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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 hours ago:
The kid actually answered the question. The teacher’s expected response is basically “no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it.”
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 2 days ago:
I didn’t expect my decisions to actually affect anything when I played it. Big surprise when I just clicked every dialogue option and things went poorly.
You can also load your save file into the second game and have that affect the story in minor ways, which I thought was pretty cool.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.
- If the working class cannot buy it, then they are not getting taxed. If the government is making more money from implementing that taxation scheme, then all that money has to come from those who are wealthier than the working class.
- You only become richer if you hold on to the money. The government’s job is to spend that money to the benefit of its constituents, not hoard money.
In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.
Implying we want another ice age?
The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.
I agree
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Legally, yes. But laws get broken all the time.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 days ago:
When someone starts complaining about what bathroom everyone is using, you can’t just ignore it and hope it goes away. It’s your job as their superior to address these issues.
Similarly,
Their gender/identity should have absolutely zero impact on the ability to do their job.
Making this stance clear requires talking about gender identity and politics.
- Comment on science never ends 6 days ago:
There’s also the “science” that is your policy choices (personal or public policy) based on the science(n) and your values, risk tolerance, and lifestyle. Since the latter factors can change a lot over time, these policies can also fluctuate wildly and give the impression that “science” fluctuates wildly.
- Comment on Almost all of you was food at one point. 1 week ago:
Or if you worked an asbestos mine
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 1 week ago:
This ultimately says that violence towards trans people is ok but that it is a problem when those who aren’t trans are impacted.
For the people you want to reach with these kinds of stories, it is. I don’t think there’s much use in preaching to the choir.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Life is more expensive when you’re disabled. That’s not news. But why should you be mad about changes that help other people save money? What you should be mad about is that the savings are turned into extra profits instead of going towards making your tickets cheaper.
- Comment on Anna-mazing pun 2 weeks ago:
K
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
It’s very helpful in figuring out your own opinions on a topic too. It doesn’t matter much if you convince anyone else.
- Comment on You raise the market value of pistachios when you peel them 2 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Sweet pic 4 weeks ago:
On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.
- Comment on Cup Holders for Sofa Cushions 4 weeks ago:
And it allows users to create their own one-off objects that they need rather than a corporation creating an immense surplus of parts the majority of which will never reach consumer hands and will end up in a landfill.
This is key. You can 3D print things to fit your exact needs. Mass produced injection molded plastic is only cheap because of the mass production. Molds are expensive. That means they necessarily have to produce a lot more than people need and market them to people who don’t actually need the item in order to make up for the upfront cost.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions... 5 weeks ago:
Make them bid for their place on the queue!
- Comment on In heat 1 month ago:
It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e.
[AB]+and[CD]+in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.
- Comment on In heat 1 month ago:
I don’t think we would’ve had so many lessons on this in school if it didn’t need to be taught.
- Comment on In heat 1 month ago:
Have people just completely forgot how search engines work? If you search for two things and get shit results, it means those two things don’t appear together.
- Comment on In heat 1 month ago:
A sentence saying she had her ovaries removed and that she is fertile don’t statistically belong together, so you’re not even getting that.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 months ago:
Just because an English word was originally Latin and is written the same way, doesn’t mean it’s pronounced the same way. It’s an English word now. It has an English pronunciation, pluralisation and definition that can all be different from the original. “Kentawur” is not correct for the English word.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 2 months ago:
I would argue that they’re smuggling in fentanyl precisely because the less dangerous drugs are also illegal, so there’s no oversight in making sure they’re not laced with the cheaper fentanyl.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
I can stand by this for an established business. But we live in a capitalist society where you need money to make money. Until that changes, your ability to pay for work doesn’t have any bearing on the value of your new business venture.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
Why would you need anyone to buy your products when you can just enjoy them yourself?
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 2 months ago:
An idea I’ve been toying with is that laws should be written like software with lots of test cases. It makes no sense to create laws with ambiguous terms that only become concrete when it goes through court. We should know what the law actually is before it gets passed.
- Comment on work related: is this something only an autistic would ask? 2 months ago:
It allows you to plan out what happens during/around it. For example, should my leisure time the day before be something more fun but cognitively demanding or more chill and relaxing?
It also allows you to get in the right state of mind for the work. In my experience (is this also an autistic thing? I don’t know), if you’re mentally prepared for something very difficult and unpleasant, it greatly cuts down on how unpleasant it is, sometimes even turning that difficult thing into a fun challenge. If you mentally prepare for something that’s worse than what’s actually ahead, you end up with way too much excess energy and the need to look for problems to solve even when no problems exist.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
Let’s be real, it’ll probably happen faster on 40 hour work weeks than 60.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 2 months ago:
Fascinating thread. Is there some genetic component that makes broccoli stinky to some people and not others? Is this why some people are averse to broccoli? I’m surprised to see everyone just accepting the premise of the question. I love boiling broccoli precisely because it smells amazing.
- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 3 months ago:
If we have this data for each election, someone could also compile statistics on how well each party follows through with their promises. Ideally weighted by how much voters care about each promise.
- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 3 months ago:
tldr but I am outraged by the existence of this comment.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 3 months ago:
Considering how few people block all scripts, this could also make it trivial for them to fingerprint you.