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- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 day ago:
OP actually did write 0.10, but I think it’s pretty clear from context that they meant it with one sigfig.
- Comment on I agree with don 2 days ago:
So you tilt your hips down? That’s how you direct pee with a vulva.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 days ago:
Why does even-ness matter?
Because significant figures.
0.1 means you have a margin of error of ±0.05 (i.e. the true value is between 0.05 and 0.15).
0.08 means the margin of error is ±0.005 (i.e. the true value is between 0.075 and 0.085).
- Comment on I agree with don 2 days ago:
How does that happen? You point your dick straight down and the stream decides to shoot out at a 90 degree angle?
- Comment on Was there ever a candidate for President of the US, who actually stepped outside the lobbyist crap and gave real and honest answers that were not rehearsed? 2 days ago:
Real and honest in that they accurately reflect what’s going on in his own mind.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 days ago:
Things I can’t look up:
- The person’s name
- Their interests
- How their day is going
- Their opinions on various local matters
- Whether they can help me move next weekend
- Gossip from the dinner party they recently attended
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 days ago:
I’d argue that public transit even saves time compared to driving. I can do so much while sitting on a bus/train. I can’t do anything else while driving.
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 1 week ago:
100 failures + temporarily borrowing someone else’s success also looks like 1 success from the outside.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I feel the same. The only times I (intentionally) down vote are for things like spam or people throwing insults around with zero substance. It’s basically a button for increasing/decreasing visibility, and you get much more interesting discussions when it involves views you disagree with.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well, that explains a lot about why everyone gets all up in arms when you judge others by the same standards you use for yourself. Surely, I’m the only victim of the system, right? It was specifically designed to hold me down.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
Ah, yes, I’m sure AI is going to defy the first law of thermodynamics any day now.
Humans as a whole already produce way than we consume. Why should it not be possible for robots to do the same?
Sure in a couple hundred years
And you know that it only happens because people put the work in to make it happen, right?
Regarding the rest of your post, I choose to believe that we can change the world for the better. I’m very aware that the current system has problems. I don’t know if you’re just looking to complain or if you have solutions to propose. I was kind of hoping for the latter because I don’t have any ideas so far.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
If it works out, the AI would produce more than it consumes. Requiring anyone to pay for that would be a choice, not a necessity.
We already have committees to decide what we should be working on. In Canada, one of the major ones of NSERC. I don’t think they adequately capture what everyday people struggle with though, and you can get just about anything approve. The whole process of writing papers and grants can be summarized as game of framing your work in different ways to convince different people that your work is relevant to their goals.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
It seems we are in agreement on most of this. These generative models aren’t going to fill your pantry or do your chores. They can help through world models, but I’m hoping to get things working without that.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
I think we should clarify what we mean by AI first. I’m under the impression that you’re talking about generative models. I don’t think it makes sense to ban any form of automation. But if you do mean all automations, then I’d like to hear the reasoning for that.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 2 weeks ago:
Not for the questions that get asked repeatedly. You don’t tell people to just look it up unless you’ve already answered that same question at least ten times in the past. If you’ve already answered it multiple times, then the answer is out there.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the dentist cup
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
So the problem is everything moving to the cloud and that cloud being mostly controlled by a small number of big players, right? I still don’t know what the solution to that should be. In my mind, we can either assume that they’ll successfully take over and we give up (so why not make our lives easier while we’re here?), or we fight back while we still have access to the technology.
- Comment on How come the US does not welcome the so called "immigrants" and when they get a job or are waiting for their green card just tax them some more until citizens? Would solve many problems. 2 weeks ago:
If you tax them, then there’s an extra step to take that money and pass it on to billionaires. Make a mistake and some of it may get used to benefit the plebs. But if you make them illegal and threaten a much worse fate, then that lets the billionaires exploit them and directly benefit from their presence.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
When it comes to LLMs and similar generative models, I agree. I’m talking about AI in general though, and reinforcement learning, which is the focus of my work. It’s still very resource intensive and doesn’t work very well, but what technology isn’t in the early stages?
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
That applies to any technological innovations that improve efficiency though. What’s the solution to making things actually benefit everyone? What worries me the most is if it all gets developed in closed labs where the wealthy maintain full control of it and reap all the benefits. I was thinking that if the tech was under our control, it would then at least be beneficial to more people. I don’t find it to be a satisfactory solution, but I haven’t been able to think of anything better in the last five years.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
How would you know anything about my internal motivations?
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
There’s no point arguing with someone that interprets “I read the logs” as “I don’t read the logs”.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
We’re working on getting it to fill your pantry and do all your chores.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 weeks ago:
Splitting hairs is when the difference is meaningless. The difference we’re discussing is between answering the question and not answering it.
Others in the thread have given an answer that actually makes sense, and it’s that wealthier people who fly frequently tend to fly in smaller private aircrafts, and those are more likely to crash than commercial flights.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 3 weeks ago:
In a world where there are exactly two people who ever fly, that would make sense. Now what if there are 12 people who fly 10 times a year a 1 person who flies 10 times a month? Will it be more likely that someone in the group of 12 dies in a plane crash, or the one person who flies 10 times a month?
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 3 weeks ago:
That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.
The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 3 weeks ago:
We might not learn their names, but we definitely learn about the aircraft and how many people died.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 3 weeks ago:
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s more likely that they measure success by how much improvement they bring to the lives of the people they care about.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In my experience, IRL conversations are generally more nuanced. I rarely encounter people who are adamant about one stance or another in any kind of absolute terms. But online, you’ll often find people on the extremes, saying that anything AI is good/bad no matter what and getting mad at anyone that doesn’t share the same opinion. And those extremes are often the loudest voices.