adhocfungus
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- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 1 week ago:
Saying humanity is “being swept down a raging river” is spot on, except it’s an analogy for basically everything except GAI.
Climate change, rampant fascism, unrestrained capitalism, take your pick. We’re speeding towards 3 or 4 dystopias but a super intelligent AI isn’t one of them.
- Comment on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale 1 week ago:
On the flip side, I cancelled my Progressive home+auto insurance because they had become way too expensive. While on the phone she was trying to convince me to start a new home quote to see if that would lower my rates. She asked if my roof was still 30 years old. Wishing to end the conversation quicker, I lied and said yes despite getting it replaced 6 months ago.
Since then I have gotten two texts and several phone calls per day from companies claiming to be working my area who see that I need a new roof.
- Comment on New 'Star Trek' Movie Writers Tease "Dark" Story And New Franchise 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the big complaint against Star Trek: Section 31 was that people didn’t want to watch Corrupt Space CIA? And don’t people enjoy SNW and Lower Decks because they embrace the lighter side of Trek?
Honestly I think most Trek movies have tried to get dark and it never lands for me.
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 5 weeks ago:
Just to be transparent, I did not make this because I am a fan of Panic at the Disco’s music. I’m just so old that I frequently think of this song.
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t even thinking about climate change, although that is a good point.
I was referencing America’s backwards thinking about passive cooling. Our homes all used to have awnings that kept direct sunlight out in summer but allow it in winter, but with the advent of AC they were torn off to reassure potential buyers that the home had active cooling. And playgrounds rarely have trees planted because they require more maintenance than flat grass and the whole thing will be torn up in 5-10 years anyway.
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- Comment on I don't allow crime in my neighborhood 😡😡😡 2 months ago:
Makes me think of the Ancient Arrows from Breath of the Wild that just remove the target from existence.
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- Comment on Oh that is BRUTAL 3 months ago:
An unmedicated cook? Inconceivable.
- Comment on No, I don't know what a rabbit is, nor do I care. 5 months ago:
THESE ARE NOT JOANNA EGGS!!!
- Comment on Anon dips 5 months ago:
I was sitting in a Walmart parking lot in rural Iowa many years ago waiting for my inlaws to finish shopping. An older couple, probably early 60s, starts unloading their groceries into the station wagon next to me. The woman grabs a bottle of ranch from one of the bags, takes a long swig, screws the lid back on, tosses it into the trunk, and continues unloading the cart.
It was the most American thing I’ve seen outside of a jail cell.
- Comment on Scientists capture clan of sperm whales helping a pregnant mother birth a calf, suggesting a level of social coordination similar to that seen in humans and primates 5 months ago:
Scientists capture clan of sperm whales
Release them
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 5 months ago:
Those workshops are such exact duplicates that I assumed they were both the same trans person, but that would be a pretty rapid transformation (assuming both videos were actually published on the same day).
- Comment on Just why 6 months ago:
Thank you for the hint. I would have never gotten it or even believed it spelled anything.
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 6 months ago:
It’s like 50% of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s personality too, if you need more motivation to hate it.
- Comment on Taliban says it would support Iran if US attacks 6 months ago:
Seems like a good call. They already beat us once.
- Comment on Anon is an astronaut 7 months ago:
This is very very loosely the plot of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. They weren’t sent to necessarily convert the aliens, but the Catholic Church were the only ones willing to bankroll a trip that would take at least 60 years and have no possible ROI.
It definitely does not go as planned and, maybe unsurprisingly to modern readers, ends with the Catholic Church being cast as a bunch of perverts in the public eye.
- Comment on LAN Party House 8 months ago:
You can exchange money for goods and services? I thought it all had to go to the rich overlords.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 8 months ago:
I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it’d be helpful, but in those cases I’d expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.
So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You’d still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it’d be helpful. Except you can’t really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it’s worth.
- Comment on I support this 9 months ago:
I’ve never understood this either. If someone is holding things in their arms it’s helpful, but if they have a cart then nothing is really gained. I can easily fill the conveyor belt by the time the person in front of me finishes paying. So getting started early feels like I am crowding them for no reason. Like flooring it between red lights; you’re just wasting energy to wait anyway.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 9 months ago:
Was it from the [youtu.be/Jm7nZMHX2Cs](Octopus Lady)? She’s always great.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 9 months ago:
It’s so beautiful.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 9 months ago:
“Chat, is this real?”
- Comment on dating profile 9 months ago:
Surely he just means that he left the church and is no longer a pastor at… 18!
- Comment on Thank me later... 10 months ago:
I heard the dev didn’t intend for those to stack and it’s nerfed in the next patch.
- Comment on Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail? 10 months ago:
I’ve been trying to write a memoir and this is legitimately true. I have basically no concrete memory of my childhood, but when I start writing what I do remember it opens some floodgates. Admittedly I still have to fill in a lot of gaps with what I think is funniest.
- Comment on FMK 10 months ago:
The fact that it sounds so much like “papacy” is making me laugh extra hard at this for some reason.
- Comment on house rule 10 months ago:
If you had just put Vicodin instead of Morphine it would have been 100% accurate. Although he does take Morphine a couple times as well, so maybe that’s just splitting hairs.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 11 months ago:
If you’re not masturbating with me then you must be masturbating against me.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
I’m curious about the cute mason jar. I’ve got plenty in various sizes, including roughly the volume of the pictured jar, but they’re all taller than wide. Not sure what I’d even put in it, though (besides tater tots).
