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TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it (en.wikipedia.org)

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...

dwindling7373 ,

TIL.

It sounds like it’s mostly a matter that does not involve the AI but the people working on it, maybe even working on it because of the fear they are subjected to after being the subject of this revelation (possibly by other people involved in the AI that coincidentally are the only ones that could push for such a thing to be included in the AI!).

Something something any cult, paradise/hell, God/AI has nothing to do with this and could even not exist at all.

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No, “The Game” works only as long as you accept to take part in it, to give validity to the empty statement that you are now inevitably playing “The Game”.

The Basilisk is meant to force that onto you, outside of any arbitraty convention.

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Hence, HS crush.

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Snake-scented oil. (1% snake oil)

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Make it IBM T43 and Oblivion.

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I keep reading about these crazy good affordable impossible to compete against electric Chinese cars.

Like… What models exactly so i can… avoid them?

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it is not out of the ordinary in Italy, where commemorations of this type take place every year

It is, luckily. You usually find out from the news, it’s not like we are used to see such display going on day in and day out without taking notice.

Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds (phys.org)

A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...

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Spoken like a true incel.

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Dark matter and dark energy are not necessarily connected to black holes. The latter are relatively well understood on their own.

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Yes but also no, the whole appeal is tied to her brand (her public image x the character HER), unlike Woody who is an original creation.

It’s like doing a commercial using a lookalike dressed like the original guy and pretending that’s a completely different actor.

dwindling7373 ,

A lot of guys in my generation have most of their savings in crypto.

No they do not.

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Or you can record yourself buying stuff holding a newspaper and your ID.

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I had no idea, I had some issues running native and I somewhat gaslight myself into thinking Valve somehow deprioritized Linux support.

I guess my problem is solved then. Thanks!

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There’s very little Jedi in the Star Wars Universe so it’s reasonable to consider the advancement of prosthetics in this universe indipendent from lightsabers.

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It is not the game is very easy. Yoshi is also one of the best characters (there’s a total of 3 characters, light, medium and heavy).

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I thought it was a great way to roast the game by implying it makes you shit yourself.

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As a person that learn stuff through memes: funny but not really. The concept of Inertia was in discussion for a long long time before Newton: wikiless.org/wiki/Inertia?lang=en

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“That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.”

Nope.

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I’m pretty sure the whole “can be seen from space” is wrong.

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That’s just existing with extra steps.

How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?

I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change...

dwindling7373 ,

Yes and what’s best is we can be fully relaxed while having shoes on anywhere outdoor as an added benefit.

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Yes but 90% of the time they are not muddy or wet or snowy, and they stay on.

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So… burning energy rather then improving local insulation.

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It’s literally one click on Lutris.

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Not in my experience. Some patch are easier than other I guess.

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I’m a fellow noob, maybe that’s why I found the bath side of it more amusing. I can relate to the pervasive obsession and unexpected eureka moments.

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According to a different thread “USB 4” is in fact “USB4”.

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Would be silly not too.

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Noob answer? No, because the other party will likely store them in unsafe manner and send it through Facebook Messenger to that Aunt of theirs.

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Not an expert but at a certain point FreeTube introduced SponsorBlock in their code, and posted a blog post describing why it wasn’t on by default and how that choice was a good compromise toward the creators and to push for better form of monetization. A similar talk was had by NewPipe. From those link you can find all sort of details about the intended (and unintended) impact of those tools.

docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/sponsorblock/…

newpipe.net/…/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

From those sources it’s easy to see that those technology are indeed transparent to some form of monetization.

Technology aside, I think it’s safe to assume YouTube incentivizes creators according to engagement and retention, no matter the technology used to see them or the ads shown, since what they are ultimately rewarding is the skill of the creator in grabbing human attention. How to maximize the monetization of that is secondary.

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Other than a couple of neat features, basically it allows you to have the youtube account features, without having an account.

Locally you tell him what channels you care for, and it fetches your homepage for you, without all the strings attached to google doing that within your account and, hence, knowing exactly what kind of person you are.

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Are you, like, manually writing down on paper the 0s and 1s of the software you use? Personally it takes me 20 seconds top to “download a whole program”.

do you all like to play the GOG version of games over the Steam version?

With the use of Heroic game launcher, I’m wondering if you all preferred to play your GOG version of games over the Steam version. I can go either way but sometimes I pause and think, having two copies of the same game, one on steam and one on GOG, which one would give me a better gaming experience. For example, I may choose...

dwindling7373 ,

What made you choose not to care any less about achievements?

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Or, you know, arkenfox and its wiki: github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

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And that’s why I set my elders up with uBlock.

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According to my continued survival on the planet, none.

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That pricing (or any pricing) is unsustainable, all it is there for is to give illusion of choice to try and comply with the law. Your data are useless if too many people choose to pay and Facebook dies, on the contrary the more people allows for refined monetization, the stronger Facebook’s business becomes (or get back to before GDPR status).

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Why would you need a researcher for that? This is not some ancient history or something…

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Those lines are taken from recordings of Giambruno’s conversations with colleagues in between takes of the show he used to host.

The conversation was far from being what one would consider consensual and he is now been suspended and investigated for sexual harassment.

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Who is upvoting this? Russell’s Paradox is about groups containing all the members that don’t belong to said group.

Not the Onion hosting an article about the effect of The Onion is humorously close to that.

What's the worst spoiler that you've inadvertently given to someone? (Please use spoiler tags.)

When I was in college, my then girlfriend texted me that she was watching Jojo Rabbit. She knew it was one of my favorite movies, and said that she loved it too. She was talking about how Scarlett Johannson’s shoes almost have their own personality. So I said,...

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So I had to do a company speech and to live things up I mixed in some famous scenes from wildly popular old movies. And that’s how I found out that in 2016 among the colleagues in an IT company, one of them had no idea about a certain character from an 11 (is that 11 now?) movies space saga was closely related to the younger main character.

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The person was one year older than me.

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Total Annihilation. Yes I peaked young.

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I have RetroPi that can run Kodi inside of it.

Ask Lemmy: Traditional vs natural mouse scrolling; which do you use?

Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this...

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That’s literally the same principle. And yes, before you ask, it’s dumb for both axes.

Up is up, down is down.

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It is, if you consider the motion about the bottom part of the stick, when you push forward, that part moves backward. The same can be said about pushing right, and having the bottom going left.

Why would you want that? No idea, since even on planes the x axes are not inverted like that…

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At that point she’s is not his daughter in the script itself. And he is not absurdly powerful as portrayed later by fans and prequels.

He’s an angry evil space monk.

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