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- Comment on Iron Age grave site discovered in northern Serbia reveals evidence of a 2,800-year-old mass killing; 40 of more than 77 victims were younger than 12 years old 2 days ago:
The amount of education and multigenerational cultural effort required to get our species not to behave like the dumb grotesque animals we are by default is frankly insane.
- Comment on Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion 1 week ago:
It is not a leading question. The answer just happens to be meaningless.
Asking whether something is good is the vast majority of human concern.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
Social media converted half of Americans into nazis in about a decade and elected Trump twice. If you don’t think the internet is dangerous, you’re insane.
That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to block half the internet. Problem solved.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Idk if you’ve noticed, but in just 15 years, since Facebook burst into the world’s stage, half of America is basically Nazis. People like McCain and Romney seem positively centrist.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
If civilization ends, it will be because of social media. It elected Trump. Young men worship people like Joe Rogan. Anti-intellectualism is the norm.
Smoking might give you lung cancer, sure, but the moral turpitude promulgated by social media virtually guarantees a destruction of the natural environment that will also give you cancer, to go with the fascism and anti-democracy brainwashing.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Currently it’s illegal for kids to smoke cigarettes and consume alcohol, none of which are as harmful as social media (or toddlers watching YouTube AI slop on an iPad). If you want you can read any of the gazillion pieces of research on this extremely obvious conclusion.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
It’s not as bad as drugs.
Hard disagree.
Don’t need to upload all our data
This isn’t necessary. For instance, simply require any device to which children have access to get software that prevents access to 90% of the internet. Problem solved.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
You’re confused by the assertion that access to social media is at least as bad for children as some banned drugs? Is this your first day on earth?
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Fine then. Make it the law that this software MUST be installed on any device accessible to a child. Problem solved.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
What should be. What is.
These are different things, and insofar as that’s the case, we should act accordingly.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Sure, legalize heroin for 12 year olds. Parents can regulate it themselves. Imbecilic reasoning.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. The problem is that LLM’s are calibrated for prediction. Their randomness is tweaked for efficacy. Forcing them to be more chaotic just makes them much less effective. This inherent tension is why they’re mathematically incapable of any sort of consistent creativity.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
Even less plausible. There was a paper published recently arguing that by design LLMs are quite literally incapable of creativity. These predictive statistical models represent averages. They always and only generate the most banal outputs. That’s what makes them useful.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
“Gaming community.”
Steam and Epic are both malware.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 month ago:
Most of America has no communities at all. It’s a bunch of strangers.
- Comment on Good News: Study Shows That Most Men Are Not Toxic 1 month ago:
I read the actual study
- Comment on Good News: Study Shows That Most Men Are Not Toxic 1 month ago:
It’s hilarious the contortions people are going through to interpret this result in a positive light.
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 1 month ago:
The phrase “studied on leftist teachings,” as if it’s some kind of religion or cultist ideology, undercuts your claim.
Wisdom (the ability to entertain an idea without adopting it), intelligence, curiosity, and knowledge are inimical to ideological purity.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Sociocultural boundaries are almost entirely grounded in language. Nation states are almost entirely grounded in imagination.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Nah, I think it should be optional. Some AI features may even be useful — like an AI script to get rid of AI slop or something, idk.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 months ago:
Of ALL the things to block. Why not AI blocking? Or social media blocking.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 months ago:
I wish researchers like Hinton would stick to discussing the tech. Anytime he says anything about linguistics or human intelligence he sounds like a CS major smugly raising his hand in Phil 101 while the rest of the class groans.
Again, I respect Hinton as a computer scientist. But the guy is philosophically illiterate. I am not exaggerating.
- Comment on I Quit 4 months ago:
Denying intellectual disparities is denying the vulnerability of people with special needs, not to mention average folks who are easily deceived, swindled, manipulated, propagandized, and parasitized by the rich and powerful every single day.
- Comment on I Quit 4 months ago:
You don’t know people who are clearly dumb?
The average ACT score for college bound seniors in Florida is 18. The test costs money, which means they’re trying their best. It’s childishly easy. My cat, who is illiterate, can score almost as high (answering at random). Again, the average is 18. What kind of conversations can you have with people who can’t read basic English? I’m asking sincerely, because as far as I can tell the answer is “none.” Maybe you can discuss the weather? Sports? Idk.
I want to stress that Americans, uniquely, are really weird about testing mental ability, probably because of their history of racism. Nevertheless, mental ability is a real phenomenon. Yes, high IQ doesn’t make you a good person, and it clearly has very little to do with accumulating wealth. But it does make life a hell of a lot easier.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
I’ve used Android since launch, and I occasionally switched back and forth with iOS. One of my main complaints was in virtue of Android’s incredible flexibility. Because it was versatile, it was also less reliable and straightforward — no integrated password manager, no easy connection to other devices, etc. It’s less smooth and pleasant (and easy) to use.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
I don’t disagree but android was already clunky, with less integration across devices (for better or worse), and now you can’t even sideload. What advantages does it have left?
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
Are you high?
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 6 months ago:
I seriously doubt any of the losers in this thread have been in a loving relationship before. Fucking nuts.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 6 months ago:
Apple’s built-in location sharing is not shared with advertisers. Not that I give a shit regardless. I haven’t seen an ad in years.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 6 months ago:
You sound like a teenager, no offense.
