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- Comment on Not stealing 17 hours ago:
when he’s older and truly appreciates all you’ve done for him
Wishful thinking
- Comment on Not stealing 17 hours ago:
Tbh, definitely not with all kids. You have to specifically train them to not use “emergency” screams when they are frustrated.
- Comment on Not stealing 17 hours ago:
Starting all over with child proofing and sleepless nights after 11 years… wow. Seriously, respect for pulling it off.
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 18 hours ago:
Luddite take.
- Comment on Hot Seat Advert 1 day ago:
For that price it must have been junk.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 day ago:
Certain = most. And you might have misunderstood what survivorship bias means.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 day ago:
men tend to generally be less interested in social interaction
Is that the case, because they are men, or because they are afraid?
Piggybacking on thsi comment: it’s incredibly rare for men to get approached, it’s incredibly common for women to get approached.
Both of these situations have downsides, but right now we are talking about men, so let’s ignore the downsides for women right now.
If you are the one who has to approach somebody if you want to start up any kind of relationship (from casual acquaintance to friend, to romantic relationship), that means you will be on the receiving end of rejection, by definition. If you are in the “approaching” role, and you’d reject somebody, you just don’t approach them. So by definition, it’s quite rare when being approached that you are rejected by the person who approached you.
So while women have to reject a lot of approaches they don’t want, men get rejected quite often. A socially inept woman is a wallflower, a socially inept man is a creep.
If you have been rejected too often (and maybe too harshly), this might easily turn into a sour grapes situation (“I can’t do social interaction, so I don’t want social interaction”) due to fear of rejection.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 day ago:
No, that’s not it. You are seeing your experience (and the experience of people around you, all living in the same society at the same time) and extrapolate that to the “very human nature”.
Just go back 50 years and you have all these structures making it easier for men to keep contact. You had fraternities, churches, unions, clubs, associations and so on, all designed to pick up young men, give them structure, give them contacts and help them being part of something bigger. All that failed some time in the 70s or 80s with the individualism movement that valued individualism over every kind of group.
If you go back even further, social structures were even stronger, with even things like arranged marriage being commonplace in many societies. In societies where that was common, there was no expectation at all that a young cis man would have to approach women at all.
Don’t extrapolate your experience to all of human-kind. It is almost never correct.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
This, but also retirement being a thing.
100 years ago, kids were much less of an investment than today (they’d start pulling their own financial weight at like age 6-12, not at age 20-30 like today) and they’d be the only thing making the difference between being able to retire to one of your kids’ home or the poor house.
Nowadays kids take much more money and time to get ready, and if you have no kids you can still retire and have your retirement financed by other peoples’ kids. And then you even get to keep all the money you would have spent on getting your kids ready for the world, and you can spend it on yourself.
Financially speaking, having kids used to be a necessity and now it’s a pretty bad choice.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 day ago:
Fair.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 day ago:
Image: Bad AI.
Text: Bad AI.
Source: Bad AI.
Neither the name of the effect nor the story turn up any results on google.
This is not a science meme, but instead a “My first AI meme”.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 day ago:
Yeah, so much so that people believe this meme is reality, even though google turns up not a single result for “plus c bow effect” that has anything to do with archery. Neither does any google search on the story.
The whole post is placebo, aka pure AI slop.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
If they are following the usual timeline, that’s another 4 years until a world war, and then another 6 years until someone drops a bomb and ends everything.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
The biological clock exists, and it is real. But it ends at a time where no reasonable person should seriously consider having a first child.
For most women menopause starts around 45 and the last period happens around 49-55. That’s the hard limit.
Between 30-45 having kids is most often possible, though it’s getting more difficult and the chance for things like trisomy 21 is increasing exponentially with increasing age.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
The math has changed.
100 years ago, you’d get kids so you can afford eggs.
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 2 days ago:
Wasn’t reddit the digg ripoff?
IIRC digg was the old reddit until it collapsed for being shitty.
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 2 days ago:
I see you read my comment history.
Understand, it’s just that this was broadcast in news worldwide.
Yes, this is what happens if journalists just blindly grab some technical term and broadcast it without any explanation (and often without understanding) what it means. It leads to massive misunderstandings.
Couple that with terms like “hallucination” being specifically created by marketing people to be confusing and you get the current problems.
A better term would be “glitching” or “spouting random nonsense”.
so what do you think about cgpt 4&5 is it something dangerous, if you throw a little bit of light about your thought, it will really educating.
People delegate a lot of their thinking and even their decision-making to AI. “Give me some ideas where to go on a date with my girlfriend”, “What should I cook tonight?”, “What phone should I buy?”, “What does my boyfriend mean with this post?”, “Is politician X a good candidate?”, “Why is immigration bad?”, “Was Hitler really a communist?”.
