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wakko@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•MAGA ‘was all a lie’: Marjorie Taylor Greene torches Trump in scathing new interview
8·13 days agoYou ever ask her why she’s suddenly not as interested in satanic pedo sex cults run by elites now that she knows she helped get one elected as President?
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention.
12·18 days agoThank you for announcing that you do not understand what was said.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention.
1·18 days agoYes, but the key detail is governance. There’s specific molecules that, without them, there is no attention to be sought. Paying attention or “having willpower” is causally linked to these specific compounds being present in the meat.
Much of “free will” boils down to regulation of these neurotransmitters.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention.
132·18 days agoAttention is a function of dopamine & serotonin production over time.
Almost everything about being human reduces down to a handful of neurotransmitters.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you feel about high-quality AI content?
5·20 days agoThere is now just a large gap between what "profesional’ (read: corporate) art is and what is relegated to “hobbyists”.
In the corporate world, time-to-deliver matters. It matters that creating a logo, an ad, or a t-shirt design can be made faster with AI.
However, AI isn’t likely to be used very widely in what people consider “fine art”. Fine art is more about something intangible that AI can’t really assist with.
What current image generation models can do is reproduce shapes, forms and color mixes that are similar to what they’ve seen before. For the high-volume, high throughput world of corporate art, AI image generation is reducing the cost of goods down to something barely above the cost of electricity. For the fine art world, it means the barrier to entry is a bit steeper and a whole lot fewer people will be capable of spending the time creating it.
AI is making some creative jobs into something akin to blacksmithing or horse-based transportation is today. Making things with older technologies still exists, even though most of modern society has moved on. But it’s something that only a handful of people can do professionally anymore. For most people, it’s a hobby or a fun tourist attraction.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnsEnglish
88·27 days agoTranslation: “Please help us justify our choices to our board. They want to know why we YOLO’d billions into making our users hate us.”
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•FYI, you too can watch the Mpreg episode of the Dilbert animated series for free on tubi.
11·29 days agoWatch Jurrasic Park instead. So you can be reminded that just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?
2·1 month agoHilarious.
I’m betting he learned AOJ in this context means “Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy” - the standard three-prong test used in justifiable homicide cases. Why is justifiable homicide relevant here? Because firearms are LETHAL weapons in the court’s eyes. There is no defense for “I aimed for the leg and tried to disable but oopsie doopsie I hit the femoral artery and they bled out on the street right in front of me.” Or, worse, “I aimed for the perp’s leg, missed, and the bullet traveled through the walls of your house, then through the walls of the house across the street and into a child’s bedroom, killing an uninvolved child.”
If the situation can’t clear the AOJ test, you’re going to prison for manslaughter, best case. Because firearms are LETHAL weapons.
If you’re going to use one, use it with the understanding that you are deploying lethal force. The circumstances need to warrant an escalation to lethal force. And know how to shoot. Get training. Practice. Real life ain’t like the movies. Just look up the number of hours of range time Keanu put in to prep for the Wick movies.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'
441·1 month agoColloidal Silver packets for every agent. Make ICE ice blue again.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'
3883·1 month ago“Are we the baddies?” ponders Gen-X’s Rush Limbaugh copycat after decades of being a mouthpiece for Russian agitprop.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why do criminals always dress / act / talk / look the same?
5·1 month agoAsk yourself who perpetrates crimes.
Do they have a job? A steady income? Stability in their life? Confidence about their future? Did they go to college or even complete high school?
Or, are they broke, desperate, possibly with chemically altered cognition, and very likely to have a limited education/understanding about the world?
The fact is - when you don’t know much, you look at the world through a very limited perspective. This restricts a person’s thinking into a narrow set of tracks that are all the most obvious paths to the goal of quick cash (often, to buy drugs to stave off the DTs for a few more hours). The stereotypical behaviors are the only things that are seemingly possible with a limited education and a chemical addiction.
The reason stereotypes exist is because most humans aren’t that creative. Most people, most of the time, will do the same basic things everyone else does in the same basic ways everyone else does it.
The main difference here is that a crook rationalizes their actions and does not properly consider key facts, like the general success rate of robberies. Most of the time, desperation plays a strong enough role as a motivator that you can see these folks telling themselves how they “have to” do this. They’ll psyche themselves up in the moments before they decide to act because they need to convince themselves that what they’re doing “has to be done” even when they know their odds of success are abysmal.
Small-time crooks are cliche because the underlying reasons behind what made them crooks is always the same three or four things - poor, uneducated, desperate, and (often) addicted to something. The educated crooks are smart enough to get laws passed to make their crimes legal.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?
2·1 month agoThank you for continuing to demonstrate you know absolutely nothing about the subject, but yet you appear to think we should care about your uneducated, ignorant opinion.
Talk to me when you know what “AOJ” means.
wakko@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?
8·1 month agoThis is moronic advice coming from someone who has never even held a gun, much less seen a situation where one is a life-saving tool. Firearms don’t work like they do in the movies.
If you want to use one for self-defense, seek professional training, learn the local laws, and also make sure you have insurance. Even lawful uses of firearms get brought into court. This can be financially disastrous if you aren’t prepared for it.
If you choose to deploy a firearm for personal defense, you shoot high-center-mass and you shoot until the target stops doing whatever it was that warranted them being shot. In areas that have a duty to retreat, you must comply with those and other requirements before, during, and after you deploy your firearm.
Don’t listen to internet knuckleheads about firearms. It’ll get you killed or imprisoned for a very long time.
That’s an improvement over humans. Humans violate ethical constraints due to KPI pressures far more often.