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- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 10 hours ago:
Sure. It’s certainly not impossible, just unlikely when we consider all the possibilities.
- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 1 day ago:
Just adds an extra, unnecessary step. It’d be like if you had billions of grocery stores to choose from and went to the one crawling with ants.
- Comment on MEN. 2 days ago:
The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.
- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 2 days ago:
Probably not.
I also don’t see why any spacefaring civilization would have any interest in colonizing inhabited planets. It would just be more hassle for the same resources you could get on lots and lots of planets. If they have the technology for interstellar flight, they can probably extract whatever they want from wherever they want. Regarding living space, you wouldn’t even need planets, there are far more efficient structures you could devise when you don’t have to limit yourself to only what nature has provided.
- Comment on glupi jebeni bot 5 days ago:
It makes more sense with restaurant reviews. The business environment is so intensely competitive that any restaurant actually deserving of 1-2 stars would be much more likely to eventually go out of business.
So, over a long enough period of time, you’d wind up with mostly 3-5 star places, with some exceptions existing for restaurants that can survive without the benefit of repeat customers. (tourist trap places, places operated as some kind of money laundering operation, etc)
- Comment on First US Pope Leo XIV warns against exploitation at inaugural mass 2 weeks ago:
an audience including JD Vance
Really shouldn’t be taking such dangerous risks like that so early in your tenure, the fatality rate for Popes meeting Vance was estimated to be 100%.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 2 weeks ago:
Not off the top of my head. Cooking is frequently a recreational hobby though, it’s essentially an art form. So I think it’s about equally likely that dancing, painting or making music fade away.
- Comment on US shuts Mexico border to live cattle over flesh-eating parasite fears 3 weeks ago:
But, y’know, in case anyone wants to:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. I understand people’s desire to look at the fact that both women lost, but we should also remember the fact that they both failed to unify their own coalition. This is a pretty big deal, if you can’t even unify your own coalition, your prospects are pretty damn challenging.
That charisma element is very valuable for that, as is tossing your own faction members enough policy bones to satisfy them even if you’re not fully pleasing them. Clinton and Harris both failed to do this, and took their coalitions a little bit too much for granted. Harris came close with the Walz pick, but Gaza weighed very heavily on her with progressives. She needed to do more to distance herself from Biden to thoroughly win them over.
Ultimately, I think our problem stemmed from them not understanding the appeal of the far right. This caused them to underestimate the strength of their opponent and fail to run as dynamically and aggressively as necessary. They played it too safe. With Harris in particular, I wanted to see the prosecutor prosecute the case against Trump, with the voters as the jury. Instead her stump speeches and interviews remained frustratingly soft. Hilary did this too.
We the people can look at Trump as some big joke, and make fun of him and his supporters as much as we want. But the opposition candidate has to take him deathly seriously, and give him the gravity he is due as a potentially fascist leader of the worlds most powerful military. That is no laughing matter.
This sort of speech by AOC is what we needed more of, and even it is a little bit soft: youtu.be/OO7SE4Zpd9s
Bernie could have done it too, I think. He did come fairly close in the primary, even though he was fighting upstream against lingering negative sentiment about “socialists” in middle America. I think the country has changed enough in the past 10 years, partly due to his trailblazing, that that’s no longer as much as an albatross as it once was though.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
Certainly. But we still cannot say that should mean every beneficial mutation for their lives was likely to be adopted. Like I said earlier, the majority of possibly good things are left on the table, even when drawbacks are not considered.
Including drawbacks muddies it up even further, we can look at how cardiovascular shock occurs and how the particular traits that create it were a bit of a double edged sword.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
But what is the likelihood of this autonomous stress relieving function arising, how many mutations would be required to implement such a thing? Would it have any significant drawbacks or side effects in other aspects of our biology?
You can’t look only at the propagation side of things.
Another thing, stress isn’t event based per se. It’s more of a floating value that always exists to a certain degree and provides both positive and negative effects at different levels and in different situations. The negative health impacts come in when it remains high for a long period of time. So what we’d really want to look at is something like the frequency of headpats given to your dog or something, and the effects of this compared to other potential stress relieving activities like meditation.
Lastly, I would check your data on pet availability, I think it’d be far, far higher than 10%.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
Negative health outcomes are an evolutionary pressure.
Also, evolution does not work from a plan, we do not spontaneously generate all the things that would benefit us over a long enough timeframe. Instead, random things happen and certain ones propagate while others don’t. Because it is not a conscious force operating from any sort of plan, and instead works via random mutation and propagation of beneficial traits, it leaves a whole bunch of potentially beneficial things unadopted.
Otherwise all life would just move towards some sort of optimal form, maybe crabs, instead of evolving greater and greater diversity that can better handle changing environments.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
One I can think of would be stress relief. Stress contributes to a lot of negative health outcomes, and cuddling with a pet can help mitigate some of that stress. Wouldn’t surprise me if amount of stress also has a more general effect on overall decisionmaking.
- Comment on Russia Deported Over 700,000 Ukrainian Children From Occupied Territories, Says Presidential Office 5 weeks ago:
Russia has a permanent veto power in the UN Security Council, which is the highest authority within it. So, I think a strongly worded protest is about the best they’d be able to do.
The UN is largely incapable of taking action against the US, Britain, France, China or Russia. This was necessary to get the large post-WW2 powers to agree to it in the first place, and prevent it from falling apart as the League of Nations did.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s kinda silly. I can see an argument that WWE wrestlers are athletes, no problems there. But they don’t actually perform in any sort of athletic competition, which makes thinking of it as a “sport” a little weird. If WWE is a sport, then so is ballet.
