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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wait, you're bothered by someone saying Kevin Hart is a shitty comedian? Have I read this right? I hate to say it, but if that's enough for you to be mad at the ebil hexbears, you should really probably just keep us blocked

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that is a tantalizingly sparse wikipedia article. If I had more time, I'd pirate the book it seems to be summarizing, because it seems like it could be an interesting read. Have you read the book? Or did you make do with the extremely sparse wikipedia article?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (33 children)

Only IRL, in that socialist state that had people trying, things went differently, because officials and directors and administrators felt that such a system would threaten their power.

Would you mind providing some evidence for this claim? I assume you're talking here about the Soviet Union, but I have never heard that Soviet scientists tried to build an internet but were stopped by government officials. I'd like to see some evidence of this before I just take your word for it, you know? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh I have no idea about in an app! I use the web interface. I hope you figure it out though! Our emojis are great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No it isn't! Diablo is just the tastiest one! It's got a background sweetness that's really interesting and tasty

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There are a couple of options. If you know the name of the emoji (or have a decent guess), you can type a colon and then type the name, and it should auto complete for you. If you don't know the name, you can look at the emoji picker and scroll through all the custom ones. (Look for the asterisk/star looking thing all the way to the right in the emoji picker toolbar.)

I hope this was clear enough to be helpful! heart-sickle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But "Zionist" doesn't mean the same thing anymore, and I bet he doesn't fully grasp what he's identifying with in a modern sense.

So we're in the position where a sitting US president is making speeches using words he doesn't understand? Wow, that does not seem great. Maybe we should have a president who knows what words mean, you know?

Also, I have to admit, I don't care if someone has genocide as a goal or not. I care a bit more about their actions. Will a person's actions lead to more genocide? If so, then I think that person should be removed from power, immediately, regardless of what they think about genocide.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Oh, I didn't scroll down far enough to see that someone else had pointed out how ridiculous it is to say "this technology" is less than a year old. Well, I think I'll leave my other comment, but yours is better! It's kind of shocking to me that so few people seem to know anything about the history of machine learning. I guess it gets in the way of the marketing speak to point out how dead easy the mathematics are and that people have been studying this shit for decades.

"AI" pisses me off so much. I tend to go off on people, even people in real life, when they act as though "AI" as it currently exists is anything more than a (pretty neat, granted) glorified equation solver.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Where do you get the idea that this tech is less than a year old? Because that's incredibly false. People have been working with neural nets to do language processing for at least a decade, and probably a lot longer than that. The mathematics underlying this stuff is actually incredibly simple and has been known and studied since at least the 90's. Any recent "breakthroughs" are more about computing power than a theoretical shift.

I hate to tell you this, but I think you've bought into marketing hype.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh! I forgot about ears! Really, the whole sinus situation is complicated and I have no idea what's happening in our weird-ass skulls

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've thought about this a few times, but tbh I don't know enough about human anatomy to know! My main thing is, what about nostrils? Do nostrils increase the number of (topologically nontrivial) holes in a human? I think we can ignore the windpipe and lungs, there should be a homotopy removing them (I think). Same with eyeballs, vaginas, and whatnot. But nostrils? I think those might be topologically nontrivial.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

brb, chopping a cat's foot off without anesthetic

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