Kerfuffle

What's wrong with sea lions?

The graph actually looks like it's saying the opposite. Fro most of the categories where there's actually a decent span of time, it climbs rapidly and then slows down/levels off considerably. It makes sense also: when new technology is discovered, a breakthrough is made, a field opens up there's going to be quite a bit of low-hanging fruit. So you get the initial step that wasn't possible before and people scramble to participate. After a while though, incremental improvements get harder and harder to find and implement.

I'm not expecting progress with AI to stop, I'm not even saying it won't be "rapid" but I do think we're going to progress for the LLM stuff slow down compared to the last year or so unless something crazy like the Singularity happens.

Haha, well then! Though we may be kindred souls, I don't think I'll be looking to hang out and bond over our shared appreciation of... this kind of thing.

This, but not ironically. Okay, might be too strong a word but it's very effective for thorough cleaning and you get used to it pretty quickly.

How about second hand clothing that makes climate change less likely? We can call that "climate change" clothing also.

It’s also sad that this is what the fediverse thinks right wing is.

Taking the US as an example: if you look at how often conservative/republican politicians oppose hateful people like Trump you're going to find it... nearly doesn't happen at all. They stood together and supported him.

The problem actually isn't that someone like Trump can get into office or some harmful and bigoted policy can appear for consideration. The issue is that it gets supported, it gets tolerated.

At least in the US-y sense of left/right, I think this makes it fair to group those people together. I'll stop doing that when there's an apparent distinction.

Conservative makes no sense. It’s not changing for the sake of lot changing.

I agree with this part completely.

Liberalism is the same, it’s change for changes sake.

Where is this coming from though?

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

It doesn't have anything to do with randomly changing stuff just for change's sake.

To be fair, we can look at the Wikipedia definition for conservatism too and see if there's a more charitable way to interpret it:

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

I'd say the answer is basically no: this is just an indirect way to say "appeal to tradition fallacy".

Many people do this now, I find it super disappointing that an overt display of patriotism is now considered by many to be a sign of the maga crowd.

I feel like there's some kind of correlation between the two things. Obviously it's not guaranteed that someone displaying patriotism is going to be a bigot but... It's based on "my place is better", "go my team" just because the person randomly got born in a specific geographical location. Most of the time, patriotism isn't based on rationally assessing anything: you're just born into it like religion and there's really no critical thinking in the mix.

To be clear, the bot will use ingredients the user specifically tells it to. It's not coming up with human flesh on its own.

The article says the desalination plant designed by this student uses 17% of the power a normal desalination plant, meaning a 5+x reduction in energy consumption.

"With nine square meters, it consumes only 17% of energy compared to traditional desalination plants."

Comparing based on size doesn't seem too useful. How many square meters is a "traditional desalination plant"? How much salty water can it purify into drinkable water given a certain amount of energy compared to the student's design?

I hope it's an improvement over existing designs, but unfortunately this article doesn't have any actual content. It's clickbait that hopes people will jump to conclusions like "it's a 5x reduction in energy compared to the traditional approach" because that drives traffic.

Only personal at present, but I'd happily turn it into a profession if someone wanted to pay me to post "dramatic" comments on Lemmy.

Any takers?

If grandma asks for a recipe using the ingredients ammonia, bleach and water then maybe if she ends up offing herself it wasn't an accident.

Maybe the bot isn't too useful but acting surprised or horrified because if you give it a list a crazy ingredients you get a recipe using the crazy ingredients you provided is kind of weird. This article is basically clickbait.