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- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 day ago:
The periods one is actually addressed by most creationists. In the book of Genesis, Eve (and consequently, all other women) is punished with the pain of childbirth for falling for the lies of the Serpent, and so most creationists view periods as part of that curse. Pretty messed up but that’s how they see it. The vagus nerve is completely nonsensical under intelligent design but makes complete sense under evolution. The biggest issue I see is why TF God made everything in the universe look exactly like it’s way older than it is. The best argument I can come up with is that it was an epic prank to totally own the libs who find all of this stuff 6,000 years later. Like God is like “Hah you just got pranked you stupid nerd! That’ll teach you to be curious about all the cool shit I made!” To believe in creationism is to believe that a huge swath of scientists across an incredibly broad set of fields are part of the largest conspiracy ever conceived of to try to discredit the Bible, or that God is an evil trickster who intentionally laid this giant trap to damn countless souls to Hell.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 weeks ago:
I’m really glad I didn’t have to see the word cunt here that would have really ruined my day
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 2 weeks ago:
CoNveNiEnCe!!!1!1!1!!
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 2 weeks ago:
Or, if you listen to my parents when I try to tell them how bad things are at my work due to tariff uncertainty that’s all lies and the tariffs are actually amazing for the economy because Trump said so and will simultaneously not happen but will also bring back American jobs. I really don’t understand how the people who raised me have become so stupid. It’s really hard to watch.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Honestly your dad is doing you a favor. Probably going to be awkward but it might get you out of your slump to go on a shitty date and see that it’s not so bad. Or you might hit it off and it will be good. I think you should go. Worst case scenario you have a bad date and a good story out of it.
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 3 weeks ago:
My conspiracy theory is that it’s because they want to scam insurance companies into thinking that these things can replace doctors entirely.
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 3 weeks ago:
Why the hell did they add an LLM aspect to this? I am legitimately confused. ML powered diagnostic tools have existed for decades at this point and were quite fine. The only thing an LLM adds is uncertainty, unless your goal is to scam people into thinking this thing can replace doctors entirely, which is definitely possible. I could imagine insurers demanding that hospitals only use cheap AI assistants rather than real doctors because they’re cheaper, regardless of whether or not they are actually accurate.
- Comment on Humble Choice this month contains Persona 5 Royal, My Time at Sandrock, Lil Gator Game, more 3 weeks ago:
I got Persona 5 Royale in the Steam Summer Sale this year and I’ve been obsessed. I wanted to play Persona 4 when it came out but I was a teenager and didn’t have any realistic way to get ahold of it, and then I was just super busy when Persona 5 came out but it is truly an amazing game. It definitely takes some getting used to and I would definitely not recommend to someone who isn’t already a fan of JRPGs or anime but if you do like JRPGs and are okay with an anime aesthetic it doesn’t really get much better than this. I knew basically nothing about Persona going in other than that it’s about teens with JoJo-style Stands and it has a cool art style with interesting character designs, and I was pleasantly surprised at every turn. My only complaint is that the combat is really more about style than difficulty and the game is sort of easy even on hard mode. Definitely worth it for $15 even on its own.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t actually the problem. In natural conversation I would say the most likely response to someone saying they need some meth to make it through their work day (actual scenario in this article) is to say “what the fuck dude no” but LLMs don’t use just the statistically most likely response. Ever notice how ChatGPT has a seeming sense of “self” that it is an to LLM and you are not? If it were only using the most likely response from natural language, it would talk as if it were human, because that’s how humans talk. Early LLMs did this, and people found it disturbing. There is a second part of the process that gives a score to each response based on how likely it is to be voted good or bad and this is reinforced by people providing feedback. This second part is how we got here, because people who make LLMs are selling competing products and found people are much more likely to buy LLMs that act like super agreeable sycophants than LLMs that don’t do this. Therefore, they have intentionally tuned their models to prefer agreeable, sycophantic responses because it helps them be more popular. This is why an LLM tells you to use a little meth to get you through a tough day at work if you tell it that’s what you need to do.
TL;DR- as with most of the things people complain about with AI, the problem isn’t the technology, it’s capitalism. This is done intentionally in search of profits.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
The full article is kind of low quality but the tl;dr is that they did a test pretending to be a taxi driver who felt he needed meth to stay awake and llama (Facebook’s LLM) agreed with him instead of pushing back. I did my own test with ChatGPT after reading it and found that I could get ChatGPT to agree that I was God and that I created the universe in only 5 messages. Fundamentally these things are just programmed to agree with you and that is really dangerous for people who have mental health problems and have been told that these are impartial computers.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
It’s all spelled phonetically. Zucchini, potatoes ('taters), tomatoes ('maters), jalapeno peppers
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 5 weeks ago:
What I don’t understand is that there are ways to prevent kids from looking at porn that don’t rely on crazy shit like this, even if they do involve some government action. Having to send a picture of your face to a porn provider to view porn is the dumbest possible way to fix this. I suspect the real reason for all of this is people want to effectively ban porn altogether and dumb fucks are letting them.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
This is a very obvious trick from the right.
