Perspectivist
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 day ago:
It’s like any other tool; it requires an user who knows how to use it and what the limitations are. It’s not as competent as Sam Altman wants you to believe but it’s not as incompetent as the haters wants you to believe either.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s called a rage bait - and it’s working.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
True! Then instead of spilling my coffee on the counter I could spill it on the counter instead.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
The best coffee I’ve ever drank was from Aeropress but honestly, if you use freshly ground beans on a Moccamaster they’re quite difficult to tell apart.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
It’s not to protect it from cracking - it’s to stop the leftover coffee from burning onto it, since I only rinse it after use.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
I don’t waste good coffee.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
It’s intentional. Leaves an air gap between the pot and the hotplate.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
When I make coffee just for myself, I always measure out the same amount of water and this never happens. But my SO is slightly less autistic about it than I am and makes inconsistent amounts when brewing for the two of us - and I just can’t stand the thought of pouring even a drop of coffee down the drain. So, I spill it on the table and floor instead.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
I live in a small granny cottage and “my desk” means the kitchen table 2.5 meters away. I technically could move it to my desk and it would still remain in the kitchen.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
Or maybe I just need to start drinking straight from the jug.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
Moccamaster is relatively popular brand where I live. Most people know about it. It always boggles my mind when I see a middle class family with a 35€ coffee maker. Why cheap out on something you’re using multiple times a day for the rest of your life? These things are not that expensive and spare parts are widely available.
- Comment on YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change 1 week ago:
I mean, honestly this is one of the better uses for machine learning. Not that this age checking is a good thing but if you’re going to do it on a mass scale then this seems like the right approach. I imagine that especially for a relatively heavy user this is going to be extremely accurate and far better than the alternative of providing a selfie let alone picture of an ID.
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- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
Is “AI slop” synonymous with AI content in general? I’ve always thought it to mean bad AI content specifically.
I don’t consider myself neurotypical yet I see our current AI progress as net-positive. I don’t like AI slop either in the sense that I understand the term but I’ve encountered a lot of good AI generated content.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Looking back, I realize I was pretty immature at 22. It didn’t feel that way at the time, but it sure does now. These days, 18‑year‑olds look like kids to me.
I didn’t want kids back then, and I still don’t - but my perspective has shifted a little. When I see parents now, there’s a slight melancholic feeling that comes with knowing that’s something I’ll probably never experience.
So yeah, if you’re 30 and don’t want kids, that’s probably not going to change. Before that, though, there’s always a chance.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 week ago:
I agree with the sentiment but despite the vast amount of pushback and downvotes I get for voicing certain views it’s extremely rare for me to have my comments removed let alone be banned. Some individual communities might be worse than others and .ml communities you should avoid like the plague anyway but broadly speaking I’d still claim that it’s pretty difficult to get mods to take action against you as long as you’re being polite.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I know what I want for life but I have a number of things I don’t want so I’m trying my best to steer clear of those.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 weeks ago:
I have next to zero urge to “keep up with the news.” I’m under no obligation to know what’s going on in the world at all times. If something is important, I’ll hear about it from somewhere anyway - and if I don’t hear about it, it probably wasn’t that important to begin with.
I’d argue the “optimal” amount of news is whatever’s left after you actively take steps to avoid most of it. Unfiltered news consumption in today’s environment is almost certainly way, way too much.
- Comment on How to make a Lemmy user look like an asshole, in three easy steps 2 weeks ago:
My word filters reliably block 3rd of my front page here. Includes every keyword seen here and much more.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 weeks ago:
If you take that question seriously for a second - AlphaFold doesn’t spew chemicals or drain lakes. It’s a piece of software that runs on GPUs in a data center. The environmental cost is just the electricity it uses during training and prediction.
Now compare that to the way protein structures were solved before: years of wet lab work with X‑ray crystallography or cryo‑EM, running giant instruments, burning through reagents, and literally consuming tons of chemicals and water in the process. AlphaFold collapses that into a few megawatt‑hours of compute and spits out a 3D structure in hours instead of years.
So if the concern is environmental footprint, the AI way is dramatically cleaner than the old human‑only way.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence isn’t designed to maximize human fulfillment. It’s built to minimize human suffering.
