softg

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by softg 8mo ago
Why just teens though? Getting manipulated by algorithms crafted to maximize screentime and ad revenue is bad for anyone. These platforms rely on ads to survive. Which means it should be easy to regulate them. You can prevent them from sell
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by softg 10mo ago
If the main purpose of this was to satisfy people's morbid curiosity that makes a lot of sense. Maybe they made up some juicy deaths in slow news weeks even.
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by softg 1y ago
I don't see how selecting the Lion, the Robot or the Scarecrow at random is going to help with any of the issues you mentioned. Now some rando (or group of randos) that you didn't even know existed gets power based on pure luck. Y
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by softg 1y ago
at that point you could just buy cheap drones yourself and ram those into your neighbor's (oops)
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by softg 2y ago
I think the point they're making is "Walter White is a well-behaved chemistry teacher who resorts to manufacturing and selling drugs after he gets cancer" would still be true even if he stopped dealing drugs after he was offe
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by softg 2y ago
The Czech Republic changed its official name but many places still use the old name. Same with Eswatini, Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, etc. I suspect name changes aren't that reliable for dating globes since some of them probably hav
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by softg 2y ago
What's even worse would be enforcing the wrong solution that will cause more damage. The French have a saying, fuite en avant (lit. escape forwards) when someone insists on doing something knowing full well that it will not work but th
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by softg 2y ago
Excession is literally the next book on my reading list so I won't click on that yet :) > With this metaphor you seem to be saying we should, if possible, learn how to control AI? Preferably before anyone endangers their lives due t
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by softg 2y ago
Bears can't use their strength to make even stronger bears so we're safe for now. The Unabomber was clearly an intelligent person. You could even argue that he was someone worth listening to. But he was also a violent individual w
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by softg 2y ago
I know nothing about physics. If I came across some magic algorithm that occasionally poops out a plane that works 90 percent of the time, would you book a flight in it? Sure, we can improve our understanding of how NNs work but that isn&#x
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by softg 2y ago
Why wouldn't it be? A lot of super intelligent people are/were also "destructive and evil". The greatest horrors in human history wouldn't be possible otherwise. You can't orchestrate the mass murder of million
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by softg 2y ago
A list that includes Bulgaria, funnily enough
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by softg 3y ago
>Since the last ice age we've been dropping like flies. In fact, we're the only humans left. I was under the impression that was our doing. All of these human varieties were outcompeted by homo sapiens who replaced them. Modern
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by softg 3y ago
The middle class thinks about its survival and keeping their assets intact. Building wealth is not possible for most people. But if you have money laying around, buying assets is the way to go, yes. Which is why the price of housing, cars,
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by softg 3y ago
You get used to it. You get used to seeing a different price tag every time you get groceries. You get used to real estate prices doubling almost every year. You use dollars or other metrics for comparing prices year on year. You might even
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by softg 3y ago
>Biodiversity doesn't "benefit" anyone so much as it comprises, entirely, the world from which we're inextricable. Is it though? There's been several extinction events that wiped out the biodiversity of the plane
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by softg 3y ago
I enjoyed this game, it made me feel better about myself until I tried France and was unable to think of a single départment between the Pyrénées and Marseille. Are you planning to add other countries? A pan european version with german sta
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by softg 3y ago
I only switch to chrome when I need to fake response payload, I couldn't figure that out in ff. Otherwise pretty much the same functionality. They also look the same.
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by softg 3y ago
>why do archaeologists use CT scanners to painstakingly read fragile rolled-up scrolls from thousands of years ago? I was under the impression that we haven't read a lot of old scrolls, tablets, etc. because it costs money and most
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by softg 3y ago
That's incredibly unlikely to happen [today] given how large cutting-edge AI tends to be [today] and how scarce GPUs are [today].
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by softg 3y ago
I mean is it that unreasonable to think that humans are radically different from any other species we know? Because we obviously are. I don't see any dogs writing on this forum to dispute the uniqueness of humans any time soon. There a
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by softg 3y ago
>Given how much money governments spend on nonsense, why can't we take some money, and build simple, but quality and stable shelter for people? A better question is, given how much money governments spend on nonsense, why can't
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by softg 3y ago
Normally this place gives me anxiety (so many things to learn) but people's dismissiveness of LLMs here gives me hope for a change. I feel like if LLMs make writing software significantly easier (and that's a big if) , they are go
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by softg 3y ago
Except here in the metric land when we want to buy a pound of something (or thereabouts) we ask for half a kilo. And the second can easily be 3/4 liters.
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by softg 3y ago
Meh. I'm Turkish, I was raised as a muslim. My entire family are muslims. I am not going to let random people on an English language forum accuse me of being insensitive towards muslims. That's the hill I can die on I guess. In Tu
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by softg 3y ago
What matters is what the word jihad means in Persian, not Arabic. Both of your links point out that jihad was added during/after the Islamic Revolution, when the country was swept by a wave of religious fervor. Unless a Persian speaker
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by softg 3y ago
As a broader term maybe, but you can't deny the religious connotation of the word, especially under a theocratic regime. Also I am not entirely sure if the broader sense of the word would be obvious to Iranians, who do not speak Arabic
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by softg 3y ago
TIL Iran has a 'Minister of Agricultural Jihad'. I assume they declare holy war on crickets or something.
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by softg 3y ago
The variety of electronics, toys, clothes or food available to an average person has definitely increased and I agree that one can spend less and maybe even work less (depending on what line of work they are in) by avoiding them. That'
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by softg 3y ago
> This was typical, to be expected a century ago, but with the nature of marketing and social pressure It might be typical and expected but that doesn't mean it was desirable even then. People lived that way because they had to. It

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