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The First Rule of Warfare is that the "First Rule of Warfare" is always the First Rule of Warfare.

You may have heard that the First Rule of Warfare is… [insert actual advice here]. ie.; don’t attack a stronger enemy, there’s no such thing as overkill, the weapon is always loaded, etc. They’re all the First Rule of Warfare.

The problem with AI alignment is that humans aren't aligned

I’m sure there are some AI peeps here. Neural networks scale with size because the number of combinations of parameter values that work for a given task scales exponentially (or, even better, factorially if that’s a word???) with the network size. How can such a network be properly aligned when even humans, the most advanced...

They really named Black Noir "Black Black"

If there is a cartoon for girls called "Hello Kitty," why isn't there a cartoon for boys called "Wazzup Dawggy?"

The rat in Ratatouille will probably die within two years from the end of the movie

Rats don’t live long, the first result on Google says that they live 2-4 years on average and the longest living rat in captivity lived to be 7 years old....

We love old memes because they remind us of a time when we felt like participants instead of consumers

In Latin pop all songs are beach/summer songs.

Even influencers can't seem to influence platform choice

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1455515...

Now we know that everyone on Lemmy is she 30 and olup based on the old memes everyone is posting

If wetness is the property of having water on something, what is the property of something in water?

I’m firmly on the side of “water is not wet” in this debate, but it’s a question that I was asked while I was high and have no answer to it. Water cannot itself be wet because you can’t get water on water. However, what is a fish in a lake? It can’t be wet until it’s taken out of the water, but it’s not dry...

Going out of comfort zone is good because it can help catch our "inner demons" at work

When we go out of our comfort zone, go for some new adventure or new challenge, we will naturally pay more attention to what happens in our minds as we’re going through this new experience....

Will future generations look back at the rentention tactics used today like how medicine was used in the past?

Will future generations look at how big corporations do business today like drug dealers - have a product and then try and hijack the brain into continuously wanting or using said product - like how medical herion and cocaine were used as acceptable medical treatments in , I hopefully, assume ignorance...

There are 3 stages in life. When you are young you go to a lot of birthday parties, and the next stage is when you go to a lot of weddings, and the final stage is when you go to a lot of furnals.

The valuelessness of Reddit upvotes made Reddit create notifications when your post / comment gets upvoted

… but Lemmy doesn’t.

Any illness on an airplane is an airborne illness

The glass is 50% empty or full, but it is entirely made of glass so it is also 100% glass.

Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day could tell people whether the brain senses pain as we die by many different ways.

There are going to be a lot of simultaneous cake days next May, June and July.

If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.

Of all the forms that matter can take in this universe, it predominantly forms into big orbs of light in an otherwise endless sea of darkness

Around 2 out of 3 people on Earth, got to party and ring in the New Year in the year 2000 when they were old enough to be excited about it (assuming a conscious age of 10 years)

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