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- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 3 days ago:
Thing is a conscience (and any emotions, and feelings in general) is just chemicals affecting electrical signals in the brain… If a ML model such as an LLM uses parameters to affect electrical signals through its nodes then is it on us to say it can’t have a conscience, or feel happy or sad, or even pain?
Sure the inputs and outputs are different, but when you have “real” inputs it’s possible that the training data for “weather = rain” is more downbeat than “weather = sun” so is it reasonable to say that the model gets depressed when it’s raining?
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
Soon to be frowned upon
Better than illegal, which it currently is
Also nuisance begging is defined as:
begging where it is causing a public nuisance, such as by a cashpoint, in a shop doorway, on public transport, approaching people in their cars at traffic lights, and any broader incidence that cause harassment or distress
I’d personally say that’s ok to try and get people to move along from - it’s completely anecdotal but at least in Central London it’s often the most aggressive beggars who you also see doing hard drugs come night, having honed their techniques after years due to the even higher difficulty of getting out of homelessness while addicted as well as the increased difficulty of building a support structure or getting temporary accommodation while addicted. That means just enforcing this law would do little other than probably increase pickpocketing, as the government needs to intervene at the root cause rather than symptoms, however it’s still generally not people who are being honest who are doing what is defined here as nuisance begging so even if support structures were in place it should be a crime, while begging and sleeping rough aren’t.
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 5 days ago:
I’m saying that the government led organisation will have had a negligible impact compared to regular people, therefore the levels of organisation (ie people publicly saying “I’m going to vote for x/y to show my support” and other people seeing that and thinking it’s a good idea) aren’t that big of a deal.
Also I think it’d be incredibly shocking if the EBU or at least individual broadcasters don’t already have requirements for tackling vote manipulation from suspicious/newly registered phones and especially voip services so a state organised campaign would have even less of an impact
I also see your source on the organisation is twitter (and I can’t even find the tweets there), so I’m inclined to doubt it’s true given nobody’s even reported on it, never mind people coming out and saying it’s happened despite the number of people in multiple countries who would be required to be sworn to secrecy to get something like that to work
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 5 days ago:
I think you’re attributing more to organisation than is deserved
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 5 days ago:
And there was an “organised plan” for Ukraine in 2022 insofar as people decided to vote for them regardless of their performance, which the few people who supported Russia in the conflict were probably pretty mad at, but couldn’t do anything to stop, just as people who support Palestine can’t do anything to stop Israel supporters here.
The reason Israel didn’t win is they have fewer supporters, but how Palestine’s supporters and frankly neutrals also are feeling is how Russia’s supporters and the smaller number of neutrals there felt… It’s impossible to keep politics out of this and it’s just a shame really
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 5 days ago:
Not voting for Israel wasn’t going to have an impact if you weren’t voting for them anyway, however people who support Israel in the conflict voting for them will have an effect that there’s very little you can do to stop. You don’t think Russia would have had voting farms to stop Ukraine if it was possible? That’s why they got so many votes - if they have 15% support, then they’ll get that 15% of votes which is a significant number.
- Comment on The power of AI 1 week ago:
At least it makes educated guesses rather than just flipping a coin as to whether to include a paragraph or not like that bot does
- Comment on Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful? 1 week ago:
The reason networks are all shutting down 3G is because very few people use it anymore, which means the 3G bandwidth is split between 10s of people whereas the 4G is split between 10s of thousands, as is 5G
250Mb/s among 10 people is 25Mb/s for each person, 10Gb/s among 10,000 people is 1Mb/s for each person (made up numbers and it’s a bit more complex than this, but it demonstrates the point), so even though the 5G & 4G are capable of transmitting more data, per person they’re not.
If you repurpose the 3G tower as 4G or 5G you can cut that 10,000 in half, which annoyingly gets rid of the hack to use 3G when it’s being slow, but does improve the speed for most people
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
It’s actually from a failed cloning where the DNA from Hulk Hogan got mixed with Trevor Phillips from GTA V’s
- Comment on Careful mate... That foreignor wants your memes! 1 week ago:
He’s not wrong in that the foreigner wants cookies from any source, but he’s not being truthful in that he’s misrepresenting the situation by implying the only cookie that can bw given away is the worker’s
- Comment on HAHA YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A BEAR ? IT WAS ME THE WHOLE TIME!! 1 week ago:
Is that the bear from hexbear?
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 1 week ago:
I heard he was rebuilt after a long and arduous war on the planet Kopirite
- Comment on Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' 1 week ago:
He was anti-zionist sure, but he also openly associated with and supported groups that go beyond anti-zionism into full blown anti-semitism and, despite plenty of prompting, continuously maintained that there was no issue with this.
