Rhaedas
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- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 4 days ago:
Logic, for religion. How would that work? I was just using their words to try and create some kind of jargon to make it work. Clearly it doesn't. Would love to know if the downvotes are for your stated reason, or from upset theists. They don't like to look too much behind the curtain.
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 4 days ago:
If there was a god of any type, he sucks. But since there isn't a designer of any sort, the mess we see around us (good and bad) is completely understandable.
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 4 days ago:
People say this is a conflict with being omniscient, but that's thinking temporally. For an entity that's timeless, it's all happening at once (or there is no once, it just all is) so he can have a master plan and make mistakes too. There's probably more coming.
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 4 days ago:
Not the fish though. Seems that God was an evolutionist and agreed the transition to land was a bad idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not really sequels except from my perspective of playing them. I played Ultima III on the C-64 first - incredible game. Have the cloth map framed. Later I went to play I and II to explore where the lore came from. While the lore itself was interesting, they were far more simplistic and boring compared to what they led to. I guess that's not fair, a sequel should try to raise the bar, and III did by a huge amount. But since I played them out of order, they felt like sequels to me that fell flat of what I had started off with.
- Comment on Is it safe to connect a Windows XP machine to my wi-fi network? 1 week ago:
Haven't there been videos showing either XP or 98 or both connected as fresh installs and within minutes having all sorts of issues?
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 1 week ago:
In that context you'd probably laugh if they used man too.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 week ago:
No, it was a GUI designed on top of MS-DOS specifically to import Minesweeper from IBM OS/2.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Are these additive or multiplicative? Exponential?
- Comment on Climb Every Mountain 2 weeks ago:
You find out that was the wrong peak.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Some people can. Generalization like that ignores what some people are born into, and blames them when they can't break out of it.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
There are degrees of awareness. Consciousness is a broad part of that, but usually it's sentience and sapience that are really considered in this question, and they are two different things. Usually sentience is used when it's actually sapience that's being discussed.
LLMs as they are aren't aware. They respond to input, but there's nothing going on internally to suggest they "know" what's being asked. The lack of long term context and memory is a huge issue that external tools and techniques try to counter.
But to answer the question, we still don't know. Before everything got sidetracked onto the LLM ride, it was one of many ideas on how to develop thinking in a computer. I don't know if other research is still going on and just hidden behind the frenzy, or got cut out to go down this singular path that looked profitable.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
If a machine was made that could make copies of itself... it wouldn't be alive. It's not a simple definition. Some viruses use RNA or single strand DNA and don't reproduce themselves, they use other cells to do it for them. But they are alive in some sense of the word.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
How exactly does an individual do the last two? Choosing mass transit when it's available and practical makes sense, but what if there isn't any? Which it tied to the last one, modern sprawl is why options are a rarity logistically and cost-wise, and how do you undo that?
- Comment on Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo? 2 weeks ago:
They're providing a service, so it's not really up to you to determine a new price or features of that service. But you have the right to decide you don't want to continue it, or change it within the boundaries that they've said you can. There may be consequences of stopping or changing the contract terms, which are most likely spelled out in that contract somewhere.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.
I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.
How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
It's about money. But a nice side effect is that it keeps the people busy so they have little down time to reflect on why they are in that condition, or more importantly, no time left to take action, as well as the threat that if they do anything, it could endanger their job and life. That's why they don't take away too much from too many, otherwise suddenly those masses don't have anything to threaten and a lot of free time to notice what happened and by whom. Bread and circuses.
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 2 weeks ago:
The free parking rule gave a reason for the space and a bit of financial padding to the game. I'm pretty sure there were a few more extra enhancements back when I played it as a kid, just to add to the game. As long as everyone agrees to the changes. We used to mess with chess variations in high school, learned very quickly that some games get really screwed up if you bend rules or add things too much.
- Comment on Company truck with hands holding soil and a plant. 2 weeks ago:
Someone knew what they were doing. Malicious compliance?
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 3 weeks ago:
Yep, the text is great, but that's the punchline.
- Comment on Fucking AI bullshit 3 weeks ago:
You can tell it's AI because the person is all distorted, and now they don't seem to have the right number of fingers and limbs.
- Comment on I'll watch any Muppets movie no questions asked 3 weeks ago:
Never thought about it, but don't most of their movies have 4th wall breaks anyway?
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 3 weeks ago:
It's all Republicans, and some Democrats. Oh, and some Republicans that call themselves and even ran as Democrats. Which should be illegal and prosecutable as election fraud.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 3 weeks ago:
An organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host. The ends to the mean is worth the sacrifice to most mothers and often intentionally planned for or accepted, but yes, a fetus qualifies.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 4 weeks ago:
That's a great summary, and now so many of the posts complaining about how Lemmy didn't feel different than what they had come from suddenly could have been a red flag that no one understood. Maybe not, but sure seems a bit correlated.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 4 weeks ago:
Me too. The brain sees what it wants to see.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 4 weeks ago:
So what was the illegal part? Clothing? Needing a permit? Did the manatee consent?
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 4 weeks ago:
I've been lucky in that in the few interactions I've had, they've been mostly courteous and to the point. It's usually been about a car tag and my fault. But they either gave a warning or a ticket that I could avoid by taking care of the tag. It does help I'm a white male.
There was one though, long ago when I was just 18. He probably let me go for the same reason, white male, and I was scared to death. But his first line was that I was speeding. I looked at my Dodge Aries K-Car and even in my fright almost laughed. In this POS? Really? I think because it was late at night and I happened to get in his way he was being pissy. He also said I should pay attention to my rear mirror as he had his lights on the whole mile before the interchange where I pulled over. Total BS. We all know how damn bright those lights are.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 4 weeks ago:
That's the kicker, when they finally let you go all pissed off because YOU wasted THEIR time.
- Comment on Workers Need a Legal Right to Full-Time Hours 4 weeks ago:
Separate health benefits from employment.