AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s How To Share AI’s Future Wealth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If history is any guide, it’s about even odds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s How To Share AI’s Future Wealth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If labor becomes worthless, money will be based on control of resources. Those with resources will sell to each other, and everyone else will have literally nothing to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an emergent phenomenon—institutions will naturally behave in ways that increase their power without that being the conscious intention of any given member.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The older the average pope, the shorter the average term, and the more papal elections in a given span of time.

  One of the main powers of cardinals is electing the pope, so more papal elections means more power for the cardinals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accounts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or non-random—watch how many Instagram/Meta critics get their accounts flagged as underage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The window for a convincing UFO video has closed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: aliens introduced generative AI so people would dismiss evidence of their existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What accent would I even have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Mid-Atlantic accent?

  Any accent of English, including more recent ones, perceived as a mixture of American and British English, and often perceived as incorporating the prestige speech of one or both countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralization Scoring System⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly feel like I wasted my one minute of typing this.

  This one weird trick can make you the fastest typist in the universe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been towed out of the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth travels at 107,826km/ph

  In that reference frame, the speed of the ISS varies between 79,826 and 135,826 km/h.

• The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is building a social network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

  Dammit—I can see that actually taking off with some audiences, if it generates an eye-catching fake image to go with every text post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who needs a lawn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Goats will only eat grass if there are no other green plants accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using it 75% of the time is harder than using it all the time, because it means you’re consciously thinking about it each time instead of doing it instinctively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize it won’t be like this forever

  You can always keep moving to smaller instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of writers in the early Christian church continued to reference Greek and Roman mythology as a source of literary analogy—so a background knowledge of classical mythology is required to fully understand foundational Christian literature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about if we test it on politicians first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I think the primary purpose of having two hands is to pet two cats simultaneously.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok… but then what’s the purpose of not having three hands?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LLM would probably run the USA better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And by an LLM you mean the people who train and tune the LLM to output the type of responses they like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt Trump will do anything that could be perceived as encouraging more whistleblowers, at least while he’s in office.

  Best case—a Democrat wins the next election, Trump gives up on trying to stop it, and pardons Snowden on his way out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s in a Greek or ancient Latin context I pronounce it with a hard C, but if it’s a general English context I pronounce it with a soft C.

  I’m not sure what the third way would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, jpeg converts to lab (or something similar, I think). But the dimensions are the same: one channel for lightness, and then a number of channels one less than the total number of sampled frequencies to capture the rest of the color space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spectral JPEG XL utilizes a technique used with human-visible images, a math trick called a discrete cosine transform (DCT), to make these massive files smaller […] it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively.

  This all sounds like standard jpeg compression. Is it just jpeg with extra channels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei says its AI phone has 'emotions' trained by DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re adding phone capabilities to Tamagotchi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Titles Are Written Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same reason we capitalize peoples’ names, since a title is the proper name of a written work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mother⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After the predator instantly becomes enamored with the adorable baby quokka, and calls her own kids over to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some animals are more equal than others!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, be sure to fully specify the location—one time I just put “Athens” and ended up in Athens, Georgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Molly White’s recent take, that it might be more productive to treat this as a labor issue instead of a copyright issue (at least in principle). Even if the AI corporations aren’t technically re-selling copyrighted works, they’re still profiting from the authors’ unpaid labor.