amelia @ amelia @feddit.org

Posts

1

Comments

88

Joined

1 yr. ago

Not sure if that counts as technology, but simple LED lights over my kitchen counter (mounted under the upper cabinets) were a pretty inexpensive purchase that made my life significantly better. I don't understand now how I was ever able to cook with just the ceiling lights on, it's absolutely terrible.

While that does seem to make sense, in my opinion it really just gives people more incentive to use a car. If you ban wild parking completely, that might be a different story. But just creating more and more space for cars is not going to solve the problem. The problem is that there are too many cars in the first place.

I'm from Germany too. Is it really?! I had never heard of that. It can't be a thing inside cities though, can it? I honestly can't even think of a place where it would make any sense. Surely shops that are located outside dense urban areas would try to make sure they have enough parking space anyway.

As a European, this is the first time I ever heard about parking minimums. What a horrible concept.

I have a foldable phone that also has a very slightly curved front screen (Honor Magic V2). It's perfect. You can barely see the curve, no weird reflections, it just feels very good in the hand, there are no sharp edges at all. Feels very smooth and nice to hold and use.

based on weighted averages of ‘what people are saying’ with a little randomization to spice things up

That is massively oversimplified and not really how neural networks work. Training a neural network is not just calculating averages. It adjusts a very complex network of nodes in such a way that certain input generates certain output. It is entirely possible that during that training process, abstract mechanisms like logic get trained into the system as well, because a good NN can produce meaningful output even on input that is unlike anything it has ever seen before. Arguably that is the case with ChatGPT as well. It has been proven to be able to solve maths/calculating tasks it has never seen before in its training data. Give it a poem that you wrote yourself and have it write an analysis and interpretation - it will do it and it will probably be very good. I really don't subscribe to this "statistical parrot" narrative that many people seem to believe. Just because it's not good at the same tasks that humans are good at doesn't mean it's not intelligent. Of course it is different from a human brain, so differences in capabilities are to be expected. It has no idea of the physical world, it is not trained to tell truth from lies. Of course it's not good at these things. That doesn't mean it's crap or "not intelligent". You don't call a person "not intelligent" just because they're bad at specific tasks or don't know some facts. There's certainly room for improvement with these LLMs, but they've only been around in a really usable state for like 2 years or so. Have some patience and in the meantime use it for all the wonderful stuff it's capable of.

I disagree, at least as someone who knows some Python but isn't a pro programmer, ChatGPT saves me tons of time when writing little scripts. I used it to write a little tool with a GUI that I now use all the time in like 3 hours which would have taken me days without ChatGPT.

Oh no, proice inflietion.

I keep telling myself I need to start using a password manager but I'm worried I won't be able to log into things on my phone or other devices like my work computer when I need to because I don't know the password. Is that a legitimate worry or is there a solution for this? How do you sync passwords between computer and phone?

Richard McDickface

Not sure but this might be genius.

Speciesism? I can't tell if you're just a troll at this point so I'm not going to continue this discussion, sorry.

The decision is not between killing a million stalks of wheat or a cow, but between a million stalks of wheat or a cow AND a million stalks of wheat, it's just that in the latter case the wheat was fed to the cow instead.

I disagree. Everyone who eats meat should be able to reflect on that fact and if you can't defend your behavior in a debate, maybe you should change it.

What does the cow eat?

He goes to elite universities and interviews people his age. Where the hell do you think he should go to find more equal debate partners? Maybe he just has the better arguments?

That is true, but there are statistical trends that you can observe in scientific studies. How else would you rate how healthy something is? Just because some person is allergic to nuts doesn't mean they're not generally a healthy snack.

How about accepting that your argument was wrong? Your first paragraph had nothing to do with it. I agree with your first paragraph, but we must still ask the question whether it is moral or not to kill animals for food even if they didn't suffer. It's not clear and people have different opinions on it and that's okay. In any way, a lot would have to change compared to the status quo.

I'm not humanizing animals. I just acknowledge the fact that they are sentient beings that are capable of feeling pain, physically and emotionally. That enjoy certain things and dislike other things. Is it okay to torture a dog because wild dogs get into fights where they get hurt terribly?

Of course animals in nature are killed brutally, but so are humans. It's totally natural for bears to kill humans. Does that mean we can also kill humans? See how this doesn't mean anything for the question whether it's immoral to kill animals or not? I wouldn't even necessarily disagree that it can be morally okay to kill an animal, given certain circumstances. The argument "in nature, animals are killed brutally" just has absolutely no implications for human ethics. Animals and "nature" have no concept of morality. Humans do.

From a knowledge standpoint, I simply don’t know enough about nutrition to understand whether or not humans can be ‘maximally healthy’ on a vegetarian or vegan or pescatarian or w/e diet.

According to science, a whole-food, plant-based diet is basically the healthiest way to eat. You would need to supplement vitamin B12, but that's it (and it's very easy to do that). So from a health perspective, there is really no point against a vegan diet.

If you are interested in the morality of meat / veganism I highly recommend the debate videos by Ed Winters on Youtube where he talks to people about why they're not vegan and it's very respectful and also insightful. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqAyFhWL2s (some are way more controversial though, this guy is already quite "vegan-positive", still an interesting discussion)