Perspectivist
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on How to fix this crack in the shower wall? 8 hours ago:
There’s no really universal answer because there are many ways to do waterproofing.
I’d start by removing the trim around the doorframe, light switch, or outlet to check the wall structure - or look for a service hatch on the ceiling to peek at the unfinished top part of the wall.
- Comment on How to fix this crack in the shower wall? 1 day ago:
I don’t know how waterproofing gets done where you live, but if a customer here in Finland asked me about this, I’d just tell them it’s mostly a cosmetic issue - and trying to fix it risks puncturing the waterproofing membrane behind the tiles.
You’re also highly unlikely to find a matching replacement tile unless whoever did the bathroom stashed the spares in the attic or something.
Anyway, the point is this probably isn’t going to cause water damage down the line - what actually keeps the walls watertight is behind the tiles, not the tiles themselves.
- Comment on This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going 2 days ago:
I’ve seen a few videos of this thing in action, and while I like the concept - especially that you can use the same device to mow the lawn too with the lawnmower attachment - it’s still quite painful to watch it work.
Especially with snow blowing, it’s just so disorganized: driving all over the place and making quite the mess. If I’m dropping 5k on an automatic snow blower, I don’t want to have to clean up after it.
- Comment on Income Tax Is Theft 2 days ago:
I guess your utopia doesn’t come with stuff like free education and healthcare not to mention social safety nets.
Also, not a shower thought.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 2 days ago:
when they were getting downvoted to oblivion for their opinion, and holding to it.
As one should. Downvote is not a counter-argument. A single thoughtfully written response is infinitely more likely to make me change my view than endless downvotes are. Objectively true statements are being “downvoted to oblivion” here on a daily basis.
- Comment on LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t even have anything to destroy if it wasn’t for an LLM. I’d still be using Windows.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 2 days ago:
That’s okay. Probably going to take 10 years before I’ll even buy my first 4K display.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 3 days ago:
As solar and wind power becomes more popular so does green hydrogen because it’s a good place to dump excess production when no other storage is available.
- Comment on Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works 3 days ago:
We obviously don’t know but I’d say that it’s still a pretty good starting assumption to say that consciousness is an emergent feature of information processing which is a physical process happening in out brain.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 3 days ago:
The rich oppose clean energy…
Bit of an broad generalization.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 days ago:
I’m aware of one case where a man lost a ton of weight by fasting for several months and maybe taking some supplements but that was done under medical supervision. It can definitely be done but it’s dangerous.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 days ago:
Working out has a lot of positive health benefits but it plays just a tiny role in weight loss. It’s virtually all about diet.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 days ago:
If you stop eating entirely for 2 months you might just barely make it.
- 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 6 days ago:
I prefer my humans grass fed and finished.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 6 days ago:
I’ve been investing into index funds since my twenties and I live quite frugally in a small house that I own. I’m relatively certain I’ll be able to retire just fine.
All my friends with this kind of attitude live in a rental apartment in a big city and have an office job. I guess I’d feel that way too if I was burning thousands in rent every month.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 1 week ago:
Rich people don’t hoard money. You don’t get rich by doing that. Most of their wealth is invested - the money is put back into circulation. What they do hoard is wealth but that mostly means things that can be easily sold and turned into cash but it’s not cash they’re hoarding.
- Comment on Swedish study of 100,000 women found AI-supported mammograms lowered rate of interval cancer by 12% 1 week ago:
Both are excellent at what they’re designed to do. One examines breasts and one generates natural sounding language. It’s only when you start using it for something it’s not designed to do when you run into problems. Applies to both.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
There’s one vertical piece on the centre that’s holding the air duct. It just doesn’t show in the pictures.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe it looks flimsier in the pictures than it actually is in person.
I take pride in my work - if I didn’t think it was solid enough, I’d have done it differently. The customer didn’t ask for something that could withstand a battering ram.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 week ago:
They’re leaving like redditors to Lemmy. There’s dozens of them!
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
The “thin pine boards” are engineered wood which does not twist. It’s not the first door/partition I’ve installed and I’ve yet to receive a single callback. It’s going to be perfectly fine. Absolutely no need to over-engineer something like this. I appreciate the feedback but I strongly disagree.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
It’s a non load bearing interior wall.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
The door, frame, and handle are usually sold separately. You can grab them at any regular hardware store.
Leave a 10 mm gap all around between the rough opening and the door frame, then adjust it plumb and level using a drill and a long bubble level - or ideally a laser if you’ve got one.
Anyone can do it if they just know how, and YouTube is full of solid tutorials.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
Too much is always enough
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. The “arch” is attatched to brick with 14 long screws.
- Comment on Built a partition to separate two rooms 1 week ago:
Did myself dirty by accidently buying too narrow door frame which is why it didn’t sit flush with the wall on this side which made installing the trim a bit tricky. Luckily I’ve dealt with the same issue in the past so it came out alright.
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- Comment on In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power 1 week ago:
Nobody knows what it actually takes to reach AGI, so nobody knows whether a certain system has enough compute and context size to get there.
For all we know, it could turn out way simpler than anyone thought - or the exact opposite.
My point still stands: you (or Cameron) couldn’t possibly know with absolute certainty.
I’d have zero issue with the claim if you’d included even a shred of humility and acknowledged you might be wrong. Since you didn’t, I’m calling bullshit on it.
- Comment on In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power 1 week ago:
It’s perfectly valid to discuss the dangers of AGI whether LLMs are the path there or not. I’ve been concerned about AGI and ASI for far longer than I’ve even known about LLMs, and people were worried about exactly the same stuff back then as they are now. This is precisely the kind of threat you should try to find a solution for before we actually reach AGI - because once we do, it’s way, way too late.
Also:
There is factually 0 chance we’ll reach AGI with the current brand of technology.
You couldn’t possibly know that with absolute certainty.
- Comment on In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power 1 week ago:
If anyone who wasn’t the head of an LLM company spouted this drivel, they’d be locked away in a padded room and Axios would rightly be called out for exacerbating the mental health crisis of a paranoid schizophrenic.
Like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Roman Yampolskiy, Stuart Russell, Nick Bostrom, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Toby Ord?
