ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 1 hour ago:
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
- Comment on It's like nobody in power remembers what happened with prohibition 21 hours ago:
What exactly are the data hoarders going to be doing? The material will still be readily available on the internet.
- Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 1 day ago:
Do non-human animals get more physically fit from working out?
- Comment on Hmmm, delicious 🤤 1 day ago:
Much less funny because it’s deliberate.
- Comment on Real ones will remember 1 day ago:
Being a chordate is great but sometimes I wish I could just scuttle along the sea floor again without a care in the world.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 2 days ago:
I seriously think that my life would probably have been easier if I were gay. A heterosexual relationships usually requires finding a woman who enjoys my company despise having effectively no common interests with me.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
The headline is deceptive and people don’t read the article.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
I have a rabbit that I would like to make a good impression on.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
So, uh, what does a fake rabbit that is more attractive than a real rabbit look like?
- Comment on Anon is devilish 1 week ago:
Sometimes people tell me “never mind” but it is too late. I have already minded.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 week ago:
I can appreciate a sunset or a flower without needing these things to have “a human behind it all”.
With that said, art is far from the most important potential application of AI. I am merely amused that right now I can ask a computer to draw a cow in the style of Monet and get a pretty good result. The amazing thing is not present-day capability (which is remarkable but not world-changing) but rather what the rate of progress implies about the near future. I think that a computer better than any human at everything (or at least at every intellectual task) is likely within my lifetime.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
I live in NYC to support (and have the support of) my relatives, not because I want to. I also never said that I was rich. Even without the toll, driving in Manhattan is at the edge of what I can reasonably spend. Just the parking costs several times more than all my other discretionary spending put together.
I grew up in a Texas suburb and it was pretty nice (except for the humidity) but I don’t have first-hand experience with driving in a place like Houston or LA. I know that there’s a lot of traffic, but I’m genuinely curious about whether it’s really slower than mass transit in NYC is.
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
I want to clarify that I thought that Cambridge and Somerville were pretty nice - nicer than where I lived at the time. I had friends in Cambridge and I enjoyed visiting them, but I didn’t know anyone in Boston so I never felt like I had any reason to go there. I actually saw more of Boston earlier this year when a friend invited me to go there with her as a tourist than I ever did during the six years that I lived in Massachusetts. The waterfront was pretty, there was an Italian bakery with really good cannoli, and overall the city was cleaner and less crowded than NYC. I don’t have any particular desire to go to Boston again, but that’s because I generally don’t enjoy the things that people do in cities rather than because of anything wrong with Boston in particular.
I do see the irony in the fact that I live in a place that tens of millions of tourists visit every year but I really don’t like living here. I’m here because this is where my relatives are and they’re not going to leave. (I tried to persuade them to, but it really would be very difficult for them.) I admit that while I know that many people like being in big cities, I don’t really understand why. The tourist attractions presumably get boring quickly and after that, what’s left?
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
I used to live in the Boston area, but out by I95. That’s actually where I learned how to drive. The Boston subway is a lot less gross than the New York subway, but I still only went to Boston about once a year. Frankly, there wasn’t anything in Boston that was worth getting on the subway. However, Cambridge and Somerville weren’t too bad to drive to, as long as I had a plan for where to park.
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
Those people who can’t afford groceries shouldn’t be complaining either. After all, they’re not literally starving and there are starving children in Africa…
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
Even in NYC (where driving is particularly slow) it’s still usually significantly faster to drive than it is to take mass transit unless you’re traveling within Manhattan or riding on an express train and not making any transfers. The trips I frequently take are about twice as fast by car as by mass transit, so from my point of view I am forced to take mass transit (when I have nowhere to park at my destination) while people outside the city have the luxury of driving everywhere.
I’m not going to get into my opinion of how pleasant (or not) taking mass transit is compared to driving, because that’s subjective. However, I will note that according to the MTA’s own survey, a little over half of the people who do take mass transit are dissatisfied by it.
I’m not going to claim that mass transit isn’t necessary here. The city has an old layout not designed for cars and so it wouldn’t be able to function if everyone had to drive. That doesn’t imply that mass transit is pleasant or convenient.
- Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I live inside the congestion pricing zone.
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- Comment on Delicious bulk relief 2 weeks ago:
Why forbidden? They’re the same chemical, and chalk like this, meant for young children, shouldn’t have any toxic additives.
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 weeks ago:
Or break your arms.
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 2 weeks ago:
pissing standing up
- Comment on Anon trying understanding women 2 weeks ago:
I went to the gym with my sister a couple of times. She’s really serious about weight lifting. Each time we went, several men would tell her how impressed they were. Later she said that men very rarely approached her like that when she was at the gym alone. I figure that they didn’t want to seem like creeps so they were more comfortable talking to her when she was with another guy (me).
- Comment on Anon reaches enlightenment 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t get over my high school girlfriend until my thirties. One time, I had a dream in which she told me that my obsession was unhealthy and that I needed to move on. It didn’t help.
- Comment on No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related? 2 weeks ago:
My intuition is that it is a hardware failure. GPUs can develop issues that show up intermittently. However, did you recently update your graphics drivers? If you did, try rolling back to an older version.
- Comment on Would "god cum" be correct? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and there’s no meaningful difference between terms “substance” and “matter” except that “matter” is probably the one that the test taker is expected to memorize without really understanding.
- Comment on Anon airs out 2 weeks ago:
I hate you.
- Comment on Based 3 weeks ago:
The student has become the master.
- Comment on 84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise? 3 weeks ago:
The people who get H1Bs aren’t representative of the world, but the native-born tech worker population isn’t representative of the USA either. There are cultural factors involved, not just the judgement of the people who issue H1Bs.
Other than the gigantic tech companies, the other beneficiaries of the H-1B visa program are India and China. Seventy-two percent of H-1B visa recipients were from India; 12% from China.
That’s 84% of the total number.
DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s intended to boost the number of “minorities” in an organization or institution. And at least 84% of the time, that’s exactly what the H-1B program produces!
The idea that DEI programs are for the benefit of Indian and Chinese people is, frankly, nonsense. Hasn’t the author heard of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard? It’s kind of a big deal.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Binary morality system where you can only choose between being a normal person or a mass murdering psychopath.
- Comment on The Hot Dog Class 3 weeks ago:
Image Then what’s Pyura chilensis?
