howrar
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- Comment on Sorry, groceries. 1 day ago:
Every day is an emergency
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 2 days ago:
This reads like a Google AI summary. I love it.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 5 days ago:
I’m not reading any anger in their message. Seems like a pretty innocent joke.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 5 days ago:
My days pretty much consist entirely of work, chores, gym, spending time with my kid, and sleeping. If not for the flexibility I get from work, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do groceries.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 1 week ago:
I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, but here in Canada, I’ve only seen the option to trade in old phones when you’re buying one of the fancier phones with a bunch of bells and whistles I don’t need. There no way they would give me enough for this phone to make up for the price difference.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 1 week ago:
Anyone want to take a capsaicin pill for science?
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:
- Having empathy
- Ability to display empathy
Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material). Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Growing up, I didn’t like water either because I didn’t like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN’T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
To me that means an autonomous being that understands what it is.
A little thought experiment: How would you determine whether another human being understands what it is? What would that look like in a machine?
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
As far as I’m concerned, “intelligence” basically just means the ability to do things that we consider to be difficult. So it’s both very hand-wavy and a constantly moving goalpost. So a hypothetical pacman ghost is intelligent before we’ve figured out how to do it. After it’s been figured out and implemented, it ceases to be intelligent but we continue to call it intelligent for historical reasons.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
I can understand some negative sentiment in contexts where it’s used dismissively (e.g. “I’m [self-diagnosed] autistic and I don’t have this issue, so you’re obviously just a bad person”), or if you use it as an excuse to be a shitty person. Although I’d say that a professional diagnosis wouldn’t make any of these scenarios better.
In your case, you’re experiencing problems and you’re trying to solve them. A self diagnosis helps a lot in narrowing down what the causes could be and help you prioritize different potential solutions to try. It makes no sense to handicap yourself and try to fix things like a neurotypical person when you have good reason to believe you’re not.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 2 weeks ago:
I think if you ask “what would an ideal world president look like?”, you’ll get an answer to your question. The qualities that make for a good human leader should be the same as that which make a good AI leader.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
The main reason is that they took away my preferred app, and the official app is excessively noisy (visually) to the point that I just can’t parse anything on the screen without huge effort. Doom scrolling is supposed to be brain off time, not brain work extra hard time.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 2 weeks ago:
I’d also be surprised if no one goes after him for trying to run away from debts. If we know anything, it’s that most laws only apply when they benefit the rich, and he’ll be making a lot of rich people angry if it turns out he did have extra money squirreled away.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 2 weeks ago:
The real question is whether the collapse of his house of cards will lead to a 99.7% loss of wealth or >100% loss. He won’t be a billionaire anymore if it’s the latter.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
The kid actually answered the question. The teacher’s expected response is basically “no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.
- If the working class cannot buy it, then they are not getting taxed. If the government is making more money from implementing that taxation scheme, then all that money has to come from those who are wealthier than the working class.
- You only become richer if you hold on to the money. The government’s job is to spend that money to the benefit of its constituents, not hoard money.
In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.
Implying we want another ice age?
The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.
I agree
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Legally, yes. But laws get broken all the time.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
When someone starts complaining about what bathroom everyone is using, you can’t just ignore it and hope it goes away. It’s your job as their superior to address these issues.
Similarly,
Their gender/identity should have absolutely zero impact on the ability to do their job.
Making this stance clear requires talking about gender identity and politics.
- Comment on science never ends 4 weeks ago:
There’s also the “science” that is your policy choices (personal or public policy) based on the science(n) and your values, risk tolerance, and lifestyle. Since the latter factors can change a lot over time, these policies can also fluctuate wildly and give the impression that “science” fluctuates wildly.
- Comment on Consistency is key 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never gotten sick from undercooked chicken either, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to take the risk. Gastro is no fun, and well done burgers taste great (unless maybe if you use very lean meat?) so it’s all upsides with no downsides.
- Comment on Consistency is key 4 weeks ago:
Are you maybe just using very lean ground beef? In my experience, 15% ground beef is very hard to overcook.
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 4 weeks ago:
For the same reason I’d attend a meeting and complain afterwards that it could’ve been an email, despite knowing that I was going into a meeting.
I think it’s reasonable to expect the video formats to only be used when it’s a good medium for communicating whatever it’s communicating.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Life is more expensive when you’re disabled. That’s not news. But why should you be mad about changes that help other people save money? What you should be mad about is that the savings are turned into extra profits instead of going towards making your tickets cheaper.
- Comment on Anna-mazing pun 5 weeks ago:
K
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 5 weeks ago:
It’s very helpful in figuring out your own opinions on a topic too. It doesn’t matter much if you convince anyone else.
- Comment on who are you? 5 weeks ago:
They’re also highly incentivized to make you eat it when it’s freshest so you have a good experience with their food and become a repeat customer.
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 month ago:
On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions... 1 month ago:
Make them bid for their place on the queue!
- Comment on In heat 2 months ago:
It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e.
[AB]+and[CD]+in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.