There’s inferences made there, sure, but it’s very easy to say “I generally support X but they take Y too far” - even the current government is doing it when supporting Israel, but also making (hollow) statements that they should be more careful not to attack civilians as it’s clearly not right, but they still want to support their allies. Corbyn could’ve made similar statements, but he didn’t, either meaning that he didn’t see anything wrong with the anti-semitism or he thought that them also being anti-zionist excused it, neither of which are a good look.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 2 weeks ago:
Ah I got thrown off by it being a US unit as I know in the US for some braindead reason they call a pint a “half quart(er gallon)” so I was thinking 1.136 litres, but yeah the US decided to not even use the same imperial units as anywhere else which still used them at the time just to be extra special (and scam people into thinking they were getting more than they wore, which sets the tone for the US I guess)
- Comment on Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks 3 weeks ago:
Wow I was certain it’d be United Utilities and Thames Water, but I guess it is a top 3 shitshow club rather than a top 2
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
I think yellow is actually fine - a lick is 3 seconds of contact maximum and you’re not sucking on it or ingesting it…
Sodium’s the only one you’ll ingest decent quantities of and it’s just gonna taste fizzy and soapy with no real lasting damage, stuff like lead you won’t even ingest and even if you did it’d probably be fine in such low quantities, even mercury is probably ok to lick if you’re careful
That said, with the radioactive ones you need to be careful of what isotope and sample size you’re licking, so licking a huge ingot of U238 would probably do some lasting damage just by being near it, but licking a small piece of U235 is more than likely fine so long as it’s solid and not dust
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 4 weeks ago:
Idk it depends, I got billed close to 1000€ by German healthcare after damaging a ligament despite me having a valid EHIC because “you’re not a German resident so you have to pay”, it took forever dealing with my own healthcare system who refunded me and I assume chased it up with your system, but still they’re a bunch of scammers
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
There can be stable timelines with time travel - there’s actually 3 states:
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Perpetual instability, where the timeline changes each time the time machine is used but never reaches the same state twice
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Perpetual cyclic stability, where people’s actions in modifying the timeline lead to it eventually reaching the same state, eg. you go back in time to kill someone who becomes evil and oppresses you but the near death experience leads them capture you, so you can’t time travel any more, and to blame your people and start oppressing them, leading to the same actions
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Stability without time travel, which is the default state but incredibly hard to get once time travel is invented as with nobody to stop time travel being invented it would probably get invented again, however parts of a cyclically stable timeline could have nobody having access to time travel, but any actions by time travellers to stop time travel would likely lead to the second rather than third option
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- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
Yeah in 1200-1300 not 700AD, but there is some evidence of eariler voyages to South America and Antarctica
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
Except Mali and China’s crossing is pure fiction and Polynesia’s is plausible but missing a lot of evidence you’d expect to find
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 5 weeks ago:
Of course they are, they’re scared they’re even losing the vote of the “kids these days…” tory core so they’re thrashing about like a fish out of water trying desperately to not lose them… There’s been stories like this for months now and very little to come from most of them
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
That’s a human action anyway though… Not a “it’s been a while since you opened our app time to drag you back” notification
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
If they’re middle names for Sigurd then frankly who cares, it’s a cool name… Two middle names is common and so one more isn’t exactly going overboard
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 1 month ago:
50 to your destination vs 80
I think I’d rather take 50 actually
- Comment on fossils 1 month ago:
And birds and dinos are crocs (unlike most other reptiles)
- Comment on democracy in Russia 1 month ago:
From speaking to Russians the overwhelming majority of people, especially in rural areas but also to a great extent in cities, probably correctly believe that elections are a waste of time because they’re not going to change the status quo or I guess if someone else is elected create a power struggle, so people just vote for the incumbent as they don’t want to cause trouble - the national attitude is “there’s nothing you can do about it”
While that’s very different from supporting Putin, it’s still intending to vote for him from a pollster’s point of view, so even in third party polls his “support” is going to appear higher than it is as they’re not measuring that, they’re measuring number of votes
- Comment on Malaria 2 months ago:
Issue is if he’s paying himself with the charity’s money he’d have to pay tax on that, and if he wrote that off with a donation and paid himself again then it’d reset the loop - there’s no loophole there, literally, as it’d be an endless closed loop of transferring money.
Given the best interests of the US government are destabilising other countries and supporting unfair healthcare companies, given what is known about Bill Gates’ charity spending I think a higher proportion actually goes to the betterment of society than would if it went to the US government
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 2 months ago:
Yeah, the opening weekend I think is an indication of how good your marketing was, and sustained performance is an indication of how good the actual film is
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 2 months ago:
You don’t see it again and again but you usually recommend it to other friends so they go see it with their other friends?
- Comment on STEM 2 months ago:
That’s when considering the slits as a lens though, which they will act as at any diameter however there’s going to be a width at which the angle of approach and wavelength of the light are insignificant enough that you practically can’t tell that the slits were even there right?