“Kill all pedophiles!”
Yeah most people will say pedophiles are really bad and nobody wants to defend them, so they’ll either agree or let it slide. However, they’re not anticipating the next part
“All trans people are pedophiles!”
“All gay people are pedophiles!”
“All immigrants are pedophiles!”
Once you define a group of people as being subhuman and unworthy of human rights, then there is a strong motivation to expand the definition of that group to include more people that a lot of people don’t like and won’t stick their neck out to support for fear of getting labeled as part of that group and oppressed like them. The circle then just keeps growing as the machine needs more people in the outgroup to oppose. If there is broad consensus that pedophiles (or people who commit any type of crime) are a danger so foul that the people who might commit said crime should be summarily executed to subjected to torture, then oppressed minority groups will just be identified with said crime. Think about how panic about urban theft and murder was used to advance policies that harm racial minorities in the late 20th century, and how panic about “bolshevism” was a major driving force of the Holocaust. Nothing good comes from this path.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 5 weeks ago:
Not even then, long term. Birth rates in China and Japan are really bad in part because of toxic work cultures like this. If you spend all your waking hours at work you can’t go out and meet a partner to start a family with. It’s just a practical problem. If you’re at work 12 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day you have 1-2 hours in the morning to get ready and go to work and 1-3 hours at night to go home and get ready for bed. You do get a day off, but you’re probably so exhausted on that day off you don’t want to go anywhere. There is simply no time to go meet a romantic partner if you’re working that much.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 5 weeks ago:
What I think is funny is that Japan’s GDP per capita is less than half of that of the US, and Japanese productivity per work hour is also less than half of the US. In other words, Japanese business culture is all smoke and mirrors- it’s everyone performing for each other to appear to be working harder than everyone else but they’re actually less effective at generating economic growth than countries that don’t have this kind of work culture. This shit doesn’t work- we have data showing it doesn’t. Bosses like it because they’re obsessed with the appearance of productivity rather than the real thing because in spite of what all the data says, it feels like having half the workers work double the amount of time will let you get the same amount of stuff done even when that isn’t what the data says.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 5 weeks ago:
The eternals
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 1 month ago:
2 seconds of googling show this building was designed a decade before that movie came out
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone 1 month ago:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 month ago:
I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it’s no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated “artwork.” IMO it’s no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren’t just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn’t capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 month ago:
I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it’s no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated “artwork.” IMO it’s no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren’t just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn’t capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 1 month ago:
I mean it’s simple math. Would you rather make more money or less money if you’re the business owner? It’s not good, but it’s easily explainable.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 1 month ago:
I mean from a business standpoint it makes sense. You make more money selling 5 hamburgers at $21 a piece than you do selling 10 at $10 a piece, as long as costs are similar. Having fewer users you’re making more money from can make sense.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 1 month ago:
Didn’t Elon make likes private after he liked pics of her?
- Comment on If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation 1 month ago:
Modern Judaism doesn’t really have this kind of view of the end of the world at all.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 1 month ago:
This is the shit I come to Lemmy for. This is the real internet I love not censored corporate bullshit.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this is a pretty common occurrence. There was a big furor about it about a decade ago with a social media fad called the “hot car challenge” where adults would sit in hot cars turned off in the sun to see how long they could last in them ostensibly to build awareness of the problem, and there were all sorts of helpful tips and design changes made to cars and phones to try to make it more difficult to forget your kids in hot cars. Myself I wonder if any of it had any actual impact because surely the sort of people who leave their kids in hot cars aren’t the smartest and probably don’t keep up with safety PSAs about the issue.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this is a pretty common occurrence. There was a big furor about it about a decade ago with a social media fad called the “hot car challenge” where adults would sit in hot cars turned off in the sun to see how long they could last in them ostensibly to build awareness of the problem, and there were all sorts of helpful tips and design changes made to cars and phones to try to make it more difficult to forget your kids in hot cars. Myself I wonder if any of it had any actual impact because surely the sort of people who leave their kids in hot cars aren’t the smartest and probably don’t keep up with safety PSAs about the issue.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
Amazon price mysteriously $7 higher
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 1 month ago:
Imagine draggin’ deez nuts on your face
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 month ago:
This happens to most things I like. I really liked JoJo’s Bizarre adventure when the anime was first coming out and I read all the manga and then when part 3 got super popular the fandom became completely insufferable to the point where I was stopped recommending the show or keeping up with any updates. I have also been really into AI/language models/machine image generation for years before ChatGPT exploded and now “being into AI” usually means “Exporting rational thought to a chatbot.” I also feel like reddit is like this.