LLMs (the currently most common type of AI) is super easy to manipulate. There’s a thing called “system prompt”, which works like an initial instruction that the LLM completely trusts and follows. With commercial closed source LLMs these system prompts are secret. They can be modified on-the-fly depending e.g. keywords you use in your text.
It is for example known that Grok’s system prompt tells it that the Nazis weren’t all that bad and that it has to check Musk’s post as a source for its political opinions.
It is also known that there were instances where system prompts in LLMs were used for marketing purposes (e.g. pushing a certain brand of products).
Now imagine what happen when people perceive AI as some kind of neutral, data-driven, evidence-only, unemotional resource that they trust to take over thinking and making decisions for them, when in reality they are only puppets following their puppet master in pushing whatever opinion they want.
Does that seem dangerous to you?
(And then there’s of course the issue with the very low quality of the output, plagiarism, driving people who created essentially the training data out of work and so on and so on)
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 2 days ago:
Your whole misunderstanding originates from the fact that you heard technical jargon and thought it means the same as the original meaning of the word.
Same as Linux daemons aren’t occult and a misbehaving engine doesn’t need a better upbringing, so does “AI hallucination” have nothing to do with humans hallucinating.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 2 days ago:
All of that is under the umbrella term of ethical hacker. Black/grey/white hat are some very outdated and unclear terms, and also terms that non-tech people don’t really understand.
Ethical hacker is a term that lay people also understand and because of that it has replaced the rest of these terms.
(And also, “ethical hacker” encompasses both the grey and white hat. So it’s not an equivalent term to “grey hat”.)
- Comment on Damn 3 days ago:
Tbf, no woman looks like an anime character, same a no man does.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
From what I read, Microsoft is planning to kick anti-cheat out of the Windows kernel too, so maybe that will help on the Linux side as well.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 days ago:
Tbh, that won’t be useful, like the guy above stated.
Google searches are very similar in terms of work that needs to be done. You could expect the average and the median to be very close. For example, take these numbers: 1,1,2,2,3. The median is 2, the average is 1.8.
AI requests vary wildly. GPT-5 for example uses multiple different internal models ranging from very small text-only models to huge, reasoning models and image generation models. While there’s no way to know how much energy they use without OpenAI publishing data, you can compare how long computation takes.
For a fast, simple text-only answer ChatGPT using GPT-5 takes a second or so to start writing and maybe 5 seconds to finish. To generate an image it might take a minute or two. And if you dump some code in there and tell it to make large adaptions to the code it can take 10+ minutes to generate that. That’s a factor of more than 100x. If most answers are done by the small text-only models, then the median will be in the 5 second range while the average might be closer to 100 seconds or so, so median and average diverge a lot.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 3 days ago:
That’s what you think is good about hacking? That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. That’s what you get when you get your education from TV.
Hacking means “misusing/modifying crap to work how you want”.
Ethical hacking is e.g. modifying devices you own to run software you want, like e.g. running homebrew software on a game console. It is finding and reporting security vulnerabilities so that companies can improve their security. It is modifying software or devices to e.g. removing privacy problems or tracking.
And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren’t the same either, since some ethical hacking activities might be illegal (e.g. violating restrictions on modifying devices) and some legal hacking activities might not be ethical (e.g. using legal hacking to dox people).
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 3 days ago:
Some sci-fi comes true. Sadly usually only the dystopian ones.
- Comment on Ender 3 v2 and new to 3D printing 4 days ago:
Step 1: DO NOT DO ANY UPGRADES. Get your printer working, get familiar with printing. Step 2: Once you are comfortable with your printer, pick a single upgrade and do only that. Reassemble the printer completely, print something, get comfortable. Step 3: Once you are comfortable with the upgrade, repeat step 2 until the printer is good or you get bored with upgrading.
Every friend of mine who did “all the upgrades” at once ended up with a pile of garbage that they didn’t get back together and that I had to painstakingly fix for them.
Do only one at a time, and make sure you get good with your machine before doing upgrades.
Also, start with the small and simple upgrades before taking on the difficult ones.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 4 days ago:
Try soaked shredded wheat as a mince meat replacement in Chili con Carne. It’s seriously good.
Or falafel burgers with fried egg. That stuff is amazing.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 4 days ago:
Tbh, McDonalds vegan burgers are the best patties they have. Not because they are great, but because at least they don’t taste like fried shoe sole like their beef burgers.
Seriously, their beef burgers are animal cruelty. No animal deserves to be turned into that garbage.
- Comment on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots. 4 days ago:
… and we’ll just go buy some cigarettes now.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 days ago:
Except that yes, math is about precision and rigor, and yes, the square root of negative numbers is totally allowed (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root#Square_roots_of…) and yes, math totally allows for statements with multiple solutions.
sin(x) = 0also has infinite solutions and yet it’s totally legal for x to make an equation like that. - Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 days ago:
And bee queen generate full-animal-sized flying sperm, aka drones.