[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I don't. It looked stupid even in concept and utterly failed the window test. And that was in 2019, after the pedophile tweet, so his true colours were starting to show.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Cyuck, pronounced with a hard C.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

In addition to what others have said about the worship not really being genuine, in the Bible, the evil of Satan (whichever flavour that story is using) is mostly tied to his defiance of Yahweh. By definition, their god is everything that is good, therefore anything in opposition must be evil.

The only time he performs unambiguously evil acts is when God gives him permission to fuck with his just loyal follower, just to prove to Satan that he would still be loyal, which has them both looking bad.

Other examples of "evil acts" include encouraging humans to seek knowledge, encouraging David to perform a census, telling Jesus to try something else, "entering" Judas so he'd betray Jesus (which was also a necessary part of the whole Jesus salvation plan), accusing Joshua in front of God and being rebuked for it (which makes his whole timeline questionable because apparently he fell from heaven before humans were a thing but he's there to accuse Joshua so Yahweh can rebuke him and reestablish Joshua's legitimacy in a time when his grip on his spiritual power was tenuous).

Because of all of this, there is a school of thought that says, if the characters and events in the Bible are real, maybe the whole thing has been a smear campaign against Satan because once you drop the whole "defying Yahweh is evil" assumption, Satan's record looks a lot better than Yahweh's.

But the more I look in to the Bible, the more it looks like a transparent power grab and hold. Which was specifically the reason Constantine adopted Christianity for Rome, because he was having a hard time convincing people in Iberia and Gaul they should be fighting wars in Anatolia and the Middle East and wanted to use religion to give a common identity.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

That's a part of it. Another part is that it looks for patterns that it can apply in other places, which is how it ends up hallucinating functions that don't exist and things like that.

Like it can see that English has the verbs add, sort, and climb. And it will see a bunch of code that has functions like add(x, y) and sort( list ) and might conclude that there must also be a climb( thing ) function because that follows the pattern of functions being verb( objects ). It didn't know what code is or even verbs for that matter. It could generate text explaining them because such explanations are definitely part of its training, but it understands it in the same way a dictionary understands words or an encyclopedia understands the concepts contained within.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

It removes one of the angles that made attempting to bribe someone risky: they could just take the bribe but then do what they were going to do anyways. Can't really retaliate legally without admitting you tried to bribe someone and if they told anyone about it in private, then there's a good chance that motive will come out if the official ends up dead.

But now the whole process is going to be the official does the act and it's the briber's choice if they follow through.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Then each QA human will be paired with a second AI that will catch those mistakes the human ignores. And another human will be hired to watch that AI and that human will get an AI assistant to catch their mistakes.

Eventually they'll need a rule that you can only communicate with the human/AI directly above you or below you in the chain to avoid meetings with entire countries of people.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I think the same about anyone who fears LGBT+ trying to convert their kids like they believe someone can be convinced to be gay rather than just convinced to accept their sexuality.

Like I don't see any problem with being gay but it's not for me. I sometimes think dating would be easier if I was bi, but it's about as appealing as knowing it would be easier to fill my stomach if I ate sawdust.

So it's very telling when someone talks about gays tempting them or that they worry about a gay agenda of turning everyone gay like it's a realistic possibility.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

So the rest will be immortal (going by Logan rules)?

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, one that I always think of is the see-saw one where a sky diver's parachute failed so he aimed for a see-saw with a girl sitting on one end which resulted in the girl launched shot upwards and then landing safely on top of a building.

Their first test used basically a metal plank on a fulcrum and the forces did more to bend the plank than they did to launch the girl and she didn't get high enough.

Their second attempt used a see-saw that was built using suspension bridge tech to essentially make it instructable, resulting in fatal forces from the launch. At this point, they called it busted.

But I see two unrealistic extremes where reality would exist somewhere in the middle where see-saws are designed to not break easily but not to the point of being indestructible and there might be a sweet spot where the forces are high enough to launch girl several stories up but not high enough that she dies from the forces.

Also, for the bull in a china shop one, I'm guessing that saying resulted from a bull ending up inside a china shop during a running of the bulls event, where stress would be high and there wouldn't be an easy and obvious path out on the other side, plus maybe a shopkeeper suddenly trying to get it out in a panic. I think that would get the expected result, especially after a few shelves have broken and each step makes more broken sounds.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Opposable thumbs and ability to vocalize a wide range of sounds also helped. Though with the brains, we probably would have figured out a way to communicate with more complexity than other animals regardless of the 2nd one.

And the mechanism for that infinite stamina also enabled our hands to be even more useful (and if I had to guess, bipedalism probably arose as a result of our ancestors wanting to hold things while they moved instead of that being an extra bonus).

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Case in point:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEEY_c9KunA

They do hurt him, but it's more of a case of being too enthusiastic about greeting and playing with him than wanting to cause him harm because they are wild animals.

The wild animal part means they are unpredictable, not automatically homicidal. All of our domesticated animals descend from wild animals, so at one point they would have been relationships between humans and wild animals. There might have been different levels of bonding as they were bred for sociability, but given the guy in the video's bond with lions and knowing that he is far from unique in that with big cats, I'd say there were probably some humans early on that befriended wolves or wild cats with strong bonds.

And there were also likely many that were killed by wild animals they had bonded with or were trying to. And that might still be the future fate of that guy in the video and it might even be over before he realizes it's any different.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Car doors that aren't on teslas don't fail open, they are reliable enough that I can't think of hearing about any failures that don't involve a collision and deforming of the door (in which case it's a fail closed and they use the jaws of life to get people out, or another door).

An electronic latch is either engaged or it isn't. Fail open would mean that in the absence of an electronic signal saying it should be closed, the latch will default to not being engaged, which would mean there's nothing holding the door closed if another force acts on it.

Don't assume any benefit of the doubt about Tesla's. I made no comment one way or another about what I think of their doors vs other doors. For the record, I agree completely that they fucked up this part of the design. The purpose of my comment was to say that taking that design and adding "fail open" to it won't fix it. Fail open and fail closed both have problems with an electronic latch and the only way to fix it without causing other big problems is to design it in a way that still functions as a door that can be open or latched closed whether or not the electronic part of the latch is working.

And I'm "deliberately misinterpreting" what fail open means? I'm having trouble understanding how it can mean anything other than how I'm interpreting it, even with your clarification, given the disagreement about other car doors failing open. Maybe it's a misnomer that I'm misinterpreting but why are you assuming I'm doing this in bad faith?

The downvotes themselves don't matter, I asked because I wanted to know the reasoning behind them, well aware that bringing them up at all will probably result in more of them.

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