gandalf_der_12te
@gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 3 weeks ago:
After all, it’s only intelligence when I do it.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can’t be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn’t exist. Checkmate.
/jk
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
I imagine the reason why comments here are more constructive is because Lemmy is perceived to have a high technicality-threshhold (you have to be somewhat familiar with technology to make an account here - even though that’s not true). That leads to only people with a high enough motivation to sign up here.
I think it’s important that we grow and find new users, not because I seek growth, but because I seek diversity. We need more people, more opinions, and more different perspectives.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the politics is annoying at this point, it feels like 60% on the front page is politics. I’m glad when the US votes are finally over.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have made the experience that most communities on the german-speaking feddit.de were great, but after that had technical issues and went down for 4 months (!), the content isn’t as good anymore and the users are more frustrating.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 1 month ago:
Right now I can think of the buddhist “tale of the bug”.
Two (human) friends died and were reborn. One in heaven, the other as a dung beetle (a type of bug) on a dung pile.
The guy in heaven tried to “help” his friend by going down to Earth and carrying his friend to the skies. But his friend refused, because the dung pile was now his home, and he didn’t want to leave at any cost. Only then the guy realized that it is not heaven that makes you happy, but finding the place that you’re destined for.
- Comment on Artifical Intelligence 1 month ago:
People are freaking out because for years, the central dogma was to “educate yourself, that makes you special, that makes you unique, that guarantees you a prosperois economic future” and such, and now this promise is about to be broken. People are in denial: AI is a good thing.
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
Yeah i basically just wanted to tell you that there’s actual data on stuff and if you wanna know, you gotta read it all, there’s a lot. I don’t know what it would help you and ask a question such as “is there a name for the time when we started to burn oil?” because if i give you an answer, what do you do with that answer? if you can’t embed it into a broader context, that answer seems pretty useless to me. So if you actually wanna know, maybe start reading it all. idk. maybe i come off arrogant, but that’s not my intention. i just don’t understand what your motivation for asking this question is?
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
I think I just had a lot of talks about this with someone recently. Feel free to DM me if you wanna know more.
Yes, you’re right; The sources of energy have a society-defining role.
There’s two major sources: carbon-based (coal, oil, gas, biomass) and electricity.
Right now, we consume approximately 50% of either, but this is about to change. I predict that solar power will shift energy consumption to nearly 100% electrical in a few years.
I don’t really know about a specific name for when we started burning oil, but you might wanna look at Peak Oil Theory because it explains the mass of oil consumption over time as a bell curve.
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
They mean inverting the flow of logic, not looking at consequences but at causes, i guess.
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
No, I think, they both (burgersc12 and OP) have an important point.
We can think of technology in two different ways: input and output; i.e. what do we put into the machine (source of energy) and what do we get out (factory products). They’re just looking at it from two different angles: OP is asking about power source, but burgersc12 is talking about factory outputs.
- Comment on Not cognitive behavioural therapy 1 month ago:
The fact that it probably even helped makes it even better somehow, lol.
- Comment on Weevil time 1 month ago:
They wouldn’t wear a leash because they aren’t a dog.
- Comment on Pharmaceutical Commercials (sound on!) 1 month ago:
What could possibly happen except everything?
This applies to your dating life too, take your chances 😘
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Currently in a very inter-disciplinary field where the different mathematicians have their own language which has to be translated back into first software, then hardware. It’s so confusing at first till you spend 30 minutes on wikipedia to realize they’re just using an esoteric term to describe something you’ve used forever.
Yeah, this happens a lot. I studied math and I often got the impression that when you read other researcher’s work, they describe the exact same thing that you have already heard about, but in a vastly different language. I wonder how many re-inventions and re-namings there are of any concept simply because people can’t figure out that this thing has already been researched into. It really happens a lot, where 5 people discovered something, but gave them 5 different names.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Oh i would say “ring” is in fact quite a descriptive term.
Apparently, in older german, “ringen” meant “to make progress of some sort/to fight for something”. And a ring has two functions: addition and multiplication. These are the foundational functions that you can use to construct polynomials, which are very important functions. You could look at functions as a machine where you put something in and get something out.
In other words, you put something into a function, the function internally “makes some progress”, and spits out a result. That is exactly what you can do with a “ring”.
So it kinda makes sense, I guess.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
A big reason why newspapers use so many filler-phrases and redundancy and just don’t get to the point is because journalists often get paid for how much they write; The consequence is obviously: filler-words.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
Yes, there should be a book filled with these stories or something.
- Comment on Anon is an example 2 months ago:
this is such a 4chan answer
- Comment on Krillin 2 months ago:
it’s the main component of a meal.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
Plot twist: I don’t use a shopping cart. (I always use the textile shopping bag that I bring from home.)
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 2 months ago:
Company has no loyalty at all to the employee. I could let go every day that I go to work. It’s not a question of if, but when I will be let go. So, as a consequence, I must ask myself the question: After quitting the game, will I regret sacrificing my health for yet another company?
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
- Comment on Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper 2 months ago:
And again, this is probably the smartest living human, has spent decades looking into it, and his result was “I dunno, maybe look at this?” So if anyone ever tries to tell you that anyone knows what consciousness is. You know they’re talking out of their ass.
As long as capitalism drives science, we’ll never know. Because there’s no money in finding it out, and we’re at the point of looking at freaking quantum wave collapse inside of neurons, it’s not exactly something that’s easy or cheap to investigate.
I just want to point out that there has been philosophy before capitalism, and a lot of clever people looked into the question of consciousness without capitalist interests. As such, a lot of modern science doesn’t really focus on it; but nevertheless, there’s a lot of clever thoughts about it. Like in chinese buddhism, there’s views of what consciousness means in sometimes great detail that really make sense to me. Saying we don’t know anything about consciousness because modern science doesn’t is wrong, i think.
- Comment on Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper 2 months ago:
Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way?
Nope. I am conscious on different days in different ways.
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 2 months ago:
It’s a meme because it first makes you laugh, and then it makes you think.
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 2 months ago:
As of April 2021, PLOS One charges a publication fee of $1,745 to publish an article.
I mean, seriously, I would like to publish to one of these, but who has the money to do that?
- Comment on Anon tries to remember a song 2 months ago:
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 2 months ago:
short question - do you mean Cleveland, OH, or Cleveland, TN, or Cleveland, TX, or Cleveland, GA?
