calcopiritus
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- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
You can also have shit leaders that micromanage. What even is your point?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
There’s 24h in a day for leaders too. A leader cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good, just like an expert cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good.
Expertise is also a force multiplier.
A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work. Thus ending up with more expert work done.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 days ago:
Did you read my comment through an LLM summary? Your response has no connection to my comment.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 days ago:
Humans can be held accountable though. Which means they would rather say “I believe this is because …” than “you are absolutely right! If you remove the voltage regulator from the power supply, it will provide more power!”. And if they don’t, they can be fired or put in prison, where they can stop doing harm.
If your LLM repeatedly lies to you, there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe try another LLM, but there’s not many of them and they all lie.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 days ago:
If that were true, there would’ve been a software explosion, since LLMs have “killed manual programming” for some years now according to the guys that earn money when people believe that.
There hasn’t been any perceivable increase of software products over these years. Nor a decrease in their price.
The only notable differences are:
- LLMs shoved into every software product.
- Microsoft software getting even worse since they claimed they were using so much LLM.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 week ago:
You either make driving fast less safe, or you put a speed camera on every corner with the appropriate punishment. Cameras are expensive, and drivers will complain about them. If you make driving fast less safe, only the ones that remember how the road was before can complain about it.
- Comment on Women in dating apps 1 week ago:
The thing is not who does it. The thing is who complains about it.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
In this example all 3 observers are in the same reference frame. That is, each of them are moving at the same speed. This is not what the meme is about. In this example the night from Al would reach you 0.06s after he lit it. Which is expected in Newtonian physics.
The problem of the speed of light being the same for all observers is when they move at different speeds.
The scenario is: Alice is inside a train moving at almost the speed of light, and Bob is outside it, looking at the train. Let’s set that light moves at 1m/s (for simplicity) and the wagon Alice is in is 1 meter long.
Alice is at one end of the wagon, and turns a flashlight on. Alice will see the other side of the wagon illuminated after 2 seconds (since the light has to reach the other end and bounce back). Since the wagon is 1 meter long and the speed of light is 1m/s.
However, when she turns the flashlight on, Bob is also looking. Let’s say that the train moves at 0.99m/s. In that case, after 1 second the light would have traveled 1 meter, but the wagon (and Alice) has traveled 0.99m, therefore the light is only 0.01m away from Alice.
To summarize: after 1 second, in Alice’s frame of reference, the light has just touched the other side of the wagon. Meanwhile, in Bob’s reference frame, the light has only moved 0.01m away from Alice.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 weeks ago:
If there were no billionaires, a corrupt person could still have power inside a government. Making it a corrupt government.
Then he could benefit from that corruption and become a billionaire.
It’s not a one way relationship.
Corrupt entities make powerful people. And powerful people (sometimes) do make the entities corrupt.
And this is an issue for all political systems.
It’s not a “get rid of billionaires and the issue is fixed”. We must both redistribute power so it is at more reasonable levels. And clean the entities.
And once the power imbalance is smaller and the entities are clean, it is a constant maintenance fight to keep those entities clean and the power balanced.
A single democratic election can give a lot of power to a person that previously had none. Power is always flowing.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 weeks ago:
Because I don’t want to be a politician.
There are also too many stupid executives. That doesn’t mean that I want to be an executive. I cannot both be a politician and an executive.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the post is meant to be pro-left.
But your first sentence in your comment is wrong. Classic correlation is not causation. With the addition of “if X is Y because Z, if Z wouldn’t be, then X wouldn’t be Y”.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
It’s from the episode of Futurama where “death by snu-snu” happens
- Comment on Stop the datacenters 4 weeks ago:
Just because it is in a community with the name “shitpost” in it, doesn’t make it a shitpost. This is definitely not a shitpost.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
Showing up with 20 swat cars doesn’t mean that there’s 20 swat cars blindly shooting at the house.
