ALoafOfBread
@ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Dicks out for harambe 2 days ago:
Dicks out
- Comment on 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years 6 days ago:
CEOs also have zero idea how AI/LLMs work. They are shockingly clueless.
What I think they’re really saying is: 99% of CEOs expect to blame layoffs on AI in the next 2 years
- Comment on [title] 1 week ago:
Yeah - reducing things to material components isn’t absurd and doesn’t destroy subjective meaning.
Like, I don’t believe in free will, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find life meaningful - it’s just a fact about how the world works. I still perceive choice, I perceive meaning - it’s a subjective and phenomenological matter, not an objective/material one.
- Comment on Remember to follow OSHA 1904.39(a)(2) and report any loss 1 week ago:
I never upvote loss memes just on principle, but this one was pretty good
- Comment on Gurll 1 week ago:
Damn. Thats a fisher price ass watch.
- Comment on Gurll 1 week ago:
Is that what’s happening? I thought the person in the image was just holding up their left hand to show their watch for some reason
- Comment on Banane logic 1 week ago:
Also those bad boys ripen faster when they are laying flat vs hanging. Getting a little hook to hang the bunch of bananas on makes them ripen more slowly
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“Oh, I mean, in Minecraft obviously”
- Comment on Always take credit for the good work that you do 2 weeks ago:
Dogs “smiling” is typically a stress/fear response. Pitties kind of look like that a lot of the time, just because they have tight skin on their face/lips. But, this is more than that as far as I can tell here.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
I doubt the vibrations would do anything to make it cut better, but to make thi gs not stick you could also just put little dimples on the side like tose of a santoku knife. So goofy.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
You have to disengage once you know they’re actually doing it. Same with any manipulative behavior. But if you’re really not sure, I’ve had luck pressing them on why what they’ve said doesn’t make logical sense. If they can’t support it, I can dismiss it and disengage.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
The funny thing is when people say “you’re gaslighting me”, but actually you’re the one being gaslit.
Really the problem with things like this is just when they’re used in bad faith to gain rhetorical advantage. It’s fine to say something to the effect of:
“I believe you’re gaslighting me. Here’s what I remember happening, and here’s some supporting evidence. What you’re saying is that it didn’t happen that way. If your intention is not to intentionally try to mislead me about how things occurred, can you explain?”
But just saying “You’re gaslighting me” when really what’s happened is that the way things actually happened is inconvenient to their argument - that’s the issue. It all comes down to their motivation
- Comment on 謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症） 1 month ago:
Oooh new vocab, thanks comrade.
精神分裂症 Jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng Schizophrenia
精神 - mind/mental state 分裂 - split/divided 症 - illness
謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症） Xièxiè (bù, wŏ mĕi yòu jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng) Thanks (no, I don’t have schizophrenia)
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 1 month ago:
That’s just what has happened on Earth, though. Also I didn’t specify they’d be coming to us - if they landed here in something we’d recognize as a rocket, then I’d suspect we’d have a lot more in common with them.
But what if they evolved in gas clouds? Or hell what if they perceive higher dimensions? What if it’s a 4D being, capable of instantaneous long distance travel through spacetime - they don’t need math for that. Or even language. Those are far-out scenarios, but I’m just saying that it takes a very earth-centric, anthropocentric view of intelligent life to assume the sorts of things that’d make communication possible.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 1 month ago:
My trouble is that they may have a totally different theory & understanding of numbers, language, symbols, names, etc.
For instance, what if they don’t have the concept of symbolic representation of objects/concepts in visual/auditory ways? That seems incredibly fundamental from an anthropocentric perspective, but their neurology would be totally different - maybe they evolved a different way to store concepts.
Or say they do, but we get to math - and their understanding of math is similar to ours and they represent it symbolically, but beyond that their perception of time, self vs other distinction (theory of names type stuff), senses are so radically different that we can’t ever reach enough common ground to communicate.
Maybe they communicate with like, pulses of IR light that we can detect & reproduce, and they represent numbers basically like morse code and they have words for standard mathematical and logical operators. And maybe they have hearing and can see the visible light spectrum - just to make things easy.
But
- their neurology is such that they can’t comprehend the link between sounds and meaning
- same with visible light. It’d be like us seeing magnetic fields and making the leap to thinking planets were talking to us.
- they don’t have an understanding of names. Individuality for them is not a concept they understand - there are individuals, but they are not referred to. Maybe they speak in generalities & objectives. Not “you, go farm the field” but “satiate hunger” - perhaps who does and where/how this is done is not particularly important or it is marked with pheromones or context or something.
- they do not have phonetic components of speech.
So, how do we communicate?
We can broadcast numbers at them maybe. We place 2 apples in front of them and broadcast “two” on repeat in distinct, discrete sequence: Two. Two. Two.(…— …— …—) Maybe we start throwing the word for apple in there in morse code. ( …— . - .–. .–. .-… .)
