TranquilTurbulence

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict.⁩ ⁨⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s how you fuel the war machine with fresh pokemon and trainers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Both sides of every conflict would use them. Every military would have divisions dedicated to a particular fighting’s style and they would have a mix of pokemons to match the purpose.

  Reminders when every army still relied on horses? Exactly like that, but with pokemons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think early Disney movies are pretty good. They usually just took an archaic horror story intended for adults, got rid of all the gore and murder, rewrote the rest, and somehow ended up with a children’s movie. Those ripoff versions became so famous and influential that people no longer think of the originals.

  Maybe in two hundred years someone will start ripping off Saw movies to make kindergarten holo-ventures. Oh no! Gus Colyard, the ice cream merchant, got stuck in the freezer. Can you find the key to the door?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't my shit and urine stink while they're inside me?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And the rest of your body is reasonably water proof and gas proof. Whatever is on one side of a membrane, is not allowed to cross to the other side. Actually, your body is working hard to keep it that way. If something is allowed to cross that border, it’s an exception and it’s highly regulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be thankful that humans only evolved a sympathetic yawning response and not a sympathetic farting response⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When food rots, some microbes can release sulphur dioxide from sulphur-containing amino acids. Being able to smell that reaction product at ridiculously low concentrations will help you steer clear of rotten food. Removing that receptor or reducing their numbers could have been disadvantageous millions of years ago, so that’s why we kept that feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  iAnal - smart plug for the bedroom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Initially, I thought you just need to do more geometry math problems to get enough interactions. Turns out, this type of intersectionality exists too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally someone with a balanced view on AI. That was a rare wall of text. Worth the time though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Million seconds → ~11.6 days, how much is a billion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Try sand next time. You can see individual grains, and you’ve walked on a beach. These experiences should give you some intuition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People who hate AI already have their !fuck_AI@lelmmy.world community, and it seems to be leaking absolutely everywhere. How about all the other conversations that aren’t centered around hating AI? Surely, there’s a place for that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the comments, I would say that most Lemmy users are aware of the downsides of LLMs. The average GPT user probably hasn’t heard of half the points mentioned in these comments.
  Judging by the downvotes, I would say that many Lemmy users are also very passionate about it. The average GPT user might think of LLMs like any other tool.

  Unfortunately, I get the feeling that Lemmy isn’t a suitable place for having a serious conversation about AI in general (not just LLMs). I would love to have that conversation, but this just isn’t the place for it, as you can see. The people here seem to be too focused on LLMs, how they’re developed and how they’re forcibly implemented in places where they provide zero value etc. AI in general is such a broad category, and this kind of biased conversation misses 90% of it.

  When you say AI, people hear LLM, and that’s a genuine problem. When people say they hate AI, they probably aren’t thinking of things like image search, optical character recognition, automatic categorization of the events of your bank account, signal processing in audio and video, image upscaling, frame generation, design of 3D structures, route planning etc. There’s so much you can do with AI, but Lemmy users rarely mention those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure the ratio of rude people in the entire user base isn’t the same when comparing the two platforms, so that plays a role too. However, I think it’s mostly a numbers game. Even if that ratio was the same, a bigger platform automatically means that you’re going to bump into a lot of rude people there. Think of it like this: If the ratio is just just 1%, that’s 1 in a small place and 100 in a big one.

  On top of that, people tend to remember negative encounters very well. Even if you got only 1 nasty comment, it’s going to sting. If you got 100 comments like that, you’ll feel like the whole world is out there to get you. The human mind has this strange bias towards negative reactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawn mowers make great but usually impractical fart silencers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It only masks the sound, just like a perfume can mask the smell.

  Here’s a fun idea. Find some fart sounds online… I’m sure there has to be a 24 h playlist already, because Internet. Anyway, blast those sounds in your vicinity at full volume and nobody will be able to tell if you actually farted or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try cosplaying as one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probabilities can be counterintuitive. Just because something has a low probability doesn’t mean it never happens. You can make those probabilities vanishingly small by stacking specific combinations like ethnic background, first language, country of origin, current country of residence, religious upbringing, and so on. The more you stack, the lower the probability of someone being exactly like you.

  I once visited a science expo that demonstrated this by asking questions about traits like eye color, ear shape, and even quirks: Do you write with your left hand? Do you kick a ball with your right foot? Do you peek through a hole with your left eye? When you combine all these factors, everyone turns out to be a “unique” snowflake.

  The counterintuitive thing is, even though the stacked probability of you existing might be astronomically small, you’re still here. Unlikely things happen all the time. If you expect to see a specific rare event, you’ll be waiting a million years. If you look at events that have already occurred, you’ll find their probabilities were just as tiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unlikely.

  The probability of a random English speaking person being Irish is approximately 7.1856/1493 ≈ 0.00481, which is a pretty low number. There just aren’t that many Irish people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. Should have gone with C#. Would make a lot more sense. For some reason, my mind was wandering in all the wrong directions when writing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would make more sense. Best of the both worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea behind Python is to get the community to contribute. More people know Python than Assembly or Fortran. At some point, running a FOSS project like Piefed becomes a numbers game. Having more developers is useful in the beginning.

  If Piefed grows significantly, it might make sense to rewrite the whole thing in a different language, but right now, contributions matter more than efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The default setting in a horse’s mind is to not allow anything on its back. They will bite and kick you if you try. However, there is a clever way to change that setting, as ancient humans had discovered.

  Horses are different from many other animals, such as zebras. Horses are clearly more malleable. That default setting can be changed if you’re skilled and patient enough. With zebras though, the setting to bite and kick is pretty much hard coded.

  Some animals, such as camels and llamas can also be tamed and even ridden, but they will always know their position in the tier list of life i.e. way above all humans. They will tolerate humans up to a certain point, but once their patience runs out, the unfortunate human in their immediate vicinity will feel it in their skin. These animals are a bit like cats, but 10x more dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out, there are people who practice that sort of extreme fasting. BTW going back to normal eating doesn’t happen in a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Movie critics have a pretty good idea what sloppy writing and contrived coincidences look like. That’s exactly what I was asking about, and the first few points did address that reasonably well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Risky click of the day. Was totally worth it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawful Evil answer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With popular movies, there’s no shortage of critical blog posts and other material. All of those are obviously already in the training material. However, anything that didn’t make a gazillion dollars probably isn’t that well documented, so the model might not have much to say write about it. It will just fill those gaps with random word salad that makes sense as long as you have enough cocaine in your nostrils.

  If I had asked about Casablanca, Psycho, Titanic or Avengers, the answer would have probably been a bit less crappy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well of course… Rule 34. No exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! That’s pretty intense.

  9/10, would recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just had a discussion with an LLM about the plot of a particular movie, particularly the parts where the plot falls short. I asked it to list all the parts that feel contrived.

  It gave me 7 points that were ok, but the 8th one was 100% hallucinated. That event is not in this movie at all. It totally missed the 5 completely obivous contrived screw-ups in the ending of the movie too, so I was not very convinced of this plot analysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be funny when someone wrote a two sentence long “search query” on google. Nowadays, you can literally do that on any LLM and you’ll get a summary based on a few results. There are a whole bunch of problems with that, but I’ll just let the people from !fuck_ai@lemmy.world to elaborate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Spice that up with human meat and you get next level scifi horror. Basically a hybrid abomination of ethnic cleansing + genocide + war crimes + capitalism + meat industry. Basically everything you hate about the modern world squeezed into a single package.