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- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 3 days 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? 4 days 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They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…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? 4 days 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? 4 days 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? 4 days 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But the whole process is outdated, I’d be surprised if it’s still happening large scale.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 4 days 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 4 days 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' 5 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on Key takeaways from explosive claims made in biography of Prince Andrew 1 week ago:
The claim Epstein boasted of planning to sell Andrew’s secrets to the Mossad, first reported by the US Sun, was made by Hoffenberg.
It’s weird everyone is so shocked that governments support Israel no matter what…
- Comment on Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage 1 week ago:
Adams is dumb enough to do it too, even though that’s just going to make more people switch to Mamdani
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
It’s a small detail in a video game…
No one’s life is effected.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to have driven a car to make a racing game…
But it helps.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
If people making a game where guns are a heavy focus don’t know anything about guns…
You end up with shit like Cyberpunk’s magazine fed revolvers.
Guns aren’t rocket appliances, you don’t need to spend years obsessing about them to know how they work.
Like, what if someone made a racing game with zero idea how a car actually worked?
Doing research should be a pretty low bar
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, it’s very much like “calm down” as in it always does the opposite
I blame South Park, they had trump saying it constantly last week:
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
That’s kind of the joke…
Everyone is acting like it’s normal that we’re running down the same checklist as the USSR did, it ain’t slow, it started before trump ever thought of running for president
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
Relax guy, that’s completely normal.
Every empire goes thru the same thing right before collapse. Rules don’t matter unless caught, and even if you followed the rules you might be “caught”.
So the norm for acceptable behavior becomes “anything that didn’t have immediate consequences”.
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- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 2 weeks ago:
IQ being one number is like SATs…
It’s an average of a bunch of different subjects, one of which is “crystalized intelligence” which is basically trivia pursuit. You have to miss 3 questions in a row, when I was tested I ran out of questions because I never missed three in a row. It took forever.
Which means that it is linked to e.g. corruption, education, crime?
The root cause is resource scarcity. All those other problems can lead to that.
If you want to look more into that specifically, look into the "marshmallow test’ and how being able to wait for a largest reward is the largest signal of success as an adult. Resource scarcity makes us take the guaranteed small payoff instead of waiting.
Those changes as a child follow us our whole lives. It’s one of a handful of things that’s set for life by the time we’re toddlers along with in group/out group.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 2 weeks ago:
Because values change as the respective IQ average and culture differs across countries and especially continents.
An important part of understanding IQ tests is they account for Western education.
Like, there’s an assumption that someone knows certain things, one of the trivial pursuit questions is “who wrote How to Kill a Mockingbird”.
To measure a substantially different culture’s IQ, they’d need their own bespoke test.
The other stuff about nutrition plays into differences inside of western culture, but resource scarcity changes our brains and how they work. Poverty doesn’t make us stupid, it just makes us prioritize day to day, second to second. Planning ahead is a luxury.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 weeks ago:
Because there’s always a possible path out of the forest…
Sometimes the path gets dark, sometimes it changes directions.
But there’s always a path thru it.
- Comment on Markov Chains: The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything - Veritasium 2 weeks ago:
Chad atheist commie mathematician
Markov was less a communist and more against fascism…
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 3 weeks ago:
I believe there was also an issue in Roman Catholicism of the seal of confession
independent.co.uk/…/washington-state-child-abuse-…
The new law adds religious leaders and priests to a list of professions that can be criminally charged if they do not report suspected abuse or neglect, alongside teachers, doctors, nurses, childcare providers, and many others.
Previously, priests were only required to report if the suspected perpetrator was someone they had authority over, and were exempted from doing so if they learned about it through a “privileged communication” such as confession.
trump friendly federal judges are blocking that new law (in the state of Washington)
However a significant difference there is that was only for someone confessing with the expectation they weren’t confessing to a person, but to God. Hence wouldn’t confess to the crime if they knew they’d be turned in.
Mesrih applies when anyone (including the victim) is the one disclosing it, especially if it’s ongoing.
No idea about Jehovah’s Witnesses, but in general the more insular a religious sect is, the worse the problem is.
And no religion is more insulat then one that requires it’s followers to call their own version of police where a religious leader gets to decide if actual secular authorities are involved.