All is forgiven.
Readit Newsfaidit commented on · Posted by u/fainpul
Just as inspiring as the United Citizen Federation recruitment videos!
I'm doing my part!
> There's so much tacit knowledge and implicit computation coming from experience, emotions, sensory inputs and from our own internal noise.
The premise of the article is stupid, though...yes, they aren't us.
A human might grow corn, or decide it should be grown. But the AI doesn't need corn, it won't grown corn, and it doesn't need any of the other things.
This is why, they are not useful to us.
Put it in science fiction terms. You can create a monster, and it can have super powers, _but that does not make it useful to us_. The extremely hungry monster will eat everything it sees, but it won't make anyone's life better.
The Torment Nexus can't even put a loaf of bread on my table, so it's obvious we have nothing to fear from it!
faidit commented on Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea philstar.com/headlines/20... · Posted by u/ksec
It only makes sense if it means Russia/USSR doing the tests and nuclear fuel reprocessing on the Far East but rather strange to call it "in Europe".
Can't see any other country in Europe which could've caused it from that statement.
This Chinese study says it was dispersed through global atmospheric circulation and mentions the liquid and gaseous discharge from nuclear facilities at Sellafield (UK) and La Hague (France) as sources. Russian tests are mentioned as well but they are apparently not the sole or primary source.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...
faidit commented on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLh... · Posted by u/cjaackie
Lost an Apple iBook screen this way. Guy in front slammed his chair back while I was working on a presentation and the screen got caught at the perfect angle to flex it and it died.
Didn't blame him, lesson learned, and I move my own seat back very slowly now.
Scary.. Did the airline comp you for that?
faidit commented on Men Who Are Super Competitive About Sleep wsj.com/style/fashion/com... · Posted by u/lxm
Don't even talk to me if you aren't dressed up like kidnapped Maduro while you sleepmaxx.
faidit commented on Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025) scienceclock.com/rats-cau... · Posted by u/akg130522
I'm not sure if I'd call it full-fledged PTSD, but I have some guilt associated with an incident of a rat invasion in my house. We initially used glue traps with the hope that we'd catch the rats and maybe be able to release them outside. What happened instead is that one of the rats was caught, chewed its arm off to escape, bled all over my house, and eventually died.
I don't like rats, and I don't really even have a huge issue with killing them, but I certainly don't want to torture them. If I had used a snap trap, the rat would be dead in about a second. With the glue trap he was suffering for hours, probably in immense pain.
I don't think rats are cute anymore and I'm not sure that glue traps should be legal.
100% agree on banning glue traps. Snap traps aren't perfect though. I had to finish off a mighty survivor of one once. The rat was huge. When I heard the rattling in the shed I panicked and grabbed a shovel lying nearby. My mind has erased the memory of what happened next, I just remember the aftermath and being splattered with lots of rat blood. I deeply regret doing that and wish I had let her limp away to an uncertain fate. I stopped setting traps after that and just let them run rampant through the moldy old walls of that place until I moved.
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I used to play Aardwolf almost 27 years ago when its address was wolf.mudservices.com 4000.
It was marvelous, and I have my many magical multiplayer moments with MUD which I wasn’t able to experience with MMORPGs or other modern multiplayer games. They are a lot of fun too, but MUD was something else.
I got banned from Aardwolf in early 2000’s because my friend and I couldn’t prove that we were separate individuals connecting from the same modem. They had asked us to count simultaneously in different orders and we had failed the test. We went back to Counter-Strike.
I fondly remember getting banned from some MUD around that time, for talking back to an admin. It was a formative experience.
faidit commented on The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity effectiviology.com/napole... · Posted by u/Khaine
Call centers that leave people on hold for a minimum of 10 minutes are positively Napoleonic.