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- Comment on Take a gander at this 20 hours ago:
Is this an actual question or are you being indignant? If you have actual questions can you please try to articulate them? If I try and answer you without knowing what questions you are asking, we are more likely to get frustrated.
Hopefully you aren’t just being indignant.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
They’re…from Europe.
- Comment on Take a gander at this 2 days ago:
Because Ive been conditioned never question laws and never learned to mentally deal with contradictions in society I’m mad at the pronouns now! Those darn pronouns!
- Comment on Mythbusters 5 days ago:
The Elephant and Mice episode was so wild, because if I remember correctly, the elephant didn’t act afraid of the mouse, it acted afraid it would step on and harm the mouse; as if the elephant had a basic understanding and concern for the wellbeing of another creature conspicuously lacking in many human beasts
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 3 weeks ago:
The difference between gpt-3 and gpt-4 is number of parameters, I.e. processing power. I don’t know what the difference between 2 and 4 is, maybe there were some algorithmic improvements. At this point, I don’t know what algorithmic improvements are going to net efficiencies in the “orders of magnitude” that would be necessary to yield the kind of results to see noticeable improvement in the technology. Like the difference between 3 and 4 is millions of parameters vs billions of parameters. Is a chatgpt 5 going to have trillions of parameters? No.
Tech literate people are apparently just as susceptible to this grift, maybe more susceptible from what little I understand about behavioral economics. You can poke holes in my argument all you want, this isn’t a research paper.
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t debating you. I have debates all day with people who actually know what they’re talking about, I don’t come to the internet for that. I was just looking out for you, and anyone else who might fall for this. There is a hard physical limit. I’m not saying the things you’re describing are technically impossible, I’m saying they are technically impossible with this version of the tech. Slapping a predictive text generator on a giant database , its too expensive, and it doesn’t work. Its not a debate, its science.
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 3 weeks ago:
Ai doesn’t get better. Its completely dependent on computing power. They are dumping all the power into it they can, and it sucks ass. The larger the dataset the more power it takes to search it all. Your imagination is infinite, computing power is not. you can’t keep throwing electricity at a problem. It was pushed out because there was a bunch of excess computing power after crypto crashed, or semi stabilized. Its an excuse to lay off a bunch of workers after covid who were gonna get laid off anyway. Managers were like sweet I’ll trim some excess employees and replace them with ai! Wrong. Its a grift. It might hang on for a while but policy experts are already looking at the amount of resources being thrown at it and getting weary. The technological ignorance you are responding to, that’s you. You don’t know how the economy works and you don’t know how ai works so you’re just believing all this roku’s basilisk nonsense out of an overactive imagination. Its not an insult lots of people are falling for it, ai companies are straight up lying, the media is stretching the truth of it to the point of breaking. But I’m telling you, don’t be a sucker. Until there’s a breakthrough that fixes the resource consumption issue by like orders of magnitude, I wouldn’t worry too much about Ellison’s AM becoming a reality
- Comment on Murdered 4 weeks ago:
Yes and have you also considered that beans are evil
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
There was a subreddit where people took upskirt creep pics of random women, not models. If that’s happening somewhere on Lemmy I hope our instance is federated with it. Porn is one thing but that was awful.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
I think it got banned around the same time as the jailbait sub. Reddit was and is a cesspool
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
There’s no jailbait, no upskirts, no fatpeoplehate, so Lemmy is still better
- Comment on Ant smell 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I really don’t like celery. Cucumbers are pretty good if they’re peeled, but yeah they have a very strong taste to me, and the peel is very bitter
- Comment on Ant smell 4 weeks ago:
Cilantro tasted like soap to me until my wife described it as lemony, and it suddenly tasted different and now I like cilantro. Senses are weird
- Comment on Pandas have carnivorous teeth but are lazy hunters lmao 5 weeks ago:
The truth about pandas youtu.be/-XEwooQ6ivg?si=8frwH6G35r89NHAY
- Comment on Big Science 5 weeks ago:
Miss my homies over at hexbear
- Comment on Big Science 5 weeks ago:
Dialectics is an incredible way to derive all kinds of Interesting insights and truths, and materialism, like not even bourgeois science is materialism, its positivism. The combination should absolutely be taught to everyone, every worker, there is no better way to learn to “think for yourself”. But of course it is so totally alien that it is kind of hard to learn, especially when there isn’t much good info for learning dialectics, let alone diamat; especially in the west. That’s what makes Socialism: U&S such an amazing and impactful work
- Comment on Big Science 5 weeks ago:
Read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
- Comment on Conspiracies 5 weeks ago:
You never hear about all the planes that crash into the moon, that is clearly in the sky why does the government cover up the truth?
- Comment on Remember... 1 month ago:
MMT is conceptually weak, its adherents believe that because it is correct, that it will change anything. They fail to acknowledge who the current system benefits and why. It fails to recognize that economics is political, and money is power. the system benefits certain people the way it is, that is why it is this way. It fails to recognize the incredible amount of global exploitation that makes up the financial system which is why money has this magic “made up” quality. It fails to acknowledge how imperialism operates as financial domination underwritten by state violence, administered by a nationalist ruling class. These are all the most basic and simple criticisms of capitalism which have existed for over 100 years.
