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Iconoclast

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  • Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI

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  • You couldn't really warn future civilizations about the dangers of a true Artificial General Intelligence - because there probably wouldn't be any future civilizations.

    And even that assumes the problem magically solves itself once humans disappear, which it wouldn't. A real AGI would be perfectly capable of continuing to exist without us around.

  • Party like it's 1996

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  • Can we play Age of Empires after this?

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • I'll start paying for YT before I ever start watching ads. I won't as long as I don't have to, but the second they finally figure this out, I'm subscribing.

    It's well worth the money considering how much I use it and for how long I've used it for free. It's honestly one of the few streaming services actually worth paying for.

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • Apparently there is a way around it as I've been watching YouTube all day and haven't encountered a single ad.

  • Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?

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  • Ah, or mAh might be a little confusing though - two different batteries can have the same Ah rating but wildly different capacities.

    I always convert everything to watt-hours by multiplying ampere-hours by voltage.

  • I don't like to play pixel art games.

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  • I don't like to play 99.999% of existing or yet to be released games.

  • How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?

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  • Cut thinner slices? Idk. That never happens to me and I slice cucumber daily. I don't think I could make a slice roll even if I tried to - they just fall over.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • Well, they don't in this case either - they just add an extra step to it. You can buy a bit like that off eBay.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • I went looking for a screenshot of that scene but got distracted by all the shop-vacs painted as R2D2. Off to buy white and blue paint.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • Not to defend BMW here but it's likely a very specific part that this screw is used for and 99% of home mechanics probably are never going to encounter it. Most likely having something to do with the high-voltage system which you shouldn't be messing with anyway.

  • UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Oat Milk Branding

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  • Their packaging used to say "oat milk". I don't know how long ago they changed that.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • Exactly. That's why I corrected that it's statistically extremely unlikely but not impossible.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • No. "Impossible" is an absolute statement, whereas "extremely unlikely" leaves a non-zero chance for the unlikely thing to actually happen.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • It's not impossible but it's extremely unlikely.

  • Mike the Headless Chicken survived for 18 months without a head

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  • If you go by a layman's definition of the term, then maybe so, but the way people who actually study this stuff define consciousness is that it's the fact of subjective experience - that it's like something to be. That existence has qualia.

    Without consciousness there's no place for any pleasant or unpleasant experiences to arise at all. It's kind of like saying you don't need water to have waves. No, you do. Water is where those waves appear.

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • And what photo they're using. Most news outlets use unflattering pictures of the people they don't like.

  • A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think.

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  • That's why I don't immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that's okay.

    I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they're capable of independent reasoning.

    It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it's just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The "stamp of approval" from people like that is basically worthless.

  • Mike the Headless Chicken survived for 18 months without a head

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  • I doubt it's like anything to be a headless chicken. Whatever little consciousness there may have been probably shut off the moment the neck was severed.

  • What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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  • It's just a single user doing that. Block and move on.