msprout

@msprout@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ACK! My eye meats!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some particles of light begin their journey in the Sun, then they travel for 8 - 9 minutes to Earth, only to end up blinding some ape as they’re hurdling down a stone road in a two ton explosion-powered locomotive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, ‘artificial’ literally just means ‘made through knowledge,’ in opposition to natural, meaning ‘occurs as-is.’ I agree with you that there is a better word out there than ‘artificial’ for these spicy autocorrects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense. If I understood everyone clearly, it’s not the idea to use a fresnel, it’s the fact that we just haven’t had anything capable of withstanding those temperatures and still allowing for the piezoelectric effect to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not a scientist so please correct me if I am off base, but did it really take them this long to attempt to focus light onto PV cells using a fresnel lens?

  My hobby as a 15 year old was buying broken projectors to harvest the fresnel lenses in the lamp on top. They could focus sunlight so powerfully that you could burn shit. I didn’t do that, surprisingly. I was like Marge Simpson, I just thought they were neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not necessarily true.

  A giant part of the engine that powers the Great Wheel of Conspiracy Theories is the intoxicating allure that anyone who follows along will be ‘in the know’, and once all is revealed, everyone will come crawling back them begging for forgiveness and fawning praise on them for being so ahead of the game and in-the-know.

  The desperate attempts at convincing everyone around them are an early sign of Conspiracy Brain, and is what then leads to the further effects of Conspiracy Brain, which is everyone around them getting annoyed, yelling at them or pushing back with an attempt at a serious debate, and then self-isolating and choosing to only associate with a clade of similarly-online weirdos who self-reinforce one another and enable a greater separation from the plot that the rest of us are following along to. The overwhelming majority of these people are not grifters, they are rubes. They are believers, not the cynical, power-obsessed, fascist element that is using them to put a bridle on federal power.

  I know I asked the question originally, but I only asked because it has been such a present thing in my (meatspace) life. I’ve seen friends and family disappear down the same hole, all the same way, and all the same end up here, at ‘crazy asshole filling every square inch of his 1989 dodge hooptie with magic marker writing’ all the same. I don’t get why it happens this way.

  My best guess is that this is the last way possible for people who have been deeply isolated by anger and rage to communicate their dumb theories to people they haven’t exhausted yet. Perhaps the effect of utterly exhausting everyone around you is the common cause of it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes people do this, in particular? Writing little screeds on every square inch of their car?

  I swear I have seen this exact psychosis develop and present in the exact same way dozens of times over my life so far, and it has been convincing to exactly 0 people in that time. I don’t know that for sure, but I mean, look at them. Who, besides other cranks, is that really speaking to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.

  Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an “unsolved problem” and not, y’know, perfectly solvable by the same ol’: ya hire people to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Financial Times] Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, when are these bourgeoisie fucks gonna realize that any system designed to coerce or manipulate is inherently corrupting its own ability to be trustworthy, ethical or qualitative.

  moreover, i think it’s just weird that everyone expects generative ai to be as open and useful and free as it has been. it’s all to get us to trust and use it unknowingly, then they’re gonna start jacking the prices up. we’ve seen it before with cable television, internet, consumer goods like shoes and computer parts, and more. open source efforts have gone a long way, but it’s still all a tinkerers’ hobby, not a viable alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  :sickos:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, honestly, the way things are set up isn’t perfect. I maintain a few accounts on different instances just to fan out what content I get. The Fedi is always gonna have issues with moderation and federation, I just don’t see it as a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spez loves Elon. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was bending the knee to try and get Elon to buy Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I did that on my own to be honest. Not anymore, though, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve been wondering if I actually got banned because I used old.reddit and a hacked Reddit app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad to see lemmy.world so active.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn’t remember me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got banned after 15 years for asking why we can’t organize to cyberbully Trump’s current head of social media: en.wikipedia.org/…/Steven_Cheung_(political_advis…

  This was in response to the White House calling Garcia a terrorist on their Twitter account.