blooalien

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by blooalien 23d ago
> Is it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set? It's all just fractals all the way down?
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by blooalien 23d ago
> If you want to live anonymously you wouldn't want to be in a small town. Having grown up in a small town, I can confirm this. The smaller the town, the more it becomes true that almost everyone in town has either heard of you fro
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by blooalien 23d ago
> ... what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment. "Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!"
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by blooalien 23d ago
> I don't think the US is a serious position to argue diplomatic issues atm. Yeah, first we'd have to prove that any of our politicians can even define the word 'diplomacy', then we'd have to prove that they&
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by blooalien 25d ago
> I was also a fanboy once, but a straw broke that particular camel's back a long time ago. That "straw" for me was when they decided that "Don't be Evil" actually meant "be as evil as we can every ch
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by blooalien 25d ago
> Corporations only exist to make profit. They will never take an action that risks that. This is absolutely 100% an action (one among many over the years) that guarantees I (for one) will never give Google another thin dime of my
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by blooalien 26d ago
> Let me know when AI solves greed and cruelty. It's in the act of solving greed and cruelty right now, but it's gonna magnify both for a little while before it's finally solved forever. There won't be any humans lef
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by blooalien 27d ago
> Of all the people in the world that I can think of to be entrusted with this kind of power, a bunch of greedy sociopathic SV CEO's are pretty much at the bottom of the list. I know, right? But who can you trust with "thi
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by blooalien 27d ago
Imagine any of these things "thinking"...
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by blooalien 29d ago
> I'm not sure what we are going to do about robot arms using touchscreens, or little devices that trick mouse sensors into thinking it's moving. Maybe continuous fingerprint reading? Heartbeat monitor paired to your mouse&#x27
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by blooalien 29d ago
> ... whether Brooklyn Bridge is up for sale or not. My "Magic 8-Ball" says: "Signs point to yes."
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by blooalien 29d ago
> If that's the case, what is making them catch on now? Perhaps the threat that "AI" will soon be the only "eyes" that see (and subsequently ignore) their online adverts?
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by blooalien 29d ago
> About that P in your acronym... For the next couple of years (at least) it stands for "Pollution" or "Poisoning".
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by blooalien 29d ago
> About 500 pounds of "take home packaged beef". At the import level it's usually "hanging weight" of a beef carcass before butchering, about 700 pounds. I'm fine with "about 700 pounds", but that&
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by blooalien 29d ago
> You can get 30k pounds of beef from 50 cows? This article [1] says you get about 500-ish pounds of beef from one cow, so 25,000-ish pounds from 50 cows? They weren't massively far off the mark there. [1]: https://cat
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by blooalien 1mo ago
It's not the generation that's the problem. It's (as always) the specific (increasingly) psychotic individuals that we've foolishly allowed (or placed) into positions of power, and then increasingly worshiped in c
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> I think the main goal is #2. Thomson Reuters might be a $40B company, but.... at this point it's not clear that that holds any weight in terms of not being fucked over by 2 companies aiming for $2t+ IPO valuations. It's exact
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> (That's a common English idiom meaning "not paying attention," for the foreign state actors out there.) It's even worse than "not paying attention". It's knowing the truth of the situation and ac
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> It would have been nice if more of those people just commented directly instead of downvoting and moving on. I'll comment directly; Has anyone considered that this is a literal global problem, and that just maybe it might requ
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> It’s not taking back historical desserts but rather reclaiming more recent desertification or simply stopping the advance of desertification. Any successes in that specific regard are probably an overall good thing really. Fingers
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> The planet is actually greening due to warmer temperatures and more co2. For now... No guarantees that's "the new normal" (and it very likely isn't going to be). Do a bit of research into recent discoveries reg
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by blooalien 1mo ago
Too simple: https://skepticalscience.com/co2-is-plant-food-too-simple.ht...
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> Constantly being told there's something wrong with you Worse yet, there's likely much less wrong with you than there is with those who feel they need to label you as somehow "less" to feel like "more"
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> it defines companies as legal persons with all the same rights > > It absolutely does not but people keep repeating this on social media Funny how some folks can comment here on the world's biggest library and communicatio
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> ... attracting high quality and thoughtful comments either. Sadly, U.S. politics doesn't attract high-quality thought in general (especially in more recent years), so any discussion surrounding our little three-ring circus cult he
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by blooalien 1mo ago
Or for those coding in Python there's Textual: https://textual.textualize.io/ Or for Go coders there's BubbleTea: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea Why? Because TUI!
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> It is 100% the consequence of stupid laws. More like the consequence of being unwilling to change stupid laws once the stupidity of them is discovered. Nope. Gotta double down on the stupidity instead...
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> Since when do AI companies care about the law? Most of their training data is pirated. I imagine since the law recently cost one of them truckloads of money for their violations of it?
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> I've never felt so alienated from the leaders of my industry, from my politicians, and from my fellow citizens. Ya'll should have known better. It is the information age, all ignorance is willful ignorance. ^^^ 1000% this rig
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by blooalien 1mo ago
> Life is the leading cause of death 100% fatality rate thus far...

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