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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant in the context of machine learning not gaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already been some work on direct neural network creation to bypass the whole virtualization issue. Some people are working on basically an analog FPGA style silicon based neural network component you can just put in a SOM and integrate into existing PCB electronics. Rather than being traditional logic gates they directly implement the neural network functions in analog, making them much faster and more efficient. I forget what the technology is called but things like that seem like the future to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of a false dichotomy. They may be separate today, but there’s no reason to believe we won’t augment human minds with artificial neural networks in the future. Not in the magical cure all fix all way techbros like to sell it, but for like really boring and mundane things initially. Think replacing a small damaged part of some brain region, like the visual or auditory cortexes, to repair functional deficiencies. Once they get the basic technology worked out to be reliable, repeatable, and not require too much maintenance (cough subscriptions and software licenses), there’s no reason to believe we won’t progress rapidly to other augmentations and improvements. A simple graphical interface for like a heads up display or a simple audio interface for direct communications both come to mind, but I’m sure our imaginations will be comically optimistic about some things and comically pessimistic about others. All that to say that any true AI potential will be human potential in time. We won’t stop at making super intelligent AGI. We will want to BE super intelligent AGI. Since we already know highly efficient and capable intelligence is possible (see yourself) it’s only a matter of time until we make it ourselves, provided we don’t kill ourselves somehow along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You murder a mind, not a body, so no mind no murder. Under that abortion isn’t murder at all. Taking a brain dead person off life support is also not murder. You certainly wouldn’t say cutting down a tree is murder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the thing though. Our bodies don’t really know what’s good for them with perfect accuracy. They evolved to survive in an environment of extreme and unpredictable scarcity, so your body telling you to eat the sour gummy worms is the correct choice in that context. Historically the job of the brain was to figure out how to get a steady supply without dieing. Now we have to manage our bodies like idiot babies because if we just listened to every impulse we’d end up with a host of health problems ultimately leading to reduced fertility and access to sexual partners. I mean that has always been true really, it’s just never been more true than now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We aren’t really our bodies, we’re a biological product made by our bodies to finc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labcoat!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meeeow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey you leave gooners alone. They aren’t hurting anyone. They’re just jerking off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're out of your element, dude.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics is my business lady, and business is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soon...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The direct answer to your question is that it’s a deep rooted cultural problem that has been with us since the beginning. The problem is the culture of extreme individualism and anti-intellectualism. People want to be completely free and unrestricted in their behavior, whether that harms others or not. Ultimately the desire for the freedom to harm others with impunity is what leads to where we are now. The rich want to be able to exploit their workers harder, men want to be able to beat and rape their wives and control their entire life, pedophiles (see endless stream of republican pedophilia controversies) want everyone to make more babies for them to rape, landlords want to take all your money for the privilege of having a place to sleep, every company that sells goods or services wants to fleece you, and all of these assholes want to have zero consequences for their actions. They gaslight the normies into distrusting the scientists, the educated, the compassionate, because they would actually help people. It’s not even about greed really, it’s about the ultimate extreme of personal freedom. Money just makes you more free.

  So why haven’t we done anything? People have, there’s just a lot of people who want this to happen. A lot of people would cheer as they send me to the gas chamber. The majority of my extended family probably would.

  I hate this place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk us land fish seem to like fizzy drinks just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using hot air instead of helium would not work. The density of hot air is much higher than helium, so you would need a significantly larger airship to lift the same mass of payload (the useful bits). That and keeping the air hot would require constant energy input reducing the efficiency of the system dramatically. I’m pretty sure that system would be literally impossible to construct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood softcore porn. They go to all the trouble of setting up emotional amd sexual tension just to waste it on a hammy holywood makeout scene where all you see is boobs and bush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I’m learning how to draw. I’ll make my own big dick futa waifu fuck my ideal big dick futa self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooooooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is gold. Like the internet of old. I’m keeping saving this for all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He really said this, look it up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it still a genocide if you turn them all into trans girl gamer lesbians? I would like to sign up for that future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our dancers have infinite curves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/ymF1bp-qrjU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try and stop me. I don’t even have windows installed anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man on Wall Street; it belongs to the shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I agree this seems more like tech debt and possibly a shitty architecture to me, both problems that ultimately come from poor management. The codebase I’m responsible for at work was developed in a mad rush, and the levels of pointless coupling and interdependence sometimes makes it hard to change anything without spending forever tracking down all the stupid little places that piece was touching. That shit comes from management pushing you to just do the thing already and move on, which works for a while until things get so messy you have to slow down or spend some time on a refactor. Someone could easily have made a technical decision for the sake of expedience, which was then built upon and became interconnected with other things in a way that made changing it require a major change, which of course no manager will support, so the work gets broken up into 100 tiny stupid tickets trying to move toward adding the new feature without ever making a breaking change, slowing down the whole thing even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Sugar⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I notice you’re out of the loop. The market demographics they’re referring to are trans women. It’s a bit of a meme that trans women like monster zero ultra, and trans women want estrogen not testosterone. Hope that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to hard disagree with you there. The beauty of the math equations they test you with in school is completely artificially selected. The vast majority of math does not have nice neat solutions. There is a lot of it that doesn’t have any solution at all. The beauty of engineering is figuring out how much of things you actually need. You might calculate that some quantity should be an irrational number for some design optimum, but the amount of precision you actually need will be some range around that. When you do that and see your design in the real world actually functioning, that’s the greatest feeling in the world by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my CEO is doing something wrong then because he seems to be trying to maximize IC whiplash sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way to enforce the tyranny of the morning people on yourself. Fuck getting up early. Night owl till I die. The thing people who push getting up early fail to realize is that if everyone was the same as them and got up at the ass crack of dawn, modern society as we know it would not function. There will always be shit that needs to get done at night, or even just the afternoon, and if everyone got up in the morning those things simply wouldn’t get done. Who maintains the power grid at night if everyone falls asleep at 8 pm, for example? Reclaim your natural circadian rhythm for yourself and for society. Ask those self-righteous cunts what they were doing at 10 pm if they have such superior work ethic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your experience highlights the main difference, the ability to leave an instance and disengage with authoritarian assholes without having to leave Lemmy. On reddit your only options are to leave or comply.