whaleross

@whaleross@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking it’s like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.

  Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coin toss:

  1. Heads or tails are 50/50 probability.
  2. It is possible that the coin lands on its side.
  3. It is implausible that it splits in two.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. We still have the family computer that connects to the internet.

  The family is pretty much just me and my dog though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A civilization on a planet without a moon would probably say the same about earth. I wonder how they would imagine life on our planet to be in comparison to their sad, stable moon-less lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am when they pull shit like this making it a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the company it is a tax write off and getting rid of their surplus. They don’t care what happens next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oil company funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of ghouls are coming up with this bullshit? Speak about selling your soul to Mammon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider other streaming services than Spotify, like Deezer or Tidal or Qobuz, that pays the artist better and don’t do deceiving garbage like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Yeah, anything relationship oriented tends to become completely and binary moral high ground burn all bridges and salt the earth from people that have no stake in it except to have a short moment of hormones pumping before they scroll to the next bit of entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. That post was not a list of commandments. It was intended as support for OP in this very moment that they are having a crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s you reading it that way and others not. Maybe this is your point two playing tricks on you now?

  Dude, I don’t know if you are consciously cherry picking to win this argument or if any best interest of OP simply does not exist for you.

  Regardless, I have no interest in discussing this further with you as it seems to be a self fulfilling purpose disconnected from the original post. I’m out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the father made a mistake. You’re the one that conflates making a mistake with an oopsie, nobody else has made that equivalence. Mistakes can be big and they can take lots of effort to correct. OP will surely deal with this in their own time and way with all the complex and contradictory and painful thoughts emotions.

  But - OP is not an adult when living with their parents. Children or young adults are not adults. They have a dependency on their parents. OP is not responsible for their father. OP should not be required to take responsibility for their father’s mistakes. OP is getting caught in the middle of the worst conflict a child can be caught up in and they did nothing to deserve it.

  I think what you are doing is projecting high moral ideals into this that are inconsiderate regarding the consequences when OP is asking for help and advice and support. This is the last thing OP needs right now and it is not helping them in any way. OP is in a moment of crisis.

  Discuss morality all you want but this is the wrong context for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get you and I agree. I already mentioned in another comment that OP is included in point two and it is ok that they have strong feelings about this. It grinds my gears though when people on social media go full binary in driving other people’s lives into the gutter because they can project themselves as morally superior or whatever other reason. That’s me point two right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. I’m the dick that says op should not let themselves be caught in the middle of their parents messy divorce in ways that they might regret later in life and you are the one advocating op go no contact despite us not knowing barely anything about what has been going on or why because this is your hill to show off your moral high ground and insert yourself in some drama that you are immune of consequences. Sure, dude. I’m the dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the one that is making claims of perfection on people. You are. It seems to me you are not living up to your own high standards on others though.

  But it is ok. Again, see point 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. She moved in after. You are absolutely correct. 10/10 reading comprehension.

  It would be unusual if she moved in before the ex wife moved out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Now your turn, my morally incorruptible dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious to learn what you think about your username in this context? What crime are you partner in and is it only breaking a partnership that is an unforgivable crime?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Point number 2. Read it again.

  As of why, we can only speculate. Sometimes a disaster is what is required to get things happening that should have been over a long time ago.

  They are living together already, so it was not only to get laid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Your dad cheated on your mum, not on you.

  2. Everything involving humans is more complex and complicated than it might seem at first glance.

  3. Everybody makes mistakes, even your loved ones.

  4. You only have one dad, so it’s better to forgive them. (I didn’t forgive mine for other mistakes, and that was my mistake. Now I’m old and he is dead and that’s that.)

  5. Your mum is being selfish and manipulative because she is afraid and hurting. It’s not right what she is doing, but see the points above for her as well.

  6. Life is hard and unfair and difficult for everybody. For your dad, for your mum and also for you. It sucks when you’re stuck in the middle of other people’s problems, but remember all of this will pass. And remember to take care of yourself.

  Hugs my dude. You’ll get through this and so will they.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP: Destructive interference as illustrated here is the basis of active noise cancellation (ANC) in headphones.

  In theory it is a microphone on the outside of the headphones that has the outside sound inverted and mixed into whatever is playing from the speakers inside the headphones. The undesired outside noise reaches inside the headphones at the same time as the inverted signal is played so that they cancel each other out.

  In reality there is some more complexity, as always, but it’s the core principle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but not one “master” language. All knowledge it can relate across languages is available in all languages. LLM (and computers) don’t care about the data, they just process it. Humans would translate it and compile it in ordered encyclopedia. For LLM it is all just an insane number of references and cross references all over that is available from anywhere that the link has been established. The input/output of desired language and formulation and whatever is a different part of it.

  As far as I understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that the current generation of LLM have a language agnostic knowledge base, which is damn awesome, but I don’t know how the language layer works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bringing back the absurdum to Reduction Ad Absurdum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While applying this technique, the caller may well hang up, so the quandary is solved regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It all comes down to plausibility. A repeat offender that clearly doesn’t give a flying fuck or somebody that pays for trash collection services and has no reason to dump their garbage but they also have an asshole neighbour with a personal vendetta. Or it is building materials and that address just had work done Or they paid a contractor for work and cleaning up and the contractor dumped it on the forest. I’m sure the authorities won’t bother with it if it happens once but when it’s the second or third time with the same suspect, well then you actually have a case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Carefully check for labels with name and address and then contact the authorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Deleted by berator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you run a society?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be a person or an entity or deity.

  I haven’t been nerdying on religion for much long many moons but AFAICR Buddhism has this core idea that “yeah we have symbols and chants and icons and totems and rituals and we pray but the more we dedicate ourselves we understand that they are just there for us to see beyond them into the nothing and the everything”. In Buddhism this has evolved into place, so it would be interesting to see if it was possible to kickstart straight into some sort of non deity centric anti religion without the animistic precursory heritage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you run a society?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d prefer not to. I’d like to make it Buddhist philosophy inspired non-religion if possible. But people seem to have this need of something to gather around and have rituals and festivities and believe in so religion is still useful. I’m thinking it would be easier to get everybody pulling together early on in a theocracy though the deep teaching aims to dissolve itself.

  The teachings would promote (or demand) something of an egalitarian society with food and shelter and healthcare for everybody and encourage learning and education and culture and arts and own responsibility and critique and discussion and questioning the whole shebang in orderly fashion with ongoing goals of improving it for everybody.