Saledovil

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[–] Saledovil 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The man is a billionaire. He can afford to have his clothes tailored. He has no excuse to look badly dressed regardless his body type.

[–] Saledovil 6 points 3 weeks ago

The lesson here is that when picking code names, pick random words from the dictionary.

[–] Saledovil 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And when he dies, god tells him "I sent you two boats and a helicopter".

[–] Saledovil 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're talking about an AI we build, the term "alien" in "alien intelligence" refers to it not having human thought patterns, not to extraterrestrial origin.

And the thought pattern here is more akin to "I ended the last paragraph with 'origin', followed by a 'period', so it's likely that the next word is 'And'" rather than anything actually useful. All current AI does is statistics. During training, the Neural Network learn statistical rules about their training data. This has exponentially decaying marginal utility, and exponentially increasing marginal costs. So, the problem the AI companies likely already have is that they can't efficiently train better models, because there isn't enough training data. And even if they could, they wouldn't be able to turn a profit on it, because it would be barely better than the last model they output, while having to charge maybe twice as much to break even.

[–] Saledovil 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sleeping with a loaded gun under the pillow. If somebody wants to kill you, and is in your bedroom while you're sleeping, then you're going to wake up to a bullet going through your brain, before you go back to sleep permanently. A gun under the pillow doesn't even make sense in the gun nuts paranoid delusions.

[–] Saledovil 5 points 3 weeks ago

GRUB works so well that the average Linux user likely never has to think about its inner workings. Even installing Linux has become extremely easy, like unless you use something like Arch Linux. So, its actually quite likely that somebody who writes a program that runs bash commands would not now how to maintain GRUB.

[–] Saledovil 2 points 3 weeks ago

Likely whoever made it didn't know how this scene would look like.

[–] Saledovil 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In this scenario, it would probably be the rational path forward, as you're in a situation where you're guaranteed to die either way. So why not make your death as painless as possible?

[–] Saledovil 2 points 3 weeks ago

Kinetic kill vehicle.

[–] Saledovil 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Eh, both permanent space habitation as well as generation ships are so comically far out of our reach that any effort to escape would be doomed. All the billionaires would have accomplished is that they'd die slower. Unless we had decades of advanced warning and even then it would be a stretch. Additionally, in the latter case there's no need to keep it secret. The world is going to end in 50 years just wouldn't cause as much panic.

Secondly, if you look at the picture, the projectile directly pierces the earth. So it would have to be going extremely fast to accomplish this. So chances are we wouldn't see it coming to begin with.

Thirdly, this sort of direct hit implies intelligence. So, chances are whatever wants us dead would then follow through to ensure they get any survivors. Or not, as I pointed out earlier, all survivors are screwed either way.

[–] Saledovil 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's ambiguous, though. They could be complaining about the frycooks making as much as them, or about the frycooks not making as much as them. You'd have to look at what else they posted to see whether they're generally pro-labor or not. Or ask them what they mean by their tweet. Both of which are made difficult by the username being blocked out.

[–] Saledovil 1 points 3 weeks ago

What if you want to change the station?

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