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Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Speed running our way to “electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!” I see … if you know, you know.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho did seem more entertaining at least then the circus we’ve had for the last few years. At least we can look forward to that?

Plus Ow! My balls! Does seem like some good tv.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He was a great president. Saw a problem, admitted his ignorance to it, and hired the smartest person he could find to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Our timeline is far worse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

A benevolent idiot is better than a malicious ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

True, but given his cabinet, is 1 out of 6 that great in selecting?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

They can't all be like the attorney general.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quora

well, there is the problem

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Festering pit of misinformation it is. And yes, they’ll ban you for calling it out or correcting the record.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (9 children)

You can melt anything. An egg will burn first. Then you will get some type of rendered carbon ash. Which will, eventually, melt and/or vaporize with enough heat.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Melting is a physical process that changes the form and aggregation state of a thing, but it still remains that thing. Melted gold is still gold, for example.

Burning on the other hand is a chemical process that leads to new "things". The egg isn't longer an egg.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that it's no longer 'egg' once it's carbon ash and therefore never melted before it's existence ended.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Which came first, the egg or the time dilation of carbon atoms?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn't have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eggs are primarily comprised of colloidal suspension.

Colloids cannot melt, as they are not in a solid phase

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

But then you're melting carbon ash and not eggs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Which raises an interesting question: what if you cooked it in a zero oxygen environment (say argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide... basically welding gases because they're mostly inert). I can't burn in that context, so does it melt? Or do you drive off all the volatiles and are just left with carbon anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In an inert atmosphere under enough pressure pretty much anything can melt without burning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This is the correct answer. In a vaccum wood won't burn for instance. It will melt, and even sublimate.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

well it's referencing this article now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Somebody needs to write an article about that article that states the opposite

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Take frozen egg. Melt. Repeat as needed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Thawing isn’t always melting.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't everything technically have a melting point?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, carbon, among lot's of materials, goes directly into sublimation stage. It has no liquid form.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Ok, oversaw the 'technically'.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes but we generally don't want AI to answer questions like evil genies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

AI was gifted to us as a wish granted by a Monkey's Paw. It can answer all of life's questions... but incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Honestly the best analogy for AI I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yep, also id argue eggs are 'melted' by default, but if you froze and the reheated the egg it would then melt.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When my daughter was 7 or 8 years old, I caught her answering questions on quora on topics that she knew nothing about. Something to keep in mind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

She's probably more knowledgeable than their average user.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

can't wait till more LLMs and content generators get trained on this garbage data and repeat it all over the internet ad inifinitum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Truly the best future.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Egg shells melt at 825°C. Saved you a click.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even when Quora isn't being ruined with AI, it's flooded with Neo-Nazis that are self-proclaimed historians.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wtf kind of quora are you reading to find neo Nazi shit? I just find people shilling crypto and bad tech advice.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Step 2: Add some water and urea

No thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Bear Grylls hates you rn

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do sometimes “provide feedback” on terrible featured snippets, but goddamn does it feel like shouting into a void.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Ublacklist Firefox plugin.

Add quota Add pinterest

Make the internet a little less shit

You can find some blacklist subs on GitHub too if you want to blanket filter out a lot of the other shit (like alternative.to and other bulk targeted result sites)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'll be taking over the world any day now, just you wait

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