uuldika
@uuldika@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Alternatively 1 day ago:
She’s a transphobe, disappointingly:
- Comment on Alternatively 1 day ago:
I, for one, enjoy not living in a Puritan theocracy.
- Comment on Alternatively 1 day ago:
it was an art piece, not a serious product idea. they weren’t pitching it to Trojan, all it purported to do was make a “statement.”
it’s like an OmegaMart product, basically.
- Comment on Anon is the Sandwich Man 5 days ago:
if only all the greentexts were so wholesome as this.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 5 days ago:
I’ve noticed a lot of infantile and absurdly maximalist takes on Lemmy lately. it’s kind of souring me on the project.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 days ago:
this really is a model/engine issue though. the Google Search model is unusably weak because it’s designed to run trillions of times per day in milliseconds. even still, endless repetition this egregious usually means mathematical problems happened somewhere, like the SolidGoldMagikarp incident.
think of it this way: language models are trained to find the most likely completion of text. answers like “you should eat 6-8 spiders per day for a healthy diet” are (superficially) likely - there’s a lot of text on the Internet with that pattern. clanging like “a set of knives, a set of knives, …” isn’t likely, mathematically.
last year there was an incident where ChatGPT went haywire. small numerical errors in the computations would snowball, so after a few coherent sentences the model would start sundowning - clanging and rambling and responding with word salad. the problem in that case was bad cuda kernels. I assume this is something similar, either from bad code or a consequence of whatever evaluation shortcuts they’re taking.
- Comment on The audacity 6 days ago:
you’d think a public healthcare system would figure out that treating conditions early is actually cheaper.
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
that’s disappointing. I didn’t know about that.
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
even the experienced ones! do you ever watch Linus Tech Tips? it’s so fun watching them rip up the water-cooling loops after realizing they put it together wrong, or trying and failing at different EFI hacks to get weird prototype cards to work or figure out why their mystery hardware isn’t booting.
- Comment on Anon reads between the lines 1 week ago:
I grew up wanting the magical mops from Fantasia.
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
it’s never bit flips?
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
it could be a bad RAM chip. we should start Prime95, check for ECC faults…
- Comment on Startup Hack! 1 week ago:
I was considering tipping off the FBI until around the second paragraph when I realized this was Dwarf Fortress. without context, this was… disturbing to read.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 week ago:
tbf that was around the time the cold war resumed.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 weeks ago:
your cat lets you do that?!
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
honestly tho. if the Torah is legit its advice should apply to the future too. haShem wouldn’t just have been writing to Moishe’s time.
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 4 weeks ago:
the content is better than I remember, having watched the video you linked. I guess I’m just cranky about the particular way that thumbnails and video titles have converged on YouTube.
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 4 weeks ago:
eh, he’s okay. he puts out a lot of slop content like “REAL LAWYER reacts to $MOVIE” and “r/LegalAdvice DISASTERS!” with those annoyingly exaggerated YouTuber faces. I guess you have to play to the Algorithm, but slop is slop.
I like Liz Dye’s legal analysis when she appears on his channel to discuss current events, but I wish I could just watch her directly, rather than suffering through LegalEagle’s bombastic and superficial framing to pump up viewer engagement.
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 1 month ago:
she garban on my zo until I bean.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
it’s literally not though. it’s an actual figure from an actual journal article on biohybrid robots.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 1 month ago:
bruh your username 😭😭 respect.
also, surely flerovium and the other mostly-theoretical elements would be denser, no? at least for a couple microseconds until they yeet some protons and fling themselves apart.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 month ago:
it’s short for Pajeet, which is a somewhat common Indian first name. I associate it with UK racism more than US racism for some reason.
- Comment on Phasing thru walls 2 months ago:
it was successful?? how?
- Comment on Phantom Limb Pain 2 months ago:
there’s a rare mental illness called Body Integrity Dysphoria which makes people want to amputate a limb. They have less phantom pain than ordinary amputees, supposedly.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 months ago:
There’s a few ways to handle, but for example:
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Roads: large towns and cities would mostly handle their own road maintenance. Roads connecting towns would probably be joint ventures. Projects would be funded and contracted by the towns and financed by town income tax. Rural areas would be underfunded, but that’s partly intentional - dense population centers are more sustainable.
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Environmental regulations: handled at the level of impact. for example, water quality standards for a river bind everyone who accesses the river. restrictions (e.g. standards for heavy metal levels) would be passed by minority vote - if 40% want a standard, that’s enough. carbon credits would be administered at the Federal or World levels, by a combination of central government and treaties.
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Education: probably pretty devolved, mostly a choice by municipalities in what they offer/teach. there’d likely be standardized tests that most places agree on for transferability (e.g. how the SAT works today.) religious schools could exist in religious communities, or you could have a Montessori program in your secular socialist Kibbutz.
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Slavery: illegal at the Federal/World level. same with indentured servitude and coercive contracts. one of the most important functions of the central government is to protect the civil liberties of individuals.
So the principles are mostly:
- Externalities are handled at the level of their impact.
- More power locally, less power centrally. City governments are more like micro-nations bound by a sort of EU.
- Cities largely have a lot of direct democracy with some representatives. Critically, city governments wield lots of power over the businesses that operate in the city. This is critical to check corporate power.
- Federal government exists as a backstop to safeguard fundamental rights and for truly national concerns.
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- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 months ago:
I’m a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.
I’m not Anarchist because it’s too chaotic and unrealistic, and I’m not ML because I don’t like State authoritarianism and central planning.
- Comment on Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings 2 months ago:
I’ve been denied all the best ultra sex 😞
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 2 months ago:
once in a lifetime recession
slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible
once in a lifetime pandemic
monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
mRNA technology premiering on the eve of a killer pandemic leaps to mind.
that’s fair. progress in medicine more generally has been good. we’ve started curing fatal genetic disorders, we found the cause of multiple sclerosis, there’s a new antipsychotic with a novel MoA for the first time since chlorpromazine…
None of this was indicative of better economics or a functional political system.
Obama, Reagan, Bush and Clinton weren’t fascists. even Trump wasn’t a fully-fledged fascist in his first term. he is now, and what’s happening to the Federal Government is unprecedented.
look, I know the Weimar Republic had its problems, but you can’t claim Hitler was just more of the same. so it is with the US in 2025.
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 2 months ago:
eyebrow crabs?!! doctors are a different breed, that’s nightmare fuel to me.