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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Says the obvious bot
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They do have technical definitions that educated people debate over.

For everyone else, theyean the same thing. That thing being all that’s great or terrible in an economy, depending on the point of view.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You all really have enough glasses for 30+ people?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Monday is the first day to take it.
Sunday is the 7th day to take it.
A week is seven days.
If you take it again on the 2nd Monday, you’re starting a second week.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come it seems a lot of celebs have severe anxiety disorders? How did they choose their profession know they were walking into something which would constantly put them in a fear state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Because it’s not good to give in to your anxiety and let it control you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California launches tracker for AI-related job losses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s already happens several times.
When the LLM costs them money by promising non existing discounts on customer service calls. And when they spend more on tokens than the programmers they saved firing programmers. Yah, they quickly roll that suit back. Quietly, but quickly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California launches tracker for AI-related job losses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Are they going to track how many are re-hired after the CEO realizes it was a bad idea?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Haven’t been to one in years.
I know, they’re “mandatory”. But it’s not like anyone takes a head count. And nobody’s even noticed I wasn’t going anymore.

Becides, they’re always the same bullshit. Anything actually important will be in the newsletter. It’s fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a kind of nostalgic survivorship bias.
You remember the dozen or so old ones that were good, and forget the hundreds that were not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Who are you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think you’re projecting a little here.
I don’t have a problem with you. As I said, you’re doing the only thing you can. I can’t fault you for that. Nothing I wrote was in anger, or meant to be combative. I expect that offline you’re a perfectly kind and decent person. I wish you all the best. Truly.

You are right. There is no debating the meaning behind things built by people who are long dead. Because as I said, what they mean to us today is whatever we want. It perfectly represents one thing to you, and another entirely different thing to me, and something neither of us imagined to someone else. There is no debate there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I just want people to understand what the thing they’re liking actually represents,

It doesn’t actually represent anything. It’a a public pool. You just imagine it represents something. Something specific to you.
Just as anyone else, could imagine it represents anything else.

And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real. Because you believe it is. And since you can’t choose what you believe or don’t, all you can do is try to convince others to believe what you do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I think that slavers don’t deserve monuments […]
Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but [yada, yada, yada]

You’re just making a different shift here.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.

But that doesn’t even matter, as you admit that’s not the reason you don’t like it.
The reason you don’t like it, isn’t any rational practical reason. It’s an ideological dogmatism. A decree. Because you don’t like it, other’s shouldn’t be allowed to. Which is kind of funny coming from “an outspoken anarchist”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s called shifting the goalpost.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial.
Yes, that Lincoln. The one who freed the slaves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most comedians have different drinks to drink? Most have water, Ricky usually has beer, some have whiskey and such. I get the lights make them thirst. But why not all water or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They’re only on stage for an hour at most. Dehydration isn’t a real concern. Dry mouth can be. The drink is just something to wet the pallet, to aid in speaking so much. For that, it doesn’t mater much what it is, so long as it’s wet. So it’s just whatever they feel like drinking.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Evil doesn’t exist It’s a Thought Stopper people use to excuse shunning and even killing those they don’t like, instead of understanding and correcting.

You’re right in a way. People are born narcissists. Our brains aren’t fully formed. It takes years of training an neural development for them to change.

But that’s a ton of work. It’s easier to label someone Evil an be done with them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s inevitable.
I also think it won’t be possible on our current kind of computing hardware.

The software of the human mind, seems a byproduct of the structure of the human brain. I think a major revolution in processor design and manufacturing tech will be needed. It’ll need some fundamentally new form. Closer to an ASIC or FPGA processor to run with any kind of reasonable efficiency. But it’ll have to be truly 3 dimensional, not just layers of 2d processors. It’ll also need to be extremely low power.

LLMs are as close as we have right now, and they have miles to go. But they need hundreds of times more power than the brain does. No it won’t be soon and it won’t be with this kind silicon processors.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In some ways yes, others no.
In what way are you thinking?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m an X-Ray tech at a University hospital with Level 1 trauma. It’s a lot of physical work. A few miles a day of walking, pushing x-ray plates under patients, moving patients to and from the table. It’s also cognitive work, problem solving. Deciding what order to do exams in. Coming up with a way to get the image when the patient can’t move properly. Do we need extra images due to a fracture, or fewer images because the patient says only this part hurts, not the whole arm that was ordered?

I can say to everyone, any job you can do for 8 hours, you can do 50% longer. It’s surprising.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I tell people I work 3 days, 12 hour shifts. They say something like “That’s way too long I could never do that.”
They don’t think about the fact that I get a 4 day long weekend… EVERY WEEK!
I could never go back to a 5 day schedule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About bajoran's actors makeup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well that’s a personal judgment. It doesn’t matter really, does it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About bajoran's actors makeup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Almost everything about TV makup has changed since then.

Those looks in the 80s & 90s were designed for SD broadcast on CRT televisions. Today’s 4K HDR TVs are substantially better in every way. You don’t need to push the makup as far for it to look good.

Also tastes have changed. In the 80s and 90s bold colorful looks were much more common and popular. Today, not so much. The trend is for natural looking makup. Shows and movies reflect the tastes of their time.

So yah, TV character makup has changed a lot over the last 35 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Neither does this. You just don’t know about it yet.

What exactly is this, that I don’t know about? And how does Moore’s Law apply?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.

The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The concept of a general computer didn’t exist in 1927. Once it did, yes it was predicted and expected they would get smaller, more powerful, efficient, and common. There was no physics getting in the way of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Plan might be the wrong word. Intended Norm might be a better term.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

As there have been many scientific breakthroughs to get to where we are now with smartphones.

Those were a long series of inevitable predictable progress.

This isn’t a matter of ordinary engineering challenges to be overcome. What I’m talking about is something that upends our understanding of reality. Not just an evolution of what we already know, but a revolution that changes almost everything about our understanding of how the universe works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m pretty careful with absolute words like that.
There will need to be some major breakthrough in fundamental physics or material science to get the cooling apparatusuch smaller than it is. That’s highly unlikely.

And quantum computing at higher temps won’t work because the nature if it requires the atoms being measured to have zero resting energy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They need to be cooled to absolute zero. The hardware to do that weighs a couple thousand pounds. There’s no real way quantum computers will ever be portable, or even home units.