Silverdawn
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34-year straight, white male from Eastern Europe. Interested in videogames, books, and running. Lean towards libertarianism/consequentialistism/determinisism.
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Silverdawn
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3mo ago
AI music is getting really, really good. https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1d5dxvg/suno_35_is_out_of_early_access_you_can_now_get/
Could you summarize what she is saying? I'm just not big into watching political commentary.
The woman talks about the absurdity of modern politics - people pretend to care about something because they like the attention or because they want to 'virtue signal', not because they actually care about the thing. She gives many, many examples.
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
While reading a book, do you feel emotions similar to those felt by the characters in the book? If yes, how strongly?
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
I've actually had similar thoughts as well. I wish there was a way to post a "here's an interesting topic/piece of news" without spamming up the forum.
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4mo ago
Some people seem to think Rashida Jones was used for the initial AI voice.
Personally, I think whatever happens, this is a win for OpenAI/Microsoft/Sam Altman.
The likely worst-case legal scenario is a lawsuit followed by settling out of court for a trivial amount.
As far as public opinion, there are essentially 3 groups of people:
Group 1 doesn't care about this silly drama
Group 2 are the neon-haired neo-feminists who will scream about evil misogynistic capitalists on social media
Group 3 are techbros and people at the top of companies whose reaction will be "Wait, Sam Altman has created a real-life version of Samantha from Her? When can I get a copy and how much???"
People will probably try to hurt Sam Altman as has happened to the likes of Elon Musk and Rowling but I don't see that going anywhere. The US government doesn't have a problem with him and the OpenAI board has already been "cleansed of disloyal elements", to put it bluntly.
As of right now, the official trailer has 266k upvotes and 597k downvotes. It seems quite a few people are pissed, to put it mildly. Keep in mind there's an extra barrier to downvoting these days in the form of a necessary extension so the actual numbers are certainly much worse than what we can see here.
Overall, I can't see this as anything other than a colossal misstep by Ubisoft. "No such thing as negative advertisement" doesn't apply in this case because Ghost of Tsushima launched for PC at almost the exact time the Shadows trailer released and everywhere I look, I see comments along the lines of "play this for the actual Japanese samurai experience".
Imagine how easy it would have been for them to make Yasuke a kind, intelligent side-character and contrast him with an evil, stupid, warmongering Oda Nobunaga. They would have gotten tons of DEI points and almost nobody would have said anything negative. Instead, they catapulted a direct competitor to success and alienated a huge chunk of what could have been their core audience.
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Wow, the statistics about penis length just straight up destroyed me mentally. I had gone my whole life thinking "14-15cm is average, I'm a bit above average so I don't have to worry about this nonsense."
Seeing women expect 20-22cm though... Wow, that is just brutal.
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4mo ago
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Is piracy an option? I checked a few of my goto trackers and they have it uploaded.
Why do humans have such a preference for mixed foods?
Mixing different foods ensures a more balanced diet, providing essential nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants, fiber and minerals. Certain food combinations can enhance the nutritional value or bioavailability of individual ingredients. For example, pairing vitamin C-rich foods with iron-rich foods can increase iron absorption.
Also, there's probably a connection between salty/sweet/spicy foods and the abilities of (pure) sugar, salt and capsaicin to slow food spoilage by inhibiting bacterial growth.
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Yeah it seems to be aimed at women which is why it’s strange, because most women know all this.
I dunno how to tell you this without offending you but I think you're wrong and possibly living inside a bubble. There are a huge number of women around me who seem to legitimately have no idea what men actually want. I base this on their clothes, their makeup and their idea of what "fit/fat" means.
Their behaviour seems to be very much based on social/cultural cues rather than objective truth. And I've even had experiences where I very gently suggested something along the lines of "nono, you should do X instead" and got a very harsh lecture or hate-filled glare in return.
I feel like "be as obnoxious as possible and completely unapologetic" is the way to go. Any other course of action seems to eventually lead to a leftist takeover.
Edit: Leadership is also crucially important. I recently saw a normal forum full of reasonable people get completely taken over and censored by a certain group in the span of <a week. It only had one moderator and he was a little naive but trying to be a decent human being, tolerant, etc. 2-3 mods and the takeover never would have taken place imo.
So, the way methane works is: it lasts about 12 years in the atmosphere, during which it gets completely broken down. But you have a lot of cows (~1.5B) constantly producing methane so you can think of the situation as a submarine that is constantly losing oxygen because of a leak but is also constantly getting air because of an open air tank. The overall result amounts to about a 0.5° increase in the planet's heat because of these cows. In other words, if you had a magic wand and made all the cows disappear, global temperatures would drop by about half a degree over the course of the next decade.
