ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
5hr ago
I don't support abortion in either case, and there are plenty of other people (mostly other Christians) who don't either. If the baby has actually already died in the womb (as opposed to a doctor saying they're unlikely to survive), I'm not aware of any groups that oppose removal of the baby.
ChickenOverlord
6hr ago
I'm Mormon, and we believe that Adam's fall caused all his descendants to be of a fallen nature, but that we are not morally culpable for his sin.
The Methodists have a similar belief, as do many other Protestant denominations:
"Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually." - Article VII in the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church
You'll find similar wording used by the Anglicans and other denominations.
ChickenOverlord
6hr ago
You seem to have a very strange, non-standard definition of murder here.
When your next relative is terminal in the hospital, I want you to spend every single dime you can beg, borrow or steal in a fruitless attempt to extend their life until you have zero possessions left.
Choosing not to actively prolong someone else's life is different than choosing to intentionally end a life. Your hypothetical situation here would not be murder.
Your buddy falls while climbing and you have to cut the rope so you both don't die.
Wait, did he already fall, or am I cutting it to cause him to fall? Your scenario here is very confusing. The specifics of the scenario drastically change whether or not it would be murder.
Your buddy sustains third-degree burns over 90% of his body and will surely die in extreme agony within days. Best let him scream, you wouldn't want to murder an innocent!
I fully support letting doctors give him the best morphine available to numb the pain until his death. But still no murder required.
Your grandfather is trying to starve himself to death because he's taking way too long to die, so you hold him down and force-feed his withered form so you can be a heckin decent human bean.
Not choosing to force someone to continue living != murder. This really isn't all that complicated. Your definitions of murder are, frankly put, real fuckin' weird.
ChickenOverlord
16hr ago
How can you argue from Christianity and also argue the fetus is innocent? It has as much expected original sin as you do.
Original Sin isn't a universal Christian belief.
I see no circumstances under which the principle "Don't murder innocents" must be compromised in order to live. Unless you're trying to make some weird point about how supporting some policy or other will cause X deaths or destroy Y QALYs or something like that, I really have no idea what you're trying to say here.
ChickenOverlord
21hr ago
The covid shot didn't reduce your chances of getting it at all, it simply reduced the severity of symptoms (if Pfizer et al are to be believed).
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
You're assuming that our democracy is still working
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Both good companies most of the time, but neither has enough marketshare to have any real pull with game publishers.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Or at a minimum compiled binaries for the servers.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
In fairness, I had a boss once who ate vegetarian at home together with his wife, and then ate plenty of meat when we would go out to lunch.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Sort of, they actually brought CS:GO back for some reason (though it's not listed normally on Steam).
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
For now, media pushback and patches seem to be working for the most egregious cases.
Not really, one of the most egregious cases gets surprisingly little attention: Overwatch 1. I never played it myself because I prefer to get headshotted by the sweats in CounterStrike, but Overwatch 1 had a massive playerbase that was forced onto (the in many ways inferior) Overwatch 2. And that's a game from a massive company that absolutely has the resources to keep Overwatch 1 playable (or to release some sort of offline patch or a private server binary).
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Terrence Tao literally talks about this in his Lex Fridman interview:
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Or seen the number of people who think $2 bills are fake?
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
The problem is even ground beef is ridiculously expensive now.
I mean I find it highly unlikely it was done intentionally to be cruel. Sometimes animals get injured by an arrow or bullet instead of killed and run away rather than let you put them out of their misery because of that pesky survival instinct.
It's basically just part of the nature of hunting. It's also why most states have restrictions on using too small of a caliber bullet to hunt certain animals. For example I wouldn't trust .22LR to reliably kill anything bigger than a raccoon, even though a lady once killed a grizzly with it (according to some accounts it wasn't even.22LR, it was .22 Short, which is even more impressive).
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
The church in the anime Frieren is objectively good. The priest character you first encounter is a bit of a colorful character (he likes his alcohol a bit too much, among other things) but he's a good person generally. And there's another priest who shows up later who has a gambling problem and similar issues but is, once again, a decent person overall.
AI bros still in shambles, news at 7.
