I’m gonna need someone to empathize with me after I get brain damage from reading these replies.

you don’t appear to be thinking critically about the implications of LLMs/generative AI

You don’t appear to have a functioning brain.

Then you’re not critically trying to think and examine the implications of this new technology.

I’ve been examining and thinking about artificial neural networks since ~2010.

It is pretty fucking simple to not use an LLM.

Its flammability can be mitigated in a variety of ways

That sounds interesting to me, what are those ways?

Be careful doing that sort of thing with this, it looks like there’s paint on there to me.

They didn’t “lose money”, they made less money than they thought they were going to make, or hypothetically could have made if we were living in some imaginary situation instead of actual reality.

If I go to my fridge and find out that there isn’t as much ketchup in there as I thought there was I don’t write an article whining about all the ketchup I’ve “lost”.

The conservative mind can’t understand that if you add up a bunch of little things it can become a big thing.

One person throwing one piece of trash on the ground doesn’t do that much, but if dozens of people do it then the area starts to look like shit. Take a conservative and show them such an area and they’ll agree it looks like shit. Ask them if they want the place they live to look like that and they’ll say no. But try to explain that’s why they shouldn’t litter and it doesn’t click.

That’s not to say “oh, they’re actually super nice and its just this one mental hitch that’s causing them to act like shitheads”. No, they’re extremely selfish, mean spirited, and immature. Its just that they’re also very stupid and will act against their own interests because they can’t comprehend this concept.

See: wearing masks during covid / trying to limit the spread, and herd immunity from vaccines. Or believing in “micro evolution” while thinking that “macro evolution” is impossible. Or global warming. Or even the idea that animals can go extinct. Or the idea that oil or coal could run out some day. You’d think, conceptually, a person could understand that if there’s demonstrably a finite amount of something (oil fields have dried up, mines run dry, and there are only so many of these things on the earth) and you keep taking chunks out of that thing then eventually it’ll run out. But somehow that chain of logic just doesn’t work. And things like nonlinearities, tipping points, or emergent effects and its just impossible.

The only way stuff like that somewhat gets through their minds is by conceptualizing it as some kind of nefarious ‘plan’ by an enemy. Which is why conspiracy theories are so common on the right. Why do you see more gay people in media now than you used to? Well, in the conservative mind it can’t be because of complicated societal changes that took place over decades which eventually hit a tipping point in acceptance. No, obviously its some social engineering plan by some kind of powerful and shadowy elite.

This is the Christian worldview too. Is the world the way it is because of a bunch of complicated interacting emergent processes? No, its Gods’s good plan vs Satan’s evil plan.

EDIT: the thought process for the specific thing you’re talking about is that if capitalism does anything bad to you its because of a plot by crony capitalism / the illuminatii / the jews. The idea that capitalism as a system inevitability concentrates power into the hands of a tiny elite, and both selects for and incentivizes bastard behavior, relies on the mental ability to conceptualize a bunch of small things adding up into a big thing. Add in the idea that capitalism is just “human nature” / “the way things have always worked” and if there’s any problems its not the system’s fault, its the fault of one specific person or group.

Next year the PS3 will be as old as the NES was when the PS3 released.

If you consult the CROW manual for bicycle traffic, which is what the Netherlands uses as a guide for road design (and is where the design you’re talking about came from), you will see that there are certain constraints on when various designs should be used:

The street’s speed limit and motor vehicle traffic volume have to be low enough, and it matters what category the road has been classified as in both the motor vehicle traffic network and the bicycle traffic network. Since instead of just thinking about roads individually, their place in the larger system is considered:

(This is the bicycle network of Amsterdam)

The width of the throughway and whether there is enough room to fit the infrastructure for a given combination of network links within it is also important. That’s another reason why it’s best to plan the networks holistically, to make the best use of all available space on multiple adjacent roadways.

Of course if you decrease car traffic volumes and speeds to a low enough level (by making other transit modes more attractive, making more of the urban area mixed use, etc) you can start using the higher categories in the above chart more. But the standards in the Netherlands are not so simple as “just put some paint down anywhere and it’ll work so long as the drivers are educated”. And that’s without even getting into how they design roads to enforce their own limits on speed and traffic volumes, using things like chicanes and modal filters. So, some amount of effort goes into creating the conditions that make such a design safe, rather than the drivers just deciding to do it themselves.

