Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 day ago:
Every 3 to 4 months I’d say. This is despite the fact that it’s free because both my mom and sister are hairdressers.
- Comment on I pressure washed, swapped out the rotten pieces and repainted a deck railing 3 days ago:
It was unintentional. I made that collage quickly and simply didn’t pay attention to it. I never thought it would offend this many people.
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 5 days ago:
No. It describes a person whose much more obsessed about it.
- Comment on if hate is categorically bad, then any sort of negativity is also bad. Even the word bad is bad. Being anti-hate actually has drawbacks 5 days ago:
After I lost my belief in free will, I also lost my ability to feel hate. I haven’t felt that in years - almost a decade.
I can still feel annoyed, irritated, or dislike someone, but hate is incompatible with my worldview. And I don’t mean “hate” in the casual way people use it in everyday speech - I mean true hatred. I can’t hate an object, because it just is and couldn’t be otherwise. But in the same way, I can’t hate people either, because while I think they have the ability to act differently in the future, I don’t believe they could have acted differently in the past once something has already been done.
Hating someone for what they are seems to imply they should’ve been different, which makes no sense. If someone is being an asshole, it’s not their fault - they can’t help themselves. I might not want to be around that person, but I don’t hate them. It’s like hating the rain or the darkness.
- Comment on Why is insulting people for their state (Florida) ok, but not gender or race? 6 days ago:
I don’t think insulting people for any reason is okay. We’re just blind to it when it’s directed at people we too don’t like. We’re hypocrites.
- Comment on Sweden Proposes Lowering Criminal Responsibility Age to 13 for Serious Crimes | Sweden Herald 6 days ago:
This is Sweden. The goal of all prisons is rehabilitation.
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 1 week ago:
Thriving is subjective but every single 30+ I know is able to financially support themselves in the common sense of the word so I’d say a quite high number. Probably around 80 to 90% if not higher.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 1 week ago:
It’s good to keep in mind that not showing emotions doesn’t mean not feeling them. Men don’t generally act that way with each other because there’s a real and always-present danger of actual violence. Disagreements usually either get solved, or we just bury those feelings until someone pushes us over the edge - and then we punch them in the face.
That’s not an option when you’re a man working with women. You can’t let things escalate because they can take it further than you can. He might be boiling inside, but there’s no outlet for it. We just deal with it and we’re usually quite good at that since we’ve been doing it all our lives.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 1 week ago:
Perhaps midwit meme format would work here as well with Ubuntu on both ends and everything else in between
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 week ago:
It’s normal. Worn out clutch has different and more noticeable symptoms.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 week ago:
Looking at my ChatGPT “random questions” tab and the things I’ve asked from it, much of it are the kind of things you probably couldn’t look up on encyclopedia.
For example:
“Is a slight drop in the engine rpm when shifting from neutral to 1st gear while holding down the clutch pedal a sign of worn out clutch”?
Or:
“What’s the difference between Mirka’s red and yellow sandpaper?”
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Well, first of all, like I already said, I don’t think there’s substrate dependence on either general intelligence or consciousness, so I’m not going to try to prove there is - it’s not a belief I hold. I’m simply acknowledging the possibility that there might be something more mysterious about the workings of the human mind that we don’t yet understand, so I’m not going to rule it out when I have no way of disproving it.
Secondly, both claims - that consciousness has very little influence on the mind, and that general intelligence isn’t complicated to understand - are incredibly bold statements I strongly disagree with. Especially with consciousness, though in my experience there’s a good chance we’re using that term to mean different things.
To me, consciousness is the fact of subjective experience - that it feels like something to be. That there’s qualia to experience.
I don’t know what’s left of the human mind once you strip away the ability to experience, but I’d argue we’d be unrecognizable without it. It’s what makes us human. It’s where our motivation for everything comes from - the need for social relationships, the need to eat, stay warm, stay healthy, the need to innovate. At its core, it all stems from the desire to feel - or not feel - something.