At one time I was very interested in these kinds of critiques and through studying them and trying to understand them I came to realize the utter failure of our own academic disciplines to make sense of the system. Save yourself years of independent study and idealistic theorizing, of trying to understand and failing to explain using jargon that obscures rather than illuminates. Read Marx, he was the greatest economist of his time, and the most slandered and misrepresented intellectual of ours. If you want to really understand how finance functions, skip this documentary and read Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin. If you can believe that the status quo lies about the nature of debt, how far down do their lies really penetrate into our culture and ideology?
Don’t fall for it. There are no shortcuts, we have to get organized in order to change the world and avert disaster.
- Comment on Remember... 1 month ago:
Social constructs do indeed exist. This is not deep, it is wrongheaded and illogical.
- Comment on *Naruto 1 month ago:
Your parents got married young because they wanted to fuck.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Yeah you’re right it’s okay to have differences and preferences, its the moralizing of them rather than accepting and trying to find commonalities across the divides.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Right, I agree, have empathy and respect, open mindedness. But without getting into it too deep, you know how do I empathize or respect others when often we don’t empathize or respect ourselves? It’s this involuntary and constant process of turning out and externalizing. Please don’t consider this a call out, just an illustration because I know you don’t mean it this way, but by the end of your thought process you are like out grouping some imagined person who is doing this thing, creating an in group between you and I, and others who still behave this way. And I can be as cognizant as I want about this, but I also commit to these groups, and I have recent examples of this toward ideological groups I encounter in my political organizing. People who I used to not have a problem with, I now am extremely suspect of, because this was done to me. Its like baked into our language, or the ways in which we derive meaning. And maybe to some extent its unavoidable, or at least will be until some severe cultural shift happens that changes our ontology and language.
But many people have noticed, from all walks of life, you will hear, “we have never been more divided.” And yeah sometimes you hear this from people who probably don’t have our best interests at heart. But this campism has only increased since, idk, Trump? COVID? The neoliberal turn of the late 70s early 80s? Who can say. But if that’s true, and this phenomenon has increased over time, then maybe it can decrease as well. I hope so. There’s a lot of changes that need to happen to society, and quickly, but without that respect and empathy you talk about, I worry about what might happen to people. This out grouping can quickly turn into dehumanization and worse if not checked. And I don’t know what to do there except at least try and model that behavior and try and discuss it when I can.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Thank you
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I’m an ex vegan (about 5 years) so I’ve been on both sides if it. Here’s my opinion.
When I was a vegan it was very much a part of my identity. It was something that I thought about 2-3 times (at least) per day when I ate, and any time I went to buy food. I remember being actually insufferable about it for a long time and I’m pretty sure I’ve lost friends over it, being annoying and preach to a friend’s husband and then eventually just not getting invited back for game night. So people are definitely feeling burned/rejected/otherized by vegans who, if not just coming right out and saying it, strongly infer that you are a “bad person” for consuming even small amounts of animal products, or at least let you know that you’re being judged for it. As an ex-vegan I’ve experienced this myself.
On the other hand, non-vegans are also insufferable about food. My friend in college didn’t like cheese. Hated how it tasted, hated the way it felt in his mouth. But he loved pizza. He would often buy pizzas for everyone, with cheese on, pick the cheese off himself, and eat it without. I swear that every time he did this someone would say something about it, “what? You don’t like cheese? Why?!” I personally had to endure a lot of weird questions and looks, and comments when after volunteering for a whole day at a baseball field for my son’s team, and they served pizza after which I just refused. I just quietly didn’t get myself any, and people had like 20 questions about it. I didn’t even bring up that I was a vegan, I just said I wasn’t hungry, which was odd and apparently unacceptable.
Vegans and vegetarians also get judged for their diets, there are plenty of non-v people who will become like preemptively defensive about it, and let you know they think you’re weak and unhealthy. You get otherized and judged, even if you dont care what people eat and you just patiently say that its a personal choice, for health or the environment or whatever. This actually deepens the in-group acceptance/out-group rejection of everyone involved. The next time a vegan has to hear about their choices they’ll be less patient with the person asking; the next time that person eats an egg around a vegan and gets lectured, they’ll be less patient and around and around it goes.
I have theories about why this is, some of which maybe are apparent from what I’ve read. I think people do construct identities around consumer behavior, and they feel rejected when someone doesn’t share those same consumptive habits which they take for granted. I’ll get into it if anyone gives a shit.
But I think theres a problem with public discourse that encourages this kind of ingroup/outgroup good/bad acceptance/rejection, so much that it is implied in all discourse whether a vegan or not. This is the thing that drove me away from veganism: I think that vegans are right about a lot of things, but they can’t actually see the world for what it is, they can mostly only see through this lens. This is basically the same problem with liberals, conservatives, religious, atheist, whatever. Its the cult of the individual having eroded any experience of interconnectedness, even though we are interconnected. As such, people can’t see the world for what it really is, we can only see it from behind the fences of our specific camp.
- Comment on Yes, you cannot, so to do it do like this 2 months ago:
“Yes you can’t, here’s how” is my new favorite sentence
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 months ago:
Political organizing and education. Most problems, especially economic and societal problems are rooted in political causes: bureaucratization, consolidation of power, bottlenecking, corruption, etc.,
Only active participation in democratic organizing of mass movements along class concerns has ever been effective at combatting these social illnesses. This starts and ends with educational development. We are kept weak through confusion and ignorance.