NABDad

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NABDad,

My AI professor back in the early 90’s made the point that what we think of as fairly routine was considered the realm of AI just a few years earlier.

I think that’s always the way. The things that seem impossible to do with computers are labeled as AI, then when the problems are solved, we don’t figure we’ve created AI, just that we solved that problem so it doesn’t seem as big a deal anymore.

LLMs got hyped up, but I still think there’s a good chance they will just be a thing we use, and the AI goal posts will move again.

NABDad,

Way back in the olde tymes, I was having trouble with the NIC driver in my Linux install. I posted a question about it on USENET, and got a reply from the guy who wrote the drivers. He asked for some info about the card, then updated the driver to support it.

NABDad,

My wife’s born again idiot ex-friend who came to visit her and tell her she’s a baby killer (never had an abortion, but is pro-choice) insisted people are aborting babies at 9 months.

NABDad,

That’s the problem with cultists. They believe everything without proof to the point they believe proof is wrong somehow. Like the only valid beliefs are ones that are taken on faith and run counter to all logic and reason.

After all, if everything you believe isn’t totally bullshit, how can you claim you have faith?

Confederate submarine discovered by the US government in 1878. (lemmy.world)

Known as the “Bayou St. John submarine”, this vessel was discovered when the Bayou St. John, in New Orleans was dredged by the US Government in 1878. For years, the vessel was thought to be the Confederate submarine Pioneer, but research in the 20th century showed it was of a different design. There is no surviving...

NABDad,

If Civil War submarines amaze you, the Revolutionary War submarine should knock your socks off.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submersible)

NABDad,

That mouse is infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite.

On top of all its other problems.

NABDad,

Free will is a lie we tell ourselves.

NABDad,

I was only commenting on the concept of free will. Doesn’t matter where you apply it, we’re all just following our programming.

Obviously, the program is incredibly complex, otherwise the illusion of free will wouldn’t be so easy to believe.

However, there are many examples where the programming becomes apparent.

The best example of this is a radio lab episode about a woman with transient global amnesia. Her memory reset every 90 seconds, and she kept repeating the same conversation over and over for hours. Like a program stuck in a loop.

Radiolab, Transient Global Amnesia - SoundCloud m.soundcloud.com/…/radiolab-transient-global-amne…

She couldn’t choose to say something else. Given the same input, she would repeat the same response every time. She didn’t have the ability to realize she had already said it, so she just kept looping.

NABDad,

I don’t wear tinfoil hats. What about not believing in free will means I’d wear a tinfoil hat?

NABDad,

Wait… Why not wear tinfoil hats or why not believe in free will?

NABDad,

I mentioned my reasoning in another post in the thread

NABDad,

If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyway.

NABDad,

in exchange for working 70 hour weeks (30 hours for free) when an impossible deadline is set which is the normal state.

FTFY

NABDad,

Yeah. Dude has to earn a living somehow.

NABDad,

If I lifted a rock and saw that (either the original or the edited version) staring back at me, I’d be smashing that rock down as hard as I could.

NABDad,

I’d like to see a teacher attack this with the red pen.

NABDad,

I keep thinking of this.

youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s

NABDad, (edited )

I don’t care about a retort. I’d just like to see corrections in red, with a “D- PROOF READ!!!” written at the top, and maybe a “Provide sources” at the bottom.

Edit: and perhaps a “See me after class”

NABDad,

It depends on how hard you push the envelope. The closer you get to doing something no one has ever done before, the more likely you are to be in your own.

Of course, any time you’re doing something no one has ever done before, it’s prudent to consider whether you should.

NABDad,

Well, to be fair, your brain was probably damaged.

NABDad,

Kicking the captain, meanwhile the company executives are climbing into a lifeboat.

NABDad,

Good luck with your surgery, hope it goes well and your recovery is as easy as it can be. 🙏

For a second I thought that was your suggestion for what OP should say to the surgeon.

NABDad,

That is completely ridiculous. Republicans have no interest in bringing civil rights back to the 1930’s.

Their goal is the 1830’s.

NABDad,

Imagine a world where Christians actually believe in love.

This reminds me of a story I heard in a podcast about the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS).

They were a group of clergy who felt that they were called to help women who were in need of abortion prior to Roe v. Wade.

time.com/4758285/clergy-consultation-abortion/

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