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- Comment on Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress 1 day ago:
Isn’t that very similar to what TikTok does? Just with a different algorithm and maybe other content than just videos?
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 3 days ago:
It’s like your 5 year old daughter, relaying to you what she made of something she heard earlier.
That’s my analogy. ChatGPT kind of has the intellect and ability to differentiate between facts and fiction of a 5 year old. But it combines that with the writing style of a 40 year old with a uncanny love of mixing adjectives and sounding condescending.
- Comment on Why Are Rap*** & Ped** Protected In Jail? 4 days ago:
So if it’s on camera, I hope they go to jail for that.
- Comment on Why Are Rap*** & Ped** Protected In Jail? 4 days ago:
“Just a few days ago a middle aged women was walking […]”
Wtf? Why didn’t you do something? You should have stepped in or called police!
“protected”
What do you mean by protected? They’re locked away?! What would be your solution? Vigilantism and vendettas?
- Comment on Too late 4 days ago:
Fair enough. Yes, I’d say this is the whole picture.
- Comment on Too late 5 days ago:
Hmm. You kinda get the crown handed to you for doing it. But I get what you’re saying.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
I feel you. I think I experience the same.
I’d say it’s almost summer now, go out and visit some music festivals. That’s a place where I found some inspiration and new (to me) artists.
Also having friends with a similar taste in music helps.
I have a Spotify subscription and that helps me listen to a broad range of music on a whim. But I think the Spotify algorithm isn’t helping me in discovering new artists. I rarely find anything interesting and new that way.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Thanks for broadening my perspective.
- Comment on If a man with multiple personalities becomes suicidal, would it be considered a hostage situation? 6 days ago:
I think I once saw a TV episode exploring that idea. I just can’t remember which series.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Everyone hates that.
- Comment on Speed 6 days ago:
Earth is just spinning at 15 degrees per hour.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 6 days ago:
Idk why the correct answer always attracts several downvites on Lemmy. This is literally it… Money is useful because it can be used as payment, it can be exchanged for goods… The reason why our whole lives revolve around it is because we have shaped society to be that way… We call that capitalism.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 days ago:
Yes, you should ask both stupid and non-stupid questions here. Only thing, it has to be a honest question and abide by the rules… No trolling, flaming or baiting.
- Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality? 1 week ago:
The Chinese internet is consored. And there is a language barrier. So you’re generally not going to read a blog post or independent article 99% of the time someone gets beaten or killed there.
- Comment on Just asking questions 1 week ago:
Ahem, no. Science is a method to find answers with some metholody behind it. Not just any random questions and everything is the same.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Because they’re mostly a group of people filled with hatred. That’s what’s uniting them. And the other side less so, so they don’t act that way.
- Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions? 1 week ago:
With the clicking etc it sounds like a mechanical failure?! A harddrive has several disks "platter"s stackt inside and multiple heads inside. They don’t necessarily all fail at the same time. Also sometimes there are just small areas affected that become inaccessible due to various reasons. They’ll probably grow at some point and you’re bound to loose more data. But if it’s an area of several consequtive blocks, it’ll show when you’re accessing those. And if your partitions and data are arranged serially, the next one might be physically stored where everything is still fine.
- Comment on My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean? 1 week ago:
And the “he’s likely the abusive part” is chinese whispers. He told that to your friend. And maybe heard that from his ex who supposedly heard that from her therapist. That’s a long chain. Could be true. Could be his ex manipulating him or being angry, could be him manipulating your friend. Or a misunderstanding.
