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ContrarianTrail

@ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

Open to reconsider my views in light of good-faith counter-arguments but also willing to defend what's right, even when it's unpopular. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why

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  • My front door faces the courtyard, so you’d have to come through the gate, walk between the house and fence, and then around to the back to knock on the door. My house is one of the older ones in the neighborhood, with big trees and bushes and no porch light or anything. I’ve never had a trick-or-treater knock on my door. Maybe I should get a massive, highly coveted bag of candy just in case someone does - and then just give them the whole thing.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • The rich want to get richer, the strong want to get stronger, collectors want more collectibles, records are meant to be broken, and so on. It’s never been about the destination - it’s about the journey. Having things isn’t fun; getting things is fun.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • Media intentionally uses bad pictures of the people they don't like and vice versa.

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • Wealth is not synonymous with money in bank

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • Wether I agree with them or not, I think that news outlets who this openly show their bias are trash and should be ignored.

    Just give me the facts. No need to tell me what to think.

  • Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.

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  • I definitely consider a band shirt an ad as well, but wearing one feels like a conscious decision to show your preference for that band and perhaps attract like-minded people. With clothing brands, however, it’s more about signaling wealth and status rather than admiration for the brand itself. You're wearing an ad and being oblivious to it.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • I just listened to a podcast about assembly theory and I think that it kind of relates here too, though maybe not. If we start randomly generating text that is the lenght of the Hamlet, then Hamlet itself would be one of the possible, finite number of possibilities that could be generated within these parameters. Interesting theory nevertheless.

    If we think about a screwdriver, the theory would argue that it couldn’t simply appear out of nowhere because its structure is too specific and complex to have come into existence by chance alone. For that screwdriver to exist, a multitude of precise processes are required: extracting raw materials, refining them, shaping metal, designing the handle, etc. The probability of all these steps happening in the right order, spontaneously, is essentially zero. Assembly theory would say that each stage in the creation of a screwdriver represents a selection event, where choices are made, materials are transformed, and functions are refined.

    What makes assembly theory especially intriguing is that it offers a framework to distinguish between things that could arise naturally, like a rock or even an organic molecule, and things that bear the hallmarks of a directed process. To put it simply, a screwdriver couldn't exist without a long sequence of assembly steps that are improbable to arise by chance, thereby making its existence a hallmark of intentional design or, at the very least, a directed process.

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  • How can you see what anyone writes on the platform if you're not on it? Wouldn't that by definition mean that you still use it yourself too?

  • Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

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  • My daily driver MacBook Pro has 8GB of RAM, and so far, that’s been perfectly sufficient for my needs. Some might argue that 8GB is inadequate for a 1,700€ device, but I don’t think most people would notice a difference. This focus on specs might make more sense with computers, but with smartphones especially, I never understood the obsession with performance. My mid-range Samsung handles everything instantly - I can’t think of a reason it would need to be any faster. Numbers on a paper seem irrelevant when it doesn't translate to everyday use.

  • Playing in mud and dirt can boost your child’s immune system – here’s how

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  • I'm the type of person who touches everything, bites their nails, eats food from the floor and rarely washes their hands. I have zero food allergies and I'm almost never sick.

    Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe these are related. Who knows.

    EDIT: Don't remember ever taking antibiotics either

  • Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"

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  • Hardware 4 models have a radar on the front as well.

  • Finland's president Stubb warns China's Xi of 'provocation' by North Korea in Ukraine war

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  • so risking import sanctions from the rest of the world over Ukraine war seems like a bad idea?

    While I think that Russia winning is in China's interest, I believe this to be the reason they can't openly support Russia and since they saw the sanctions Russia was hit with after the invasion, I'm sure they realize, that the same thing is going to happen to them if they invade Taiwan, so I don't think they will. China is way too dependent on trade and keeping their popularion relatively content. Sanctions like this would make the country implode.

    Also, I'm a plumber so better not take any of this too seriously.

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  • The term AGI was first used in 1997 by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named 'Nanotechnology and international security'

    By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be "conscious" or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.

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  • AI implies either sentience or sapience constructed outside of an organ.

    It definitely doesn't imply sentience. Even artificial super intelligence doesn't need to be sentient. Intelligence means the ability to acquire, undestand and use knowledge. A self driving car is intelligent too but almost definitely not sentient.

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  • LLMs are true AI. AI doesn’t mean what most people think it means. AI systems from sci-fi movies like HAL 9000, JARVIS, Ava, Mother, Samantha, Skynet, and GERTY are all AI, but more specifically, they are AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). AGI is always a type of AI, but AI isn’t always AGI. Even a simple chess-playing robot is an AI, but it’s a narrow intelligence - not general. It might perform as well as or better than humans at one specific task, but this ability doesn’t translate to other tasks. AI itself is a very broad category, kind of like the term 'plants.'

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  • He may very well be motivated by racism. I don't know him so I don't have an opinion on the matter. My comment is about this specific thing he said where I don't detect any obvious signs of racism.

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  • I don't see how your comparison is in any way equivalent to what he said.

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  • Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian?

    Ofcourse not, but I don't see how that implies racism.

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  • We’ve reached a point where, whenever I see someone called a racist, I assume it’s a false accusation - and after reading the article, my suspicion is usually confirmed. The term has been so overused that it’s lost much of its meaning. What he said was needlessly personal and inflammatory, but I don’t see the racism that so many others here seem to.