knightly
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- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 3 days ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 1 week ago:
Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 1 week ago:
Counterpoint, everyone doing hourly work should be paid starting the moment they begin their commute, plus half an hour of prep time.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 2 weeks ago:
Whoops, slipped a couple of digits. XD
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 2 weeks ago:
Both of these are very good ideas.
Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 2 weeks ago:
IMO, it is a zero risk because superintelligence isn’t real.
Corporations want digital slaves so they can stop paying for human labor, but human-equivalent intelligence requires human-brain-equivalent compute. It can’t be done any easier, because if it could then something on earth would have evolved brains which use that more efficient algorithm.
The human brain costs about 10 watts of energy to run. Simulating an entire brain in real time would require more compute than the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, which costs about 30,000 watts of energy to run.
They’d need to model a digital brain with a digital body in a digital environment and then train it to perform the desired task, all the while justifying the billions of dollars being spent on the project as somehow leading towards something better than just paying a human to do it.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 weeks ago:
Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 weeks ago:
how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?
Better question, how much is a company willing to pay me to use an LLM instead of going to one of their competitors?
Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 3 weeks ago:
I know precisely one beaver furry and they are more girl-ish than girl. XD
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 4 weeks ago:
Short answer is “Yes but your mileage may vary”.
Actually blocking microwaves effectively requires more than just a sheet of aluminum foil, but it’s a start: haitmfg.com/microwave-shielding-materials/
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
Aka “jogging pants”, “lounge pants”, “tracksuit bottoms”, “trackies”, “tracky daks”, or “trackpants”.
They’re a kind of soft trousers or loose leggings worn typically for comfort or athletic purposes.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 4 weeks ago:
Give away the dollar to the first homeless person I see and then spend 24 hours in search of a hangout with a good vibe.
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 5 weeks ago:
Reduced volume is acceptable if it means they’re spending even less on chargebacks and fraud investigations.
- Comment on ASSP's New AI Tool Puts 1,330 Pages of Safety Know-How in Your Pocket 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like an LLM that could have been a PDF.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 5 weeks ago:
Precisely. It’s those boundary areas where the jet and the medium interact where it gets complicated.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 5 weeks ago:
Sort of. The speed of light in a vacuum is the speed of causality, nothing can go faster than the maximum speed at which one part of the universe can effect another.
It is possible for fluids to move faster than the speed of sound in the fluid around it, such as the exhaust products of a supersonic jet engine, but in these cases not all of the fluid is operating like a wave. The core of the jet experiences a laminar flow where all of the water is moving in the same direction and at roughly the same speed, like a laser instead of a flashlight. At the boundaries of this laminar flow exists a turbulent region where the fluid interacts with the surrounding medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Mood. I’m doing my best to be the visible enby I never got to see when I was small.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Genuinely. Like; walking to the mailbox when a lost childhood memory resurfaces for no apparent reason and then I’m making smalltalk with the neighbor to distract myself from the bittersweet momemt that’d have me in tears otherwise
Life is so damn beautiful, y’all. There are the horrors, but there is also joy~<3
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 month ago:
What the two other replies have neglected to mention as the cool side-effect of light affecting the curvature of spacetime despite being massless is that it’s theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but light. The concept is called a “Kugelblitz”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 1 month ago:
I’m regularly mistaken for being more than a dozen years younger than I am. =D
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 1 month ago:
Bothto some degree, realistically. I used an old collander as a signal reflector for a wifi dongle on the end of a USB extension cable and was able to boost the signal up to about 4x, or maybe half the range of the purpose-built and highly directional Yagi antenna I eventually bought to replace it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Best of luck! A slow tapering of the dosage is definitely best for antidepressants.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Mood. I lived with my dysphoria for so long that I didn’t even realize how much of my “normal” was just depression until that first dose of E lifted the weight from my shoulders.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m a highly scent-oriented person so I was probably more sensitive to that change than most, but I didn’t realize it was a contributing factor to my dysphoria until that very moment. It’s not that I disliked my old scent, it just never smelled like “me”, y’know?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I definitely didn’t notice any changes in skin texture 'til around week 4 or 5, but the change in my body odor started on like day 6, way sooner than the general timeline would have sugested.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?
- Comment on Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts 2 months ago:
It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m deliberately vague about the form of this help because I think that trying to keep track of who owns what is actively harmful to human society and we should abolish private property entirely.
It won’t help the kleptos so much as it will limit the impact of their offenses to the personal scale rather than industrial or national scales.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And instead of getting them help with their kleptomania, we built an economy where the richest thieves control the world.
- Comment on AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums 2 months ago:
“In the USA” and “by large portions of the capitalist class” are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they’d expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the “AI Industry” is involved with U.S. tech companies.