So methane has a significant negative impact on the climate but it can largely be managed and ameliorated through good policies. Proper manure storage can cut emissions by 50%, for example. Which is still worth discussing and thinking about, of course. But my priors were "cows are objectively bad, we need to cull the vast majority of them if we want humans to continue existing on this planet" which is very far from "the ecological impact of cows is a solvable problem".
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Cows don't "produce" CO2, they're part of the biological carbon cycle, like rotting leaves and compost piles. All the carbon a cow emits comes from vegetation that got it from the air only a few months before. It neither adds nor removes carbon from the cycle.
Intentionally conflating the exogenous release of geologically sequestered carbon through fossil fuels with the natural carbon cycle is unforgivably dishonest vegan propaganda that needs to be stomped out thoroughly.
Whoever told it to you is a malicious liar you should hunt down and punish for trying to fuck with your understanding of the world.
Hey I was asked to look at your comment by the volunteer quokka report thing and I assumed you were bullshitting but decided to look at the actual science just in case. To my shock, you are correct, despite all the things I've read online, the science suggests that cows largely maintain the current CO2 levels as opposed to adding on to them. So kudos for calling attention to a very important fact and I apologize for having been successfully brainwashed up to this point.
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
Wow, that is a very high-effort post!
Silverdawn
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4mo ago
I didn't realize it was unusual.
It is! I live in Europe and I've never seen anything like the multiple bus stops in the picture.
You should consider making a permanent spam-only email so you don't have to go to the trouble of making a new burner each time.
As far as the moral implications... uh, this is basically a hostage negotiation. You should think of the employee as a puppet rather than a real human. The corporation may hurt the cashier in some of these situations but they hold the responsibility for that suffering, not you.
What advise would you give your 16 year old self?
You have ADHD, start saving money and reading about the condition online. When you're 18, ask your GP for a recommendation to a psychiatrist.
Don't tell any of your relatives or friends about this. Find a physically demanding job like working at a warehouse ASAP. Both for the money and for improving your health, stamina and physical appearance.
You will have ADHD for the rest of your life and you will have to fight every step of the way against a medical institution that is hellbent on keeping you away from medication which is very safe and very effective at treating your condition.
Despite this, it is possible to live a worthwhile, productive, satisfying life in accordance with your goals. ADHD merely makes things tremendously difficult, not impossible.
PS: Advice (the noun) is spelled with a "c". Advise does exist as a correct spelling but only as the verb "to give someone advice".
Silverdawn
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5mo ago
Huh, that's the first I'm hearing of Zuckerberg being libertarian. I guess I was successfully brainwashed in the past.
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5mo ago
He is also the biggest driving force behind open source AI right now. His latest model is nearly at the level of the closed-source alternatives. Requires hella hardware to run but still. That is the polar opposite of what I heard about Zuckerberg over the last 10 years: monitoring, stealing and selling personal information, etc.
Silverdawn
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5mo ago
Does anybody know what actually happened to him? He seems to have gone a full 180 in every respect.
Silverdawn
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5mo ago
Does it matter whether you use "easy" or "simple"? The question in my eyes is: "Is it probable"? And statistically speaking, CICO is not likely to result in success.
Silverdawn
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5mo ago
But seriously why? Why do I feel such scorn, revulsion and anxiety at even the mere thought of these behaviors ?
I think it's the indirect manipulation, no? There's an expectation there that you will read, understand and even change your behaviour. And if you don't, you're "the problem".
There are also elements of attempted mind-reading and meta-planning (not just what will happen but in what way to manipulate the events so that the correct ones take place).
I dunno, my attitude whenever I come across this type of thinking is "Just be a reasonable person and spend time with reasonable people."
why does Russia want Ukraine so bad if it was poor before and it's even poorer now?
First, their gas and oil pipes to Central Europe go through Ukraine. This is both bad for security and for financial reasons. Second, Russia has wanted a warm sea port for approximately the entirety of their existence. Third, Ukraine and Belarus form something of a wall to defend against NATO. Yes, Putin feels very threatened by NATO. I realize that might sound absurd on a mostly western-centric forum. If you're curious about Putin's perspective, here's a great video going over his life and beliefs.
TL;DR: He's actually very easy to understand, all he wants is a stable and safe Russia that is slightly better tomorrow than it was yesterday. He was mildly pro-US before Bush ruined everything. Nowadays, he sees the US as hypocrites telling him to stop his imperialism while acting in a very imperialist way themselves. And in the case of Ukraine, it was a Russian puppet just like Belarus until a violent uprising toppled the government. Putin saw this as proof of the US and NATO meddling with what he considers to be the Russian sphere of influence.
Here's more context for the current situation, if you want it.
Any lawyers care to comment on how true this is? I'm not very fluent in legalese but that official legal document seems to be saying ''companies should actively hurt 'problem people' for the good of diversity''?
I want to assume this is somehow out of context or I'm misunderstanding something because the alternative is pretty horrifying.
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