Windex007

@Windex007@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the one who invented a definition of “theft” that for reasons beyond my understanding consider the consuming organisms specific mechanism of utilization that also specifically considers if the organism has the ability to synthesize the structures independent of consumption and now also demands that the process be sustainable for an arbitrary (but not indefinite) amount of time AND the structures must meet an arbitrary bar of complexity (which you’ve proclaimed unilaterally is greater than fat) etc etc etc

  I’m going to drive now directly to my point now that hopefully you can see how your ever-expanding definition of “stealing” (which is promise you, im not even getting STARTED on pushing issues that would force you to continually expand it) is just bad.

  Counter Definition: Eating isn’t theft. The degree to which ingested materials must be broken down to be useful is interesting, but none of it is stealing. The article used a word that while amusing to read isn’t technically accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.

  Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way.

  Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Klingon speakers around who play Arc Raiders by chance?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a Varool would use such language in public

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For those specific questions usually like 1 second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NAIL. FINAL ANSWER!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been asked to add many more lines of code for much worse reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically a second is an arbitrary measure of a proprty cesium133. Now, anyways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:

  String.replace(“þ”,“th”)

  It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.

  How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.

  Specifically regarding communication:

  Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.

  I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.

  For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.

  So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.

  Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.

  That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.

  Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  r/nothingeverhappens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yo: sup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And don’t call me Shirley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.

  I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.

  I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.

  Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.

  Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”

  Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?

  Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it have been possible to play the violin part of this song in the wild west or just back in the day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The relatively slow tempo and narrow range… I’m not even sure if the tuning would really matter. I imagine a competent player of any era could play this on a single string.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor inconvenience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it was Microsoft or my org but I was asked several times to stop using “bummer burt” in all my comms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some crimes are unforgivable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re going in the right direction, but I think you still ended up overshooting the runway here.

  As much as there was demonstrated techniques, and explanation… the PREMISE was that the act of painting was something you could enjoy.

  The title of the show wasn’t “learn to paint”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strongly agree.

  And honestly… as much as possible build your network IRL. Neighbors, co-workers (yes, don’t let capitalism convince you you must drop your humanity), etc.

  Truth is, you probably won’t have perfect alignment with them… but they’re real. They and you are flawed, but real.

  Online communities have thier place… but they’re not at all a replacement. It’s so easy to gravitate to people who think exactly like you online, but it dulls your ability to operate IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistical distributions suck, especially when we want a clear-cut cause-and-effect silver bullet. My only sister has two autistic sons, and my wife and I were 7 years older than she was when we had our son and he isn’t autistic (as far as we can tell thus far).

  As a brother and uncle, I have incredible empathy for the desire and frustration to just get a clear answer on this. It’s not like lead or asbestos or thaledimide or radiation.

  Best we’ve got is a confluence of factors, not the least being family history knowing full well how bad diagnosis has been historically.

  It’s so incredibly predatory to dump the science in the trash and just say “it was Tylenol all along”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably more than just better diagnosis.

  “Advanced Parental Age” has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because… you know… gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s why. I don’t dispute the outcome, just I wonder about the underlying motivation.

  Headcount, regardless of utilization, carries a cost. Payroll HR benefit administration badges laptops uniforms etc etc.

  As well simply “cutting hours” causes people to quit to find more stable full time employment. If you actually want to keep an employee, it’s a massive risk to do that.

  Both cases, those are working against the employer even before you try and justify it as part of some grander scheme.

  I’m completely open to the idea, but it strikes me as an Occam’s Razor moment. Why introduce the concept of secret colluding between competing businesses when it can be sufficiently be explained by individual greed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you or I or Marx need to over engineer the explanation in terms of “wanting unemployment lines to keep ‘workers in line’”

  It’s sufficient to say there is an immediate profit motive to just fire the workers and pocket the surplus, I think.

  Not well versed enough in social theory or empirical outcomes to really know… But it seems enough to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking lol.

  IF they get an 80% productivity boost and can choose to either:

  A) Maintain staffing, maintain pay, only make workers work 3 days a week.

  B) Fire 60% of staff, maintain 5 days a week, and freeze raises because the market is now awash with newly laid off people

  What do YOU think they’re gonna do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨His message touched me. I feel no empathy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.

  You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.

  Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨slam dunkle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s James cryin’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your notion of charitable apathy probably only comes across as condescending if in your explanation you make it sound like you’ve never been (or would never be) in a position to receive that treatment from others.

  I feel like a few words tossed in to clarify that would probably help people avoid a gut reaction about your ideas.

  People might also be getting hung up on the idea of treating someone like a child. I had my kids a little later in life, and I treat my toddlers like adults. What do I do when an adult is crying? I sit with them and comfort them. What do I do if I see an adult about to step in dog shit? Yell to them to tell them a warning to watch their feet. What do I do if an adult tells me they’re hungry? I help them get food. What do I do if adult tells me they want to play with hot wheels with me? I say yes.

  Maybe I fundamentally don’t understand how others conceptualize treating a child. I think that term is super loaded. Like the word “savory”. You can ask 10 people what the phrase/word means and you’ll get 10 confident and incompatible answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that the CEO of McDonald’s is aware of that.

  The rationale here is that if they get minimum wage increasesed, they can raise their workers wages without the reality or perception that they’re ceding a fiduciary advantage to their competitors.

  It’s a reality that needs to be addressed. Some major corp had to eventually acknowledge it. Everyone knew it, nobody wanted to be the first to say it.

  The first step is admitting there is a problem. The gravity of even this first step, and the fact that it’s from Trump’s fucking gold standard for food and American business, is massive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that once, and it was really jarring for people to see.

  People have gotten completely desensitized to names like “ForceU2swllow” or “xXx_daRk_pRo_MLG_xXx”. A regular name, your actual name IS the most unhinged shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  James