Iconoclast
@Iconoclast@feddit.uk
- Comment on User destroys local habitat so they can walk barefoot beside "their" lake 8 hours ago:
Why wouldn’t this be safe? If left unmaintained nature will reclaim this in few years.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 9 hours ago:
The difference is intentions. The intentions of a terrorist attack is to cause terror in the civilian population.
- Comment on User destroys local habitat so they can walk barefoot beside "their" lake 9 hours ago:
Boo-fucking-hoo. There’s tens of thousands of kilometers of overgrown shoreline like that in Finland.
Recreational outrage.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 22 hours ago:
I don’t think it matters. The rest of the world has already learned that the US can only be trusted for four years at a time at best.
It’s not like people are going to start trusting Russia either once Putin is gone.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 2 days ago:
Why? What difference does it make if they’re talking to someone face to face compared to it being via video call?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That doesn’t answer the question “what is intelligence” no more than a thermometer explains what is heat energy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
you low IQ low T soy boy
I wasn’t expecting you to start insulting me over a disagreement. You could’ve made your point without going there. I genuinely have no idea what you hoped to achieve with that.
- Comment on If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you? 1 week ago:
Not really for as long as people engaging in the comments were real people. Though, then again, if they all were bots too but I didn’t know and couldn’t tell, then I’m not sure what the harm there even would be. If anything, I’d only expect the engagement to be more civil.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Take the test on a different day, or sleep more beforehand, or do a different test, and your IQ will change.
Not as much as people think. We’re talking around 5 points of difference - 10 at max. Broadly speaking, the results of a well-designed test are highly consistent over a long period of time as long as it’s measured under similar conditions. It’s among the most repeatable tests in all of psychology.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
IQ doesn’t measure intelligence
We don’t even have agreed upon definition for intelligence so that seems like a weird claim to make.
- The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
- the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
- the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
- the act of understanding
- the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
- It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
IQ tests are one of the most well-validated and predictive tools in all of psychology for measuring general cognitive ability, and they predict important life outcomes better than almost anything else in psychology. Feeling discomfort about the results doesn’t invalidate the test itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t pretend to know what they’re up to - I can’t read minds. I’m just pointing out that it seems suspect. You’re free to draw your own conclusions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Mostly normal people just like you and me who simply grew up in different environments, had different experiences, and came to different conclusions about what the problems are and how to solve them. Like most people, they generally want safety, economic security, and a decent life for them and their families. Dismissing them as stupid is usually just a way of avoiding having to understand why they see things differently.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Here’s the post they just deleted. 3 month old account, 20 comments, 1300 posts and virtually every single one about the US.
They believe more guns means less gun violence
They think iOS is far superior to Android.
They require a super-majority in Congress to vote any law. They called this system the Fillibuster. This basically means that it’s impossible to vote anything at all. In Canada, you just need a majority of parliament to pass a law. Legalize abortion ? Simple majority. In the US, you need a super-majority. Why? Who came up with this stupid shit?
Why do americans have more constitutional lawyers than any other country? Why do americans say “It’s against the constitution” everytime something happens they don’t like? When a city reduces speed limits, a typical american answer in the comment section is “This is anti-constitutional”. What the fuck do speed limits have to do with the constitution?!!
Their politicians brag about sending billions of dollars of Israel every year. Supporting Israel is one thing. But this is an entirely different matter. How can politicians openly brag about giving money to a high-income foreign country?
They elected a felon who is enriching his family. He just told them “On day 1, I will fix all wars and all problems. Everything will be fine”. Why did they trust him?
What’s wrong with americans? Some of them are exceptionally smart, but they are the tiny minority. It seems that on average, they are dumber than the Chinese or Europeans.
- Comment on Why can’t we swap our minds today? 1 week ago:
Brain transplant is one of the rare occasions where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.
- Comment on Blocking 1 week ago:
If the title has a repeating word you can use that for keyword blocking with uBlock Origin, though last time I checked it applies to usernames as well. This this wont block their comments but will block all posts from them.
