MajorasTerribleFate
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- Comment on Michael 5 hours ago:
(tongue-in-cheeck devil’s advocate)
And everyone knows the best way to do things is never change them. Like music, and bigoted voting rights.
- Comment on Michael 5 hours ago:
Gymer Bro Michael
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 days ago:
I, too, am speaking tongue-in-cheek.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 4 days ago:
So you’re saying that 2 protons closer than 15 cm would collapse into a black hole? That’s got me pretty worried, because I have a lot more than 2 protons within that proximity in my body, by at least an order of magnitude or so
- Comment on Scientific explanation 4 days ago:
Hawking radiation
- Comment on You're so predictable 4 days ago:
I bet you’re from the kind of place that has the head of state and head of government be the same person. I mean, I am too, but I bet you also are.
- Comment on Restroom Location 6 days ago:
Do you have literally anything to lend credence to this claim?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
I mean, not really. He knows analog clocks well enough that the hand position just inherently means something to him. Afternoon, and the little hand is almost halfway? Work day done! Just by position.
Somewhat analagous: I know how far a meter and a kilometer are, in principle, but when I consider distances I more intuitively understand them in feet and miles. It’s what I’m used to.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
I know a Gen X guy who “hates” digital clocks because “they don’t have hands to tell me what time it is.”
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity, I asked Google Gemini if I should use AI more. It said:
The short answer is: yes, you should explore using AI more, but you should do so strategically and thoughtfully.
Which, of course, still favors using AI more without necessarily knowing much about my current use. At least this answer suggested careful and deliberate use rather than wanton.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 weeks ago:
It would make some sense that RFK Jr’s FDA would, by accidentally omission or otherwise, end up recommending heroin.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 weeks ago:
Screenshot of the free part of the article:
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Taxes and nature 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Yes and no. Nothing that we know about the universe preclude it being a simulation, so learning only that it is a simulation is more expanding out fundamental understanding of the universe. However, as things stand, we are pretty damn convinced that nothing violates causality while following the internal rules of the universe, so if the genie did that without invoking some power we might call “outside the universe”, then we learn that the universe can internally violate causality - THAT might destroy our fundamental understanding of the universe.
- Comment on just one more bro 3 weeks ago:
Potentially. Douglas Adam’s imagined a lot of weird shit, and was also good at combining words in ways that drove imagination in the readers even if he didn’t have any specific thing in mind when written.
His words here could be taken to mean “God” didn’t want to be known/understood, like the Tower of Babel.
Unrelated to the previous, the Elder Scrolls mythos contains a sort of transcendence concept called CHIM, which involves coming to fully understand reality and the person’s relationship to it. Since that reality is, according to at least some, a dream, that means accepting that you are just a part of a dream. Managing to fundamentally internalize that without winking out of existence is apparently extraordinarily difficult. All that to say, perhaps a similar mechanic could drive the “dream” to reset itself, or start anew.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
tl;dr: Gandhi in Civ V had the capability of going crazy nuclear, and apparently there wasn’t really a bug in any earlier games about this. Sid Meyer says such a bug wouldn’t even have been possible. Mandela Effect? Groupthink? Mass delusion? Who knows.
- Comment on just one more bro 3 weeks ago:
This assumes the genie doesn’t have access to some weird higher-reality or higher-“dimensional” power. For instance, if the universe is a simulation, then perhaps the genie has access to a console.
- Comment on just one more bro 3 weeks ago:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams
- Comment on Smöl 3 weeks ago:
“Titin, or, as it is also known, […127 double-spaced pages later…], …”
- Comment on Smöl 3 weeks ago:
That’s, like… half a novel long.
- Comment on soda 3 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s just no way it’s entirely AI, at least. That Coca-Cola logo on the machine, the soda labels on the Coke machine… the odds that AI would get all that right are so low. I’m not speaking to any other aspect, because I didn’t spend a lot of time studying the whole image.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Re: inflation, growth in pure gross/intake has to increase to match the currency devaluation, and that can mostly be done by adjusting your prices in line with inflation. Employee count, market shares etc. can all hold steady, all else being equal.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 3 weeks ago:
Niece playes Smash. Calls DK “Donkey Donk”. I corrected her for awhile, then I decided her way was really better.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 3 weeks ago:
Correlation correlates to causation, but doesn’t cause it.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 4 weeks ago:
I love the one response I saw, “wouldn’t that make Katie Miller a sexual bull?” Because there are so many different ways to take it from there, and many don’t paint Stephen Miller in the lights he’d rather be seen publicly.
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
One interesting consequence of the rise of AI is that fools place them in higher and higher positions of information parsing and decision-making, it will be the AI marketers will have to bullshit, and depending on how decent that AI ends up being, this could be quite difficult.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 1 month ago:
Im not a Bible scholar. I have always taken the distinction between abolish and fulfill here to be, I’m not here to say the old law was wrong and so let’s get rid of it, I’m here to say we have completed the period of time for which the old law was right, and we have a new way going forward for this new time.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Maybe not anymore.
