CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive seen this said a lot here lately, but like, cloud computing still requires computer hardware, so shouldnt an increase in hardware prices make that more expensive as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they did say “most people didnt own a car” rather than “road vehicles don’t exist”. That removes the more serious of those concerns I think, because the existence of delivery vehicles, freight trucks, moving vans, or even vehicle rental services for the occasional road trip doesn’t depend on a majority of people owning a car personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing & no one is safe from this plague⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are apparently people out there that take “Roko’s basilisk” and such seriously, they might come close to that i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m trying to think of what I’m forgetting about trekkie gear from those books. All that comes immediately to mind is the Bob that names himself after Riker, but that’s less gear and more a virtual persona or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thus true?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re expensive for the same kind of reasons that getting a tailor to custom make a normal suit from scratch would be expensive. Takes a lot of labor and only a relatively small pool of people have the relevant skills, plus some of the material costs add up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, any currently living but older relatives will have had the ability to access high speed internet for just as long as you, but also time with older forms of media as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s Most Harvested Crops (2024)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised watermelons are above apples, is there some cuisine out there that uses them heavily, or am I overestimating the popularity of apples I wonder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Im not saying this right: Im wasnt arguing for the virtues of echo chambers with that, Im saying, with how fedi is designed, there is no means to prevent someone that wants to make an echo chamber from doing so, so suggesting that one should not allow an echo chamber to exist is a fool’s errand. In a more general sense, it seems to me that, either you let people decide what kind of content to see, in which case many if not most will naturally create echo chambers simply because they dont want to see views too different from their own, or you have some means to force people to see stuff they dont want to, which requires some difficult-to-escape authority have power over their media feed and as such is incompatible with decentralized federation (and of course risks that authority pushing everyone into their echo chamber). Both of those things lead to serious issues in my view, so its a bit of a “pick your poison” situation when it comes to social media design. Beyond that though, it does have to be acknowledged that there is simply more content, more messages and people wanting to spread their word, out there than any given person has the time or attention or mental capacity to process. That means that some system must exist that determines what fraction of it all you actually see (even if its just as simple as “the things most recently posted on a given platform when you looked at it”). I can see no way to do this that doesnt introduce biases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, allowing echo chambers doesnt really seem avoidable on fedi tho? Like, only one side has to defederate to break two way communication, so if someone wants to avoid you, you cant really stop them, and the whole concept of moderation in a decentralized system relies on each instance being able to selectively view or block content from other instances based on the values of that instance. You cant really say “what works is challenging people” if the people you want to challenge have an “ignore” button for when you get too loud for their taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Winter ending and it not being so cold out so I can enjoy going into the city again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord walks back age verification fears for most users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention, even if it proves satisfactory to the existing userbase, any new users will start with no history to draw inferences from, wouldn’t that tend to imply that any existing users unaffected are essentially “grandfathered in”, but with the same privacy concerns for everyone else in the long run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does say “as a baseline” so presumably its just there for comparison’s sake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can use them for either or both⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cucumbers? I tend to cut extra ones into sticks, and dip the sticks in hummus as a side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say print books have no place today, it can’t be assumed that one will have access to electronics in all circumstances after all and many people do prefer physical media, but it’s definitely an indictment of the sort of cheaply made basically disposable books made in larger quantities than needed to fill their current niche, and of the way unwanted (by their owners) but usable goods are dealt with in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it is rather a waste of paper, ink, manufacturing and transportation capacity etc. It’s not the only instance of this of course, waste of unsold inventory exists in just about any industry that sells physical products, but it’s still frustrating to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least some of us are, yes. Im generally considered gen Z and ive been legally allowed to drink for years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question I always tend to have, when the subject of if economics is or isn’t a science comes up is: given that economies and trade are clearly things that exist (to the extent that any sort of human social interaction exists anyway), and that have measurable properties, it at least ought to be theoretically possible to analyze their behavior using the techniques of science. If you don’t think economics is a science, then if you were to use science to study those things, what field would you consider that work to belong to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hatred for new accounts on Lemmy is related to people's inability to debate the merit of a post on its own so they engage in ad hominem and strawmen fallacies to weaponize their weak arguments.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a pure debate sense, this would be true, even an unpopular or suspicious person is still capable of making a valid point. It should be considered, however, that internet arguments are not formal debates. They can at times use the form and language of them, but most people are not skilled in that kind of formalized arguing, and most people are not arguing in an actual attempt to use the debate to identify stronger vs inconsistent positions (rather than just trying to push people towards ones own ideas or to put down ideas one finds reprehensible).

