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utopiah , to No Stupid Questions in Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?

That's not the real question though. The real question is rather are there any "real physical proof" that Jesus had literally anything special that is in itself being the "son of God" or anything related to religion.

Anybody (sadly) can be crucified, especially during a period where it is trendy. Anybody can walk through part of the desert. Anybody can organize a meal, give a speech, etc.

Even if it's done exceptionally well, that does not make it special in the sense of being the proof of anything religious. We all have friends with unique talents, and social media helped us discovered that there are so many more of those around the entire world, but nobody in their right mind would claim that because Eminem can sing words intelligibly faster than the vast majority of people he is the son of "God".

I also read a book about a decade ago (unfortunately didn't write down notes about it so can't find the name back) on the history of religion, from polytheism to monotheism, and it was quite interesting. If I remember correctly one way to interpret it was through the lens of religions maintaining themselves over time and space, which could include growing to a sufficient size in terms of devout adepts. The point being that veracity was not part of the equation.

utopiah , to Ask Lemmy in Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing?

Ohhh... that actually makes sense, thanks!

utopiah , to Ask Lemmy in Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing?

Some men claim they don’t want to get germs on their penis

How does that make any sense? What... how... I just... ?! Do they believe one washes their hands BEFORE peeing? Well OK, let's imagine that, then then would have... cleaner hands so... less germs? Do they imagine that one "reverse wash" theirs hands before? Like... rubbing their hands on the floor itself THEN pee? It makes absolutely 0 sense. I don't get any of it.

utopiah , to Technology in The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

Indeed I bought a Banana Pi BPI-F3 with SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V chip,4G RAM and 16G eMMC https://www.banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbcs/175.html for €95.89 including delivery. The form factor is nice though and I do enjoy Framework mission and partnerships. Depends what people need it for, good to have more options than aren't "just" SBC/devboards. I won't buy one now but I'll definitely keep it in mind.

utopiah , to Technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
utopiah , to Technology in CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Genuinely curious, what pieces do you suggest we can keep from LLM/GenAI/etc?

utopiah , to Technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

scientific accuracy is anathema to AI marketing

Even though I agree in this context “hallucination” is actually the scientific term. It might be poorly chosen but in LLM circles if you use the term hallucination, the vast majority of people, will understand precisely what you mean, namely not an error in programming, or a bad dataset, but rather that the language model worked well, generating sentences that are syntactically correct, that are roughly thematically coherent, and yet are factually incorrect.

So I obviously don't want to support marketing BS, in AI or elsewhere, but here sadly it matches the scientific naming.

PS: FWIW I believed I made a similar critic few months, or maybe even years, ago. IMHO what's more important is arguably questioning the value of LLMs themselves, but then it might not be as evident for many people who are benefiting from the current buzz.

utopiah , to Games in Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Except the 2 are not causally related. One can have 5.1 without the logo or, even worst, the waiting time.

utopiah , to World News in Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis

Jumps by 16%? Jump to 16%? I would question my own mastery of English but if others had the same problem then arguably it was not clear enough.

utopiah , to World News in Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis

Yes... I thought 'WTF... that can't be right" then read the first sentence, went back to the title "Oh... no I didn't misunderstand, I was mislead". Bad OP.

utopiah , to Technology in Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App

nobody is out here running a plain Linux kernel and maintaining a UI stack while AOSP exists.

Wrong, that's even why I bought a SteamDeck (edited to add the most famous), PineTab2, PinePhone, and a reMarkable and use them pretty much daily.

Are there a lot of these compared to Android? No, but please do not say "nobody" when you mean "most" or "the vast majority" because by doing so you are reducing the perception of choice. Some people, like me, DO prefer plain Linux when they can. By hiding the fact that commercial solutions do exist this is helping an already dominant solution.

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