TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 5 days ago:
Yes. Often I find an article that doesn’t answer my question, but it could be close. For example, it could be an article about porcelain manufacturing in the soviet union in general, but won’t answer my specific question about manufacturing porcelain for the electrical grid. That sort of stuff happens all the time, and GPT confidently claims something that isn’t supported by the sources it cites.
Actually, it’s a lot like search results in general. The first 10 results could lead you in the right direction, but won’t have exactly what you’re after.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 6 days ago:
LOL. That way pretty brutal. 🤣
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 week ago:
Oh ok so, it boils down to fire breathing flying awesome dinosaurs or plain boring dinosaurs.
First one would be way cooler, but a little bit disaster prone. Would still go with that one though. I’ll take the risk figure something out. Should probably get a house built out of stone.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 week ago:
Are we talking magic wielding fully sentient dragons (forgotten realms style) or animal like simple dragons? The first type could keep humans as pets.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 week ago:
About point 2: I would argue that you could convince any judge that these characters are sufficiently distinct in the legal sense. IRL, people might still confuse them, but that’s not the point here. Just look at some of the competing car designs to get a feel for what is legally distinct enough these days. You can come up with a cartoon character, car or a sci-fi warrior that copies over 90% from something else, and you can still get away with it.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 week ago:
There should be a name for this kind of bias. Influencer bias, celebrity bias? Something else?
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 week ago:
Most likely, you’ve just started noticing what the world has already been like for decades, if not centuries.
Taking care of yourself is of course important, but I think many people over do it in an unhealthy manner. It’s good to be clean and look nice, but you don’t have to make that the central theme of your life.
IMO, comfort and practicality are also important, but you don’t have to look like you’re still chilling at home watching a movie and munching popcorn. There are good compromises out three.
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 2 weeks ago:
Just switch the wallpaper to this and watch your roommate have a total meltdown.
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 2 weeks ago:
And that follow up question too. GPT is just way too chatty.
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 2 weeks ago:
Totally forgot about that. 🙈
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 2 weeks ago:
You could ask about the most boring thing possible, and the answer is usually something like:
Great question! [Insert verbose flattery and an answer that goes into way too much detail] Isn’t it fascinating how long it takes for paint to dry on the wall? When was the last time you painted a wall? [Insert a random chatty question that derails the conversation from the original topic.]”
When using ChatGPT, you should totally tweak the settings to make sure your GPT experience does not include any of this nonsense.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Once you’ve unlocked smuggling, you can start researching the next nodes in the tech tree: drug trafficking, human trafficking, international weapons trade etc. I’m pretty sure OP is heading for the Lord of War achievement.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 2 weeks ago:
Generally, I like that idea, but I can also see some ways it would fail.
People vote based on what they know, and there’s a limit to what people can know. In a small company, you can easily know everyone, but in a massive corporation, you simply run into some human limitations in this regard.
Some people have a highly visible job, like someone in IT tech support. If you have problems with your computer, and tech support is able to help you out, you’ll happily vote for that guy to get a raise.
However, the IT boss made the arrangements for a server upgrade, so your storage space didn’t come close to running out. Do you even know what goes on in the background? No. Would you vote for the IT boss to get a raise, since you have no idea how they’ve contributed to your wellbeing? Probably not.
Also, some people will find ways to make their minuscule efforts look much grander than they deserve to be seen as. If that works out, they’ll get lots of votes and pay rises even though their contributions are hardly worth mentioning, which actually sounds a lot like the situation we’re currently in.
The thing is, when everything is running smoothly, you don’t even know who fixed what. If things break, you may have some idea whose fault it is, but that’s not guaranteed either. We can’t just wait for things to break so that the guy who fixes it could become famous and popular. Ideally, people would fix stuff before anything breaks, and that would a be a far more efficient way to run a company. This sort of voting system could result in horrible inefficiency and pressure to be seen and loved.
People could also cooperate. What if a manager promises a coffee machine that gives free coffee if he gets a raise? Maybe the workers could vote for that, but should they really? What if the workers pool their votes to give one of their own a raise? They could rotate who gets the raise, so that each of them gets a raise when it’s their turn. Oh, and that sort of cooperative voting system could be used as a bullying instrument. You could discriminate one of the workers just because they have the wrong skin color, wrong accent, wrong family name or whatever. I’m sure people would come up with all sorts of messed up ways to abuse this system.
