CannonFodder

@CannonFodder@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send newts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eft off!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our kryptonite⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of some Terry Pratchett quote about a stake through the heart working pretty well on people too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahhhhhh YEAH! 💲💵💰🤑🪙⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even. The big corps mostly sold the potential rebates for cheap. Investment companies (ie the billionaires) picked them up and likely bribed the SC judges to get a big payday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, tubes from light’s perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, unless it’s distributed in a plume because Texas environmental regulators suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m going to tell my kids this was Heated Rivalry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah people watched it for the plot, not the gay porn just like people get Playboy for the articles. And I might add, gay porn with what sounds like the microphone must have been inches from the action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you lose traffic updates. I use Wayze, and it suddenly switched and told me to take a turn and I followed it and neatly circumvented a jacknifed truck and probably a big delay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think the issues are related?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are likely benifits to social media for some kids in some cases. But the question is about overall health. Even their first example they talk about a person who has hard time making connections in real life so they need online contact. Yeah, it might seem that way but being forced to connect in real life is what makes it easier over time. Continually avoiding real life through social media is what makes it so unhealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks exactly like mine! Did you copy me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, with a slight different spelling. A googol is 10^100, a googolplex is a 10^(googol) or written conveniently, a one followed by a metric shit ton of zeros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t brought anything up as an alternative! You just keep saying my theory has assumptions. I’m just suggesting that anything other than a physical explanation is ‘magical’ as a semantic tool because whatever it is clearly sits outside of any scientific rigor. Whether you are looking to some spiritual entity, or universe simulation theory, I don’t know, so I can’t argue for or against those. In fact, those examples ar impossible to argue against because as models they have no consistency or predictable test mechanism. Yes, a physical model has assumptions - as conscious beings experiencing them, fundamentally we will always have to have some root assumptions for any model. But a physical model based on scientific process is different than say ‘god made it’ theory, because it’s based on observation, and impartial (within its own reference frame) testing. It’s reference frame is the only one that can produce useful and predictable results because it is the only one based on the notion that the universe is based on predictable rules. That doesn’t mean it’s correct, but I see it as the only worthwhile approach. You can ponder other models that introduce unknowable things, but they inherently will always be incomplete; hence the ‘naval gazing’ vernacular. There’s nothing wrong with gazing at a nice naval if you’re into that sort of thing, but it won’t really explain anything, or provide pragmatic results. Feel free to show me I’m wrong. I am not closed minded. But in the absence of a better model, I see no reason not to stick to a physical one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What competing model do you propose? Why does my model fall apart?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that’s the only reason it really matters at all. It’s inherently unprovable and unknowable so there nothing to do any science on. It’s philosophy or meta physics, which is great, but cannot be definitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just not how science works. One can only postulate a theory, make predictions based on it, and test it. If you can come up with an experiment that shows the model false, it is disproved. Otherwise only if it stands the test of time, and useful predictions it becomes a law - although there’s always the caveat that it could still be proven false.
  But you do have to start somewhere, with a framework for consistency and logic, or else you’ll never get anywhere and it’s a waste of time. That the universe is based on repeatable, consistent physical laws is about as basic of a framework as there could be. You can add abstract random magic into your model if it makes you happy, but I think it makes the model considerably less useful. Unless you can show me how it doesn’t, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the only one that I can think of that might actually matter from an ethical point of view as ai approaches the appearance what could be considered consciousness. What else are you thinking about that relates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is unique. Consciousness of anyone but yourself is immediately an unknowable thing. There are no related effects we can measure. There is nothing we can predict based on it. You can do pseudo science with it and that could have great value, but it will always fall apart under proper scientific method. Other sciences require assumptions, like that logic holds, math is consistent, the world exists etc. and so they are tested under that caveat implicitly. You can also make an assumption that consciousness exists in some cases - but it doesn’t lead anywhere. Like arguing whether a computer can be conscious leads back exactly and only to your original assumptions and so they add no value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case we can’t subjectively measure it. I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that with less pain, people would enjoy life more. We can test that now (probably been done, but maybe too basic). We can look at historical records that people has diseases more in the past, and we can measure the relative discomfort of those diseases now. But, yes, there is a certain amount of believe that logic holds, and that historical evidence is reliable. That said, if a competing theory was put forward, I would think about it and see if there was any way to differentiate via subjective experimental means. It’s only belief in so much as there are no better models.
  But what of my belief? How does it offend you so? Are you trying to justify some crazy beliefs of your own by creating a false equivalence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. We know that a human can detect those frequencies and output information related to them. Like any transducer. Like any computer. We cannot know what the experience is. The best we can do is describe our own experience, and compare the description to that which other people give, but that’s not really better evidence than what we’d get from a current llm ai which can do the same. It’s logical to assume other people have conscious, but we cannot test it empirically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Science is done by observing, theorizing, predicting and then testing. We cannot test anything on consciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People explaining their own consciousness is really not good enough. Simple llm ai systems can do that. I’m pretty sure that dogs are conscience, but we can never get their perspective. You cannot know anyone other than yourself is conscious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My assumption that being healthy is good? geesh, there is a limit to mindless argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s a new force or field, then it’s still physical, it’s just unknown. But that’s not what you’re talking about, I think. It’s more like the notion of life, which is self organizing matter - which appears at first to go against the laws of entropy. But we can see how a chance configuration that self replicates is a natural phenomenon and actually accelerates entropy in the longer term. Life is still physical even though we can describe it as a concept that might seem to transcend physicality. Consciousness can just be the same. And yes, you can consider consciousness as some sort of other fundamental order, but it’s not scientific - it specifically cannot be since we can not measure it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Public money of one jurisdiction shouldn’t necessarily pay for things so a different jurisdiction gets them for free. It’s an opportunity for the city to generate some revenue to offset other costs. Or it could be structured as a non-profit effort to develop open source, paid by ongoing grants from a number of cities that would use it - that would be nice, but difficult to orchestrate .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the Cuban people, surrender is not an option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Cubans in the US despise the Cuban fascist regime. But interestingly, now the US is going down the same path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So how would you handle this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of apartments are just converted houses, or old with minimal such standards except basic structural. So the floor joists would typically be 2x10 (nominal inch). Possibly a neighbor below tried to install the pole and found only drywall ceiling and cut a hole. Instead of boxing between the joists and attaching to that, they just went higher to the next flat wood - the subfloor ply under the flooring - so possibly just 3/4".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI vegan. That’s brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, my bad - wrong thread.

  But if it’s not physical - what else could it be? Are you implying some magic that follows no laws and isn’t based on anything that can be measured or modeled?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s the point of saying AI can’t be conscious? That’s where we started here. It’s a stupid argument that’s clearly wrong.