naught101
@naught101@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 week ago:
Education isn’t just learning knowledge, it’s also skills and thinking. But it is usually restricted to a limited domain…
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
There will be some corals that survive, and some that migrate poleward or into deeper water. But yeah, large reef ecosystems are definitely screwed at +2°C, and probably even at +1.5°C (it’ll take some time though).
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Mmm. I would guess that the difference between 5 degrees colder than now and 5 degrees hotter than now is quite different for human physiology. There will certainly be places some of us can still live, but lots of equatorial places will become uninhabitable
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Use less fossil fuels. We have the technology to have electrified public transport, for instance. We just don’t have the political will or the financial backing. This is not really a problem that scientists are well equipt to solve.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
They are trying, but… I was at a talk by a leading coral reef scientist last year, he said it would if it worked well, doing enough of it to maintain the Great Barrier Reef would cost on the order of ten trillion dollars a year…
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
What? When?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
We definitely still use the term climate change.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Climate scientist here: what is there to reconcile? Slowing and eventually stopping warming is definitely possible, even inevitable, the question is just when and how fast we can do it, and what the repercussions are. Every fraction of a degree warmer is worse, so we should be taking as much mitigation action as fast as we can. Mitigating earlier is better than adapting later.
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 5 weeks ago:
Zotero
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 months ago:
That’s the setup for the joke
- Comment on Huh? 2 months ago:
Why is hanging out for a long time bad, as long as you continue drinking?
- Comment on Huh? 2 months ago:
My personal conspiracy theory is that bars have bad acoustics so that you have to shout, so that you get a sore throat, so that you feel like you need to drink more.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 months ago:
Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.
- Comment on WHY??? 4 months ago:
The movement (kinetic energy) is the driver with the atmospheric patterns. There’s no movement in the honey comb.
- Comment on WHY??? 4 months ago:
Unrelated though - that’s a packing efficiency thing.
- Comment on WHY??? 4 months ago:
Presumably to do with vibrations at a harmonic of the RPM?
- Comment on WHY??? 4 months ago:
Wat
- Comment on WHY??? 4 months ago:
Standing wave. Earth kind of has one in the jet stream (3 peaks and troughs though, usually), but you can’t see it with visible light.
- Comment on Corn 4 months ago:
Thought this was a biblically accurate lorikeet from the thumbnail
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 months ago:
It’s true! It’s a relatively minor complaint really. Let me pivot: fuck social norms around early starts 😅
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 months ago:
Jealous
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I think AI optimising commercial music genres is just effectively doing what the corporate music industry has been doing for years anyway. It’s like gamification of the auditory processing system.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 4 months ago:
It is possible for genAI to be creative in that sense (e.g. move 37), but it’s not possible for it to know whether that new thing is good/valuable/true/whatever. So it can’t challenge an idea in any sense more meaningful than a monkey throwing darts. A human could use it to generate challenges, and then evaluate them, but that’s a different proposition.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 4 months ago:
Emotions (and hence also a lot of thinking) have a lot of physical and chemical processes involved too, it’s not just neural signalling.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 4 months ago:
The outputs becoming indistinguishable does not imply that the generative processes are the same.
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 4 months ago:
Eh, they weren’t gonna win the next election anyway. This is just gonna reinforce that. Hopefully the fully implode by then.
- Comment on Anon gets his life in order 5 months ago:
Hell yeah. Make it mutual too.
- Comment on NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers 5 months ago:
“It’s likely the case that we need to give police more legislated powers to stop this kind of naked racism and hatred on Sydney streets,” the premier said on Saturday.
JFC, what a bunch of gronks. “We didn’t use the ample power we have to stop actual Nazis, so now we need more powers to beat down on leftists and brown people.”
- Comment on Breaking: Veteran radio broadcaster John Laws dies aged 90 5 months ago:
🎉
- Comment on Is it weird to simultaneously feel love and hatred towards parents? 5 months ago:
Maybe? But I’d say it’s probably also quite common. Parent-child relationships are pretty intense at the best of times, and no one is perfect. No idea what your situation is, but it’s worth remembering that parenting is hard sometimes, and it’s easy to fuck up.