nialv7
@nialv7@lemmy.world
- Comment on Willing to get “fired” 10 hours ago:
this empathy quote did get me riled up, but later i found out there was more to this quote. i’m not going to tell you how to feel, but i’ll just put this here:
[…] Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It was all about empathy and sympathy. I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That’s a separate topic for a different time. - Charlie Kirk
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 days ago:
They are not Labour. Right now what we have are just red Tories and blue Tories.
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 3 days ago:
false flag attack to get people off Trump’s back about Epstein files?
- Comment on quiet place 4 days ago:
Live next to a waterfall and you’ll be fine.
- Comment on They were weak 4 days ago:
Well they thought butterflies ate butter, so they called them “flies that eat butter”, hence butterfly. (that’s one of the theories at least)
- Comment on They were weak 4 days ago:
Wiktionary tells me it meant “butterfly caterpillars”.
Huh??
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 6 days ago:
Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn’t say people recognized that immediately.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 6 days ago:
Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Leaving aside the questions whether it would benefit us, what makes you think LLM won’t bring about technical singularity? Because, you know, the word LLM doesn’t mean that much… It just means it’s a model, that is “large” (currently taken to mean many parameters), and is capable of processing languages.
Don’t you think whatever that will bring about the singularity, will at the very least understand human languages?
So can you clarify, what is it that you think won’t become AGI? Is it transformer? Is it any models that trained in the way we train llms today?
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Well, you described pretty well what llms were trained to do. But from there you can’t derive how they are doing it. Maybe they don’t have real knowledge, or maybe they do. Right now literally no one can claim definitively one way or the other, not even top of the field ML researchers.
I think it’s perfectly justified to hate AI, but it’s better to have a less biased view of what it is.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 week ago:
Is it really that difficult to find a picture of peach that AI has to be used to make this meme?
- Comment on xkcd #3137: Cursed Number 1 week ago:
If a number is long enough human won’t be able to perceive it all at once, so in fact there are only finite number of cases we need to check.
- Comment on No brainer 1 week ago:
8, resurrect a dead language will make some linguist overjoyed
- Comment on No brainer 1 week ago:
- And use it to settle the great Newcomb’s paradox.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Duopolies are very prevalent in tech, think AMD/Intel, AMD/nvidia, Windows/MacOS, iOS/Android, etc.
As to why? idk. Big companies buy up small ones until one left so they don’t get sued for being a monopoly? Maybe, but I don’t think that applies to all those cases.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 1 week ago:
Why is there a legless stick figure floating in the chart?
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
And it’s kinda funny to see it breaks so many people’s brain.
Is it really so complicated to support them suing UK over OSA, without supporting the sites themselves?
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 2 weeks ago:
That’s not it. You are just describing determinism, not superdeterminism. Superdeterminism says not only are the observations performed by you and your partner determined, but they are also determined in such a way to make quantum entanglement looks real. i.e. there’s no quantum entanglement, the particles are independent, but the universe conspires to make you measure in such a way that your results appear correlated.
And if you generalize measurement to mean any interaction you have with the world, you get what I described earlier.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 2 weeks ago:
Superdeterminism to me is the worst. It basically means the Universe looks the way it does because it just is. Like it’s not because particles move, interact, based on a set of fundamental laws and that ultimately gives rise to the universe we see. No, superdeterminism means there’s no rules, the universe is just made like this.
It’s a bit like last-Tuesdayism.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 2 weeks ago:
Just ask Tom to reboot it again.
- Comment on Is it? 2 weeks ago:
Not all parts of a pufferfish are poisonous, right? So I guess some made it and some didn’t and people eventually figured out why.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 weeks ago:
This is how some invasive species got their starts.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 2 weeks ago:
I am not paying for this :)
you shouldn’t either
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 2 weeks ago:
I heard it’s also possible that the radiation hit your retina and make your neurons go off? Maybe even your vision cortex?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 weeks ago:
The ‘Stay Put’ thing
wait, you have a problem with that point?? as you yourself already pointed out, the “fireproof box” thought was only true with the original design, after the renovation that’s simply not the case, saying fire would be contained is just plain wrong. what’s even the point of bringing that up. but let’s even just ignore that, there is a fire in the building, even if you think the fireproof should hold the fire, i don’t get why wouldn’t you evacuate the building just in case? can you take risk of being wrong when the consequence is so many people’s lives?? and even if you thought initially that staying put was the correct thing for the residents to do, once you realize you don’t the fire under control, wouldn’t you start the evacuation as soon as possible? why was that policy in place for so long??
i mean i am absolutely not saying the firefighter should take majority of the blame, there’s just so much wrong with everything, the housing system, fire regulation, there are too many things I can’t list most of them. but like, can’t you at least admit they were wrong on this one?
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 weeks ago:
no no no, they gets oxygen supply from the back of your eyelids mostly. otherwise you’d have to keep your eyes open when you sleep.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 weeks ago:
You are seeing on a glimpse of a huge, interconnected social issue that I don’t have the ability to competently articulate. Council housing obviously have a bad self-reinforcing image problem: no one wants to live in them, so only desperate people live there; because only desperate people live there, no one wants to live there. But that’s because the government fucked it up, it’s not an inherent attribute of social housing. UK had pretty good social housing post-war until Thatcher gutted it with things like Right to Buy.
If there is a solution to the worsening housing crisis, then social housing must be an integral part of that solution. So we must get building and normalize the image of social housing. I get quite mad looking at the current Labour government just sits doing nothing about it.
Grenfell Tower is its special kind of hell too. Sure the building itself wasn’t kept up to standard, but also the abhorrent response to the fire. The residents were told to STAY PUT IN THE BUILDING ffs.
So yeah, makes me feel bad that brutalist architecture gets bad reputation in the UK despite they themselves doing nothing wrong.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
I think people often describe brutalism as cold, souless, dehumanizing, etc. But the principle behind is actually very humanitarian. They forgo grandiose decorations, embellishments, and instead choose to rather gain their form from function, and to maximize their functions so they can serve their inhabitants better. Many, many brutalist buildings were built as affordable, social housing during the post war era, when wealth inequality was perhaps the lowest in Europe.
And additionally, to me, because of how laid bare they are, they become an embodiment of transparency, and honesty that I wish our society can have more of.
(Don’t listen to me, there are many good articles/videos explaining brutalism way better than I could. Maybe this video on Habitat 67?)
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Okay I am a big fan of brutalist architecture. Guess I am in the minority… I feel the philosophy behind it is just being wildly misunderstood.