SnotFlickerman

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (28 children)

Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Non-descript black gloves. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. Never take off your mask. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How I imagine this browser engine works.

More likely that this will just kill the x86 market and ARM will fully take over because of those chips' reduced power consumption in comparison.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh good, so that means we can just replace the C-suite with LLMs then, right? Right?

An AI won't need a Golden Parachute when they inevitably fuck it all up.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguistics kind of makes me think he's being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.

For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of "wholeness." That when you cut something apart to it's individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it's potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.

For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn't know why. Surprisingly, that's actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn't done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.

Further, I think he's deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding. It does not mean we are born understanding language as much as we are born with the building blocks of understanding the physical world in which we exist.

Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.

For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you and I'm sorry people are doing so.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 111 points 5 months ago (10 children)

That's because they aren't "aware" of anything.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Courts worldwide gotta get their shit together and get faster this is a joke.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like "The Nathan Fielder Method" from The Rehearsal.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

and Devil Worship

also said “Hail Satan.”

Look, let's leave Satan out of this. He's got enough troubles already with his new relationship and all.


Seriously though we don't need to be enabling Satanic Panic bullshit with articles like these sensationalizing that aspect of these conversations. The push towards self-mutilation and suicide is the bigger issue here.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote

This is for all men and women, not broken down by different factors.

When an average is taken of all the elections, men average 43.67% for Democrat and 50% for Republican for a 6.33% difference. I do also think it's notable that in only one election since 2000 has the support for Republican candidates from men been under 50%, that's 48% for McCain in 2008. I honestly think the voting patterns from the 90's are gone and so while I included those in the averages, I think just touching on votes since 2000 gives a clearer picture with the average for men supporting the Democratic candidate at 44.14% and support for the Republican candidate at 52.58% for an 8.44% difference. That's still a large spread when we're talking the total number of men who vote at all. Somewhere around the size of the entire city of Los Angeles in terms of population.

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