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- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 2 days ago:
They can literally not do it…
Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I understand why so many people keep telling you specifically not to go to college now at least
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What?
, just go into the trades instead.” This view seems increasingly common, and it’s worrying. There’s a trend of glorifying blue-collar work while demeaning white-collar paths, as if pursuing higher education is somehow less valid. Young people should be encouraged to reach for higher education and intellectual growth, not steered toward careers that can wreck their bodies with manual labor.
It sounds like you’re upset that some people are saying you should go to school for something that will have available jobs…
By all means, if you want to be an unemployed coder, go into coding.
- Comment on Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. 4 days ago:
They’re not “triggered” they’re pissed their doctor is offloading work to a chatbot and violating HIPAA because the chatbot retains everything you type into it for future training.
If shrinks are using chat it’s to do their work and not disclosing to patients and getting their consent…
That’s a huge liability in multiple legal aspects
- Comment on Do I fit into any subculture? (I'm from the UK if that helps) 5 days ago:
They just want a label they can claim.
They’re not asking for a subculture, they’re asking for a descriptor to feel unique.
Typical teenager stuff
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 6 days ago:
How would they not be aware when they clearly banned them already?
And how did you not realize it’s one automated bot that made thousands of comments in one thread?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
Yeah. But the moles still get whacked…
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
I mean, kind of…
That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition.
The laws are written for capitalism. Not an open source code base that lets literally anyone create an instance of their own.
So “Mastodon” might have lawyers and shit, but a tiny instance with 100 people would just get shut down, or maybe even charges.
It sounded great at first, till I got to the part they were just passing the buck to smaller instances.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 1 week ago:
As a neurodivergent
Fucking everyone is “neurodivergent” because there’s thousands of places to diverge in hundreds of different ways
Is someone was “typical” in every single aspect, just smack dab in the middle average, they would be the most statistically unique person on the planet.
“typical” isn’t even always best, it’s literally just the range of average most people fall into.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 1 week ago:
And if i could i would select the physically attractive ones so that all people can have a girlfriend.
No wonder you said this goes sideways every time you try to talk about it…
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 1 week ago:
Because it’s almost always just done on a racial bias and not something voluntary targeted at eliminating genetic diseases.
Even then, a lot of that stuff has a racial lean. Things like Sickle cell may be a huge advantage in places with malaria, but a negative everywhere else.
There’s 100% some generic issues with no positive tradeoffs, but any system that would incentives them from not reproducing and passing on those genes would just be too open to corruption.
The risk/reward just isn’t worth it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If everyone stopped walking on pavement, we’d have no greenery, just mud.
It’s an incredibly self centered world view to advocate for this being widespread, even just doing it yourself.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 2 weeks ago:
The author picked a clan that’s all about brute force…
Then complains the game was about brute force except for the parts where you play a vampire from another clan.
I don’t even know much about WoD, but I know he picked the most boring clan and then complained it was boring action.
The reactions to what clan you pick is where the RPG parts seem to come in from other reviews I’ve read.
It’s not like it’ll be a perfect game, but I feel like whoever wrote the review didn’t really get the game.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of a shitty job, so lots of people sign up, do it a very short time, and quit
Sometimes they sell the account, sometimes it gets hacked.
But it’s a way for people who shouldn’t be able to deliver for whatever reason, are able to deliver.
- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 3 weeks ago:
It got it’s initial funding from people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel…
Of course it’s run by pieces of shit
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 3 weeks ago:
They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…
That’s not how any of this works, but they’ve been saying “we’ll be there soon” for so long now that we’re almost able to do it, their gonna lose their main excuse and main reason for fundraising.
They’ll have to tell investors the timeline just changed from years to maybe decades if we’re lucky
And it’s gonna divebomb our whole economy because fucking every fund manager is dumping insane levels of money into it.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 weeks ago:
If you were nicer, people would stick around longer and try to help you underthings…
You get that?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 weeks ago:
An Ontario film distributor has alleged that the shootings are linked to an intimidation campaign by other film distributors to prevent popular South Indian movies from appearing in large chains.
Guy who distributes Indian movies claims attacks on random movie theaters are to prevent his movies from being watched…
I didn’t search very hard, but I can’t find a single other source for that being a thing.
Even if it was, that’s basically the opposite of a protection racket. You get that right?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah.
If you pay protection, it’s because the payment is less than random thefts would be.
The gang you pay, is supposed to be scary enough that random crime doesn’t happen in “their” areas.
So you getting robbed, is an insult to their reputation. And to regain that rep, they find the idiots who robbed a store under their protection.
Now, whether or not you see any of that money back isn’t really for sure. Because what matter is the reputation among the criminal underground.
But the whole process is outdated, I’d be surprised if it’s still happening large scale. Most likely only for businesses who are already breaking the law, this couldn’t contact cops anyways.
Like a methlab.
You can’t call the cops even if you know who robbed the methlab. So if you don’t have muscle. You pay for protection
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 3 weeks ago:
A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.
No.
What we learned from those experiments was that if we don’t know a reason for why we did something, we’d invent and whole heartedly believe the first plausible explanation we come up with.
