DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 day ago:
If they were physicists they’d hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope’s head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.
However seeing as they’re still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn’t that friendly to science or something.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 1 day ago:
Donald Duck’s girlfriend really wants it right? I mean, we all agree that much is obviously? Flirting is her one mode of existence. She’s desperate.
- Comment on Thanks Ma'am I Understand it. 3 days ago:
Hello fellow kids.
- ‘Copied the MAGA model’: The ‘grassroots’ lobby group funded by some of Australia’s richestarchive.is ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 6 days ago:
If it’s true, China has energy security for the foreseeable future - as Thorium is usually found along side rare earths, and China has the largest deposits of those. More than anywhere else in the world.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 1 week ago:
It’s about young Islamic men, if you’re wondering.
- Comment on Going to quit my job and just do sculping full time 1 week ago:
Docking procedure complete!
- Comment on A fluid battery that can take any shape. 1 week ago:
Might relate to this:
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 2 weeks ago:
Hard to say because it’s a concept of an idea at this point.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and then they convert that to a weighted probabilities or a “data space” they then search during content generation.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Who put Lysenko in a position of power?
Look bud, I don’t have all day to teach you this shit. I’m not your mommy or daddy or the teacher at the local school, so just stop bothering me with your lack of knowledge about this.
Lysenko was elected in 1945 to the ruling committee of the USSR Academy of Sciences—the top scientific institution in the country—numerous scientists spoke out against him, citing his poor scientific reputation [7]. Over the next several years, Lysenko was criticized numerous times, and there were even steps taken to open an institute of genetics [4]. From 1946-1947, up to 1.5 million people died within the Soviet Union due to famine [18]. Lysenko’s nadir during this period was reached in April of 1947, when he was harshly criticized by Russian chemist Yuri Zhdanov, who highlighted Lysenko’s failures. He pointed out the destructive manner in which Lysenko had demonized geneticists, and argued that monopolies in science inhibit advancement [4]. Zhdanov’s words were particularly dangerous for Lysenko, given that the chemist was from a family with close ties to Stalin (e.g., Zhdanov went on to eventually marry Stalin’s only daughter) and he was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party [13].
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
I feel you don’t know much about what you’re on about.
Trofim Lysenko
The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian…
www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism
I also think you’re arguing just to argue rather than doing something more useful.
Bye.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Past the numbers I told you about.
I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
You seem to think I denied those numbers rather than being the person who pasted them to you.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
No, I wasn’t. Also, frankly he wasn’t “responsible” for Holodomor and it’s clear you still don’t know what Lysenkoism is.
He was responsible for directing the hunger politically, not for seeking to, or being the cause of the famine.
I’m sure you’re understanding pf history isn’t deft enough to understand what I’ve said, so I’ll simplify it for you:
If one person turns a tap on and another directs the water, who is responsible for the fact the tap is on?
I’m saying Lysenkoism (which has little to do with socialist and communist doctrine or schools of thought) is the man who turned the tap on. Stalin, being an authoritarian monster - chose to direct the water to what suited him politically. But the famine at that point was already happening.
As I said, probably too nuanced a point for you to grasp. But maybe you’ll surprise me.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
…yet.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Where’s it say to do that?
Why would correcting one point of fact mean ignoring another? That’s not how truth works.
Two statements can both be true at the same time.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Not directly. The conman Lysenko, originator of Lysenkoism was. Stalin didn’t aim intentionally to create mass starvation in Soviet Russia. Nor did Mao in Chin, these were issues of understanding science which we tale for granted today but weren’t well understood at the time.
Wikipedia:
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher.[5][6][7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it. This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[18] According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were “purposive” while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility.[2] The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[19] persons in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 are sometimes included with the victims of the Stalin era.[2][20]
- Comment on YSK: Tel Aviv deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget all that Uranium they stole from the US unfer operation Apollo, or their plan to bomb overseas US/UK venues, I think it was the Levon Affair…
…or the US citizens killed during the attack on the USS Liberty… Or the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert is a Mossad agent!
All that harm done to the US and Presidents are still friendly with them. What mental illness.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, the discussion was never about factuality. You said search engine. They are in fact searching and reconstructing data based on a probabilistic data space.
…and there are plenty of examples of search engines being sued for the types of data they’ve explored or digitized.
- Comment on Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border 2 weeks ago:
No, they’re helping their team mate. The one who gives them tax breaks and deregulates the restrictions on what it can do, and how much advertising and AI slop comes out.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
It’s searched in training, tagged for recall then that info is filtered through layers. So it’s pre-searched if you will. Same thing as meta tags.
Then the data is processed into cells queries flow through during generation.
99% of what it generates doesn’t come from anywhere in particular, and you wouldn’t find it in any of the sources which were fed to the model in training.
That doesn’t matter. It’s still using copywrited works.
Anyways you’re an AI stan, and defending theft. You can deny it all day, but it’s what you’re doing. “It’s okay, I’m a software engineer I’m allowed to defend it”
…as if that doesn’t stop you from also being a dumbass.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
“data gathering” and “training data” is just what they have you calling it.
It’s not data gathering, it’s stealing. It’s not training data, it’s our original work.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
They are. They record the data, stealing it. They search it, and reprint it (in whole or in part) upon request.
They search the data-space or what they’re trained on (our content, the content of human beings), and reproduce statistically defined elements of it.
They’re search engines that have stolen what they’re trained on, and reproduce it as “results”.
Searching and reproducing content they’ve already recorded, is absolutely part of what they are.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 weeks ago:
All the search engine search the same internet, find similar text, output it using similar formulas.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 weeks ago:
Pants used to be two parts that were joined by lacing them together like shoes at the crotch. So weaving lashed together from the belly button to the groin to the ass and back up to the lower back.
I believe puffy white undershorts would be worn underneath, and sometimes a codpiece.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Even MORE reason not to upgrade!
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 4 weeks ago:
I get the spirit of the comic, HOWEVER: if you put a little tail on it - you’re getting close to 4 territory.
You shouldn’t go straight to calling someone a dumb fuck for that.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 weeks ago:
Her research makes it seem like she’s also trying to kid HIV/AIDS ass.