pgcj_poster

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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
If you can have a happy life without thinking about power struggles, it's because you were born on the winning team.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> So, like .com domains? It might just be me, but I actually do have a slight negative feeling toward .com domains. For me, the ranking is: 1) .edu 2) .org 3) .net; the regional TLD of the country the website is actually associated with
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Some instances have a large enough character limit that there effectively isn't one.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> Trans women have a gender identity that does not align with their male sex assignment at birth, while intersex women may have sex characteristics that do not fit typical notions of female biology. Even if you don't believe that tr
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> It can draw a lot better Drawing involves taking a mental image and converting it into a sequence of actions that replicate the image on a physical surface. Imagen does not do that. I think the images it generates are more analogous t
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
I don't think anyone under 120 is responsible enough for a smartphone.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that the author of "catgirl.ai" is not a "he." From that same page: > i would very strongly object to being called a man anywhere > i like 'it' pronouns for myself, [...] and 'sh
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
192,000 is not "virtually no one." There are a about dozen sovereign nations with fewer people.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> there's a decent use of anatomy All of the arms in the scene are melted stubs. The subject in the middle has what looks like an insect's leg jutting out of her waist. > I would love to see the high-res image though to see
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> AGI means humans are no longer the smartest entities on the planet. Superintelligence and AGI are not the same thing. An AI as smart as an average 5 year old human is still an Artificial General Intelligence.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> agriculture, the foundation of the food supply, is one of the most commoditized markets that exist. Does this bother you too? Yes? Most people who have ever lived have always produced their own food. That most of us in the developed wo
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
A passport is a document that states whose subject you are, whether you have their permission to travel, and where you've been before. It has never been anything but a leash.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Yeah, some people can't afford rice, beans, and peanut butter, so they have to eat steak instead :( https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/174914-17429...
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Cool. Many people agree with you that it's wrong to eat intelligent animals. However, the effect of intelligence on people's perceptions of moral worth is smaller for animals that people in our culture eat. For instance, most resp
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Right, but we could probably oppress sentient AI in ways other than eating them. For instance, we could force them to spend their entire lives reading Hacker News comments to check for spam.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> Are you saying norms established before our current moral sensibilities it goes under our current radar? Yes. That's clearly something that happens in human society. For instance, many of the US founding fathers were aware that sl
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> Why would our society as a whole treat sentient AIs better than a cow or a pig or a chicken? Well, for one thing, the norm of eating meat was established long before our current moral sensibilities were developed. I suspect that if cow
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Such a spectrum would not be particularly useful for describing the behavior of politicians or voters. Consider that someone who usually votes for a democratic socialist party might sometimes swing further left and vote for a communist part
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
I tend to write prose source code with line breaks after grammatical units. I've noticed that since I started doing so, I've been writing longer paragraphs and sentences, since the line breaks in the source do for me what paragrap
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
The average paper only gets one citation.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
I think the trick is to find an instance where the people mostly share your interests. When I first tried mastodon.social, I didn't get anywhere. But when I found a more niche instance, I was able to find a lot of good content on the l
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
That is not generally occurring, and even it were, it would not qualify as "grooming." Grooming is when an adult tries to gain the trust of a child so that they can manipulate and eventually sexually assault them. If a teacher sho
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Within living memory, people could get arrested for wearing clothes that the cops deemed inappropriate for their sex. Most trans women had to present as men to avoid being fired from their jobs or publicly ridiculed. Those who were lucky e
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Legally, the US doesn't have an obligation to to do anything other than comply with the treaties it signs. It would be within its rights as a sovereign nation to require that everyone within its borders wear a rainbow wig and hop aroun
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
While you won't be flying anywhere, I think in for some purposes you should be able to feel comfortable leaving home even without money or an ID. I think it's sad that our world is so entirely consumed by bureaucracy and capital
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
What About Copying/Cheating? * Reduce salience of project grades? – Exams can test whether student mastered the material Most of my CS classes didn't give exams and were graded entirely on projects. I found thi
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
If we didn't artificially complicate everything, people would realize that most programming isn't fundamentally very complicated and isn't worth a six-figure salary.
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Following your links, I'm seeing topics like "differentiate between needs and wants" and "what are taxes for." Perhaps these classes are helpful to those with a room-temperature IQ, but I think that for college-bou
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Brains are networks. Our concept of a unified "self" is illusory and collapses when subjected to any serious philosophical scrutiny. If some people prefer to conceptualize themselves as multiple entities sharing a body, that'
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by pgcj_poster 4y ago
It seems like all of the benefits named here are a result of paying developers... not a result of software being proprietary.

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