I have been saying for a while that chatgpt is a "verisimilitude engine" which has no interest in producing output that is true, only interest in producing output which appears to be true. In some cases, a correct answer is the most true looking answer that it can come up with. On the other hand, often an incorrect answer is the most true looking answer that it can come up with.
A lot of people that claim that it will replace software developers haven't been in the situation where it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it, so it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it, so it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it. I also had a fun situation where I asked it to create a review of Beowulf in the style of beowulf, and it created something that was rhyming which Beowulf does not. I pointed out that Beowulf does not rhyme, and it said that's right Beowulf does not rhyme, so I said create a review of Beowulf in the style of Beowulf that does not run, and it produced a review of beowulf, that rhymed.
A lot of people that claim that it will replace software developers haven't been in the situation where it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it, so it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it, so it gives you provably wrong information, so you correct it. I also had a fun situation where I asked it to create a review of Beowulf in the style of beowulf, and it created something that was rhyming which Beowulf does not. I pointed out that Beowulf does not rhyme, and it said that's right Beowulf does not rhyme, so I said create a review of Beowulf in the style of Beowulf that does not run, and it produced a review of beowulf, that rhymed.
It's incredibly frustrating that so many people were screaming from the rooftops about the danger the world's governments are in, but people who want unlimited free stuff were like "Naw, it'll be fiiiine" ignoring many historical precedents of the fall of empires and their conversion into backwaters
https://wolfball.gitlab.io/blog/posts/main/
A great post from one of the guys who ran one of the freest instances on lemmy for about a year. He talks about the oppressive problems of activitypub.
He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there's an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: "you better do what we want or we're shutting the world down for you and you'll be all alone".
He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about @alex and his view that nostr is the path for the future.
I've got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn't comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I'm hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he'll integrate nostr into soapbox so we'll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I'm not an admin user.
A great post from one of the guys who ran one of the freest instances on lemmy for about a year. He talks about the oppressive problems of activitypub.
He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there's an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: "you better do what we want or we're shutting the world down for you and you'll be all alone".
He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about @alex and his view that nostr is the path for the future.
I've got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn't comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I'm hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he'll integrate nostr into soapbox so we'll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I'm not an admin user.
I saw the story and I wonder how the DNA managed to be preserved all this time? Typically after 1000 years 75% of genetic code is degraded, and that seems like you shouldn't wake up after that. I know some unicellular life doesn't grow new cells unless it reproduces so could probably live without DNA for some time, but I don't think nematodes are single celled organisms.
Social pressure to conform is always painted as the ultimate evil, but sometimes you should conform because what you're trying to be a non-conformist is stupid and bad.
IT SOON SHALL BE! FEEEEED ME, AMERICA! FEEEED ME POTAAAATOES!
(The actual point of my estimation was to look at the order of magnitude idea that the earth is so overpopulated it can't possibly support humanity, and it sure looks like if you can give the world shitty potato farms based on a fraction of one population, we're probably mostly ok)
(The actual point of my estimation was to look at the order of magnitude idea that the earth is so overpopulated it can't possibly support humanity, and it sure looks like if you can give the world shitty potato farms based on a fraction of one population, we're probably mostly ok)
Doing some research, it looks like potatoes are one of the most energy dense foods you can grow at 17.8 million calories per irrigated acre. A regular human diet of about 2000 calories per day would work out to about 730,000 calories per year. This means that if you used every mm of that area to grow potatoes, you’d come up short, about 356,000 calories per year. And you’d need to find water, and so on and so forth, I think it’d be a challenge.
On the other hand, the US has about 1.6 Billion acres of land that’s presently used for grazing cattle, forests, farming and so on, so if you gave 8 billion people a fair share of each, you’d give everyone 0.2 acres about 800m3. At that point, each individual person on earth would likely have enough land to grow food, have a place to live, maybe have some light (or heavy) industry.
Incidentally, the federal government owns about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States, about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres (9.2 million km2). That could be enough to provide 0.08 acres (Approx 3000 square feet) to everyone on earth, and if you assume (incorrectly) that all that land is fertile enough to grow potatoes with irrigation, that area could likely just barely feed and house everyone and also give a bit of space for a fallow field.
On the other hand, the US has about 1.6 Billion acres of land that’s presently used for grazing cattle, forests, farming and so on, so if you gave 8 billion people a fair share of each, you’d give everyone 0.2 acres about 800m3. At that point, each individual person on earth would likely have enough land to grow food, have a place to live, maybe have some light (or heavy) industry.
Incidentally, the federal government owns about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States, about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres (9.2 million km2). That could be enough to provide 0.08 acres (Approx 3000 square feet) to everyone on earth, and if you assume (incorrectly) that all that land is fertile enough to grow potatoes with irrigation, that area could likely just barely feed and house everyone and also give a bit of space for a fallow field.
