ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Feud With Delaware May Transform Corporate America 1 day ago:
I’m surprised that other states are only challenging Delaware’s dominance now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
You can be good friends with someone without having the sort of connection that makes discussing some specific issue possible. That doesn’t mean the connection isn’t genuine, even if the scope of it is not as broad as you wish it was. Regarding venting in particular: in my experience, it’s fairly common that people don’t want to listen to heavy stuff that they can’t help you fix. I often have things that makes me sad which I want to put into words even though they can’t be fixed, and I find that for that sort of thing AI can actually be a good “listener” of a sort.
- Comment on I'm just a big toasty cinnamon bun that isn't fatally trapped in a crevice. 5 days ago:
What you’re missing out on. (Not that I’ve gone myself.)
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 week ago:
I think the perspective of moral responsibility (“lie”, “held accountable”) is not a useful one here. Punishment is one way of discouraging humans from making mistakes but it can’t prevent mistakes entirely. My field is software development and in software development there is the expectation that everyone, even the best human developer, makes mistakes relatively often, and there are frameworks for managing those mistakes. AI can fit into those frameworks.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 week ago:
I agree that AI is inhumanly good at presenting wrong information confidently and convincingly.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 week ago:
something they know isn’t correct ALL of the time
Neither are humans…
- Comment on One in six Britons think growth of Muslim population is ‘threat to UK culture’, study finds 1 week ago:
It’s changing the culture and whether that change is good or bad is a matter of opinion. I can see where people who think their culture is good the way it is now and don’t want it to change are coming from. I’m an immigrant myself (in the USA) and I think I’m as American as most native-born Americans in some ways but not others. I like to think that my net contribution has been a positive one by any reasonable metric, but I admit that I’m biased towards economic metrics. Someone who values cultural continuity very highly might disagree.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t have the statistics but my impression is that straight women turned on by gay men are actually quite common, and I’ve never encountered men fascinated by lesbian romance the way some women are fascinated by gay male romance.
As for your question: at least for me, sexual attractiveness seems like a property only women can have. It might sound silly, but a part of me feels sorry for straight women and gay men because they’re attracted to a category of people which is so clearly not attractive. Intellectually I know that attraction is subjective and other people can experience attraction to men the way I experience attraction to women, but on some level I can’t quite believe that. So, in short, two women together are two attractive beings. A woman with a man is an attractive being with a non-attractive being.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s not actually ridiculous in principle.
Let’s say I start out owning a bank with ten billion in assets, and the bank’s value comes entirely from its assets so it’s worth ten billion.
The bank loans its ten billion to you, and you pay me those ten billion for the bank. Now I have ten billion in cash instead of a bank that was worth ten billion, and you have a bank worth ten billion to which you owe ten billion. No one’s net worth has changed.
You default on your loan to your own bank. Now the bank is worthless (its worth came entirely from the loan) and you have no debt, so your net worth is still zero. Effectively nothing has happened.
- Comment on You seeing this? 4 weeks ago:
A life form perfectly adapted for hitting below the belt.
- Comment on Colby Light 4 weeks ago:
It’s a type of marble cheese, specifically Colby-Jack.
- Comment on Colby Light 5 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with eating cheese for dinner.
- Comment on Just say no 5 weeks ago:
While I agree with your general sentiment, I think you have chosen a metaphor that is almost maximally unpersuasive to your target audience.
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need calculus to do this. Neither one is accelerating, so just calculate the velocity of one in the reference frame of the other by subtracting the vectors: from the point of view of the boy, the girl’s velocity vector has a component of -5 ft/sec north and 1 ft/sec east, so the magnitude is 26^0.5 ft/sec.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I worked somewhere once where we were literally locked out of a system - the door control computer stopped responding and we couldn’t get into the room it was in to reboot it.
- Comment on Future 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t mind being able to start my washer remotely - I want it to run while I’m not home because it’s noisy, but I don’t want the wet laundry to sit all day like it would if I started it and then went to work.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 2 months ago:
I consider myself very, very lucky that my ex-wife and I did not have any children.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the problem. Once I married a woman I had known for six months, because that whole time she was crazy about me. I was the center of her world. It felt great - I wasn’t used to getting a lot of attention from women, and here was one literally begging me to marry her. I went for it. But for whatever reason (maybe God thought it was funny) there are people out there who flip between over-the-top loving someone and over-the-top hating him, for no external reason. My ex-wife kept the crazy under control before we got engaged, but after that about a couple of times a week she would flip out. I ended up divorcing her after six months of marriage - the last straw was when on my birthday she flipped out because I wanted to celebrate with my family and not just with her. Normal social interactions don’t prepare you to deal with a person like that.
- Comment on The difference is real 2 months ago:
Well, criminals generally don’t like law enforcement officers…
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 3 months ago:
But what about the people with strongly felt but incoherent world-views, like the ones who voted for Sanders before voting for Trump? They need memes too!
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 3 months ago:
I think that most Trump voters support isolationism symbolically. They want a leader who prioritizes them rather than perceived others, but they don’t actually have a strong opinion about specific foreign policies per se. Attacking Iran does challenge that symbolism, but in the absence of direct effects on their own lives, their trust in Trump’s established “America first” reputation will go a long way.
- Comment on Anon blows his dad's mind 3 months ago:
Do male mice have nipples? Why?
That was my take-home exam from a somewhat eccentric developmental biology professor back when I was in college. I remember that the answer is no (although they still have mammary tissue and can get breast cancer) but not why.
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 months ago:
Most vegans do. The general idea is to avoid exploiting animals, but the wasps are living out their natural life cycle.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 3 months ago:
I’ve seen some interesting discussion of this linked to the idea of survive/thrive strategies. Is the world a dangerous place that calls for avoiding risks and protecting what you have, or is it full of opportunities and calls for exploring and being open to novelty? Neither inclination is fundamentally wrong. But I’m not sure how to reconcile that with modern “rightists” who want to burn down the system and aren’t conservative in the lowercase-C sense.
- Comment on seize the means of burger production 3 months ago:
When my family came to the USA from the Soviet Union, one of the weird things about the experience for us was how friendly retail staff were. Brighton Beach in NYC is a neighborhood with a lot of Soviet immigrants, and you can still go there and experience retail staff glaring at you because you’re creating more work for them by coming into the store.
- Comment on Anon is a scientist 3 months ago:
The dog would be fine. It takes a huge amount of chocolate to hurt a dog - I was freaking out once when my dog ate some chocolate but I learned that a 30 pound dog would have to eat an entire full-size Hershey’s Bar in order to experience any symptoms at all (and they would be mild and temporary).
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 3 months ago:
Netanyahu’s sons did serve in the Israeli military, although how much danger they were actually in is unknown to me.
- Comment on The hooch causing hallucinations just becomes a vicious cycle 3 months ago:
DIME MYSTERY
20¢
Nothing is sacred.
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 4 months ago:
Hah for a while I slept on the floor because I didn’t care enough to get a bed. Furniture is mostly for when you want to impress guests, and so if you never have guests… The one exception is my recliner - it’s the classic kind with a lever on the side to raise the footrest and it is perhaps the most comfortable thing in the world.
- Comment on Anon looks back 4 months ago:
Seriously though, even as an adult I don’t know if I did or not. Why did she do that?
