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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was being facetious, but I actually get your point now - and yeah, I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A milk is the result of the process of milking

  It can produce other fluids as well.

• Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨25⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My unpopular opinion is that social media is simply inherently incompatible with human nature. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault per se. It’s like heroin in the sense that it doesn’t matter how you distribute it - it’s going to cause harm because hijacking our reward systems is the reason we use it in the first place. If you modify it so all that goes away, then what you’re left with is water - and nobody wants that.

  I don’t know what the solution is, though. I don’t think banning it is a solution, but I’m not sure how to square the harmfulness of it. It’s not just kids it’s bad for - it’s everyone. And yeah, there are degrees to it - perhaps Lemmy is objectively better than an algorithm-based message board like Reddit, but something being better doesn’t make it good. A non-toxic heroin that you can’t OD on is also better than the alternative, but it’s still going to be harmful. It’s an arbitrary line we collectively just decide to draw somewhere - even though you could argue infinitely about nudging it one way or the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That assumes the punch-deserving party is always “upwards” from you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New HW4 Teslas do in fact include a front-facing radar, but it’s currently only used for collecting data - not for FSD.

  Still, gotta give them credit for getting by with vision-only quite well. I don’t personally see any practical reason why you absolutely must include LiDAR. We already know driving relatively safely with vision only is possible - all the best drivers in the world do it.2.4s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨weed can increase anxiety some say. does CBD oil have that effect too?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get social anxiety from weed but it’s not chronic. Only when I’m high around someone who doesn’t know it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they always will. You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases. If we replaced every single car on US roads with one driven by AI - proven to be 10 times better a driver than a human - that would still mean 4,000 people getting killed by them each year. That, however, doesn’t mean we should go back to human drivers and 40,000 people killed annually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Broadly speaking, an AI driver getting stumped means it’s stuck in the middle of the road - while a human driver getting stumped means plowing into a semi truck.

  I’d rather be inconvenienced than killed. And from what I’ve seen, even our current AI drivers are already statistically safer than the average human driver - and they’re only going to keep getting better.

  They’ll never be flawless though. Nothing is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s connected to internet it can be hacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the interventions here are more like: “that’s a trash can someone pushed onto the road - let me help you around it” rather than: “let me drive you all the way to your destination.”

  It’s usually not the genuinely hard stuff that stumps AI drivers - it’s the really stupid, obvious things it simply never encountered in its training data before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no such things as a get rich quick scheme, but we live in a world of get richer quick schemes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya gotta spend money to make money.

  I mean, that is technically true. If someone gave me 5 million, I could invest 4.5 million and live quite comfortably for 5 to 10 years with that 500k. 4.5 million invested to stock market would have grown to around 9 million in 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to fix this crack in the shower wall?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one vertical piece on the centre that’s holding the air duct. It just doesn’t show in the pictures.