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  • Are there a lot of 65" PC monitors?

  • Sometimes all kids need is a scientifically literate adult to explain precisely why their fear isn't possible.

  • I see, that was a good video. But the video everyone else is thinking of is the legendary SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated)

    Relevant quote: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A?t=630 "We need to talk about parallel universes"

  • Does it involve half an A-press?

  • Someone backstage playing a mean prank on him?

  • When they say how much a heart weighs, does that include the weight of all the blood inside it? That doesn't seem appropriate because the blood isn't part of the heart, it's actively being pumped through it.

    If the blood is not included, then holy crap how is it 5 kg?

  • Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it's probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone's tongue.

  • Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it's probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone's tongue.

  • Everything else looks pretty real to me that that's a sign this might be AI

  • Thank you for those links. I hadn't heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.

    For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry ("commercial jet engine stuff"), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don't think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: "I took such a roundabout way to get back into it", and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!

  • Up to you if this counts because no one was hurt. I regularly go to therapy and it's in a hospital. At the entrance there is a guard station and they ask anyone who enters where they're going and whatnot. I find this pretty stressful, as I don't like sharing private information like that. Sometimes I give answers that are a little evasive, like "treatment".

    One time apparently he was a bit suspicious of me so he told me to told me to step aside as he let other people in. I was already late so this really stressed me out, there were like 6 people behind me and it felt like an eternity. It felt like such bullshit. So when I saw an opportunity I just tried to sprint through.

    But dang, that guy knows how to do his job. He caught me and physically held be back like I was nothing. (And honestly I kind of am nothing, I don't exercise or anything). I might as well have tried to run through a wall. That was that, no hitting or anything. Eventually another guard came and cleared me to go inside.

    As I said, I wasn't hurt and I don't think he was either, but it still was a physical altercation IMO. For what is worth, I was never angry at him as an individual, he was doing his job.. It's the policy that I'm angry about. It's a freaking hospital, about half the reasons you go there are reasons you don't want to say aloud. It's a dumb policy.

  • Tell that to people 150 years ago.

  • You're being sarcastic but surely you know that really is the presumed eventuality for a lot of people who have fallen for the hype. "AI will become smarter than humans and so will be able to create better AI." So if you believe that, we're currently still bootstrapping the AI, but it will eventually be able to create the next iteration of AI without needing us.

    I don't believe that of course.

  • Now, hold on a minute. I get what you're doing and I like it, but I don't think those first 2 examples work.

    Visual programming is programming. Were they really ever touted as not requiring programmers? I would think it's just marketed as more intuitive and easier to use for certain applications, but users are still referred to as programmers. Let me know if I'm wrong. Side note: my first programming language was LabVIEW, a visual programming language, which I used in high school to program our robot for FRC. It is, for all intents and purposes, a fully-fledged programming language and requires a programmer to create code for it.

    MDA, honestly I don't know much about it, but from the description in the image it sounds like it still requires someone to "write a universal model"... did they try to claim that that someone would not be a programmer?

  • I'm not really in the know but isn't that already a thing? I'm pretty sure it is.

  • that's just a free bidet

  • Yeah, but it's not good infrastructure. It's not sustainable, it's privately controlled, and it's destined to be enshittified. Infrastructure needs to be well thought out and publicly regulated, AI is the opposite.

  • Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that's just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don't think about it.

    But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.

  • Thanks, I think we're mostly in agreement.

    Regarding the selfishness thing: first, I should clarify that I only meant that part assuming the right lane would occasionally have obstacles (other cars). If it's totally free, there's no reason to leave it.

    I'm talking about when the choice is either constantly zigzagging between middle and right, or staying in the middle. In that case I think staying in the middle reduces cognitive load both for yourself and for other drivers. Less lane switches on the road, less chaos. It's not as selfish as you make it out.

    Also, each time you switch lanes you temporarily occupy both lanes at the same time, so if you zigzag you're taking up more of the road, which is arguably more selfish.

    Comparing to people who don't indicate is not fair. They're just idiots, even selfishness can't explain it because they're making it more likely that they'll be in a crash. There is not a single sensible argument to not use turn signals.