- Comment on Putin threatens to target any Western troops sent to Ukraine 1 week ago:
We’ll add it to the list of thing they’ve threatened us about.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
I don’t think it does, but it seems conceivable that it potentially could. Maybe there’s more to intelligence than just information processing - or maybe it’s tied to consciousness itself. I can’t imagine the added ability to have subjective experiences would hurt anyone’s intelligence, at least.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Same argument applies for consciousness as well, but I’m talking about general intelligence now.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Same argument applies for consciousness as well, but I’m talking about general intelligence now.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
The chart is just for illustration to highlight my point. As I already said - pick a different chart if you prefer, it doesn’t change the argument I’m making.
It took us hundreds of thousands of years to go from stone tools to controlling fire. Ten thousand years to go from rope to fish hook. And then just 60 years to go from flight to space flight.
I’ll happily grant you rapid technological progress even over the past thousand years. My point still stands - that’s yesterday on the timeline I’m talking about.
If you lived 50,000 years ago, you’d see no technological advancement over your entire lifetime. Now, you can’t even predict what technology will look like ten years from now. Never before in human history have we taken such leaps as we have in the past thousand years. Put that on a graph and you’d see a steady line barely sloping upward from the first humans until about a thousand years ago - then a massive spike shooting almost vertically, with no signs of slowing down. And we’re standing right on top of that spike.
Throughout all of human history, the period we’re living in right now is highly unusual - which is why I claim that on this timeline, AGI might as well be here tomorrow.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Not really the same thing. The Tic Tac Toe brute force is just a lookup - every possible state is pre-solved and the program just spits back the stored move. There’s no reasoning or decision-making happening. Atari Chess, on the other hand, couldn’t possibly store all chess positions, so it actually ran a search and evaluated positions on the fly. That’s why it counts as AI: it was computing moves, not just retrieving them.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Trying to claim there was vastly less innovation in the entire 19th century than there was in the past decade is just nonsense.
And where have I made such claim?
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
The chart is just for illustration purposes to make a point. I don’t see why you need to be such a dick about it. Feel free to reference any other chat that you like better which displays the progress of technological advancements thorough human history - they all look the same; for most of history nothing happened and then everything happened. If you don’t think that this progress has been increasing at explosive speed over the past few hundreds of years then I don’t know what to tell you. People 10k years ago had basically the same technology as people 30k years ago. Now compare that with what has happened even during your lifetime.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
We’re probably going to find out sooner rather than later.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
I can think of only two ways that we don’t reach AGI eventually.
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General intelligence is substrate dependent, meaning that it’s inherently tied to biological wetware and cannot be replicated in silicon.
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We destroy ourselves before we get there.
Other than that, we’ll keep incrementally improving our technology and we’ll get there eventually. Might take us 5 years or 200 but it’s coming.
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- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
That’s just false. The chess opponent on Atari qualifies as AI.
- Comment on The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future 1 week ago:
I don’t see the connection here. AI describes a type of software and programming is something you do. Wether a software counts as AI or not depends on what it does, not who wrote the code.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Even my smartphone doesn’t have OLED display.
If I was in the market for a new TV I’d probably go for an OLED assuming image burn-in is no longer an issue with them, but I’ll happily use my 15 year old LED TV for as long as it lasts. I can tell the difference in contrast when side by side with LED/LCD but in normal daily use I don’t pay any attention to it.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
I don’t even want 4K. 1080p is more than good enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t see how working in the trades is supposed to close the door for intellectualism or then we just mean different things with that word. Just because person rather works with their hands than deals with office politics and stares at a monitor for 8 hours a day doesn’t mean they’re stupid. Your future job prospects also look much better if you’re a plumber rather than computer scientist.
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 2 weeks ago:
My shower gel is rated for hair, face and testicles so I don’t need to worry about this.
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 weeks ago:
I have gerbils. Some of them love it and some couldn’t care less. For one it took over 6 months of watching her sister and just sitting in it to figure out how it works. Once she did, there was no end to it.
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Nicely illustrates the state of the world right now when even Greta can’t pay attention to climate change.