To get the message, they’d need to understand that:
- sequences of IR pulses generated by things other than them can have meaning. Granted, seems simple enough.
- the length and cadence of the pulses matter. We could presumably figure that out by observation & tailor our communication to them, granted.
- intention is to name the two objects in front of them. Hmmmm that is suddenly a bit harder since they don’t typically view names the same as we do. But maybe.
- phonemes can be represented with IR flashes. Oops, they don’t have a concept of those… they’d have to make a massive leap to understand that. But maybe they’d view the word as an ideogram.
- the 2 we were broadcasting referred to the quantity of the apples and not some other feature. Not a given at all, they could take it to mean any number of things, in theory.
- the specific type of thing that an apple is can have a name. Not a given.
- that we are referring to the apples and not to something else. Maybe the act of presenting objects, the act of flashing IR light, the concept of presence vs non-presence, etc.
- that we were labelling the thing as apple and not instead talking about what you use it for, where it comes from, how old it is, it’s scent, who knows - could be anything.
It is not a given that they get past apple. The likelihood, I think, goes up when you contrast it with something else, but what if they don’t understand comparison and contrast similarly to us?
Okay. Say they understand apple. We go through thousands of things to build up their vocabulary of objects. Maybe we show them someone eating an apple next and they know the word for human and the word for apple.
They have to understand what verbs are, have some concept of grammar, the relation of things in the sentence, the conveyance of cause/effect - the specific human is causing the action of the apple being eaten.
“Human eat apple” could really mean anything in this context. Perhaps they don’t know that words like these presented in a different context have the same meaning. Or they don’t understand eating in this case - like it is an unimportant concept, the concept they understand is what is achieved by eating.
Anyway. It all gets very abstract. But, what I’m trying to say is: thinking we can communicate with creatures that evolved in a totally different context assumes their neurology is strikingly similar to ours in ways I think are honestly far-fetched. Some of the above could be solved, with difficulty, given enough time and motivation, but it takes a lot more assumptions than I think people typically realize regarding how anthropic the aliens would be. And the challenges go beyond mere logistics & extend to fundamental linguistic/psychological/philosophical/neurological barriers.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 1 month ago:
People always say that, but like… what does that actually mean? Like we could work from first principles and just build a system of communication based on math?
Gotta say I have my doubts. I have no idea what alien cognition would be like.
- Comment on Hamdurger season 1 month ago:
Add a jalapeno iris stuffed with a cream cheese pupil right in the middle of those bad boys. Got yourself an evil eye hamdog
- Comment on Easter diagram 1 month ago:
- Comment on Asmeinkampf 1 month ago:
A guy who incels like to watch because he is one. Hikikomori/LDR type who stays in his room filled with trash and roaches and streams. Incels and other rightwingers listen to his political opinions because… yeah idk.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It just like… doesn’t reallt matter? Especially if you’re browsing all - then you just see stuff from everywhere federated. That’s basically how I use lemmy. I don’t only look at stuff from one instance
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
.ml doesn’t federate with nsfw instances, so All is clean. There’s probably other instances with a similar policy
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Well… you see… 25% of the game is 100% human made!
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
That’s why most people I know got the switch. They got it in spite of bad performance to play older 3rd party games on a portable, social format. Can play with friends, on the bus, on the couch. Don’t really need better specs to do that.
The nintendo games are largely just a bonus, imo. They’re very expensive and I personally wouldn’t seek them out if I didn’t also own a switch. If I had kids or was a kid that’d be a different story, probably.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
The value proposition just isn’t there. Much more expensive for better performance and… pokemon pokopia? There aren’t any games really taking advantage of that increased performance that I am aware of. My switch 1 still works. I’d like better performance, but not $500 worth
- Comment on ??? 2 months ago:
大体上都是胡说八道。
- Comment on ??? 2 months ago:
你好，来自小米的小林同志！ 我看到了你在 Roblox 上发出的请求，但认为并不令人满意。因此，我已在《企鹅俱乐部》上提出了自己的反提案。请在您方便时尽快予以审阅。你的头像和习近平同志一样帅。我期待与您合作。
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 months ago:
HA HA take that COMMIE you’re braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait
- Comment on Pretty solid offer. 3 months ago:
I receive: being in trouble
You receive: “okay”
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 months ago:
I’ve literally been doing this for lunches. Bake a loaf of bread, have a rotisserie chicken on hand for the week, a block of cheese. Boom. Lunch.
And when I have soke more time or am tired of that, make some porridge with oats and chicken. Maybe a little broth, some onions, seasonings.
Dont underestimate peasant mode. Lunch for the whole week for like $12
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 3 months ago:
True! Co-ops are great
