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- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 hour ago:
Is there a point you can find in history where we paid doctors, teachers, and nurses close to what they’re worth and more than professional athletes?
It sounds like you’re nostalgic for a time that never existed.
- Comment on Why do personal knowledge base applications like Obsidian have all these bells and whistles for querying and parsing metadata/frontmatter but nothing similar for the actual content of notes? 3 days ago:
Because indexing a structured field with limited values is different from indexing a “structured” document with fields that can be anything.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 1 week ago:
Fair enough, I am just being overly angry and hateful.
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 1 week ago:
It’s not entirely clear what he’s referring to, he just uses the term AI broadly in the context of people being worried about job losses, then talks about the reduction in secret police costs that enables, then discusses applying AI to physics.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 1 week ago:
It’s not the same idea, as I didn’t advocated studying them when they were authoritarian shitholes who were actively slaughtering their neighbours.
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 1 week ago:
Tl;dw: he has two points:
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That between cameras and now AI monitoring, it has just drastically reduce the cost of running an authoritarian regime. He claims that running the Stahsi used to cost like 20% of the government budget, but can now be done for next to nothing and if will be harder for governments to resist that temptation.
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That there hasn’t been much progress in the world of physics since the 70s, so what happens if you point AI and it’s compute power at the field of physics? It could seen wondrous progress and a world of plenty.
Personally I think point 1 is genuinely interesting and valid, and that point 2 is kind of incredible nonsense. Yes, all other fields are just simplified forms of physics, and physics fundamentally underlies all of them. That doesn’t mean that no new knowledge has come from those fields, and that doesn’t mean that new knowledge in physics automatically improves them. Physics has in many ways, done its job. Obviously there’s still more to learn, but between quantum mechanics and general relativity, we can actually model most human scale processes in our universe, with incredible precision. The problem is that that the closer we get to understanding the true underlying math of the universe, the harder it is to compute that math for a practical system… at a certain point, it requires a computer on the scale of the universe to compute.
Most of our practical improvements in the past decade have and will come from chemistry, and biology, and engineering in general, because there is far more room to improve human scale processes by finding shortcuts, and patterns, and designing systems to behave the way we want. AI’s computer scale pattern matching ability will undoubtedly help with that, but I think it’s less likely that it can make any true physics breakthroughs, nor that those breakthroughs would impact daily life that much.
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- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 1 week ago:
I don’t have to, I just have to name one better than Russia.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 1 week ago:
German culture and heritage was destroyed by the world wars. What remains is not what was there pre-WWII.
And I’m not cancelling or destroying anything. I’m just prioritizing cultures worth preserving over those that have been poisoned by a century of dictatorship and death.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 1 week ago:
Fuck Russia. Learn literally any other language. Let them and their brains dead culture rot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Decentralized identity management / verification is still the biggest unsolved problem of the fediverse, and inherently pressures things towards centralization.
- Comment on Seems legit 3 weeks ago:
You can fit text-only wikipedia on a normal Blu Ray as it’s only about 24GB. You can also easily fit Llama 3.1 or any of the other open, offline capable ai models as they’re only about 4GB.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 weeks ago:
False equivalency.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 4 weeks ago:
The Turing test is most specifically highlighted in movies like Blade Runner or Ex Machina where it’s a noire with a lone robot in a room being tested. In reality the future is more like Westworld where there are so many robots that can pass a basic Turing test that people are constantly engaged in Turing tests at all times.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 4 weeks ago:
Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 1 month ago:
But the court rulings / precedence wouldn’t care about that distinction, it just covers learning from copyrighted material in general.
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 1 month ago:
What if you read a copyrighted engineering textbook, and then build something for profit with that knowledge?
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 month ago:
Valve innovated a package manager, a store, strict DRM, and gambling / third party cosmetic markets.
Very recently they built the Proton compatibility layer.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 month ago:
No, they wouldn’t.
Anti-trust law exists to prevent companies from overcharging consumers, something they can do when they don’t have competition.
Valve keeping their prices far higher than costs is something that can open them up to anti-trust scrutiny. Competitively lowering their prices while still maintaining profitability cannot, as that is the exact goal of anti-trust laws in the first place.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 month ago:
That means that gamers have been ripped off for decades.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Nope, night owl who likes to sleep in.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
I mean, I broke my hand and it never healed properly, I have pretty bad tendon damage in one ankle, I got shin splints like crazy when I started running, and I have previously herniated a disk, though not that major.
I’m not saying every single major injury is recoverable from, but look at the history of most athletes and you’ll see a lot of major injuries that they were able to recover from.
Again, not saying this is the case necessarily for your back, but I know people who have gotten relatively minor injuries, gotten terrified of them and/or used that as an excuse not to do any more exercise on that body part ever, and then got severely injured again because now the muscles and muscle control for that body part is severely undeveloped, putting more strain back on the tendons / ligaments.
The general recommended approach for most injuries is physio, i.e. reducing your exercises back down to zero weight, but still doing them, and continuously adding weight to re-build and strengthen those muscles and joints, not to avoid using them forever.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Burnout isnt a thing, it’s just situational depression.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Honestly cannot fathom this. Are you pushing yourself at the gym? Are you eating healthy and enough protein? Resting enough?
There’s literally never been a period of my life where going to the gym regularly hasn’t made me feel better. I havent gone for like 6 months because I’ve been brutally busy, but I honestly cannot fathom how you could be going and not getting something positive out of it.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
If you force yourself to run a little bit one day, then a little bit more each day after that, then eventually 4 miles will feel like a short run.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
By forcing yourself to do stuff.
It sucks at first, and you feel exhausted and like you’re not that effective and your brain will keep coming up with excuses and rationalizations as to why you should just rest, but you ignore them and force yourself to do the stuff you don’t feel like doing.
Do that for a while and you’ll suddenly have a higher energy level and it won’t seem like a big deal.
You’re basically at the point where you just took up a new exercise every day, and that’s just tapping you out. If you keep doing just that exercise and nothing else, your fitness / energy will eventually rise to the point of being able to handle it and nothing else. If you force yourself to do more, then eventually your fitness / energy level will rise to working + after work stuff being the baseline.
Give yourself time and give yourself rest days, but most people online will advocate for too much self care and don’t realize that the only way to actually change and improve is to continually push yourself a little past your comfort zone.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Haha Doug Ford bad man.
Thanks for the commentary, so insightful and helpful. Totally not just edge lord polarizing bullshit.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Everywhere does, but Canada has a post secondary education rate of ~66%, and typically votes 66% sane. America has a post secondary education rate of ~50%, and typically votes 50% sane.
There are other differences between the countries, but I think it’s impossible to argue that a substantially more educated population hasn’t led to a stabler and more thoughtful political climate.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.
The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
It does. Look at Canada.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 month ago:
Lol the reliance on diesel generators is not negligible.