Dang, I could’ve swore there was something about “he wants social democracy not democratic socialism”, but I guess that was other people describing him.

What you’re describing is dirigism at best. They have billionaires bro. They’re capitalist.

Bernie Sanders is more economically left wing than that and he doesn’t even describe himself as a socialist.

You can buy big bottles of pure limonene online sold as a cleaner.

Its way cheaper per unit than those tiny bottles of essential oils, which shows how inflated the price is for a lot of them.

Very nice

Never forget, there is no acceptable form of resistance to oppression.

If you use physical violence in response to violence you will be told you’re just as bad as your oppressor.

If you destroy property as a form of direct action you will be lumped in with looters and hooligans and told that invalidates your cause.

If you block traffic, or engage in other forms of nonviolent nondestructive civil disobedience, you’ll be told that you’re getting in the way of struggling people that just want to do their job and collect a paycheck.

If you physically impede nothing and no one, but use only signs and shouts, you will be told that if your position held any weight you’d be able to debate people and convince them to your side.

If you argue calmly with people in public, using reason to explain yourself, you will be told that you’re just as annoying as the people you’re arguing against. Or that you need to be nicer. Or that its your fault that your abusers are acting the way they do because you’re not convincing them in the right way.

If you do nothing but simply exist as you are, you’ll be told that your existence is an inconvenience for other people or a problem for society.

If you go out of your way to hide yourself then you’ll be told that any problems you have are your own fault because you didn’t do more to solve them.

You’re describing a parent that thinks they own their children’s souls and bodies, and thinks they can do whatever he wants to them, up to and including torturing them with fire.

That sort of thing ought to make any decent person sick to their stomach, but christians will tell you its love. It should be no wonder that there are so many pedophile priests and christian fascists that want to tell you what you can do with your own body.

I know religion isn’t exactly the most popular topic on Lemmy

Then you should go back to the hole you crawled out of.

They used to do this. Hours were divisions of the day, like slices of a pie, rather than a specific length of time.

Using equal hours, and dividing them into minutes, was something only astronomers did to help with their calculations.

Morons like you that bend over backwards to pretend nazis don’t exist and racism is over is why 2016 happened.

They don’t get to say “sorry it was an accident” when they specifically didn’t send the message to German users (which could get them into legal trouble).

They also don’t get to say “it was one Nazi intern acting on their own” when no one was fired for it.

And by the way, the “it was one rogue intern” narrative is not something they ever claimed or implied in any of their PR messages. They would look a hell of a lot better if that’s what happened, but that’s not the case.

They knew it was a nazi symbol and intentionally didn’t send it to German users where it could get them into legal trouble. They said as much in their “”“apology”“”.

Sorry, but you can’t say “it was an accident, I didn’t know” if I catch you sneaking around trying to avoid being caught doing something.

At the very least more than one person knew what was happening, including, apparently, the person in charge of that PR message.

Given that, and the fact that no one was fired for this, it seems a lot like like they’re infested with nazis to me. Hell of a lot of smoke for there not to be a fire.

I think my favorite megastructure is the shell world.

The idea is that you take a geologically “dead” world (no mantle movement / tectonic drift like earth) and start excavating a big underground space, with the aim of adding another ‘level’ to the world below the surface level (with periodic pillars to hold up the ceiling). The rock from that excavation could then be transported up to the surface to form another level above that (using nanotech assemblers or what have you). Rinse and repeat until you have a bunch of nested shells.

Each ‘ceiling’ could be covered in a light field that replicates the sky, including sunlight. The spaces would be large enough to have their own weather, so that wouldn’t need to be faked. The levels would need to be actively cooled though. So the support pillars would need to have coolant tubes in them and the actual surface would need to be covered in radiators.

Now, imagine a structure like that which has broken down and fallen into disrepair. Some or all of those levels could be dark. A dead ecosystem and ruins of a civilization entombed in an artificial underworld. Or maybe the displays still work in a few places. A few isolated pools of light supporting the last plant life, which herds grazing animals have to migrate between periodically to avoid exhausting their food supply. And ambush predators evolved to wait in the dark until something gets close.