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- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 7 hours ago:
People living in a society that de-prioritizes and under-funds public education:
is-this Is this the result of Undesirables breeding?
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 7 hours ago:
A brain is several billion living nerve cells all doing their thing, acting and reacting to one another, concurrently. A computer is only ever doing one task at a time, but at a fast enough pace as to give the illusion of multi-tasking.
Emulating a whole brain (everything, not just simplified neural networks, but the actual nerve cells themselves) is currently far beyond what computers are capable of. More then that, not every natural phenomenon can be described algorithmically! It’s entirely possible that consciousness is non- computable.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 11 hours ago:
No, a computer is just boolean logic. I’m not being reductive, that’s literally all you need.
When people say that thinking is just complicated enough computation, that’s an assumption. A particularly convenient assumption, given all the computers we have lying about.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
Currently oxygen is about 20% of the atmosphere. In the Carboniferous period, 60 million years ago, it’s thought to have gotten as high as 30%.
Oxygen is highly reactive, and the 02 configuration is not particularly stable, so over time it gets locked up in other molecules, which are then burred or deposited at the bottom of bodies of water.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 2 days ago:
well they can do the sums, but that may be a far cry from thinknig
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 days ago:
Not just bees, it’s true of all insects.
Consequently, the amount of oxygen in the air determines how big bugs can grow. Get too big, and the oxygen can’t diffuse into the body fast enough. This even shows up in the fossil records, with larger bugs being found alongside evidence of eras that had more oxygen in the atmosphere.
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 1 week ago:
general anesthetics are so neat
like, you can just switch me off with a drug, and after a while I come back? weird, bizzar, and yet also practical. and (as far as I understand) it’s universal. Works on every living thing. They’ve anesthetized plants
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
steamVR works on it
of course, the only good VR game is Alyx and once you finish that it’s only tech demos and chat rooms - nothing else really worth the bother of strapping a monitor to your face.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 weeks ago:
45% of men 18 to 25 have never asked out a woman in person
I can’t speak for the whole 45% but some of us have heard stories from women about how that other 55% can behave. I think I’d rather wait for a lady to (never) ask me out then put someone in the position of thinking “Oh, is he gonna take it bad if I say no?”
- Comment on RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE 2 weeks ago:
…yahoo.com/iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica-revealin…
to save you a click, they found an ecosystem where they didn’t really expect to see one but it’s not a great big novelty, just the normal sort of “never seen that species before” kind of novelty that comes with nearly every trip below the waves.
- Comment on I will not elaborate 5 weeks ago:
Gen-X is based? Really?
rebellion is when you listen to music your mom doesn’t like and also caring about things is gay
- Comment on Anon judges books by their covers 5 weeks ago:
the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate
that being said, people will still surprise you and it’s usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 5 weeks ago:
tying it to income means in a few decades inflation just shrinks the number of people who can actually benefit
If you own one residential property and also live in it, no taxes on that. Multiple properties? That’s taxes. Unfortunately, most primary education is funded by property tax, so you’d have to change how that works (and maybe actually pay teachers while your at it). Fortunately, none of this has any chance of ever getting implemented.
- Comment on Let's gooooo 1 month ago:
…the coca plant could already do that…?
- Comment on no ragrets 1 month ago:
being human is about communicating and learning new behaviors. Both of those take work and practice, so there’s selective pressure for a narrative that justifies not putting it in. If there hadn’t been the alpha/wolf thing then we’d just be having this conversation about some other silly story that served the same function.
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- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 months ago:
The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 2 months ago:
that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
People said the same thing about not having kings
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
McDonalds canned their automated ordering experiment, and that was across 100 stores and lasted several years.
I am not convinced this replaces labor. Like any advancement in hardware or software, it can expand the efficiency of labor. But you still need people to do work. People who own things for a living would really really like that not to be the case - their interest in this is not rational decision-making, but deluded optimism.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 3 months ago:
gotta agree
nicotine is more addictive than cocaine, I’d never touch the stuff
but gun to my head? I’d take a cig over a vape any day. looks soo much better
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
I think labeling things made by AI is a reasonable request. In this specific example, someone who’s buying 4K Wallace & Grommit is doing so out of a love of claymation and Ardmen’s work in it. They want it in high definition specifically to see the details that went into a handcrafted set and characters. Getting a smoothed over statistical average, when you payed for it expecting the highest quality archive on an artistic work, would be more frustrating than just seeing it in lower definition.
More generally, don’t people working with these models also want AI output to be properly labeled? As I understand it, the model starts to degrade when its output is fed back into itself. With the rapid proliferation of AI posting, I’ve heard you can’t even make large language models with the same level of quality as you could before it was released to the general public.
I’m also kinda skeptical that this stuff has as many applications as are being touted. Like, I’ve seen some interesting stuff for folding proteins or doing statistical analysis of particle physics, but outside highly technical applications… kinda seems like a solution in search of a problem. It’s something investors really really like for their stock evaluations, but I just don’t see it doing much for actual workers. At most, maybe it eliminates some middle-management email jobs.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 months ago:
kinda sucks to be less free than the fucking geese
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 months ago:
I guess you can draw that comparison, but then human territories are exponentially bigger than anything an equivalent social animal might claim as “at at your risk area”. A traveling pack of dogs can just go around another pack’s territory. We can’t do that, we’re boxed in. There’s no neutral space left. I guess you could argue there’s international waters, but that’s practically inaccessible to most people.
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
Is there a criticism of AI you wouldn’t categorize as reactionary?
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
could you define reactionary for me?
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 6 months ago:
This is an english meme about the one event in Chinese history that gets repeated in english-speaking spaces over and over and over again. This isn’t attempting to make an argument to a Chinese audience. Why shouldn’t we draw comparisons to similar things in the US? What else would we talk about? Just a whole thread of “yeah, that’s bad” again and again? For every time this gets trotted out?
- Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central 8 months ago:
I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 9 months ago:
You are looking for a Great Man of history to pin this on. You’d rather believe someone nefarious is in charge and pulling the strings from an ocean away, than to see this for what it is; an empire with no real conscious oversight. A pile of self-interested businessmen, politicians, and militarists doing whatever they can to line their pockets, profits above all else.
The US has, per capita, the largest prison population and, outright, the biggest military on the planet. If there’s a road to ‘unfreedom’, we traveled down it a long time ago.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 9 months ago:
You’d rather believe Trump is result of foreign interference, that our own institutions would never result in this without being sullied from outside. It’s fan fic, it’s Cold War nonsense.
Trump is the consequence of our political systems, of our spiteful culture, of our economics that promises success and leaves people sick, broken, and in debt. So what if the Russians had a few hundred Facebook posts? That “seed” would not have taken if the soil weren’t already fertile. Frankly, I don’t think it made a difference. We were barrelling toward Trump with or without the oh so spooky slavs typing on a keyboard.
