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QuaternionsRock

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  • Winner's Luck

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  • Not if you plan to rape the corpse, which this person apparently did.

    Well, sure, the other half of the joke is that the speaker is a literal psychopath, thus the Patrick Bateman. You don’t start reading a meme expecting it to be psychopathic.

    Also, I’m not sure you could call that the “plan” considering there was a 50% chance the speaker would have been dead at the end of the game.

    Sorry, that's not an explanation, that's a new joke.

    I’m pretty sure it is. Feel free to explain why it isn’t, and I’ll respond to that,

    And the way you "play" russian roulette is as a torture method with a prisoner. That's where it comes from, and there is no established way to "play"

    Where are you getting this from? I have found absolutely no evidence to support this, and lots of evidence to the contrary. By all accounts, you take turns holding the revolver up to your own head of your own free will.

    If you think the players take turns shooting at each other, that seems to be a particular variant called Russian poker, and it’s depiction in media is relatively uncommon in my experience.

    it treats the woman as a prop on so many levels

    Yes, I don’t think anyone disagrees with you here. IMO, the rule of thumb is, “Would it be equally funny if the genders were swapped?”, and IMO, the answer is “yes” in this case, because the joke doesn’t rely on sexism.

    The woman in this story has no agency whatsoever

    Except for agreeing to play Russian roulette. Surely both parties were aware of the odds of their demise.

    even when she's offering sex in the setup it's just a weird incel fantasy that would never happen.

    And now we’ve arrived at the cringiest part of the meme. It’s a pretty lame setup that indeed relies on dialogue that would never happen IRL. I guess that’s why it’s a !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world.

    Edit: on second thought, I have officially spent too much time dissecting this mid-tier garbage, and unless you can accept the fact that you misunderstood the premise of Russian roulette, I won’t be continuing this conversation.

  • Winner's Luck

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  • The core of the joke is that Russian roulette is a terrible game to play if you intend to do anything after it.

    he killed her

    That’s not how you play Russian roulette, btw

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    The Future of Sportsball

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  • Sports are much older than the concept of a “ruling class”.

    The argument that they are used as a distraction in capitalist societies does not detract from how central they are to the human condition. Hell, games aren’t even specific to humans

  • Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

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  • Hah, cool fantasy bro. GPT-9’s first output was

    As an AI, I cannot predict whether humans can solve climate change. Is there anything else you would like help with?

    Alignmentmaxxed

  • Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

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  • I really hope that on-device AI becomes competitive soon. It’s nice to see that on-device is the way large portions of the industry is going, but cloud AI just uses way too much energy. Not to mention the resources required to manufacture millions of large-die GPUs.

    It’s probably naive to think that the corporations that created this problem will solve it, but it honestly seems like the most feasible path forward in the near term. I certainly don’t expect the world’s governments to be effective at regulating AI any time soon.

  • First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says

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  • IIRC dude went home and played Civ all night

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • I mean, nobody intrinsically cares how many competitors there are, so long as the all content can be retrieved from a single source. Of course that doesn’t mean people wouldn’t care if a single company were to abuse their monopoly e.g. by charging unreasonable rates or forcing ads (looking at you, cable).

    It’s worth remembering that monopolies aren’t inherently illegal in the U.S. or anywhere else really; it’s not against the law to have the best product by a mile, nor should it be. Antitrust is illegal, which in this case would be defined by signing exclusive rights for all content and then providing a shitty service.

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • No, dude… Spotify doesn’t have exclusive streaming rights to its music

  • Polyamorule

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  • Adolescent men would raid nearby tribes and kidnap their young women, which is the means by which genes were exchanged between tribes.

    We see the misogynistic trends rise in late Hellenic periods

    hmmm

  • Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

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  • Upon receiving the recovery email from Proton Mail, Spanish authorities further requested Apple to provide additional details linked to that email, leading to the identification of the individual.

    The user specifically requested that Proton retain this PII for account recovery.

    Speaking of which, how do they implement recovery emails? Do they save your private keys only if account recovery is enabled?

  • "Boogeyman narrative": Columbia professors call out Eric Adams over "outside agitators" trope

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  • By “outside agitators” they mean people who aren’t affiliated with the university. I can’t speak for Columbia specifically, but I wouldn’t characterize the non-university-affiliated protestors that were at my university as “agitators” any more than the university-affiliated protestors were.

