CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What help can a modern AI really give you in making a nuke though? It could give you broad-strokes information about how they work in general, but that information isnt really a secret anyway, nukes are a technology that is over three quarters of a century old, you can just look them up and find information about how they work. For anyone with any risk of being able to build one, obtaining that information isnt realistically a problem.

  You could perhaps ask the thing for more specific information about how to design all the relevant components, but then you have to deal with the issue that AIs tend to be wrong a lot of the time, and in any case, if you have the resources to seriously have a chance at building such a thing, is hiring, recruiting, or acquiring training for some actual nuclear physicists or engineers really going to be your limiting factor, such that getting a bot to do their work could help you?

  Id image the hard part to be actually getting or refining the nuclear material of the needed enrichment level, testing the thing, and doing all of this without being found out. ChatGPT or whatever cant exactly go out and buy uranium or build a secret enrichment facility for you, no matter how much you might jailbreak its safeguards on the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstand, I am not saying “make sure he spends it responsibly”. Nobody has has “made” him do this at all, and I didn’t advocate for a policy of doing so. What I’m saying is that I don’t think this particular use is worthy of condemnation the way his other actions are, because in the long run I think that this specific thing will end up benefiting people other than him no matter if he intends for that to happen or not (even if the American healthcare system prevents access, which I’m not confident it will do completely, not every country has that system, and it’s statistically improbable that the US will have it forever, and research results are both durable and cross borders). That sentiment isn’t saying that it excuses his wealth, just that I think people are seeing only the negatives in this merely because of the association with Altman’s name and ignoring the potential benefits out of cynicism. The concept is just as valid with him funding it as it would be had he been condemning it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The response to something beneficial being only available to the rich shouldn’t be to avoid developing that thing, it should be to make it available to everyone. The failures of the US healthcare and economic systems don’t suddenly make developing new medical techniques a bad thing. Human augmentation is another issue from curing genetic disease, though I’d personally argue that wouldn’t be a bad cause either, with the same caveat about it availability. It at least has more potential to improve somebody’s life somewhere down the line than just buying a yacht with his ill gotten gains or some other useless rich person toy would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I get the universal negativity to this. Like sure, Altman sucks as a person, and an individual having enough money to significantly bankroll research like this is a sign of an economic failure, but surely curing or preventing genetic disease is just about the most uncontroversial use human genetic modification could have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's Big Beautiful Bill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole saga is like Trump found a cursed monkey’s paw and wished that the internet would believe he’s had sex with a consenting adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I actually liked BZ more than the original, but it’s difficult for me to figure out why exactly. I play those games a bit differently from the proper way, I basically ignore the plot beyond what is needed to get the tools and location I want and mostly just play them to build and decorate bases in a pretty environment with survival elements to make the base feel like it has design requirements and resource constraints, like Minecraft almost, but I’m not going to say that BZ has prettier environments for that either. Might be the creature design, my favorite subnautica critters are mostly in BZ, though not all, and they feel like they fit together more tightly than the ones in the first game, if that makes sense, like one can look at certain features and get a greater sense of them all seeming to descend from a few common ancestors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not saying the stereotype of “conservative people living in trailer park style homes” isn’t classist, I’m suggesting that actively spreading it might not have been the objective of the OP, and that them doing so might have been more a case of not thinking through all the implications of what they were saying than an actual antipathy for people who live in cheap housing. I do realize its problematic even if so, I’ve spent a portion of my childhood in a place like that myself, I just felt a bit uneasy seeing some people here appear to assume the worse interpretation was the intended one when it still seemed ambiguous to me which it was, and that discomfort made me a bit defensive about it.

  This may be a naivety of mine, but I struggle to communicate myself a lot and as a result I tend to look for the most benign intent that could lead to a given statement and assume that one until proven otherwise, because whenever I end up being the person phrasing something poorly or in a way that causes offense, it feels a lot easier to handle and address when people calmly point out what is wrong with it and why than when people jump on it as proof of a character flaw, and it’s very easy to project one’s own struggles and modes of thinking onto other people one runs across, I guess. I’m probably overthinking it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If one wanted a generous interpretation, it could be pointing out the irony in a poor person advocating for the interests of the rich that keep people like themselves in that position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whoopsie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it wasnt my intention to make it sound like climate change doesnt negatively impact anything, but “these things get more expensive” is a very different thing than “these crops are going extinct and theres nothing that can be done about it” the way that headline seems to imply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even fusion constrains you to the limits of the rocket equation. Laser sails on the other hand, could let you put the bulk of your propulsion system in orbit of the sun or something where you don’t have to carry it with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨p'rule'us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the newest version of them does look kind of cool, though maybe it’ll get stale once they’re like 10 years old and everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whoopsie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what that seems to say at all. It doesn’t even look like it says “if we do nothing, we can’t grow these crops anymore”. It seems to be specifically about stratospheric aerosol injection (a specific geoengineering technique that we haven’t even committed to trying as yet), and suggests that if you use it to keep global temperatures stable, there can still be changes in where these crops can grow because changes to things like rainfall and humidity. I’ve not read the entire thing but from a glance at it’s conclusions, their simulations suggest that the crops would remain economically important to their growing regions under all their simulations, just with the viable amount that can be grown and the specific areas for doing it changed ler region, and that using SAI to offset warming doesn’t simply result in the same yields as not having the warming would have the way one might otherwise expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microbes are still made of chemicals, it’s just different chemicals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and not to mention, the tools required to create it (maybe not the best examples, but still) are already in the possession of virtually everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Donating cybertrucks almost feels like a way to sabotage the police. Almost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like to fit a full portion of hot garbage in there too ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or in a more literal reading, nitroglycerin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet if you blasted a crab with a strong enough beam of UV you could get it to sunburn eventually. Or at least suffer some equivalent injury

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨engagement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, I sometimes do laugh at explained jokes, if the reason is something I can understand but didn’t connect the dots on rather than an in-joke that I don’t have the context for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t Spanish have the same problem? I’ve seen them abbreviate it to EEUU though, which I assume must help prevent confusion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once found a random food court bathroom that has hand dryers that work amazingly well, and I was genuinely surprised by that when I stumbled on it. I’m guessing it probably is just more expensive or uses more power or something and places cheap out on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, right, forgot about hornbills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do any birds have horns? (Rather than just horn shaped tufts of feathers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Memes like this just make me get anxious thinking about the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there were a less severe version of Hell called Heck, what inconveniences would happen there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time you try to walk past someone moving the opposite direction, they happen to be on your side of the walkway, and when you go to change sides they’ll get the same idea at the same time so that you’re still on a collision course until you awkwardly shuffle past one another

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Falafel gyroius just sounds silly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨booming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just realized: if the classic boomer meme is “wife bad” stuff, does that mean only the boomer men are making memes? Or is there a whole genre of “husband bad” memes made by the boomer women that are flying under the radar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love authoritarians yum yum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also includes idiots who survive but permanently render themselves unable to reproduce, but I don’t see that counting here either as I think you get disqualified for harming others, so stupidly getting your kid killed wouldn’t count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To my understanding, she wasn’t determined to have actually committed it, just was accused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, that is fair. I would suggest making votes not federate at all in that case, except doing that would make single person or very small instances effectively be limited to sorting by new