As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
I know Lemmy isn't normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?...
Creating an accurate neuron simulation would probably require much more advanced AI than we already have. Like, real AI, not this piddly, piecemeal shit we have now.
You’re looking at this backwards. We’d need better AI to even start trying to simulate neurons accurately. They’re far more complex.
Currently, AI is capable of analyzing basic chemical and cellular interactions. It’s ok at it.
Modeling neurons and simulating them with AI are very different things. And, as you say, we still know very little about neurons and the nervous system and the brain itself. How, then, could we even attempt to train an AI to work accurately?
I was thinking about this film, but I have seen one more film that was much more fucked up. I really enjoyed this movie, but it was extremely disturbing.
Of the three films I’ve seen by this Director (Gaspar Noé), it’s the only one I can actually sit through. I think it’s other films are kind of crappy.
This headline is stupid and shows how many on the left still don’t understand Trump or his followers. The article goes further:
Because Donald Trump must always be seen as wielding absolute mastery over his hapless, flailing opponents, he and his propagandists want you to believe his hush-money trial in Manhattan has proven nothing but a smashing political success for him.
Here’s the rub: it doesn’t matter. None of this does. Trumps followers believe this regardless of the reality, and the truth doesn’t matter. It never did. For whatever happens, they’ll believe whatever they want.
Your parent is in denial. They’re obviously not really so brain-dead not to know better than what Trump claims and the other garbage that they encounter about him online and on tv that supports him, but they believe it nonetheless because they want to. Because it supports their worldview. Because, over time, they’ve become so invested in him that to back out now would shatter their entire reality. They’re trapped.
But, as you have seen, for some, reality will slip through the cracks from time to time. The Herculean effort of maintaining such a massive, complex, and, frankly, ridiculous mountain of absurd and outrageous lies for so long is, honestly, exhausting. Nobody could be expected to even keep track of them all let alone maintain the mask 24/7/365 forever. Even Trump slips up and tells the truth when he’s blathering at his Nazi campaign rallies. Just yesterday, he admitted that he did, in fact, try to get to the Capitol on Jan 6 to attend the rally after denying it for over a year, lmao.
That’s it, basically. It’s a type of sunk cost fallacy/dilemma. And a good amount of brainwashing.
Of course, for others, they either very well know better and are just sociopathic opportunists— or they really are that stupid. It’s a very big country with a whole Lotta different types of people in it.
I know how you feel. I had to break contact with several family members during the 2016 elections when I learned how they really felt. There are a lot of people who I thought I knew that I can’t ever speak to again after the things I have heard them say. There’s more to it than simply their political views, but, yikes, that’s as the last straw.
I’m sorry to hear it, but that’s poison in your life. Lancing a boil is painful, but it’s the only way to start healing.
They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story's plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...
Gnome’s Nautilus is a long way away from being Finder. It certainly trying very hard, and there are some things I like about Nautilus more than I like about Finder, but Finder has a lot of polish that is missing from Nautilus.
That said, I look forward to The development of Nautilus and all of the improvements that will bring.
Mine was our CRT TV. I would rapidly push the power button on and off because I thought the picture coming and going looked cool but eventually it fell inside of the TV. I think I later stuck a magnet on the TV....
My dad drive into our driveway with his brand new 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. After showing me and my little brother, his brand new car, he then broke the news that our Christmas would be a “little light this year.” I put an entire bag of sugar in his gas tank that night.
His Christmas was a little light that year, the fuck.
Edit: Oh, hell yes, I absolutely told him I did it. On Christmas morning.
Edit 2: as an adult, I still think it’s one of the most awesome cars I’ve ever known (my fav car is still the BMW 2002, tho). He got a new one - the fuck - and I later learned how to drive stick in that car. He has still never forgiven me, although I have still never forgiven him for what he did then or in the decades following. We haven’t spoken in years.
As the years go by, I only grow more proud of my 6 year-old self for punishing that selfish fuck for putting himself before his kids/family. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Also, my mom laughed about it at the time and always has since.
What do you guys think was the intention with this? I recently had an episode of mania, and was behaving a bit oddly, but I confirmed with my mother (this was her condo I'm renting it) that it wasn't here when she left and I've never seen it before :|
I spent lots of time in Civ VI and Riven. Some in FO4. Also Ultima Underworld II.
There’s also 40 years’ worth of amazing video games to play. Tens of thousands of titles. I’m in no rush to play the latest, especially since they’re overpriced and underdeliver on hardware I definitely can’t afford.
I’m one of those old assholes who just remembers the stories as they happened. If it tells about those, it should be a fun journey. Those guys have been through a lot fighting for the ability to torrent!
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says ( www.politico.eu )
UK’s top diplomat also pledges £3 billion of annual military help to Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes.’...
Swiss researchers have developed a hair-thin sheet battery that can be charged in 1 minute, and they think can be scaled up to make batteries for phones and cars. ( ethz.ch )
[Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers?
I know Lemmy isn't normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?...
Donald Trump says Democrats wanted him to overturn Roe v. Wade ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human?
I know current learning models work a little like neurons but why not just make a sim that works exactly like how we understand neurons work
Which drugs have you used?
What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?
Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy ( newrepublic.com )
I greatly enjoyed this part:...
If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?
They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story's plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...
The BASIC programming language turns 60 ( arstechnica.com )
I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.
LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming ( www.theverge.com )
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding ( www.pcgamer.com )
ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad ( arstechnica.com )
Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent ( www.theregister.com )
Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer ( arstechnica.com )
Tourist Mauled by Brown Bear After Disastrous Attempt at Selfie ( www.mensjournal.com )
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience ( www.youtube.com )
Spoiler: GNOME wins...
What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?
Mine was our CRT TV. I would rapidly push the power button on and off because I thought the picture coming and going looked cool but eventually it fell inside of the TV. I think I later stuck a magnet on the TV....
Unused variables ( sh.itjust.works )
Someone left a 4 inch rock rock with a line circle carved in it in the dirt next to my door
What do you guys think was the intention with this? I recently had an episode of mania, and was behaving a bit oddly, but I confirmed with my mother (this was her condo I'm renting it) that it wasn't here when she left and I've never seen it before :|
It's my body my choice, and I choose to get high as hell. ( lemmy.world )
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows ( kotaku.com )
The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.
RocketStar Announces Successful Demonstration of Fusion-Enhanced Pulsed Plasma Electric Propulsion ( www.globenewswire.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/27670808...