- Comment on What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs 1 week ago:
Hmmh. That is about a different author who said that on Instagram. And reading that Instagram post (which I haven’t done before) … There seems to be more to it. Sharing documents with explicit content with multiple people seems to be the issue. And that’d align with my experience. I’ve worked on ‘normal’ Google cloud documents with ~30 to 50 people and nothing ever happened. That could be coincidence but I suppose lots of people do that. Maybe it’s really the combination of the two factors.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say give some guidance and be a good example yourself. Maybe make up some well reasoned rules… McDonalds is okay every now and then if you also eat healthy food every now and then. Make sure he gets some fibers and vitamins and maybe you can get even a small kid to understand that there is a reason behind it. In the end you don’t need to apply force… I’ve seen children grow up on mostly plain noodles, water and a few other things and they turned out alright. But also don’t enable such behaviour. I think there are some rough rules of thumb… Like a kid needs to try something 7 times to like it (at all). Liking food is a lot about what we’re accustomed to, and not just the taste. And the early time in life is important to develop a diverse palette. And the parents are an important role model, so if they don’t have a wide spectrum of food, the kids are also very unlikely to get any different, no matter what you do. I’d say maybe read a book on the subject. This is a farly common problem with children.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 2 weeks ago:
After World War II, the British and the USA under president Truman willed the country of Israel into existence.
- en.wikipedia.org/…/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_…
- en.wikipedia.org/…/Anglo-American_Committee_of_In…
There have been lots of ties between America and Israel and lots of people formerly living in the USA (and/or having fled there) emmigrated to Israel.
Since then the stance hasn’t changed. The two countries have ties, are allied. And that’s the political side. As people pointed out here there are other sides to the story… Religuous beliefs of christians etc… And obviously it’s difficult to resign from a long relationship.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe read something from Jordan Peterson? He’s conservative, against gender politics or modern life. Sells ‘sime truths’ that look well reasoned if you’re not too intelligent. I think he wrote several books and has lots of YouTube videos available.
- Comment on What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs 2 weeks ago:
They’re fairly known to do this. For YouTube creators it’s been this way for years. With nobody at the other side, just AI. Every now and then some YouTuber makes a video how they were able to restore their account against all odds.
And I think there is a general push towards AI powered customer support. I’m afraid in 10 years it’ll be very hard to reach anyone that can help you if it’s not the standard procedure. And it’ll be more a sci-fi dystopia. Wit lots of companies and contracts.
- Comment on What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs 2 weeks ago:
Hmmh. Good reminder not to rely on these cloud services too much. And I mean the terms and services are kinda vague and enforced by a (rogue) AI. She could have stored murder mystery stories to the same effect.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 2 weeks ago:
Simple answer: We don’t have any computer to run that on. While I don’t see any absolute limitations ruling out that approach… The human brain seems to have hundreds or thousands of trillions of connections. With analog electrical impulses and chemistry. That’s still sci-fi and even the largest supercomputers can’t do it as of today. I think scientists already did it for smaller brains like those from flies(?), so the concept should work.
And then there is the question what are you going to do with it. You can’t just kill a human, freeze the brain and then digitize it by looking at a microscope a trillion times. So you have to make it learn from ground up. And this requires toe connection to a body. So you also need to simulate a whole body and the world it’s in on top. To make it learn anything and not just activate random neurons. So that’s going to be sci-fi for the near and mid future.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 weeks ago:
Sure. As long as they grant you the permit, they’ve granted you the right to free speech. And I suppose that’s also why they’re almost never declined.
- Comment on I don't really know how to deal with coworkers who emotionally dump their issues on me 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. I’d say people want recognition. The right wing stuff is testing the waters. The rest wanting to talk. Especially when it’s about health, relationships… Those people just want to talk. With most people you can react accordingly and they’re able to tell from your reaction if you also want to chat and socialize.
Wit the immigrants stuff I found you can tell some people your experience and opinion is different. And that’ll pretty much end that conversation. With some people that doesn’t work at all.
- Comment on How do I deal with billing close relatives from work as an entrepreneur? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. I’d say if they want that feeling so much… Just give it to them. You can still pay taxes and do the accounting correctly and not tell them. This isn’t how it’s supposed to work, but there are lots of other relationships or familied where someone keeps being childish and the other people need to do things behind their back to make things work.
- Comment on What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? 3 weeks ago:
Sounds more like a floppy disk drive to me.
- Comment on Parents with genuinely good looking sons but mostly daughters. How do you make sure they don't build their whole personality around looks? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, teach them what’s important in life? What is shallow and what’s substancial or meaningful… Consequences and how to grow and find your identity and place in the world…