br3d @ br3d @lemmy.world

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Yep. I'm using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Because they tried leaving it to the private sector and people got unhealthy from eating cheap refined carbs?

I was questioning the use of the word "prolly"

"Prolly"

Deliberate destruction of property to influence the government, with an ideological cause. I dunno - not hard to see the people behind this having an ideology and wanting to influence the government with their destructive act

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it's an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you've got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can't see a version of computer "intelligence" that's any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn't going to be general - it's going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths... And at that point you've not got some special interesting AGI - you've just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn't "general". Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can't remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as "You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can't do both"

A few years ago I'd have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

I'm guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the "human" dots

Oh, this looks good! Thanks

It's a very American style thing. UK English media don't do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

Thing is, a lot of these aren't that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

Every metric? What about the poor shareholders in oil companies? Have you no empathy for them at all, you monster?

That's whatever browser or app you're using. It rendered as (c) for me... Bracket, c, bracket

Premeditated littering as well

Anyone in Europe looking for an alternative might want to check out Tado

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of with that final sentence

I have a OnePlus Pad 2 and it's a brilliant tablet. The stylus is good and I use it with Obsidian and Excalidrae for notes