I didn’t read any further because you had a fundamental misunderstanding about what those studies actually proved
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 3 weeks ago:
Why would an AI system provide such confidently incorrect information about its own capabilities or mistakes? The answer lies in understanding what AI models actually are—and what they aren’t.
What’s ironic is this is one of the most human things about AI…
when an object is presented in the right visual field, the patient responds correctly verbally and with his/her right hand. However, when an object is presented in the left visual field the patient verbally states that he/she saw nothing, and identifies the object accurately with the left hand only (Gazzaniga et al., 1962; Gazzaniga, 1967; Sperry, 1968, 1984; Wolman, 2012). This is concordant with the human anatomy; the right hemisphere receives visual input from the left visual field and controls the left hand, and vice versa (Penfield and Boldrey, 1937; Cowey, 1979; Sakata and Taira, 1994). Moreover, the left hemisphere is generally the site of language processing (Ojemann et al., 1989; Cantalupo and Hopkins, 2001; Vigneau et al., 2006). Thus, severing the corpus callosum seems to cause each hemisphere to gain its own consciousness (Sperry, 1984). The left hemisphere is only aware of the right visual half-field and expresses this through its control of the right hand and verbal capacities, while the right hemisphere is only aware of the left visual field, which it expresses through its control of the left hand.
academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/…/2951052?lo…
Tldr:
They split people’s brains in half, and only the right side of the body could speak.
So if you showed the left hand a text that said “draw a circle” the left hand would draw a circle.
Ask the patient why, and they’d invent a reason and 100% believe it’s true.
It’s why it seems like people are just doing shit and rationalizing it later…
That’s kind of how we’re wired to work, and why humans can rationalize almost anything.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 3 weeks ago:
This is plastic straws all over again:
As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI. Perhaps more pertinently, the advice rings hollow because it’s likely not very sensible. While it’s true that data centers do consume large amounts of water through evaporative cooling (where it’s used), the vast majority of this power draw comes from CPU and GPU computation, not the storage of pictures and emails. Once the data is stored, the storage devices generate very little heat and are often spun down (placed into low- or no-power states) and called upon only when needed.
The impact of an individual deleting emails and old photos on data center water usage is likely to be so infinitesimal as to be considered futile. In fact, rooting out old emails and photos and deleting them from your online archives might well use more energy and water than storing them in the first place, making this a counterproductive exercise.
Corporations are the real problem, but they bribe the government into doing something that won’t help but will make some people against the entire cause and will reflexively start saying there is no problem and nothing should be fixed.
They need to be called out repeatedly and loudly before that mentality sets in again.
- Comment on Was there a Cold War conflict where the Soviets funded the right-wingers and the Americans funded the communists? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like they backed factions based on ideology…
In virtually everyone of those proxy governments it was a dictator who agreed to back one side or the other
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 4 weeks ago:
So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years?
…
If I said California had two NFL teams, would you take that to mean there’s only two teams in the NFL?
Because that’s what you’re doing by acting like the only mentioned examples are the examples.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 4 weeks ago:
If ratings were so easy to manipulate we would dispute every single top hit no matter if it was LLM-generated or not.
I mean, yeah…
Drake just told on himself that was something that was done to inflate his own hits, so he assumed Kendrick had to have done the same thing.
Like, this has always been a thing, even back when it was giving a DJ an envelope of cash to get radio plays.
With an AI band, they don’t have to pay a band. So they’ll spend on this bullshit that, yes, human artists also use.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 4 weeks ago:
We don’t know that.
Now, I don’t use Spotify, but what I use allows me to pick specific songs, but it defaults to “shuffle”. Sometimes it’s stuff I listen to, sometimes it’s new.
I’m not aware of anything showing a breakdown of intentional listens and popping up on “shuffle”.
From a label perspective, AI is the best kind of band because it will do whatever you say, it will never refuse to do anything out of integrity. So it seems a reasonable assumption that what they’re aiming for is “elevator music” something innocuous enough that people won’t hit skip.
If it’s too good, people look into it, discover it’s AI, and stop caring about it.
Like the vast majority of AI stuff, it might work short term, but that’s only a novelty and those wear off. If people could opt out of AI music, the overwhelming amount of people would take the time to do so.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 4 weeks ago:
A band of four guys with shaggy hair released two albums’ worth of generic psych-rock songs back-to-back. The songs ended up on Spotify users’ Discover Weekly feeds, as well as on third-party playlists boasting hundreds of thousands of followers. Within a few weeks, the band’s music had garnered millions of streams — except the band wasn’t real. It was a “synthetic music project” created using artificial intelligence.
The big problem is the people doing this are also gaming the algorithm to get on those “discover” feeds. You think someone that uses bots to fake a band wouldn’t use bots to inflate play count and make it look like they’re popular?
If companies don’t take a stand, they’re gonna end up just burning bandwidth so bots can listen to bots and real humans move on to a platform not filled with slop.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 4 weeks ago:
Weird…
I thought it was clear the issue was how they asked, but apparently not.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 4 weeks ago:
Did you really expect to get an answer after asking like that?
Like, you realize you’re asking for someone’s time and effort…
Right?
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 4 weeks ago:
No.