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- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 10 hours ago:
In the 80’s we had games to learn touch typing that were very helpful and also quite fun, compared to old school methods.
Here’s a site that claims to have that sort of games:
www.typing.com/student/games - Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 16 hours ago:
That would seem extremely unlikely, as a brain that’s been inactive for just a few minutes, if the person is revived, there is heavy brain damage.
- Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 1 day ago:
Most countries use brain death as the deciding factor.
Meaning you body can be held alive artificially, but if the brain isn’t working, you are dead, and there is no chance of coming back. - Comment on 1 day ago:
Yes without browsers life stands absolutely still, which is the obvious explanation that humans do not exist, your belief in your own existence is a lie. Because there was a time when there were no browsers, but it is impossible to investigate how such times were, because life was at an absolute still.
I guess there is a thing like stupid questions.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 3 days ago:
Absolutely, our oven is very old, and we generally have to run it 10°C above what the recipes say.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 3 days ago:
Because less than 5 is not significant and doesn’t matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I finally got the context, and it’s no wonder that shit was vandalized. I don’t see a reality where it wouldn’t be.
Even here in Denmark that shit would probably not last long, and we are famous for NOT doing that.
If you want, see my post you responded to, I’ve included the details there. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Apparently the “service” is only available for over 16 year olds.
This is so badly executed it’s no wonder people got pissed. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks. 👍
You must be at least 16 years old to join Equip Sport
Big fail, no wonder that shit was sabotaged.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Seems to me the city did something for show that doesn’t work, and might as well no be there.
As I sted before, the poles and trashcan are not vandalized, it seem like these “lockers” were clearly targeted, probably because it’s a shit system for the people it was supposed to benefit.
Hopefully after this, the city will stop wasting money on a system that doesn’t work anyway. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks, I was not aware that clicking the thumbnail revealed a lot more detail. 😳
But it seems to me this “system” is pissing some people off, because the vandalism is only on the “lockers without locks” whatever that is called. And not on the poles or the trashcan? - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
public equipment lockers
I don’t get it, why would such lockers be labeled “Jumpstart bon depart” and Equip at the bottom?
Looks more like some private thing, taking up public space.
IDK, I’m just trying to evaluate if this is just mindless vandalism, or if there could be a reason behind it. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Context?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Absolutely, with more education people on average score higher on IQ tests.
However AFAIK evidence shows that training specifically for higher scores on IQ tests does not significantly increase general intelligence. - Comment on Black coffee 1 week ago:
No you were absolutely polite, giving him 100% the benefit of doubt. And yet he made this weird attack.
- Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 2 weeks ago:
Nothing in the Turing Test proves intelligence.
This is simply wrong, only Religious nutcases believe so.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
IDK I’ve predicted my own birthday and Christmas correctly dozens of times.
I even predicted in the year 2000 that AI would become a thing around 2030, I admit that’s the most bulls eye long term prediction I’ve ever made. But still to make a blanket statement that it is unknowable is false.
There are trajectories, and there are statistics that can predict a lot.
Like for instance many of us predicted Russia would lose the war against Ukraine already a couple of months in.
And it was predict4ed 2 years ago that USA would go to war with Iran and lose.
I can also predict that the return of Jesus Christ will not happen within the next 2000 years either! - Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 2 weeks ago:
Nope, there’s nothing wrong with the test. It wasn’t designed to test if it was “strong AI”
That was EXACTLY what it was designed for, the argument being that if it is indistinguishably from a human, it has human like consciousness. That’s way beyond thinking.
Computers are “thinking” routinely. Chess programs that have existed since the 80’s are already proof of that. - Comment on Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why? 2 weeks ago:
It is widely acknowledged that many modern AI chat bots can indeed pass the Turing test as well as an actual human, maybe even better.
So the new problem is that something is wrong with the Turing test, and we need to come up with something better.
Because nobody sensible recognize current state of AI to be anywhere near strong AI.
Or maybe we are performing the Turing test wrong? It can probably not be called a proper Turing test, unless it’s someone particularly skilled in it that performs it. Someone able to detect the answers without actual human experience behind them.We know AI can have very basic problems, like not being able to count the number of “r” in strawberry correctly, and act very confused about it when it’s explained that there are 3, and asked to spell the word out and count them.
If the AI had consciousness and comparable intelligence to a normal human, such banal things should not confuse the AI.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 2 weeks ago:
There are also more people. Are streets not real if autonomous driving becomes a thing?
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 2 weeks ago:
So your Google search isn’t real, because the result is based on bots crawling the internet.
Well internet searches were based on crawlers looonngg before Google.
Just like this example you can make thousands of examples, where the sites we used to some degree is facilitated by crawlers. - Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit.
Social media <> the internet.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this absolutely happens, both by doctors and nurses.
My mother experienced something similar at the hospital when she had an examination for a disc herniation.
She was told not whine so much about it despite it was extremely painful for her to move. After they had the results, and it turned out she had a HUGE one, they all suddenly changed completely, because they could se on the images how bad it really was.
They thought she had 2, but when she was operated, it turned out to be only one that was so big it looked like 2 on the imaging.Some doctors and nurses are assholes, that don’t respect their patients, and don’t believe when they have pains.
- Comment on How much influence do to think Jeffery Epstein had on Windows? 3 weeks ago:
If it was possible for Epstein to compromise Windows and have access to spy on people.
Maybe Bill Gates would just do that to spy on Epstein. So when Epstein tried to extort Bill Gates, Bill gates would have a thousand times the compromising material on Epstein.So the very simple answer using Occam’s razor is none.
- Comment on Why is Amazon Prime overpriced in the Anglosphere demographic? 3 weeks ago:
First the price is set to maximize profits, nothing else.
The reason it’s cheap in Japan is probably because the value is low for Japanese people, they don’t want to pay more, the price they’ve set is the balance between how many subscribers they can get to maximize the total revenue and profits.
In India I imagine the value for the individual might be better, but it’s a poor country, so the low price is necessary for people to afford it.
Second they have copyright deals that vary greatly by region, so cost and content can vary greatly too.
But you can be 100% sure that the low price in India isn’t because they want to be nicer to the Indians. It’s because that’s the price that will earn them the most money.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 3 weeks ago:
It’s clearly not a crime
If you are rich.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Almost lost an eye at age 12, almost lost my mom at age 2…
Because of wearing glasses?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 12, and I’ve had a car and drivers license for decades.
Why do you keep trusting your own mistaken logic over the statistics? Why don’t you look it up for yourself?
You are the one that sounds like you are not wearing glasses, I’ve never heard anyone using glasses having similar fears you have.
Your fear is paranoid and delusional. Let’s hear it, which eyeball was taken out by the glasses on who?
I’ve been in numerous accidents wearing glasses, on bicycle, kayaking and even a pretty serious one in a car once. I’ve never been hurt by it, I’ve only had to replace the sometimes, which is of course annoying and expensive. And I’ve also never heard about either friends or family or statistics that say there’s an actual problem wearing glasses in accidents. - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s very very stupid, I never heard about anyone getting hurt by the glasses because of the airbag.
using just 10 seconds looking it up, reveals that glasses do not significantly increase risk of eye injury from airbags.
And remember in the context of research significantly means it is not statistically significant, meaning the number is so small it’s within statistical error.
So disabling the airbag that demonstrably saves lives, to avoid a statistically non existent danger, is about as moronic as it gets. - Comment on why are all social medias based around western values? 4 weeks ago:
Go on (the) Xitter and be as bigoted a Nazi as you like.
X pronounced SH like in Chinese.