- Comment on Top admiral says China is outbuilding the US on warships at a shocking rate 1 month ago:
It’s also important to consider the perceived needs of the different navies. The US wants global power projection, which requires ships capable of extended deployments overseas. This pushes towards larger capital ships with hefty logistical support, so an overseas mission can be sustained for a long duration.
China is more interested in regional power projection. This pushes them more towards a Jeune Ecole style fleet of larger numbers of smaller ships. This allows them a much greater degree of flexibility and concentration for deployments in their region, at the cost of greater difficulty in long distance sustainment of operations.
Because the two powers have different goals, their fleet compositions will differ. The US prefers fewer, larger ships that are very costly to maintain, while China prefers more, smaller ships that are individually less expensive. We can see this if we compare quantity of ships in each fleet vs the total tonnage of each fleet. This may all change at some point in the future, but it’s where we sit now.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
Whatever. Yo momma so fat every step she takes gets picked up by LIGO.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
lol Now I’m going to spend the rest of the day trying to think of a good general relativity based yo momma joke…
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
tbf, “manipulating time and space” is a pretty low bar to clear. You’re manipulating time and space sitting in your chair, given that under general relativit,y spacetime warps around any mass present.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s sort of like a massively scaled up example of the blind man and the elephant.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 1 month ago:
Yeah I caught that too, I’d be curious to know more about what specifically they meant by that.
Being able to link all of the words that have a similar meaning, say, nearby, close, adjacent, proximal, side-by-side, etc and realize they all share something in common could be done in many ways. Some would require an abstract understanding of what spatial distance actually is, an understanding of physical reality. Others would not, one could simply make use of word adjacency, noticing that all of these words are frequently used alongside certain other words. This would not be abstract, it’d be more of a simple sum of clear correlations. You could call this mathematical framework a universal language if you wanted.
Ultimately, a person learns meaning and then applies language to it. When I’m a baby I see my mother, and know my mother is something that exists. Then I learn the word “mother” and apply it to her. The abstract comes first. Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 1 month ago:
Predicting the next word vs predicting a word in the middle and then predicting backwards are not hugely different things. It’s still predicting parts of the passage based solely on other parts of the passage.
Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I’ve used except to make sure I’m following the rules of grammar.
- Comment on Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months 1 month ago:
Ahh, that’s a new copypasta for me, thanks for sharing. I don’t run into the new ones much anymore, shitpost communities in general became a bit too skewed for me in the funny:dumb ratio at some point. That’s a good one though.
- Comment on Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months 1 month ago:
Yes, and how exactly does it know?
- Comment on Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months 1 month ago:
Yes, glide bombs are also vulnerable to electronic countermeasures. This is because of how they figure out where they are and where they need to glide to in order to get to their target.
- Comment on Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months 1 month ago:
I did hear that electronic countermeasures have gotten better, reducing the accuracy of the bombs recently.
But yeah, they’re making conversion kits for their old stockpile of big aerially dropped bombs, similar to our JDAMs. The kits are supposedly pretty easy to make.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 2 months ago:
Agreed. Great voice acting is one thing. Quality voicing a cast that gigantic is another. I first noticed with that frog in the hag’s area. You don’t even get it if you don’t cast speak with animals and talk to this random frog hopping around, but if you bother to, you get this short, amazingly acted dialogue.
The attention to detail is just off the charts.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 2 months ago:
or maybe “national security adviser,”
lol
- Comment on Is this possibly a jealousy thing? 2 months ago:
Bullies get positive feelings for themselves by making others suffer. Who they target with this isn’t too different from how a predator selects prey–choose the vulnerable.
Your sister, for one reason or another, is vulnerable, meaning the bully is less likely to suffer any consequences for picking on her than if they picked on someone else. That “someone else” could have more friends willing to stick up for them and fight back, they could have a really sharp wit and be able to verbally humiliate the bully if they wanted, they could be huge and practice MMA, being able to physically knock all her teeth out with one swing, they could be a teacher’s favorite and able to go to an authority figure to get backup and inflict consequences that way. All sorts of possibilities.
But one way or another, your sister has been selected due to having fewer plausible defenses than any of the potential alternatives.
Best way to resolve that is to bolster her defenses in some way or another, so the bully picks a different, more vulnerable target. Making the bully actually stop bullying everyone isn’t very likely, though. As someone else pointed out, the bully is most likely suffering a lot themselves, and participating in bullying is how they themselves are surviving their own difficult circumstances. The easiest fix would probably be the “sharp wit” route, as verbally tearing into someone in a humorous way is a learnable skill. Otherwise a physical intimidation route, where your sister or another makes them afraid for their teeth remaining in their mouth if the bullying continues.
To answer your direct question, yes, jealously could be a part of it. There isn’t much use in wondering about it, though, there’s no real solutions to be found down this line of thinking, that I’m aware of.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think people need to recognize that this arms Kuwait, Tunisia, Lithuania, Oman, Netherlands, Chad, Yemen, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Rwanda and Cameroon all with nuclear weapons. (Ranks 91-100 if we just go by number of military personnel, active and reserve, an imperfect but very convenient way to measure.)
If I’m not mistaken, two of those countries are currently involved in conflict. (Yemeni Civil War and Rwanda involved in Congo)