What it cannot do is answer the fundamental questions that have always defined human existence: Who am I? Why am I here? What should I do with my finite time on Earth?
Expecting machines to resolve existential questions is like expecting a calculator to write poetry. We’re demanding the wrong function from the right tool.
Pretty weird statements. There’s no such thing as just “AI” - they should be more specific. LLMs aren’t designed to maximize human fulfillment or minimize suffering. They’re designed to generate natural-sounding language. If they’re talking about AGI, then that’s not designed for any one thing - it’s designed for everything.
Comparing AGI to a calculator makes no sense. A calculator is built for a single, narrow task. AGI, by definition, can adapt to any task. If a question has an answer, an AGI has a far better chance of figuring it out than a human - and I’d argue that’s true even if the AGI itself isn’t conscious.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 weeks ago:
It won’t solve anything
Go tell that to AlphaFold which solved a decades‑old problem in biology by predicting protein structures with near lab‑level accuracy. Overnight it gave researchers the 3D shapes of almost every known protein, something humans couldn’t crack, and it’s already speeding up drug discovery and enzyme design.
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 2 weeks ago:
I mean - it’s certainly possible, but you’d still be risking that 500k prize if you got caught.
And most people seem to tap out because of loneliness or starvation, so if you were going to cheat, you’d pretty much have to smuggle in either food or a better way of getting it - like a decent fishing rod and proper lures.
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve put things in my ass for no points. 1000 points sure sounds worth it.
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 2 weeks ago:
They do regular health check-ins with the contestants, and if you’re not losing weight but there’s no footage of you catching food, they’re going to figure out pretty quickly that something’s up.
On top of that, the locations are chosen so that just hiking out to you with food would be a survival challenge in itself - and coming in by boat would almost certainly be noticed.
Interestingly, I’ve just been binge watching the show for the first time. I’m on season 5 currently.
- Comment on How to get a new line in a post, but not two? 2 weeks ago:
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enter. - Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get her logic at all. No amount of mental gymnastics allows me to find anything sexist in that.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 3 weeks ago:
Asking investment advice from a system that’s designed to do nothing else but generate natural sounding language based on probabilities is pretty stupid.
That being said, what’s wrong with this answer? I think it’s more or less a good and balanced take.
Here’s the first half of it that I left out:
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>“AI” as an investment isn’t one thing—it’s more like a category of bets, ranging from hardware to software to services, each with wildly different risk profiles. So the honest answer is: yes, it can be a good investment—but only if you understand what you’re actually investing in. > >Here’s why that nuance matters: > >Buying Nvidia stock in 2019 was a good AI investment. Buying it now, after a 10x run-up? Much less clear—it’s priced as if they’re the sole arms dealer in a forever war. > >OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. aren’t publicly traded, so retail investors can’t buy them directly. Instead, you get exposure via companies like Microsoft, Amazon, or other backers—meaning you’re not really investing in “AI” directly, but as part of a much broader bundle. > >AI startups and ETFs are all over the place—some are thinly veiled hype vehicles chasing trends, while others are building real infrastructure (like vector databases, chip design tools, or specialized AI services). Picking the wrong one is like investing in Pets.com during the dot-com boom—it sounds techy, but the business might be garbage. > >Thematic ETFs like BOTZ or ROBO give you AI exposure but are diluted by their attempt to hedge across subsectors. They tend to underperform when compared to cherry-picking the winners.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 3 weeks ago:
I’m unable to replicate your results. I get a long and nuanced aswer. Mind sharing the answer you got?
When I asked the same thing the conclusion was:
So is AI a good investment? The sector has long-term potential, especially in areas like chip manufacturing, enterprise automation, and maybe foundational model licensing. But it’s also deeply speculative right now, with prices reflecting hype as much as earnings.
If you’re thinking long-term and can stomach volatility, AI is worth including. If you’re chasing short-term returns because you think “AI is the future,” you might be buying someone else’s exit.
- Comment on Forget copyright strikes, a retro gaming YouTuber faces possible jail time for reviewing gaming handhelds 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit sensationalist to say someone “faces possible jail time” just because the maximum sentence for breaking a law is up to three years in prison. Also, he’s not being sued for reviewing handheld gaming devices - it’s about the ones shipped with copyrighted content.