  • Fox News is now claiming that young people are identifying as seasons. They made it up.

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  • “I feel more masculine in the summertime. I wear more masculine clothing, I wear shorts. I normally have my hair up more and I just feel more ‘boy’, whereas in the winter – for some reason – girl mode comes out and I’m loving skirts and dresses and having my hair down.”

    This is from a video that the Fox story is about. Fox totally missed the point, I’m guessing intentionally so.

    But can we talk about that statement for a second? (I’m leftist af and I strongly believe trans people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, just like everybody else; this has nothing to do with that.) I’m having a hard time accepting this statement.

    I would obviously never support the misogynistic belief that women should (only) wear skirts/dresses. But as it turns out, the idea that dresses and long hair are inherently feminine (or that shorts and short hair are inherently masculine) also makes me uncomfortable. I recognize that a lot of people see it that way, but I don’t think that makes it right, or a belief that should continue to propagate.

    I’m a dude, and I hope to see a day where I can grow out my hair and wear a dress without people assuming it means anything about me beyond that I like dresses and long hair.

    (Please let me know if this is insensitive and I will remove my comment. I’m not interested in starting an unproductive or hateful discussion here)

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video

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  • I doubt that. Paper losses are not an indicator of profitability.

  • Ads in the Start Menu

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  • Turns out IBM is three hot messes in a trenchcoat and always has been.

    International, business, and machines?

  • Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram

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  • I can appreciate that contemporary neural networks are very different from organic intelligence, but consciousness is most definitely equivalent to a computer program. There are two things preventing us from reproducing it:

    1. We don’t know nearly enough about how the human mind (or any mind, really) actually works, and
    2. Our computers do not have the capacity to approximate consciousness with any meaningful degree of accuracy. Floating point representations of real numbers are not an issue (after all, you can always add more bits), but the sheer scale and complexity of the brain is a big one.

    Also, for what it’s worth, most organic neurons actually do use binary (“one bit”) activation, while artificial “neurons” use a real-valued activation function for a variety of reasons, the biggest two being that (a) training algorithms require differentiable models, and (b) binary activation functions do not yield a lot of information per neuron while requiring effectively the same amount of memory.

  • Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge

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  • This operates under the assumption that cars produced before the era of OTA updates could not have been improved by OTA updates. I’ve used a few of them, and that doesn’t seem to be the case.

    But imagine if some dork could push largely untested control system updates to your car’s ECU…

    While I can’t deny that this isn’t categorically impossible, it seems incredibly unlikely. At the very least, I don’t think we’ve seen this happen yet, and OTA updates have been around for a while now.

  • Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

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  • Fixed lidar sensors are not as reliable as it’s made out to be, unfortunately. Dome lidar systems like those found on Waymo vehicles are pretty good, but way more advanced (and expensive) than anything you’d find in consumer vehicles at the moment. The shadows of trees are enough to render basic lidar sensors useless, as they effectively produce an aperiodic square wave of infrared light (from the sun) that is frequently inseparable from the ToF emission signal. Sunsets are also sometimes enough to completely blind lidar sensors.

    None of this is to say that Tesla’s previous camera-only approach was a good idea, like at all. More data is always a good thing, so long as the system doesn’t rely on the data more than the data’s reliability permits. After all, cameras can be blinded by sunlight too. IMO radar is the best economical complementary sensor to cameras at the moment. Despite the comparatively low accuracy, they are very reliable in adverse conditions.

  • Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

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  • It only works on a small handful of freeways (read: no pedestrians) in California/Nevada, and only under 40 MPH. The odds of a crash within those parameters resulting in a fatality are quite low.

  • Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

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  • Spoken like someone who clearly knows nothing about the technology.

  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bill would end trading in water futures

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  • I mean, futures have an effective place in capitalist societies; the onion market is rather volatile because onion futures are banned (for hilarious reasons, I might add). The volatility makes is more difficult to run a sustainable onion farming operation.

    As for these water futures, while the concept does seem repulsive to me, I don’t really understand how they are responsible for anything here. If water futures were illegal, water suppliers would still be charging a huge markup today. Water companies sold undervalued futures years(?) ago, and they’re the only ones really losing out here. No skin off my back.

    (I think that everything I just said is stupid btw. Don’t take this as a defense of the “system”.)