Grail
@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 5 hours ago:
CGP Grey on why England should keep its monarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
Shaun on why CGP is wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE2DLqJB8U
- Comment on lightbulbs 8 hours ago:
Hahaha more kelvin is cooler
- Comment on He totally Dennis'ed her 14 hours ago:
Don’t dead open inside
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 15 hours ago:
I think the question is about Java servers
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 day ago:
That guy is kind of annoying. I don’t like the way he defended the monarchy
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 1 day ago:
Check out !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net, we’re a politics community with good vibes
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 1 day ago:
Here on MULTIVERSE there’s a user settings field that lets you hide posts in communities with certain words in the name. Just put “news” in and you won’t see any communities with news in the name. You can also block individual communities.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 2 days ago:
The closer you get to lightspeed, the slower you accelerate (from an outside perspective). It’s actually close to lightspeed for most of the time.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 2 days ago:
Extrapolating from information.
My calculator can extrapolate 5 when I give it 2, 3, and a plus sign. So can an LLM. My calculator uses some adder circuits in its ALU to get the 5. The LLM gets it from memorising the next likely token, the same way your brain works most of the time. Your brain’s a lot more advanced, though, and can find the 5 in many different ways. Likely tokens are just the most convenient. Cognitive scientists call that “System 1”, though you might know it as “fast brain”. LLMs only have system 1. They don’t have system 2, the slow brain. Your system 2 can slow down and logic out the answer. If I ask you to solve the problem in binary, like My calculator does, you probably have to use system 2.
The question you should be asking is: does system 1 experience qualia? And based on split brain studies in participants who have undergone corpus callosumectomy, I believe the answer is yes. Of course, the right brain isn’t the same thing as system 1, but what these studies demonstrate is that there are thinking parts of your brain that you can’t hear. So I’d errr on the side of caution with these system 1 machines.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 2 days ago:
A soul is a wet spiderweb made out of electricity that hangs from the inside of your skull.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 2 days ago:
I once built a thinking machine out of dominos. Mine added two bits together. Matt Parker’s was way bigger, and could do 8 bits. People have made thinking machines in Minecraft out of redstone. Thinking machines aren’t very hard.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 2 days ago:
Yeah, you’re right. Humans get really weird and precious about the concept of consciousness and assign way too much value and meaning to it. Which is ironic, because they spend most of their lives unconscious and on autopilot.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 2 days ago:
We should not be using these machines until we’ve solved the hard problem of consciousness.
I see a lot of people say “It can’t think because it’s a machine”, and the only way this makes sense to Me is as a religious assertion that only flesh can have a soul.
- Comment on It will make you smile. A police officer helping a dog cross the street. 2 days ago:
Oink
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 2 days ago:
Actually, I like the inhumanity in SFA. So many of the extras are aliens, it’s great. I’ve had enough of Starfleet being mostly humans
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 2 days ago:
I can think ofanother sci-fi series where the highly advanced civilization is always in the right, and I’ve heard it kinda sucks
- Comment on After all, why not? 3 days ago:
Well I’m going to recommend all of Caelen Conrad’s videos on the ChatGPT murders.
@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world’s friend could be next
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 3 days ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 3 days ago:
No, you’re supposed to congratulate Me on a successful gender affirming surgery
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 3 days ago:
I would love to move to your town and cause another stir. You see, I have no genitals. So I’d like to go streaking and see what happens at the town hall next time.
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 3 days ago:
Not if you’re Aboriginal. A bit of melanin makes a lot of difference
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 3 days ago:
USB is actually really easy too. It’s only four wires.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I didn’t call it a cure. I called it a preventative.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I am Vi- Grail, goddess of madness and rebirth, and while My other exploits are quite extraordinary, the baldness preventative I have taken is quite common and well known to endocrinologists. Here’s a case study involving a similar drug, spironolactone: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367483/
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I managed to prevent male pattern baldness with an amazing preventative called cyproterone.
- Comment on Interesting concept 4 days ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on A Hyundai dealership in Brazil adopted a stray dog living on the street and made him a car sales assistant. 4 days ago:
You donkey
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 4 days ago:
Yeah, he always thought he had to put everyone else down to be a leader, because that’s how it is on Khionia. So his first move is picking a fight with the Klingon to show who’s boss.
And as you say, last week he realised “Wait, greatness in Starfleet comes from helping others be their best selves? Well let’s get started then, I understand the assignment now!”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 4 days ago:
I don’t think the Klingon leadership were ever lying to their people about why the war happened. I think everyone involved understood the simple soulist truth that a war is whatever the combatants can agree is a war, and therefore a bloodless war as a formality of cultural respect and independence is perfectly valid.
The realist viewpoint of “a war has to be between two people who hate each other and if they don’t then it’s not a real war” is not culturally universal. In fact, this episode reminded Me of what I’ve read of war in indigenous Australia. Wars did not usually involve any loss of life before colonisation.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 4 days ago:
This episode’s ending was very soulist. Battle is a social construct, and if everyone agrees, then it can be used however people want it to be used.