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- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 days ago:
Probably makes more sense to kill their dog or something like that. Hint that there’s more where that came from.
- Comment on spoopy figs 5 days ago:
You could say the same about humans working exploitative jobs. You can be unhappy and still stay because the cost of quitting is too high. It’s only when it gets really bad that it becomes worthwhile.
- Comment on ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI 5 days ago:
Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone’s lives easier.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 6 days ago:
It does rhyme. The e in second and best are assonant.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
It does taste like a block of earthy butter. It’s absolutely delicious on its own. Even more delicious if cut into thin slices; that somehow intensifies the flavour.
It sounds like you’re just not into that flavour. It’s not for everyone.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 weeks ago:
Definitely. For the average home cook, that convenience is much more valuable than making your knives extra sharp.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 weeks ago:
Do the diamond stones need any kind of maintenance? I’ve read that you need to regularly flatten the surface of your typical whetstone.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 4 weeks ago:
We have both of these things in Canada.
- Comment on A succulent meal 4 weeks ago:
There are parts of plants that aren’t edible. One definition of vegetable is the edible part of a plant.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 4 weeks ago:
Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.
- Comment on BASED? 4 weeks ago:
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
- Comment on BASED? 4 weeks ago:
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 weeks ago:
Then you’d run into the same problem you have with insurance where they refuse to fix/replace your appliance because of “misuse” or something like that.
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 weeks ago:
Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They’re profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer.
Think of your monthly spending as a probability distribution. They provide value by reducing variance of that distribution at the cost of increasing the mean.
Consider at a more concrete example. You’re provided with two options:
- You get $100 a month guaranteed
- Flip a coin each month. On head, you get $200. On tail, you get nothing.
The expected value for both are the same, but option #1 is predictable. It’s the better option of the two unless you’re in a situation where getting $0 is effectively equivalent to getting $100. You would need to increase the amount you get in option #2 to make it worthwhile. Similarly, you can decrease the amount you get in option #1 and still have it be the better option.
By default, life is like option #2. The value proposition of insurance and the like is to give you option #1 with an amount lower than the expected value of #2, and in exchange, they get the difference as profit.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That majority of people that are worse than AI slop are also not producing anything, so we’re not flooded with human slop. And when they do, we’re supportive because you need to practice producing bad stuff before you can start producing good stuff.
If humans produced slop at the same rate as AI, I guarantee you that everyone will be complaining about it just the same.
- Comment on RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks 5 weeks ago:
So, did you do it?
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 5 weeks ago:
Turns out Benjamin Franklin had it right, and it was this time traveler that caused him to flip it to the wrong direction.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 1 month ago:
Not malicious in the sense that the intent isn’t to cause harm to us regular people. If buying those properties raised our prices and didn’t help them keep their money, they wouldn’t do it. If it didn’t raise our prices and helped them keep their money, they would still do it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 month ago:
But does his boss have the authority to allow it?
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 1 month ago:
No /s
This is a great variant to regular pizza when you happen to have the ingredients on hand. I do it all the time.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
If that’s what you meant to say, then it would help to actually say that. Regardless, the argument doesn’t hold water. If Teams has poor support for older hardware and non-Windows operating systems when other apps don’t, then that’s a Teams problem. If it takes someone who specializes in Teams to be able to work with it effectively when other apps require minimal training, then that’s also a Teams problem.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 1 month ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ve been experiencing this too and I know T1 diabetes runs in the family, but I ruled it out because I thought it wasn’t a symptom of diabetes. I should check with a doctor.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 1 month ago:
As far as I’m aware, diabetes will lead to hyperglycemia, not hypo. Taking insulin for diabetes in excess of what’s needed or not eating enough while on insulin will lead to hypoglycemia.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees
That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 1 month ago:
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 1 month ago:
Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold
The United States of Aumerica
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 month ago:
I’d love to see it being used by enemies so they’re challenging without cheating, though.
Check out Sony’s work with GT Sophy
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 month ago:
You can also tell me that someone out there won the lottery this week and have it be true. It’s not the same as seeing this person’s live reaction to learning about it. It wouldn’t be the same if you watched that person act out the scene exactly as it happened. AI generated is so much further removed from all that.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 month ago:
The info provided is that there exists another happy dog out there doing happy dog things and I briefly connected with it, which made me happy. This information would be incorrect if it was AI generated.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 1 month ago:
So what you’re saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.