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- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts
What are you thinking about, baby?
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
Perhaps. At the same time, we also had a better reputation then. A lot of countries were quick to jump on board when we decided who was gonna get invaded. Maybe they would have been just as eager to pull together and go green? Not that we’ll ever really know, of course.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
Maybe… but… remember ten years ago when there were all those articles about how “China is building train stations to no-where!” and today those same train stations are now in the center of new bustling cities? Isn’t this what we’d expect to see, right at the start of a pivot to green energy?
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 1 week ago:
maybe they mean with dialysis?
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
my dad once said that if he was in Bush’s position, he would have used 9/11 to justify decoupling from Saudi oil and push for more solar and wind development
I still think about that. So many missed off-ramps to this…
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
don’t worry, you can start shutting down france’s nuclear generators once you run out of your own
- Comment on Alpha males 1 week ago:
The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Chad NATO 2 weeks ago:
…what…?
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
Sure, in a reductive sort of way. Kind of reminds me of native americans who, after being forcibly taken to europe and seeing how the people lived, concluded that no one there was free.
I think that criticism is still fundamentally true. But at the same time, what we have now is different from slavery. People are no longer legally considered property. Yes, labor is still coerced. But that coercion is now baked into the system, rather than an explicit interpersonal relationship of owed and owner.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’ll mostly be accelerating a trend that was already there. Also, the initial scramble to use the legal grey area to cover as much shady shit as possible in a: Well shucks, how were we supposed to know the neural net would make illegal denials? After all, the guys who trained it don’t even know exactly why it does what it does kinda way
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 3 weeks ago:
just wait till they start denying health insurance with it
I’m sorry ma’am I know you’re upset, but the AI said it’s not covered. The AI is numbers, and numbers don’t lie.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 3 weeks ago:
actually, they do get to complain
- Comment on 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future 4 weeks ago:
I have seen absolutely nobody refer to the chatbots as “clanker”. Notice how this so called ‘criticism’ of the AI future still accepts as true the same premise the AI fanatics are pushing, they just hold a flashlight under their chin and go, “and it’s evil!!!”
I don’t think statistical word generator is as useful as all the investor types seem to think it is, and they’re gearing us up for an unthinkably massive market correction in the near future. That’s a real criticism of AI.
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 4 weeks ago:
I kinda think it was made with the intention kids would be exposed to it by mistake.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 4 weeks ago:
take it down one degree of absurdity and you just have Bojack Horseman
- Comment on High quality sticker though 4 weeks ago:
MAKE THE ANIMALS WEAR PANTS! COVER THEIR BUMS!
- Comment on They're completely serious 4 weeks ago:
plenty of sea critters have blue blood
horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
That’s an easy criticism to make of someone on the other side of the planet. But on this side of the pacific, I can’t help but notice that we make the same excuses for continuing to live under our own government.
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
Liu closed his eyes for a long moment and then said quietly, “This is why I don’t like to talk about subjects like this. The truth is you don’t really—I mean, can’t truly—understand.” He gestured around him. “You’ve lived here, in the U.S., for, what, going on three decades?” The implication was clear: years in the West had brainwashed me. In that moment, in Liu’s mind, I, with my inflexible sense of morality, was the alien.
And so, Liu explained to me, the existing regime made the most sense for today’s China, because to change it would be to invite chaos. “If China were to transform into a democracy, it would be hell on earth,” he said. “I would evacuate tomorrow, to the United States or Europe or—I don’t know.” The irony that the countries he was proposing were democracies seemed to escape his notice. He went on, “Here’s the truth: if you were to become the President of China tomorrow, you would find that you had no other choice than to do exactly as he has done.”
It was an opinion entirely consistent with his systems-level view of human societies, just as mine reflected a belief in democracy and individualism as principles to be upheld regardless of outcomes. I was reminded of something he wrote in his afterword to the English edition of “The Three-Body Problem”: “I cannot escape and leave behind reality, just like I cannot leave behind my shadow. Reality brands each of us with its indelible mark. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
- Comment on In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores 5 weeks ago:
industries tend to be more centralized in China. It’s not that that’s indicative of every city, more that Shenzhen already has easy access to the kind of manufacturing and products that a robotics company would find ideal.
- Comment on In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores 5 weeks ago:
Dozens of squat delivery robots have now begun riding subway trains across the network during off-peak hours, exiting at each station where a 7-Eleven is located to make deliveries, according to a report by local news outlet SZNews.
“In the past, delivery workers had to park above ground, unload goods, and manually push them into subway stations,” Li Yanyan, a manager at one of the 7-Eleven stores involved in the project, told SZNews. “Now, with robots, it’s much easier and more convenient.”
I think this is only for 7/11s that are part of the underground subway architecture? I don’t think the robots would be cost effective compared to a truck if this was for restocking any old corner store.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Glad i’m not. Can you imagine the kind of dumb social edict that would have built up around that?
Retail Employee, on their 10th day in a row with no overtime because the schedule got thrown together at the last minute again: [briefly shining above the infrared before fading back again] Hello sir, is there anything I can help you with today?
Customer [so angry he’s strobing] How dare you! It’s bad customer service to greet me with such pitiful luminescence! I’ve never been so insulted! Where is your manager?
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 5 weeks ago:
Cursed to look into the great mysteries of existence with a mind high tuned for pattern recognition and projecting familiar narratives.
Is that something beyond our current understanding? No, no, it’s just a familiar desktop environment. But fuck you if you project a name and a face into the unknown. That’s backwards and primitive!
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I wish it had a d-pad rather than the left trackpad, but otherwise yeah
If only mine weren’t broken 🥲
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 month ago:
Currently, our collective behavior is parasitic and destructive to the environment, yes. But it’s important to draw a distinction here - a virus or bacterial infection or a parasite are locked into their respective strategies. They cannot help being what they are.
We don’t get that excuse. Humans are the ultimate generalists; we specialized into learning and communicating new behaviors between ourselves. Unlike the flu or a ringworm, we have the capacity to change how we interact with the environment.
- Comment on Drinking solution 1 month ago:
Alberta Premium, nice
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 month ago:
It’s when you start including structures within cells that the complexity moves beyond anything we’re currently capable of computing.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 month ago:
Self Driving is only safer than people in absolutely pristine road conditions with no inclement weather and no construction. As soon as anything disrupts “normal” road conditions, self driving becomes significantly more dangerous than a human driving.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 month ago:
speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…