A few weeks ago, Anthropic made a post about their new model, Mythos. As has been done by other members of the AI industry as far back as the release of GPT 2, the creators of it said it was too dangerous to release. The headline feature of Mythos, at least as described by Anthropic, was not code generation. Instead, they specifically hyped it as the most amazing thing ever for finding security vulnerabilities in code.
Several people, including here on this forum, shared the hype. As usual, I remained unconvinced. I've mentioned elsewhere that I don't think AIs are inherently incapable of finding security vulnerabilities in code, my main skepticism is that they will generate lots of false positives in the process that will make them a lot less useful than the companies selling them have advertised. And more importantly, I think they are currently incapable of designing and maintaining any significant projects that go beyond a basic bitch CRUD application or things of that sort. I'm also skeptical that there is all that much room for growth or improvement beyond their current capabilities, for a number of reasons that I won't get into right now.
But enough about my opinions, I'm just a retarded code monkey doing API integrations for boring tax software. Enter Daniel Stenberg, the creator and maintainer of curl. For those who don't know, if you have a program or library that makes HTTP requests, there is an extremely high likelihood that it is using curl under the hood. It's basically one of the foundational pieces of modern digital infrastructure, a "project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003", as XKCD might put it: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Stenberg/curl was one of the projects that was offered early access to Mythos. However despite being promised access initially, it took several weeks to get it. And even then he suddenly was no longer being offered direct access, but was offered to have someone else run Mythos against his codebase for him and to then share the results with him. This is a big red flag for me, because if Mythos does actually generate a lot of noise/false positives, it would make sense that Anthropic would want to hide that by running it themselves as many times as they could until it actually generated some real, actionable results.
In any case, the results that Stenberg got back were underwhelming. Mythos claimed to have identified 5 vulnerabilities. After investigating all of them, Stenberg and his team determined that only one of those was a vulnerability, and a low severity one at that. In Stenberg's own words: "curl is certainly getting better thanks to this report, but counted by the volume of issues found, all the previous AI tools we have used have resulted in larger bugfix amounts."
Most damning from Stenberg is this: "My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing. I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing."
So I'm asking @self_made_human and others who seem more on-board with the AI hype train: does this report from a knowledgeable and experienced developer change your opinions on the future trajectory of AI at all?
Full article by Stenberg can be found here:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
At least according to the Google AI slop response (can't be bothered to dig into the sources to verify) the typical female world championship darts game has a score of 72 to 92, while the typical male world championship game is 95 to 105.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
Similarly, annual estimates for Medicaid fraud are $50-100 billion per year, or the total lifetime taxes of roughly 100,000-200,000 Americans.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
I'm finding the article you described as so convincing rather... underwhelming.
Some of them are blatant reaching, like this:
For instance: The Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile, a branded phone that costs $499 and an additional $47.45/month for the “47” plan. The Trump organization does not manufacture the phone or provide cell service (the phone itself has yet to be released, and the network will be operated by Liberty Mobile Wireless). Instead, Trump licenses his name to the deal and then promotes it using the presidential brand while he is in office — all at a cool profit.
The man has been putting his name on everything from buildings to steaks for decades. You could argue he should have stopped doing this while in office out of a sense of propriety or decorum or whatever, but there's no obvious "corruption" there. Some of the other examples are clear conflicts of interest, which are bad, but they don't seem any worse than the conflicts of interest that were pointed out with stuff like Hunter Biden, or the Clintons and the Uranium One deal etc.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
Finding out that it was based on oddball ancient astronaut type notions (or at least someone involved in producing it had those) was also funny.
The series creator, Glen Larson, was Mormon (as am I). He also made Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., and a bunch of other famous series, but Galactica was the only one where he gave it a bit of a Mormon twist (that I'm aware of). Mormons don't actually believe in weird Ancient Aliens stuff, but it meshed pretty well with the Galactica setting.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
How did you feel about Battlestar Galatica, which was the same kind of thing but not polluting a beloved IP?
Excuse me, but I was a big fan of the original series. That said, I didn't mind the direction they took with the reboot, but I did miss the thinly veiled Mormon theology from the original.
Jews in the Bar Kochba Rebellion killed many Christians that refused to join them in the revolt against the Romans.
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