space_fountain

10 ms·

91.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Yeah, but I mean I assume the people selling date rape drugs do a bit of wink, wink, nod, nod, thing too. Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? I think I can imagine, maybe it got used outside of a b
92.
by space_fountain 3y ago
And I'm not convinced we need a wild west either, at least if it's also more or less impossible to trace responsibility back to the producer. It's pretty new for something like Amazon to exist with the ability to market (thro
93.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I mean I also have a morbid curiosity, but is there anything that could have been there that would have made it ok? This isn't lock picks were a lot of people buy them to mess around with and to get back into their own property
94.
by space_fountain 3y ago
It's a pretty new thing to have online market places with the kind of scale that exists today while claiming no duty to know about the things being sold. If Walmart or your neighborhood mom and pop tried to sell this everyone would be
95.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Sure, but the original argument was that with current known physics we should expect the universe to be full of simulations in the future
96.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think that maybe brings in a question of if you should assume a piece of information say the existence of this 't' is uncorrelated with being simulated or not. If not than I think it can be shown that it's probability of be
97.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Sure, but then we're back to knowing nothing about it. I think what many people find compelling about the simulation argument is that it claims that we can just follow forward our laws of physics and see that we are more likely than no
98.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think it's fine to imagine that there might be a root universe that doesn't share this one's restrictions on information density, but we don't have any reason to believe it and without believing it the argument that th
99.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think I'm very suspicious whenever infinities come into probability calculations, because I think human institution's break down when it comes to infinites. What I like about pointing out that the information content of the a cu
100.
by space_fountain 3y ago
There’s a counter argument from my physics undergrad brother that I found convincing. We already do have a law of physics that is relevant here. We know that the information capacity of space is finite and fixed. A centimeter of space can o
101.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think the worry with the vision of AI under the control of who ever happens to want to use them is that someday that might be the equivalent of giving everyone the keys to a nuclear silo. We know the universe makes it easier to destroy th
102.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Something of that sort is my top guess, but I think it's not that clear and I'm not sure if this journalist is to be fully believed. In particular here is some strong evidence against it: * They say in the statement that Sam &quot
103.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think it seems possible there was some incompetence here
104.
by space_fountain 3y ago
The video was of a different incident right and the person mentioned in the first link hasn't been on the station in years?
105.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Oxygen really likes being connected carbon so spitting it off takes a lot of energy. All the things you mentioned burn in oxygen for exactly that reason. Making them requires at least as much energy as you’d get back by burning them so is h
106.
by space_fountain 3y ago
They’re like seeds in the wind. This also means most viruses will never infect a cell. Maybe thinking of them like infected usb drives strewn across the ground hoping some unsuspecting cell picks them up will help.
107.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think the precisely better poll would be: "Will the consequences of continuing to emit CO2 at the current rate be greater than the cost of reaching net 0 by 2100?", but regardless of how weak the idea that humans aren't at
108.
by space_fountain 3y ago
They keep shadow profiles so they can match you up with your friends when you do sign up
109.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Every time I hear people talk about leaked emails proving a conspiracy I'm reminded of an incident on a Minecraft server I played on when I was 16. One faction (us) leaked some internal chats from another group, they made them look pre
110.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Here, there are other sources, but from the horses mouth https://m.facebook.com/help/152637448140583 . And that was revenue not profit. FB makes roughly 30% profits so maybe 15 dollars a year for the US?
111.
by space_fountain 3y ago
FB does not sell to data brokers and because fb is a public company when know exactly how much they profit from user data. Overall FB made about $3.22 per user and the vast majority of that came from selling ads.
112.
by space_fountain 3y ago
A large vocabulary means less tokens are needed to represent the same information
113.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I do see stories about FSD seemingly trying to drive into obstacles fairly often. It’s true that it does see most obstacles, but most is not good enough for this.
114.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think regardless of what you think of policing speech generally it just is clearly worse when the entity controlling the police does it
115.
by space_fountain 3y ago
But the effort would not be compensated by this capitalistic world we live in
116.
by space_fountain 3y ago
Well because people need money to eat and because lots of effort would go it it
117.
by space_fountain 3y ago
What gave you the negative view? Was it personal experience or media?
118.
by space_fountain 3y ago
The article compared stable diffusion to job statistics. It was bad even if you controlled for that. I think this might be representative of some of the pushback to DEI. People can feel like minorities are being pushed on them even when the
119.
by space_fountain 3y ago
I think I'm sympathetic to that idea, but the ethical consideration there isn't that it violates copyright. It's that it's disruptive to society/the economy. Or maybe one could argue that because it's owned?
120.
by space_fountain 3y ago
What is art but cleverly composed stimulus? Idk it’s a bit silly and I think the critique that an unknown wouldn’t be able to do it is fair, but that too is true of most art

More ›