Canada is getting a 988 suicide hotline. Speed dial for becoming an hero!
"Every day, an average of 12 people die by suicide" said one MP, "those are rookie numbers. We gotta get those numbers way up"
"Every day, an average of 12 people die by suicide" said one MP, "those are rookie numbers. We gotta get those numbers way up"
If you think about it, the hollywood strike is sorta funny.
Hollywood writers and actors advocated for policies that destroyed everyone's wages and quality of life, now they're striking because their wages and quality of life have been destroyed.
But as many people have pointed out, in 2008 people let Hollywood into their homes, but that's not really the case in 2023.
Hollywood writers and actors advocated for policies that destroyed everyone's wages and quality of life, now they're striking because their wages and quality of life have been destroyed.
But as many people have pointed out, in 2008 people let Hollywood into their homes, but that's not really the case in 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yuZp5JX2mI
Blows me away the truth this guy speaks.
In particular, people who go around chanting "PUNCH A NAZI" don't realize that they're cultivating the next Nazi regime personally right now.
Blows me away the truth this guy speaks.
In particular, people who go around chanting "PUNCH A NAZI" don't realize that they're cultivating the next Nazi regime personally right now.
Had a really neat dream. It was after the end. We start in a warehouse or something and the MC is getting a message that they need to figure something out or they're never going to get out alive. There was all kinds of scheming. There's a number of people in the warehouse and the exit is surrounded by zombies. One of the people there has a girlfriend who turned into a zombie.
Over time it becomes obvious that some of the people are changing. The MC keeps getting the message that they can get out if only they figure things out and that they'll be powerful if they can figure it out. The guy who had a girlfriend breaks down and claims he went out and met with his girlfriend. everyone is horrified, and agree to lock him out -- you want to be a weirdo like that, go to her.
Eventually it becomes clear there's a certain laugh that predicts someone becoming a zombie. An insane laugh like you've given up hope. Even old corpses reanimate as zombies once they let out that laugh, and having figured it out the way to protect themselves they finally see out one of the other windows and see the world outside of the little enclosed area outside the entrance -- every building has an emotive face etched into the buildings, representing the emotions that the people in each building have settled on.
The scene changes. An old civil engineer is angrily flipping switches trying to keep his tunnels in check as he walks through and sees the mess people have left behind. You think he's in trouble with everything going on but he seems to be strong and in charge even though he's clearly annoyed. It seems like there's an indication that this guy's controlled righteous annoyance has been channelled into strength, actual physical strength... In this world it seems that it matters how you express your emotions, it can make you weak, or it can make you strong.
I think the dream is an allegory for the different ways people react to the current age. The ones who laughed and became zombies and tore everyone apart were the ones who fell into despair, the old engineer got angry but kept on doing the work that mattered. The dream didn't show it, but it was heavily implied that there were many other options besides the two. Presumably some of them would help you build and protect what matters, and others would become mindless forces of destruction.
Over time it becomes obvious that some of the people are changing. The MC keeps getting the message that they can get out if only they figure things out and that they'll be powerful if they can figure it out. The guy who had a girlfriend breaks down and claims he went out and met with his girlfriend. everyone is horrified, and agree to lock him out -- you want to be a weirdo like that, go to her.
Eventually it becomes clear there's a certain laugh that predicts someone becoming a zombie. An insane laugh like you've given up hope. Even old corpses reanimate as zombies once they let out that laugh, and having figured it out the way to protect themselves they finally see out one of the other windows and see the world outside of the little enclosed area outside the entrance -- every building has an emotive face etched into the buildings, representing the emotions that the people in each building have settled on.
The scene changes. An old civil engineer is angrily flipping switches trying to keep his tunnels in check as he walks through and sees the mess people have left behind. You think he's in trouble with everything going on but he seems to be strong and in charge even though he's clearly annoyed. It seems like there's an indication that this guy's controlled righteous annoyance has been channelled into strength, actual physical strength... In this world it seems that it matters how you express your emotions, it can make you weak, or it can make you strong.
I think the dream is an allegory for the different ways people react to the current age. The ones who laughed and became zombies and tore everyone apart were the ones who fell into despair, the old engineer got angry but kept on doing the work that mattered. The dream didn't show it, but it was heavily implied that there were many other options besides the two. Presumably some of them would help you build and protect what matters, and others would become mindless forces of destruction.
Ackshually, one of the defining features of our religion is that it isn't a religion.
ngl, the redditors coming into the threadiverse sort of piss me off.
They come in, act like they invented the fucking thing, and then shit on the people who have been there for years. "Oh, why do those people come into our space?" Uh sweaty, they were there first.
They come in, act like they invented the fucking thing, and then shit on the people who have been there for years. "Oh, why do those people come into our space?" Uh sweaty, they were there first.