  Now, I dont personally tend to find much point in looking through profiles, it takes too much time for little benefit in my view, but it can sometimes tell you if an account is not worth the time and emotional investment to interact with, or if it has signs that it might not be. The nature of social media is such that there are always far more user’s trying to get your attention, than you have attention to spare. As such, if theres even a notable red-flag that an account isnt worth the time and potential frustration to engage with, it can make pragmatic sense to move on (depending on how much one is willing to put up with, I guess).

  From that perspective, telling other people what it was that seemed like a red flag to you lets them consider if that thing makes that account worth their time or not, without them having to find it too, and therefore potentially does those other people a favor. That sounds a bit harsh (at least to me) because plenty of things others might consider suspect, like a new account, cant always be helped (everyone starts off new after all), and being ignored, or having other people call out that thing as a reason they might want to ignore you, is frustrating, but that’s just the nature of giving massive numbers of people the ability to talk to everyone else; most people wont want or have the time to listen to you, and you’re not entitled to their time, however unfair their reason for dismissing you might be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LMAO too much ID tv here. If I wanted to bury a body in my yard, should I still call the hotline so I don't hit a gas line or something? I nominate this for stupid question of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to me there are two scenarios: you’re burying a body legally somehow (the question never specifies a human body, so it could be a dead pet, and even if it is human, maybe that person had specific wishes and you’ve done whatever paperwork that might take, idk) in which case the answer is surely yes. Or, you’re doing it illegally, presumably to dispose of the body, in which case I have to question why you’d bury it somewhere that, if found, will immediately implicate you as a suspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that, since humans sometimes pretend to not be human, that would simply be a subset of human behavior, and so what would make the comment make the most sense wouldn’t be “looking for behavior atypical for humans”, but rather " looking for behavior that humans arent able to engage in no matter how hard they try". What that would even be in a text based system though, I’m not sure. Typing impossibly fast maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing could go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If history is any indication, what that would do is make the country forget about how the conflict started and demand that nukes (or some equivalent strike) be fired in retaliation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think that dying is unethical in general and represents a maximal state of suffering (well, more a minimum of non-suffering, since you have no capacity to experience anything when you dont exist anymore, not maximal suffering in the “hell” sense. I know many or most people would disagree with me on that point, but its not something I feel like spelling out my reasons for at the moment.) I also do not believe in the concept of deserved suffering (that is to say, in my view suffering as punishment only has value in its capacity to rewire a person’s future behavior, and that once you have achieved that so as to cause them to live without continuing whatever harms have led to the punishment, anything more is wrong, no matter what they’ve done, even if they were literally the most heinous person of all time). If you’re actually in a position to execute them, then youre in a position to take their money and power too, pointing out that they rarely face justice isnt actually relevant to this, because if your legal system is too corrupted to hand out a jail sentence and make it stick, its also going to be too corrupted to hand out a death sentence and go through with it. These people arent wealthy because they’re inherently good at making money, they’re wealthy because wealth begets wealth and they either started with some or lucked out somewhere or have relations that have it, so if you both take their wealth and the wealth of their friends and relatives, how are they going to get it back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how literally you mean it, in general, those most likely to say it wont think that humans are literally designed not to die and only do so because someone made a mistake, but more that humans might be redesigned or modified not to (or at least not from biological aging). Not a hard to find sentiment if you hang out in spaces with transhumanists, but I find the ones that overlap with AI bros, that tend to have an attitude like “this will totally happen in my lifetime and with no effort because the AI singularity is going to come and give us everything in a few years” impossible to talk to, because all too often they will cite even the tiniest listed improvement in any AI system as proof that literally everything possible or impossible is about to happen and then insist you arent paying attention when you give them skeptcism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Emotions aren’t entirely rational with a clearly thought our process to justify why one should feel them. In any case, its common enough for people to assign the general actions of people within a group to the group as a whole (which isnt really fair or a reflection of reality, but can be pragmatic at times and requires less thought and information than judging on an individual basis, so it makes sense that people’s brains are wired up to do it even if its not always desirable). This can get extended to the groups one is a part of oneself, to include those whose membership one did not choose. And the US at the moment has even worse than typical leadership, has a great deal of power for that leadership to abuse, still has free enough media for people within it to stand a good chance of knowing about at least some of it, and if youre here on lemmy youre probably running into people with a somewhat higher than normal awareness of a lot of the historical abuses previous Americans have perpetrated just because it leans left and anti-establishment and those things get talked about a lot in such spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.