There’s no harm on just showing up. As long as they verify the claims before acting on them, I don’t see the issue.
The only issue is that it is expensive and may break a door or something. Which is why the caller should be tracked, and made to pay for all of it.
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 5 weeks ago:
That’s not lazyness. Multiplication is always done before addition. No need for parenthesis for that.
- Comment on I only date virgins 5 weeks ago:
The one on the right looks bigger though, it’s just zoomed out.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 5 weeks ago:
Except we are already focusing on AI data centers. By bringing up corn you’re just unfocusing. Which is the opposite of what you want.
Yes, both are bad, and we should get rid of both. But both things can be done at the same time. You don’t need to steal the focus from another issue to try to redirect it.
Instead of “why are we caring about data centers? Corn is worse!”. Try “while we are fighting data centers, we should also look at corn, they’re bad too”.
- Comment on How come Presidents don't just be honest with people? Like say I started this war because I own oil stock so tough shit. Or like yea I was a pedo back then so tough shit. so on and son on ? 5 weeks ago:
Because they are the ones in power. Whatever they say is the “official” version. Therefore, the correct one.
If the media says something different from the government, that’s because the media is leftist propaganda.
Take into account how stupid the median person is, then realize half the people is stupider than that. It’s not hard to convince them to vote against their best interest, you just have to lie.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 5 weeks ago:
Corn ethanol being stupid doesn’t make AI less stupid.
There’s plenty of stupidity out there. That logic would make everything useless.
By that logic, no one outside the US would care about voting, since they already reached peak stupidity, so voting for a better president in Argentina will not get rid of trump.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 1 month ago:
Spanish from Spain has an official dictionary that dictates what is correct and isn’t. You can’t be more prescriptive than that. Sure, that dictionary adds words based on usage, even ones that are clear misspellings of the “real” word, but they are marked as so.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 1 month ago:
What a way to validate OP by completely misreading what he said.
- Comment on SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists 2 months ago:
Tax the tractors and put the money towards public transit. The tractors can enjoy the roads they ruined, while the rest of us go in fast lanes of well-maintained infrastructure.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 months ago:
Factorio does have high quality graphics, sounds an animations. It is just in 2D instead of 3D.
But if you price a product based on its cost instead of its value, you do you.
I prefer to pay 30k€ for a car than pay 60k€ for a worse car that happens to have a steering wheel made out of solid gold.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 months ago:
That was not the point. The point is that Factorio is in a similar level of quality. That is the top one. If you believe that 3X€ is too expensive for a top game, then you are saying that every game out there that is >30€ is overpriced.
If you believe that, you are honestly way out of touch with reality. 30€ is on the low side of a price for a game. Most AAA games are >60€.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 months ago:
No AAA value? It’s up there with Minecraft and terraria as one of the best games.
I’d say it’s better than any AAA if you consider the games above “indie”
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 months ago:
The UN is not a society. There are many groups without a leader. But when talking about anarchism, people usually mean anarchist society.
That’s like saying FAANG is anarchism, because they talk among themselves without there being a leader.
- Comment on meow 2 months ago:
The DoW is over 45000! I said over a big number, so it must be good right?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
I don’t understand how asking that question to “my politicians” would achieve anything.
“My politicians” are not arguing that prices increasing by a bit makes it okay for prices to increase by a lot. I’d argue that most of them would say that a little bit of inflation is good for the economy while hyperinflation is bad. Which I interpret as them knowing that “a little” is not the same as “a lot”. Which the above commenter doesn’t seem to know. Or at least knows only when it is convenient. Schrodinger’s knowledge perhaps.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
Funny how that only works one way. It’s never “they are gonna tax me anyway, so I’ll pay double the taxes”.
If you are not fine with paying more than you should, why are you fine for prices increasing more than they should?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
So everyone is either a farmer, a thief, or an unethical food-obtainer. Got it.
Always fun to find out other people’s values and ethics.