TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 6 hours ago:
I agree with most of that, but I think I still need to bring up the benefits of centralised health services. In simple cases, you don’t really need that, but in tricky cases you might. For example, if you need an MRI image before surgery, you just can’t rely on travelling doctors. Those machines are expensive, so you’re only going to have those in large cities where they can be used more frequently.
Surgery also benefits from being a centralised service. You can’t expect a traveling surgeon to carry all the stuff you need for keeping the whole room clean. Besides, the room itself needs special equipment. A simple scalpel and a steady hand aren’t enough to make it work.
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 3 days ago:
Ecosia and Quant have their own search index.
- Comment on I would write something extensive, but I don't wanna end up writing incoherent stuff, especially since I sometimes rely on AI to write stories for me. What should I do? 5 days ago:
It depends on your level of expertise. If your writing skills are awful, boosting that with below average AI-slop is actually an improvement. The output won’t be good, but at least it isn’t awful either. If you already are a competent writer, LLMs will absolutely ruin your text.
However, the middle ground is where it gets interesting. Let’s say you have a draft, and you tell an LLM to improve it. It will usually make some dramatic changes you won’t like, but some of them kinda work. Then you’ll become an editor, and your job is to merge the two texts. Take the best parts from your original and the one the LLM “refined” for you.
This method requires you to have a vision though, and you need to know what you want. You should start with a rough draft. It doesn’t have to be concise, coherent or even good. It’s just a starting point for the LLM to work with. It’s important that the draft illustrates the vision you’re going for.
When working with LLM generated text, you become the editor, and your job is to curate the material. Discard the trash and keep anything worth keeping. You need to have the ability to determine what’s good and what’s not.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 1 week ago:
I got so annoyed by this, that I looked into what the most common GPT quirks are. Now I have a long list of things to hate when reading stuff online. Also, many YT video scripts were clearly written by GPT and edited by nobody.
- Comment on Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans 1 week ago:
And so it begins…
- Comment on What impact is the whole vegetarian/vegan diet having on the price of meat? 1 week ago:
When taken to extreme, the pieces could also rise.
Imagine that meat demand drops gradually over a few decades, and meat production adapts to it. As a result, the whole industry begins to lose the economies of scale. After a century of this kind of development, meat is produced by a handful of small farms, where the operational costs per mass unit of meat produced are very high. If that ever happens, meat would become a special ingredient most people don’t want. Those few who still do want it, are willing to pay absurd prices for it.
- Comment on Apparantly there are some rural places in China that have never seen a white person... So... are there like places in the US I can go where they never seen an Asian person before? 1 week ago:
There are parts of Europe, particularly small villages, where all you see are the locals. People from outside usually don’t move in, more like the opposite actually. Kids move out when they want to study something in a big city, and they only return during Christmas. In a place like that, the only foreigners you could find are the Turks who run the local pizza kebab restaurant.
- Comment on Are there any ways to reverse AI brainrot and force myself to do any creative endeavor, even if inspiration didn't strike? 1 week ago:
Change happens gradually. The first steps need to be easy, maybe even fun. Once you get past those, you’re ready for bigger challenges, harder tasks. Maybe even something a bit boring.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 2 weeks ago:
Installing ransomware on every computer that visits the site. (/s)
- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 2 weeks ago:
Gotta say, pronouncing it as /dʒɪf/ is just top tier trolling. Everyone knows that /ɡɪf/ is the only one that actually makes sense, but some people intentionally choose to pronouns it wrong anyway. Steve Wilhite saw an opportunity to leave his mark on the world by trolling the hell out of everything, so he took it. Who could resist an opportunity like that.
- Comment on In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box? 2 weeks ago:
Baking paper is also available in pre cut rolls. Just pull square out of the roll, and start using it. No need to cut anything.
Fancy plastic film comes with a small metal blade that travels on a plastic rail. It cuts the film very smoothly when compared to any other option I’ve seen anywhere.
Cutting aluminum foil is a bit different. Which side of the box has the serrations? Use that edge for cutting.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t Evan Edinger just make a video about that? Sounds strangely familiar.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
Fartplan 🤣
Actually, there are a few performance artists who make money but farting on stage. Sounds like they must have a plan like that.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
Same thing with Swedish. Gift (Swedish) = poison, venom, toxin etc.
Sounds like there must have been some colossal misunderstanding in the past.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 weeks ago:
He would still behave in a similar way, but with a lower budget. That would force him to let go of some habits, adapt in interesting ways, and learn new ways. I think it could be interesting, but it would have a radically different flavour.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 weeks ago:
Tony has amazing skills. He could name just about anything.
Bruce would probably end up being a bum or a weirdo. If you like redemption arcs, the story of Bruce could be interesting.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 weeks ago:
If you made Bruce or Tony middle or lower-class people, you could still make an adventure out of that. It’s just that all of the heavy infrastructure would need to be completely rewritten. Skills and abilities would allow them to do amazing things, but they just wouldn’t have million-dollar tech at their disposal.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s a country specific thing then. In the past few decades, I’ve used electronic money more than physical money. Applies to salaries, cars, shopping etc. Works with small merchants too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Never seen one of those.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The 200 € note is the rarest one. When buying a car, I’ve actually used 500 € notes a few times. I’ve seen a 200 € note only once or twice. Can’t even remember when was the last time.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 3 weeks ago:
Not just modern life, but ancient too. The human mind is just full of these shortcuts, and on average, they have served the species well.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 3 weeks ago:
Well, let’s just pick one style of anarchy, and go with that. I don’t know any, but maybe you do.
Pick one and explain how that would work in a larger scale.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 3 weeks ago:
Hubristic
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a mental shortcut, and people in general just love using those.
BTW, is it usually correct though? If at least 50% of the Spanish speakers actually are Mexican, it could justify the existence of this shortcut.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 3 weeks ago:
For me at least. Never imagined what it would feel like if I had massive debt from being in prison. Now I’m beginning to understand why there’s no way out for so many.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 4 weeks ago:
No wonder why heroin smuggling suddenly seems so appealing.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 4 weeks ago:
Yikes! That’s just so messed up. Also explains a lot.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 4 weeks ago:
Wait what? Prison companies? What haven’t you outsourced yet?
How about you also make vote counting, law writing, judges, police and national defence publicly traded companies too. What could go wrong.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 4 weeks ago:
Who needs a smart TV, when you can just use a 15 year old flat TV and plug it into a computer. Install Firefox and uBlock Origin to watch YouTube. It’s a real computer, which means you can watch pretty much anything with it.
If you’re into hardware tinkering, get a mini ATX (or ITX) board and a small flat case for it. Should look pretty much like a VCR box from the 90s.
If you want to make it quiet, you could use a passively cooled GPU with a HDMI output. Alternatively, get a AMD APU, and use the largest fan you can to cool it. Tweak the settings to run it as slow as possible. If that’s not an option, stick a few of those Noctua’s resistor cables between the board and the fan to force it to run slower.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 4 weeks ago:
Pre-internet era debates were the best!