ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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I always liked the feudal age, straw roof buildings in AoE2. I almost didn't want to move to castle age because the appereance of the buildings chage.

I'm the type of person who touches everything, bites their nails, eats food from the floor and rarely washes their hands. I have zero food allergies and I'm almost never sick.

Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe these are related. Who knows.

EDIT: Don't remember ever taking antibiotics either

My community (on other account) has 200 subs and it dies when I stop posting so I'd say the answer is more than 200

In my case I have around 500 blocked users and around 700 blocked communities. I make a new account around once a year and I'd rather not start from scratch with each one.

There's an 'Import/export settings' feature in your profile. It'll move your subscribtions and blocks but not comments, likes and such. Just your user settings.

Electric radiator is 100% efficient.

If your central heating works by heating coils with electricity then it's 100% efficient as well. If you heat all the rooms to the same temperature it makes no difference which one you use. If you use radiators but leave some rooms cooler than others then that's going to cost less money.

If your central heating works by burning oil / gas then that's probably going to produce heat for cheaper than electric radiators are. Same applies if it works by heat-pump. Those are 200 - 300% efficient.

Yes, I will keep calling this out.

Thank you. Really. I start losing my faith when enough times passes since I last time saw someone event attempt to make sense on Lemmy.

Having a net worth of 270 billion dollars is not synonymous with 'having 270 billion dollars'

Hardware 4 models have a radar on the front as well.

The term AGI was first used in 1997 by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named 'Nanotechnology and international security'

By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be "conscious" or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.

AI implies either sentience or sapience constructed outside of an organ.

It definitely doesn't imply sentience. Even artificial super intelligence doesn't need to be sentient. Intelligence means the ability to acquire, undestand and use knowledge. A self driving car is intelligent too but almost definitely not sentient.

LLMs are true AI. AI doesn’t mean what most people think it means. AI systems from sci-fi movies like HAL 9000, JARVIS, Ava, Mother, Samantha, Skynet, and GERTY are all AI, but more specifically, they are AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). AGI is always a type of AI, but AI isn’t always AGI. Even a simple chess-playing robot is an AI, but it’s a narrow intelligence - not general. It might perform as well as or better than humans at one specific task, but this ability doesn’t translate to other tasks. AI itself is a very broad category, kind of like the term 'plants.'

The benefit of infrared heaters is that they only heat what they're pointed at where as a normal heater heats the entire room. Depending on the usecase, running an infrared heater may be cheaper.

Heat output of a candle is between 30 and 100 watts. It'll definitely be able to heat a small room if you have enough of them but they also worsen the air quality and cost more money than running an electric heater.

My heat pump is 300% efficient roughly meaning that it outputs the same amount of heat as three 1kW heaters but instead of 3kW it only consumes 1kW or energy.

He may very well be motivated by racism. I don't know him so I don't have an opinion on the matter. My comment is about this specific thing he said where I don't detect any obvious signs of racism.

I don't see how your comparison is in any way equivalent to what he said.

Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian?

Ofcourse not, but I don't see how that implies racism.

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I dislike that Lemmy is such a left-wing echo chamber. Reddit had a much wider variety of opinions being voiced openly; on Lemmy, there’s almost none. It doesn’t take long to figure out what’s acceptable to say here and what isn’t. It’s a kind of self-gaslighting because it can make you feel like the opinions of the average Lemmy user represent the wider population when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Also, there are almost no blue-collar workers here, and most discussions revolve around office jobs and big city life.

EDIT: and the extreme levels of cynicism.