Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 1 day ago:
I think genes have more to do with it than upbringing. You can definitely screw a kid up with poor upbringing but a good one doesn’t steer then away from what genes “predestined” us to become. Obviously it’s much more nuanced than that but I don’t think that parents have that much influence over what their kid becomes
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 4 days ago:
AI companies train their software on copyrighted content. They don’t spread direct copies of that content around.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 4 days ago:
It’ll be mosquito sized drone that stings you in the neck and then you die
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 days ago:
Nolla-yks in my language
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 5 days ago:
You wont reach anyone on Instagram with pictures alone - you need to post videos.
I have a carefully curated landscape photography feed on Instagram for which I’m quite proud of. I’ve been managing that page for closer to 15 years. I get more likes on my posts on my few year old Pixelfed profile.
I still have Instagram as it’s a place I can point most people to but nobody is going to independently find me there.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 5 days ago:
I’ve been doing that since -01
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 1 week ago:
I’ve always used Solid Explorer.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Trump is an individual. My criticism is about the blanket judgement of everyone rich and powerful.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Sure, but that’s a bit of a motte-and-bailey. It’s like saying that one wishes death for all black people and when challenged they then retreat back to claiming that they were talking about just the ones who rape and murder.
My point is that wishing death for someone simply for being rich and in an executive position is barely different from wishing that to someone because they’re black. It’s unreasonable to be categorically against something purely based on superficial features. It’s a thought-terminating cliché that ignores all nuance and reduces a diverse group of people into a stereotype.
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 1 week ago:
Do people actually use the tub? I’ve only seen and used ones in hotels for the novelty of it. I wouldn’t have use for one in my own home especially since I need to pay for the water.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Wishing death to someone for any reason is quite an extreme position to take outside of these niche internet bubbles that influenced you to think this way in the first place. I honestly struggle a bit when I try to imagine how you deal with the cognitive dissonance of trying to distinguish yourself from the worst people in history. You might not have the power to do the atrocities that they did, but your aspirations aren’t that different in practice. You just have a different justification for why you think what you wish to happen is actually a good thing - just like these people did as well. You even admit that you don’t really care whether they’re actually bad people or not. Your criteria is “rich and executive position,” which is quite indiscriminate.
- Comment on The difference between a Collection and a Hoard, is "Standards" 1 week ago:
For me, the difference is whether the stuff is organized or not. If not, it’s hoarding.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
But can you run Doom on a rat? I bet you can.
- Comment on I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient? 1 week ago:
If you pour water in the drain and follow it long enough, eventually it’ll come out of your shower again. You’re practically washing up with sewage.
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 1 week ago:
Don’t most american homes not have a bathroom with shower on the wall and a drain in the floor? What’s the point of having a shower stall or a tub?
Here’s mine:
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
What the fuck is your problem? How can this place be so full of insufferable pricks.
“This guy doesn’t want to talk politics in a thread about two satellites nearly colliding - must be okay with fascists then.”
Stellar logic. Absolutely brilliant.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
You guys are more obsessed with Elon than his most devout fanboys. Turning every tech thread into personality drama while calling others ignorant for wanting to stay on topic is peak irony. If that counts as burying my head in the sand, guilty as charged - and happily so.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 1 week ago:
Anyone who thinks you can avoid hearing about “the horrors” by leaving social media hasn’t tried leaving social media. This stuff is unavoidable. The only little control you have over it is the sheer volume of it that you wish to get firehosed by on a daily basis.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 1 week ago:
Forums are a social media subcategory.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
No, I’m simply calling you out for injecting your personal politics in a discussion about near-collision of two satellites. Please keep that to political communities and let the rest of us have a moment of peace from all that. This is a technology community.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
The discussion is about satellite orbit lifespans.
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 1 week ago:
It’s like a constant attack from all sides. No wonder people grow tired of fighting and just check out.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
An what does this have to do with the topic at hand?
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
Satellites are obviously needed for satellite internet.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
LEO is not a permanent orbit. There’s atmospheric drag. I believe Starlink satellites deorbit in 5 to 10 years. Oldest ones are already falling back to earth (burning in the atmosphere)
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 1 week ago:
When most people hear AI they think AGI and because a narrow-AI language model doesn’t perform the way they expect an AGI to they then say stuff like “it’s not intelligent” or “it’s not an AI”
AI as a term is about as broad as the term “plants” which contains everything from grass to giant redwoods. LLM is just a subcategory like conifers.
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 1 week ago:
AI is not synonymous with LLMs. AlphaFold figured out protein folding. It’s an AI but not an LLM.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
Artificial Intelligence is the broad field of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, or perception. Machine Learning is a subset of AI where systems learn from data without explicit programming. Large Language Models are a specific type of ML model trained on vast text data to generate or understand language. LLMs are very much AI, and while they’ve popularized the term “AI” recently, the hierarchy stands: LLMs are ML, and ML is AI.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not predefined - chess has about 10^120 possible games. That’s astronomically large number which is way too vast to pre-store or hardcode. It’s intelligence through computation, not a script.
Believe what you like though.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
Entertainment value - not monetary. I don’t pay for an AI because it makes me money. I do it because I enjoy using it.
