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- Comment on Russia Deported Over 700,000 Ukrainian Children From Occupied Territories, Says Presidential Office 14 hours 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? 14 hours 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 4 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and how exactly does it know?
- Comment on Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
or maybe “national security adviser,”
lol
- Comment on Is this possibly a jealousy thing? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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)
- Comment on Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) 1 month ago:
Digital feudalism… I suppose that does make it easier to call up large armies of peasant levies when you need to wage an information war.
- Comment on Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) 1 month ago:
Also just fear of going out of business by alienating any potential customers. When your revenues have been steadily dropping for decades now and it’s starting to look like you’re going the way of Kodak, it becomes more tempting to pander to the middle and try to avoid pissing as many people off as possible. This in turn means you can’t speak the truth anymore.
- Comment on As the U.S. halts military aid to Kyiv, how long can Ukraine continue to fight Russia? 1 month ago:
No, they cannot. They can still make a significant difference though.
- Comment on As the U.S. halts military aid to Kyiv, how long can Ukraine continue to fight Russia? 1 month ago:
Meh. If our government won’t send any of our tax dollars, we can at least still donate directly to military-focused fundraisers. Won’t be air defense or anything, but helping buy drones still contributes.
- Comment on If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used. 1 month ago:
A relatively small minority of people through history have wanted wars. But if we look at the past 4000 years, we nonetheless find many, many wars, the vast majority of which people have never even heard the name of. You cannot escape this by simply disarming yourself.
- Comment on Sun God 1 month ago:
My fav is just that the sun is, all by itself, 99% of the total mass of our solar system. Most of the rest of that 1% is Jupiter.
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 1 month ago:
Somebody needs to put this guy in charge of all the branding elements.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For a conservative that’s amazing, I’d be kinda proud of him. I’d comply with his request, assuming he wants you to see a couple other doctors and not attend some conversion camp or something. I’d just frame that as getting a second/third opinion, basically, which is always a good idea anyway.
- Comment on Who's making older games so expensive? 2 months ago:
Supply and demand, since they’re all collectors items now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan’s b board or something.
How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit’s all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.
Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?
I just don’t get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that’s fine.
Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don’t have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 months ago:
Don’t forget the FDA’s aggressive suppression of exercise.
- Comment on Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos 5 months ago:
“Why make a good product if you can put your effort into making it just seem like your product is good? This way you can pivot around more flexibly. Instead of having to possess a wide array of hard-earned skills you can make specific content about, you can simply learn the skills of marketing, branding and style, and now you can bullshit your way through anything you want.”
-many modern business practices
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 months ago:
Assuming he abides by constitutional law, this will be his final term.