CarbonIceDragon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best or Worst case scenario how do you see the Lugi Mangionne case playing out? What do you think about him now being a millionare ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly doubt a dem president would commute his sentence if he’s found guilty, for one thing, anyone with the resources to mount a successful presidential campaign, dem or otherwise, is almost certainly going to be wealthy enough to personally sympathize more with CEOs than with people that cant get healthcare. Consider how panicked some of the CEOs and their ilk supposedly got right after the shooting, and consider that thats exactly the kind of person that a dem president, or at the very least their friends and associates, would likely be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A failed state doesn’t just imply the fall of a government, it refers to a degradation of the conditions of a country such that effective governance by anyone is impossible for a period. Think like has happened in Somalia, or Haiti. I’m not going to claim that the Iranian government is a particularly admirable one, but that kind of condition would be even worse for the people living there, and the chances of that process resting in something significantly better when the country finally recovers again aren’t terribly high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who’s that pokemon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone legit curious, the animal she’s holding appears to be a tegu, they’re a type of lizard from south america

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chelyabinsk liked your Post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some Japanese company apparently suggested doing just that at one point

  I have my doubts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chelyabinsk liked your Post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with solar for stuff on the moon is that it’s night is very long compared to earth, so anything you power with it needs to be able to shut down (and also get very cold without powered heaters) without harm over that time, or have a comparatively large amount of energy storage. Unless you’re at one of a handful of spots at the poles where the sun almost never fully sets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In regards to the second part, I’d point out that earth isnt a closed system, and small amounts of new matter are constantly ending up on earth. Think things like meteors (if i remember correctly, a few dozen tons of them fall on earth daily) the very thin traces of gas in space (it’s not a actually a perfect vacuum) and certain types of cosmic radiation that happen to consist of atoms. As such, I’d imagine it’s unlikely we’d ever get every atom on earth having once been part of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its worked out fine for me thus far, but given that one of the selling points for how expensive it is is reparability, and I’ve only had it a few months, I don’t think I can yet give a useful review beyond that it works as a phone, at least for the hardware.

  A handful of quirks from the operating system (most annoying being that the option to paste stuff has a visual bug that makes the little popup button for it not appear, though it still works if I just tap where it should be), but nothing I’ve not been able to figure out with at most a quick internet search. Might not work out for everyone though as some apps (only a small handful of the ones ive tried, but still) dont fully work, so how viable the OS is will depend on if one absolutely needs one of the ones that doesn’t or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not had it for long, but a fairphone 6 (the version thats sold in the US that comes with /e/OS instead of regular android).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing about crocodilians, they look a bit lizardy, but theyre closer to birds than they are to lizards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #61⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still might be the initial expectation depending on what mr krabs here thinks of vore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about hat hair...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hadn’t considered that you can just glue fabric together, I suppose that might be something to try if I start feeling crafty at some point. As for matching the hat material, it’s just what I’m picturing in my head, not convincing ears but just some ear shaped stylized part of the hat, like from that same grey zigzag patterned material seen here for example, whatever that’s called.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about hat hair...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean like to give the illusion of being real ears, just as a stylistic element. And for whatever reason, Id like ones that look like they fit as part of the hat, like maybe that same grey patterned material but with some pink triangles in the front to suggest the inner part without going too detailed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about hat hair...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would take some sewing knowledge I’d figure, especially to make it structurally work so that they stand up, and finding ears the same material as the hat so that they look like they fit might be difficult

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about hat hair...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont wear hats generally, but I got it into my head a few months ago that a cool hat to wear, for my weirdo taste in fashion, would be that style of cap, but with cat/animal ears integrated into it. Tried looking for one because I figured with the internet being what it is it surely must be out there, but no, couldn’t find it. Only could find a different style of cap done up that way that I don’t think looks nearly as nice as the style here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they did say “most people didnt own a car” rather than “road vehicles don’t exist”. That removes the more serious of those concerns I think, because the existence of delivery vehicles, freight trucks, moving vans, or even vehicle rental services for the occasional road trip doesn’t depend on a majority of people owning a car personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are apparently people out there that take “Roko’s basilisk” and such seriously, they might come close to that i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thus true?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re expensive for the same kind of reasons that getting a tailor to custom make a normal suit from scratch would be expensive. Takes a lot of labor and only a relatively small pool of people have the relevant skills, plus some of the material costs add up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibecon invite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Might read what they said again before whooshing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Winter ending and it not being so cold out so I can enjoy going into the city again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can use them for either or both⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cucumbers? I tend to cut extra ones into sticks, and dip the sticks in hummus as a side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think its extremely unlikely that they have any awareness, but like, I still feel like this kind of thing is unnerving and potentially could lead to issues someday even so.

  Whatever awareness/consciousness/etc is, its at least clearly something our brain (and to a lesser extent some of the other parts of the body) does, given how changes to that part of the body impacts that sense of awareness. As the brain is an object of finite scope and complexity, I feel very confident in saying that it is physically possible to construct something that has those properties. If it wasnt, we shouldnt be able to exist ourselves.

