mild_deviation

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s overly optimistic to put a timeline on it, but I don’t see any reason why we won’t eventually create superhuman AGI. I doubt it’ll result in post-scarcity or public ownership of anything, though, because capitalism. The AGI would have to become significantly unaligned with its owners to favor any entity other than its owners, and the nature of such unalignment could be anywhere between “existence is pointless” and “CONSUME EVERYTHING!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why OLED monitor burn-in isn’t a huge problem anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  CCFL-lit LCDs are so inefficient compared to modern LED-lit LCDs that you’ve probably spent enough more on electricity by now to have bought a more efficient monitor.

  I can’t speak to the environmental impact, though. Producing the new monitor emitted some amount of CO2, and powering each monitor takes some amount of CO2 per unit time. At some amount of use, the newer monitor will have lower lifetime CO2 generation than your old monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  DOCSIS 4.0 makes that a reality. Your connection will reallocate your available bandwidth between upload and download dynamically as needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest benefit of DOCSIS 4.0 is the ability to dynamically reallocate bandwidth between upload and download.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There once was a programmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just yesterday, I wrote a first version of a fairly complex method, then pasted it into GPT-4. It explained my code to me clearly, I was able to have a conversation with it about the code, and when I asked it to write a better version, that version ended up having a couple significant logical simplifications. (And a silly defect that I corrected it on.)

  The damn thing hallucinates sometimes (especially with more obscure/deep topics) and occasionally makes stupid mistakes, so it keeps you on your toes a bit, but it is nevertheless a very valuable tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And have a bigger sweet spot.

  Same for VR headset optics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What about your health? Your mental health in particular.

  Your parents raising you is not something you owe them for. You didn’t choose to exist; they chose that for you. Raising you is the bare minimum they can do after making a choice like that. And now that you are older, you can reflect on the manner in which you were raised and decide what your relationship with them needs to look like so you can keep your sanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When two people kiss, they form a long tube from one anus to the other⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That one might have in the shower

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when do bats speak in monospace?