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/keyword/i))Just make sure to switch in your own instance.
- Comment on Are Lemmy and Mbin the same instance? 1 week ago:
There’s isn’t really such a place as “Lemmy.” Lemmy is like Email - you don’t have an email account, you have a gmail, outlook or protonmail account (in your case lemmy.ca account)
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
Try DayZ instead. You can just shoot them in the leg and leave them be devoured by the zombies.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 2 weeks ago:
No he wasn’t.
Bohemian Grove turned out to be very much a real thing.
You don’t need to like or agree with him, but twisting the reality isn’t helpful. The question wasn’t what you think of him. That’s a subjective question. Whether he was right about anything is an objective one.
Nobody here is defending anything he has said or done so I have no clue where that rambling is coming from.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been here for over 2 years and it still remains unclear to me what the average Lemming stands for, but I sure know what they’re against. It’s just wild to me how much some people seem to build their identity around the things they oppose - that opposition sometimes seems to be the only thing people here have in common with each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
AI isn’t any one thing. It’s an broad term used in computer science to refer to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require human intelligence. The chess opponent on an old Atari console is an AI. It’s an intelligent system - but only narrowly so. That’s called “narrow” or “weak” AI.
It can still have superhuman abilities, but only within the specific task it was built for - like playing chess or generating language.
A large language model like ChatGPT is also narrow AI. It’s exceptionally good at what it was designed to do: generate natural-sounding language. What people expect from it, though, isn’t narrow intelligence - it’s general intelligence. The ability to apply cognitive skills across a wide range of domains the way a human can. That’s something LLMs simply can’t do - at least not yet. Artificial General Intelligence is the end goal for many AI companies, but LLMs are not generally intelligent. However they still fall under the umbrella of AI as a broad category of systems.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s technically possible - and I see no reason why it wouldn’t be - then as long as we keep improving our technology without killing ourselves in the process, it’s only a matter of time. We could get there in a couple of years or it could take a few hundred, but it seems rather inevitable from where I stand.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 weeks ago:
You seem to be writing only one-sentence responses, so I assume that’s how far you read my comment too. You should consider what’s being said by taking in the full context. If you can’t make it beyond the first sentence, then don’t even respond. This grandstanding of yours is completely uncalled for.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 weeks ago:
The way you misunderstand it does.
Not-living 8 hours a day 5 days a week untill you retire sounds deeply problematic to *me. *
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t consider work separate from life. I wasn’t happy in my previous job so I started my own bussiness and now I do what I like to do. I still wouldn’t work if I didn’t have to but because I do, might as well do something that I enjoy and feels meaningful. Admittedly I probably work more hours now than I did before and I took a paycut as well but for as long as it covers my expenses it’s all good. Atleast I don’t need to ask anyone’s permission for… anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Social media isn’t real life. As with many other things, it’s the loud minority online who make it seem like they’re the majority. People who like AI don’t feel the need to declare it online. Neither do the ones with a neutral view on it, but the haters must let everyone else know that they’re on the right side of history and better than everyone else who disagrees with them.
These are usually the kind of people who, when you ask what they’re passionate about, just start listing things they don’t like. Most of Lemmy is like that. There’s very little talk about what people are into, but no shortage of grandstanding on what people oppose.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Get better friends because current ones like AI? You can’t be serious.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 5 weeks ago:
As I said, feel free to disagree but at least disagree with their actual point - not your interpretation of it.
It’s unclear to me what your personal opinion on pickup trucks has to do with any of this. I’m talking about fairly representing people’s views. I don’t know what it is you seem to take issue with.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 5 weeks ago:
Going slow doesn’t make the wheelbase shorter. Forcing people to drive onto the lane of oncoming traffic is bad infrastructure design.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 5 weeks ago:
That’s not what the guy is complaining about. It’s a perfectly valid point that with a longer vehicle you have to cut into the oncoming lane or your rear tires will hit the curb.
Feel free to criticize people you disagree with, but at the very least you should criticize what they’re actually saying rather than your unfair interpretation of it.