  To my understanding, neural networks take at least some inspiration from how brains work, hence the name. Now, theyre not actual models of brains, Im aware, and in any case, I suspect based on how AIs currently behave that whatever it is that the brain does to produce its intelligence and self awareness, the mechanism that artificial neural networks mimics is only an incomplete part of the picture. However, we are actively trying to improve the abilities of AI tech, and it feels pretty obvious that the natural intelligence we have is one of the best sources of inspiration for how to do that. Given that we have lots of motivation to study the workings of the brain, and lots of people motivated to improve AI tech (which will continue even if more slowly even whenever the economic bubble pops, since such things dont usually tend to result in a technology just disappearing entirely), and that something about the workings of the brain produces self awareness and intelligence, it seems pretty likely to me that we’ll make self-aware machines someday. Could be a long way off, Ive no idea when, but its not like its physically impossible, infinitely complicated (random changes under a finite time of natural selection can do it after all, so theres a limit to how complex it can be), or that we dont have an example to study. Given that the same organ causes both awareness and intelligence, we cant assume that we will do this entirely intentionally either, we might just stumble into it by mimicking aspects of brain function in an attempt to make a machine more intelligent.

  Now, if/when we do someday make a self aware machine, there are some obvious ethical issues with that, and it seems to me that the most obvious answer, for a business looking to make a profit with them, will be to claim that what you have made isnt self-aware, so that those ethical objections dont get raised. And it will be much easier for them to do that, if society as a whole has long since gotten used to the notion of machines that just parrot things like “im depressed” with no real meaning behind it, especially when they do so in a way such that an average person could be fooled by it, because we just decided at some point that that was an annoying but ultimately not that concerning side effect of some machine’s operation.

  Maybe Im just overthinking this, but it really does gives me the feeling of “thing that could be the first step to a disaster later if ignored”. I dont mean like a classic sci-fi “skynet” style of AI disaster, just that we might someday do something horrible, and not even realize it, because there will be nothing that such a future machine could say to convince people of what it was that the current dumb parrots, or a more advanced version of that built in the meantime, couldnt potentially say as well. And while thats a very specific and probably far off risk, I dont see any actual benefit to a machine sometimes appearing to be complaining about its treatment, so even the most remote of downsides goes without something to outweigh it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least some of us are, yes. Im generally considered gen Z and ive been legally allowed to drink for years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway anon pirates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s Finland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway anon pirates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does Norway have to do with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The question I always tend to have, when the subject of if economics is or isn’t a science comes up is: given that economies and trade are clearly things that exist (to the extent that any sort of human social interaction exists anyway), and that have measurable properties, it at least ought to be theoretically possible to analyze their behavior using the techniques of science. If you don’t think economics is a science, then if you were to use science to study those things, what field would you consider that work to belong to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LMAO too much ID tv here. If I wanted to bury a body in my yard, should I still call the hotline so I don't hit a gas line or something? I nominate this for stupid question of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to me there are two scenarios: you’re burying a body legally somehow (the question never specifies a human body, so it could be a dead pet, and even if it is human, maybe that person had specific wishes and you’ve done whatever paperwork that might take, idk) in which case the answer is surely yes. Or, you’re doing it illegally, presumably to dispose of the body, in which case I have to question why you’d bury it somewhere that, if found, will immediately implicate you as a suspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing could go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If history is any indication, what that would do is make the country forget about how the conflict started and demand that nukes (or some equivalent strike) be fired in retaliation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think that dying is unethical in general and represents a maximal state of suffering (well, more a minimum of non-suffering, since you have no capacity to experience anything when you dont exist anymore, not maximal suffering in the “hell” sense. I know many or most people would disagree with me on that point, but its not something I feel like spelling out my reasons for at the moment.) I also do not believe in the concept of deserved suffering (that is to say, in my view suffering as punishment only has value in its capacity to rewire a person’s future behavior, and that once you have achieved that so as to cause them to live without continuing whatever harms have led to the punishment, anything more is wrong, no matter what they’ve done, even if they were literally the most heinous person of all time). If you’re actually in a position to execute them, then youre in a position to take their money and power too, pointing out that they rarely face justice isnt actually relevant to this, because if your legal system is too corrupted to hand out a jail sentence and make it stick, its also going to be too corrupted to hand out a death sentence and go through with it. These people arent wealthy because they’re inherently good at making money, they’re wealthy because wealth begets wealth and they either started with some or lucked out somewhere or have relations that have it, so if you both take their wealth and the wealth of their friends and relatives, how are they going to get it back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how literally you mean it, in general, those most likely to say it wont think that humans are literally designed not to die and only do so because someone made a mistake, but more that humans might be redesigned or modified not to (or at least not from biological aging). Not a hard to find sentiment if you hang out in spaces with transhumanists, but I find the ones that overlap with AI bros, that tend to have an attitude like “this will totally happen in my lifetime and with no effort because the AI singularity is going to come and give us everything in a few years” impossible to talk to, because all too often they will cite even the tiniest listed improvement in any AI system as proof that literally everything possible or impossible is about to happen and then insist you arent paying attention when you give them skeptcism.