, more energy-demanding.

  Then you plug everything wrote in the article as a consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DISC] Tensei Shitara Dragon no Tamago Datta ~Ibara no Dragon Road~ - Ch. 43 - 44⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still building that Irushia vs. Irushia fight up.

  Also, soon®:
  Meme showing a three-headed dragon. The middle face is serious and threatening, the other two are derpy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much what I do. Except that I created a keyboard shortcut that launches pluma /path/to/todolist.txt for convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But with AI models, this approach rarely works, and the urge to ask reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what these systems are and how they operate.

  Okay, this explanation might work for the masses, but never assume a person is an ignorant based on their behaviour. Never. Some people know it and don’t give it a fuck.

  Example of that later.

  What you’re actually doing is guiding a statistical text generator to produce outputs based on your prompts.

  Right… go on.

  Once an AI language model is trained (which is a laborious, energy-intensive process), its foundational “knowledge” about the world is baked into its neural network

  Here’s the example. By the quotation marks, odds are the author knows that those models do not have world knowledge strictu sensu. But they’re still using the idiotic analogy. Why?

  A: can’t be arsed to not use it, it’s misleading but easier than to find some idiot-friendly way to convey the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S.O.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed - thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope you like TICKS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the dialectologist focusing on rural varieties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S.O.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alligator: U-shaped snout.
  Crocodile: V-shaped snout.

  I’m glad the Romans never had to deal with the difference though, since alligators are only found in the Americas. Otherwise this explanation would still fly over their heads. (“V? U? SIMILE SVNT, FVNGE PVTRIDE!”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MD = oMega Dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Lemmy, of course we’re going to see radicals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  why do everybody want to make it count letters and stuff like this?

  Dunno about the others; I do it because it shows well that those models are unable to understand and follow simple procedures, such as the ones necessary to: count letters, multiply numbers (including large ones - the procedure is the same), check if a sequence of words is a valid SATOR square, etc.

  And by showing this, a few things become evident:

  • That anyone claiming we’re a step away from AGI is a goddamn liar, if not worse (a gullible pile of rubbish).
  • That all talk about “hallucinations” is a red herring analogy.
  • That the output of those models cannot be used in any situation where reliability is essential.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨protein!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t spit it out after you already swallowed it! And the ones I’m used to don’t make any sort of hard shell, they simply wiggle their way into the fruit.

  Not that it’s a big deal - if they caused any harm, I’d be dead already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that isn’t a protection against mould reaching the seeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨protein!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! The ones in guava are bigger though, far more visible, and people always joke the worst part isn’t finding a worm there, but half a worm. (Just a wee bit of protein~)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨protein!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who eats guava straight from the tree probably ate far more maggots through their life than any H. neanderthalensis did. Including myself.

  …damn, I miss that guava tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should all burn an effigy in commitment to safe microwaves ovens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the first time you cried over an anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. I actually recommend it; it still shows gore as the anime, but since it’s contextualised it doesn’t feel so edgy.

  Another good series from the same mangaka is Gokukoku no Brynhildr / Brynhildr in the Darkness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the first time you cried over an anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lilium has an even bigger impact if you contrast the lyrics with the manga - because unlike the anime, the manga shows themes like: “what’s even a human being?”, “does evil come from nature or nurture?”, “is redemption even possible?”.

  …and the lyrics are basically a prayer for redemption, I’ll coarsely translate them here:

  The mouth of the just will repeat wisdom
  And his tongue will utter the evidence (i.e. declare judgment)
  Blessed the man who endures temptation
  Since he was tested, he'll get the crown of life
  
  Oh Lord, [you are the] source of goodness
  Oh Lord, [you are] divine fire, have mercy [of us]
  
  Oh, so holy, so serene
  So benign, so delightful, the one believed to be the Virgin (Mary)
  Oh, so holy, so serene, so benign, so delightful
  Oh, lily of chastity
  

  It fits perfectly once you identify Lucy with the sinner: she knows she’s guilty, and she’s asking God for redemption. With Kouta intervening in her favour, always showing compassion, much like the Virgin Mary would do in Christianity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave screwing with their opponent to Atou - if that world has/had ghosts (dunno), created from living regrets, she’d be an expert at farming them. Thankfully she’s a pacifist~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that you weren’t disagreeing on the main point. And I think we agree that Mastercard is trying to have the cake and eat it too - it wants to be a censor without being acknowledged as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Double reply regarding Stripe’s open statement, as it’s related to this topic:

  Stripe is claiming to be “pressured” by an unknown party. But it’s going out of its way to defend that party, by not naming it and by claiming it’s a “partner”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.

  That interpretation is inviable because Mastercard is claiming to allow “all” lawful purchases on its network. And, given a purchase is lawful unless proved contrariwise (as a consequence of innocence unless proved guilt), it would need evidence that a purchase is unlawful, in order to prevent it.

  So it’s more than just dictating what can be sold without actually stating it - people there are lying.

  Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.

  Full agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations.

  Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

  So, Mastercard is claiming the content Steam and itch were forced to remove was unlawful. Is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …well, not like I was planning to move my blog (that nobody reads) to a Neocities page… that might be the final push.

  On another matter: I think the right approach is to pressure governments to make hate discourses illegal. Yes, it’s tempting to screech ‘DEPLATFORM!’, and short-term effective, but

  1. It’s a stop-gap measure; eventually they migrate to another platform. We shouldn’t be playing whack-a-mole with this shit.
  2. If you give power to a private entity, to get rid of harmful content (like hate speech), eventually it’ll remove non-harmful content when it gets some benefit out of it. Cue to recent events regarding the payment mafia and NSFW games.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit wants to be a search engine now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is only better because you can see results that aren’t on reddit.

  Nah; Reddit search is so bad, but so fucking bad that people would rather search Reddit content in Google than directly in Reddit. (Cue to the “$query reddit” pseudo-hack).

  And this discrepancy will get even bigger with both sides worsening their searches with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit wants to be a search engine now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both sides are doing it. Except Google has enough resources to make it slightly less terrible.