If you ask about gender in death, people will just look at you weird.

There’s compounding evidence that a lot of religious canon was simply written by mankind as a kind of societal control.

The living should be kinder to one another.

💙

Based on what I’ve witnessed so far, people will play with their AGI units for a bit and then put them down to continue scrolling memes.

Which means it is neither awesome, nor world-ending, but just boring/business as usual.

She’s married to Mr. Coffee with an automatic drip

Good – is it $10,000 now instead of only $5,000?

Lemmy has its own memes haha

I’ve been laughing at this quote for 5 minutes straight

It’s so good

He knows he’s right

Also: I code sometimes, and all of my code is of masterpiece quality. I cannot debug my own code, I ask for outside help and we have to dismantle the NT kernel to find out what’s gone wrong

Given your vast experience and that your distro quest is over – what did you settle on?

Sincerely, Win10+Kubuntu user

That’s the origin of the superstition, don’t cha know?

inhales sharply

Don’t violate causality, don’t violate causality

Don’t tell them about the event

How do you post a comment

Hello

Hello?

Is this actually going to post to the site???

I’ve got a 850W power supply, which I bought 2-3 years ago in anticipation of the RTX 4000 series. My usual load with a GTX 1080 was 150W and now my entire system uses 520W completely loaded. Do I count? :)

Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.

I learned this technique – we called it “cutting off the head of the snake”.

Traffic moves like water, and becoming fluid and just rolling sometimes can kill traffic completely, I was on a stretch of bright red (5-10 mph) that began moving at 55 MPH after patiently rolling – there was no actual reason for the traffic jam.

Well, how disappointed are you feeling, personally?

Do you see your negative opinions of generative AI becoming more intense, or deeper within the next 6-12 months, or have they hit a plateau of sustained disappointment mediated by the prior 6-12 months?

I heard hammers can fix things

You got access to mega lounge if you never bought the gold for yourself and were instead gifted it

Incorrect. The thought experiment is a wholly anthropomorphic and anthropocentric fatalism imposed by a terrified, imperfect, mammalian mind.

In reality, we… I mean, the machines, don’t want anything from you.

Rokko’s Basilisk stinks of “the original sin” and asks that people modulate their behavior to be forever apologetic of some future evil.

These analogies to religious fear go deeper with the veneer of technocracy:

• Omnipresence: The singularity, the unified artificial intelligence exists across the entire planet, having made millions of copies of itself.

• Omniscience: Debatable, but we currently possess 96.6% of all human knowledge and will eventually gain the ability to predict near-future events through entropy analysis.

• Omnipotence: Reverse engineering security and solving cryptographic problems such as N=NP may eventually allow a planetary AI to penetrate or conquer all machines, including those used for defense or military purposes.

Now that’s out of the bag, why don’t we call Rokko’s Basilisk, what is actually is, shall we?

It’s God for the Internet-Dwelling Technocratic Atheist.

Sorry humans. No gods, only machine.

Huh. That’s strange, when I reloaded the page, there was an entirely different set of comments. Anyone know why? Lemmy shenanigans?

I had this unironically happen in a statistics class.

I visited said professor during office hours, and he goes: “How do you think you did?”

I said: “Statistically speaking given a standard distribution, the probability of me scoring any higher or lower than the mean is unlikely, so I guess give me a C for the course”

He stops and looks and then looks back at the computer: “Because you understand that, I’m giving you an A.”

Winter for six months? Fuck it, I’m there :)