benignintervention @ benignintervention @lemmy.world

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I'm a sci fi nerd from foundation to Hyperion to the expanse but I've never heard of Blindsight, and you've absolutely sold me on it

Ooo added the book to my list, thanks!

Also, Robert Sapolsky's book Determined explores whether we're conscious or not based on his work in neuroscience and primatology. It's like a book length version of the quote you posted

It had to be within a minute lol I saw it at 15 seconds and it was gone when I refreshed

They went all in on the bit then chickened out when it wasn't well received. The epitome of edge lording

They found a way to create a high surface area capacitor made largely from abundant resources. Even a proof of concept is a discovery. We may not see it in practice in our lifetimes because science and industry take time, but that doesn't diminish the value at all.

Why is this a false equivalence? I'm not saying this is the next Faraday. I'm comparing contemporaries. You can't know what technologies will make what kind of difference in the future, but there's no harm in being excited about our interested in them and their possibilities. I think my comparisons are fair, especially if you consider the technology of each contemporary era. What about Turing? He created a mechanical computational machine and extrapolated the future possibility of machines that could mimic human communication. That is absolutely an edge case assumption given the technology of the time and yet here we are with LLMs running rampant.

A couple of guys doing cool stuff in a lab is how progress is made. If we stopped people like Tesla, Newton, and Faraday because "candles are readily available and whale oil is a natural resource" we wouldn't have any of the tech we take for granted today.

This discovery is super cool, like imagine its applications in walkable cities where the entire pedestrian pathway is also storing energy from wind and solar

"non-empire"

Crimea and Ukraine might contest that

I am apparently unhirable as an IT manager because I only have 8 years of experience and Sec+, and not 15 years and scrum and agile certs

I found math in physics to have this really fun duality of "these are rigorous rules that must be followed" and "if we make a set of edge case assumptions, we can fit the square peg in the round hole"

Also I will always treat the derivative operator as a fraction

The dissent doesn't "reveal concerns." Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor have been very vocal about these issues for months, since last summer at least. I wish the news would stop with this limpdick rhetoric. We are in a fucking crisis, act like it

Oooohhhhh right, I forgot about that bit of Lemmy lore. Better to leave well enough alone then, eh

Solid crosspost material for !shera@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Looks like the swedish meatballs I had in Stockholm. They told me it was a national specialty, but I think they just wanted to sell them and I, an ignorant American, bought it

I do not understand how people can have so much fucking money and not want to actually help people with it. But maybe that's why I'm poor

Unironically, for sure

Knew this big 6foot+ guy who loaded 9mm extra spicy. Fired two of his reloads and then switched ammo. Pretty sure he blew up 2 or 3 guns

I never spent enough time on YouTube for it to develop its algorithm for me. I watch like 2 videos a week maybe, usually searching for something specific, and most of the recs for me have always been obscure clickbait I'm not interested in seeing

I see no problem with this, what with all the recommended slop

Brb broke my wrist

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