But the big questions is: Would this be better than the current system? Maybe, but we would need to set up some rules first. Doing it wild-wild-west style would be a complete disaster. Then again, the current system has some serious problems too, so…
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on your criteria. For slightly more demanding calculations, Calc just can’t handle it like Excel does. Then again, using spreadsheets for demanding calculations is just asking for trouble.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not as problem if Russia grants him asylum. Worked just fine for Bashar Al-Assad.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 weeks ago:
What? I didn’t know this was rare. This thing is brilliant. Why would it be uncommon.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re talking about my messages, it’s because I swipe too fast and don’t check the message 9 times before posting. All sorts of weird nonsense slips through every day, some of which I edit later.
If you’re talking about how native English speakers spell, you’ll find all sorts of weird mistakes that seem to stem from the fact that English is pure chaos, and navigating this mess is about as easy as programming with a magnetized needle and a hard disk platter. The way I see it, mispronouncing every word in a consistent manner helps me remember how they are written. The trick is to use a consistent spelling system of another language to form an auditory memory of the spelling.
So in my mind, every word comes with three entries: what the word means, how it’s pronounced and how it’s written. Memorizing a combination of letters is hard, but memorizing a funny sound that you can later decrypt back to a sequence of letters is easier. That connection has to be 100% consistent, which is exactly what English can’t offer, but many other languages come pretty close.
If your first language happens to have a fairly consistent spelling system, you can totally use it to memorize how English words are spelled. Native English speakers are obviously completely screwed, and that’s why spelling bees are a thing and why this post exists.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. The information would have to be factual and compressive, which is a tall order. You could still miss some details unintentionally, with would mess things up.
Stating your biases up front is a reasonable compromise, so let’s go with that. If you’re reading a Nazi blog, you know what their biases are, so you can take that information with the appropriate grain of salt. If you’re listening to a space lizard podcast, a few hefty spoons should do it.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 4 weeks ago:
So, it doesn’t matter what the bias is. It’s still propaganda. The opposite of that would be a balanced view without any bias. So, would that also imply restricting to just factual information?
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s someone I haven’t seen in years, talking about the big picture should be interesting enough. You know, like where I live, what do I do for a living etc.
If it’s someone who definitely knows all that, I can mention something small but recent. Like, I just bought some weird carrot salsa, and it was surprisingly good.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 4 weeks ago:
Time is relative. A 5 year old software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent.
- Comment on Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics? 4 weeks ago:
If they live in the presence of HCl, they could also make some fun organichlorides. Those products could be simple organic solvents that damage the cell membranes. They could also be more or less toxic compounds, maybe even comparable with chemical weapons.
- Comment on Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics? 5 weeks ago:
You could make them capable of eating plastic, but what would the byproducts be? You would need to make sure the byproducts aren’t toxic.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 weeks ago:
Wow, I’ve never had any issues with USB ports breaking on any of my phones. Which one of us is the outlier?
- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 1 month ago:
Our current AIs are kinda pathetic, and might realistically only replace mediocre artists. However, people who buy art, can’t tell the difference between good art and mediocre art, so the financial impact could be felt by a larger number of people.
It’s a bit like comparing factory made clothes to properly tailored ones. We still have both, but machines have clearly won this race. Besides, only very few people appreciate tailored clothes so much that they are also willing to pay for them. Most don’t, so they wear cheap lower quality clothes instead. I think the same will happen to music and paintings too.
- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 1 month ago:
Ok, now I’ve finally come to a conclusion about this debate. When a human learns to draw or write in a particular style, there are no copyright issues. However, when a machine does the same, you need to compensate the people who made the training data. Here’s why.
The training data is an essential component of of the model. It’s like building a house with bricks you didn’t pay for. If you’re building something like a house, ship, software or a machine learning model, you need to pay for the materials that are required to build it.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 month ago:
At that point, there will be no evidence of your disappearance, so legal details don’t even matter. Anyone who brings up such evidence, will also disappear.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 1 month ago:
Yes. These two are different things. Most people experience both, some only one of the two, and Jaiden experienced none of that.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 1 month ago:
You’re developing romantic attraction. It’s different from sexual attraction, but usually people think of them as one and the same.
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 1 month ago:
They are shredded to small pieces. Magnet separates all ferromagnetic parts, like steel casings. There can also be other separation methods such as flotation. Various non-ferromagnetic materials such as zinc and manganese can be dissolved in sulfuric acid. In order to speed things up, leaching is done at an elevated temperature.
In the next stage, Mn and Zn are precipitated as hydroxides using submerging like sodium hydroxide for example. There are other options too. You could also melt the batteries and separate the metals that way. If you use pyrometallurgy instead of hydrometallurgy, you’ll be using a lot more energy.
