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- Comment on We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse 1 year ago:
it’s it though?
in our Fediverse bubble yes.
but so many average people just don’t care.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on! 1 year ago:
Is there any such keyboard config for smartphones/laptops?
- Comment on sixty and ninety are often confused due to their similarity. If you mean both of them, then simply say 'sinety'! 1 year ago:
Either 69 or 96 🤔
- Comment on sixty and ninety are often confused due to their similarity. If you mean both of them, then simply say 'sinety'! 1 year ago:
I don’t mean 60+90 but instead “60 or 90, both goes”
- Submitted 1 year ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on chemists? 1 year ago:
Yeah, but stereotypically speaking. If the diagram says physicists, engineers and mathaticians are all single, then programmer better also be.
- Comment on chemists? 1 year ago:
Wait, that means that programmers are NOT single? 😂
I think something is missing there
- Comment on internet points 1 year ago:
That’s why scihub is so popular
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
The example with gravity is interesting indeed. We have only acceleration sensors behind our ears, but our body notices the pressure of the body tissue pressing down towards the gravity. And obviously, we also feel gravity when moving.
However, the difference to magnetism is, that we frankly don’t have any contact with magnets during our evolution - except for the earth’s magnetic field.
Even if we are able to sense it, it’s definitely far from being able to reliably feel it like we do for gravity.
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
Good point! 😄
We also don’t have any feeling of how that’s like!
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
Finally mens nipples get something to be useful at.
I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
Fair point, but then, most people don’t have this.
And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.
This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.
Though I’m definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
Fair point, I didn’t know about that. But even then, most of us don’t feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.
- Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it 1 year ago:
I have to disagree there regardless of how one interprets “know”.
If you mean “know intuitively”, then we don’t, precisely because we have no sensors for it and hence no experience with it. We intuitively know light, because we sense it and know what to expect in a closed room with no light source.
If you mean it scientifically, then light and magnets are extensively studied and far from “know nothing about it”. Our knowledge of light, magnetism and sound is very good on all levels.
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 72 comments
- Comment on Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts 1 year ago:
Sounds like a black mirror episode - if it weren’t actually possible reality…
- Comment on Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves 1 year ago:
ooffff
- Comment on if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it? 1 year ago:
Even if we use an algorithm to make the decision, the execution needs trust and cooperation from society and industry etc. This is a real big thing and democratic voting partially legitimises the chosen actions so that people are willing to cooperate. This isn’t trivial when a computer does this.
I really don’t think, that resource allocation is the root cause problem here.
- Comment on if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it? 1 year ago:
I think resource allocation fails primarily due to either authoritarian political systems with their psychological bias or democratic systems where neither voters nor politicians make an sustained effort to be scientifically calibrated and instead aim for popularity and people pleasing. IMO this is why democracies fail to achieve the best outcomes. As a consequence, resources as not well allocated.
- Comment on it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know 1 year ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Esoteric runes 1 year ago:
This is some high quality stuff here - being able to recognise many of them
- Comment on Who needs the master sword anyway? 1 year ago:
“The Legend says, that the allmighty Nokia was the most powerful weapon ever wielded by a Hylian. To this day, there isn’t a any enemy, who has see the Nokia-Sword in use and survived it.” - Zelda
- Comment on We don't know what our boogers smell like - it's the default smell for us. 1 year ago:
Well there is at least the hide post option…
- Comment on What Time Dilation ACTUALLY Is In Relativity (Hint: It has nothing to do with time) 1 year ago:
I haven’t watched the video. But your summary using “wave in aether” is unexpecting to me. the aether idea was tossed away a century ago when near the time it was discovered, that light travels at the same speed in all measured velocities ans directions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
so pathetic. many people download Chrome or firefox add their browser on their first time on an Windows. it’s completely automatic these days in their brain. these people still get even more convinced of their opinion by this interception
- Comment on Gas lobby forced to pull ad for misleading viewers over “50 pct cleaner” claims 1 year ago:
APPEA believes the advertising was clear, factual and does not agree with the community panel findings.
Alright then. Let’s make an advertisement, that all fossile fuel companies are f…ing engaging in climate homocide. I think, that this statement is quite clear and factual - and here is the evidence (and please ignore any “qualifiers” in that it only applied to certain companies).
- Comment on Gas lobby forced to pull ad for misleading viewers over “50 pct cleaner” claims 1 year ago:
People have learned from the times when a century ago doctors were recommending to smoke cigarettes in TV commercials for it’s health benefits. And that was when their danger was already scientifically established.
- Comment on The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet) 1 year ago:
Everyone is a bot except you
- Comment on What game feels 'timeless' to you? 1 year ago:
Baba Is You. It could be 30 years old - or could have been produced in 20 years - but still would be the same and Great!