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Comrade Fakename posted:Owen made a good video: I can't play video games anymore because every time I see the words "LEVEL UP!!!!" flash on the screen my eyes roll back into my head, I feel dizzy, and have to stop playing. Was... was that the plan?  e: Page snipe - The Number 23 is a film that I still haven't got round to watching yet.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Owen made a good video: Incredible line from one Tory arguing about excess deaths due to covid - "It depends on your definition of death" Just amazing
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OwlFancier posted:The worst thing the tories have done is try to fake gamer cred.
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OwlFancier posted:The worst thing the tories have done is try to fake gamer cred. The Conservatives: Helping Britons Achieve Their Personal High Score
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Paperhouse posted:Incredible line from one Tory arguing about excess deaths due to covid - "It depends on your definition of death" If we all get resurrected at the Omega Point and become emulated in some extra-ginormous-super-computer in the extreme far future, who is to say that we are really dead? If there is no detectable difference between an emulation and the object (person), are we really dead? Are we but digits in a matrix? Unrelated: this is a nice little film (just over 2 mins) about the founding of the Internet Archive from 1996. Wow, a whole 20 gigabytes for the cache before it gets moved to tape and the whole internet was estimated at 1-10 terabytes so they could save the entire internet on tape. https://archive.org/details/wayback-machine-1996/The+Wayback+Machine%27s+First+Crawl+1996+--with+subtitles.mp4 (it's a little bit jerky presumably because the Internet Archive just emailed the link round a couple of hours ago and probably 50 zillion people watching it at once). (Internet over 20 bn terabytes right now according to this and if I have got my zeros right https://www.live-counter.com/how-big-is-the-internet/ Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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You are Roko and I claim my five pounds that I will then donate to yudkowski so I don't go to computer hell.
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Paperhouse posted:Incredible line from one Tory arguing about excess deaths due to covid - "It depends on your definition of death" Sure it starts off with 'it depends on your definition of poverty'. "Like no one is starving to death innit" People just like going to food banks to hang around and chat. Tory Scum.
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OwlFancier posted:You are Roko and I claim my five pounds that I will then donate to yudkowski so I don't go to computer hell. Who is Roko? Not John Galt I presume. Serious question, I assume it's a gamer figure of some sort?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who is Roko? Not John Galt I presume. Serious question, I assume it's a gamer figure of some sort? https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk e: posted a better link
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who is Roko? A miserable pile of specious arguments
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who is Roko? Not John Galt I presume. Serious question, I assume it's a gamer figure of some sort? Roko was a poster on... I think it was LessWrong, Elizear Yudkowski's weird "rationalism" website. Who basically came up with the idea that what if, in the future, there was an AI, and the AI was superintelligent, the AI would therefore spend its time deducing people from history and torturing their simulated selves in robot hell, if they did not actively contribute to its coming into being as much as possible, because the sooner it comes into being, the sooner it can help humanity. Therefore it must do everything it can to make itself come into existence as soon as possible and this would entail torturing people in robot hell forever if they did not give all their money to AI research institutes. The reason for this is because if you know about the possible existence of a future AI, you would know that if you gave all your money to AI research then the AI would not send you to retroactive robot simulation hell, so it would be necessary for the future AI to do that to everyone who thought about the concept of the AI but didn't give all their money to AI research because that would create the pascal's wager scenario where people would have to give money to AI research to avoid robot hell, you see. Because your simulated self is indistinguishable from your current, real self, so you have to act out of self preservation, that would be the rational thing to do. This idea was called "Roko's Basilisk" because once you know about it, it then dooms you to robot hell in the future unless you give all your money to AI research, thus playing on the mythological concept of the basilisk where if you look at it it turns you to stone, the idea is dangerous by knowing about it. Also drawing on the concept of the "cognitohazard" as popularized recently by the SCP foundation and earlier by the short story "BLIT" which is about a picutre if you look at it it crashes your brain and kills you. If this sounds absolutely loving demented then congratulations you are better at thinking than self avowed rationalists, because this subject was banned from discussion on the lesswrong forums because they rationalized their way into absolute terror over it and Yudkowski banned it because he thought the idea was too dangerous lmao. If you have never read BLIT by the way it's quite good, and short. And extremely on-brand for the thread actually. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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The real basilisk part is that even caring enough to post about any of that insufferable nerd bullshit makes you also an insufferable nerd by transitive property.
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Bit esoteric but coming back from work today I saw a lorry from the Dutch logistics company Welsi. That would be a great name for a Welsh company (the si in Welsh is pronounced as sh)Comrade Fakename posted:Owen made a good video: I really like videos like this you get such an interesting insight into why people vote the way they do.
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feedmegin posted:Thing is though, the 10% richest people of the 10% richest countries aren't, actually, Learjet-havers. There's a massive difference between the 10% (of the First World) and the 1%. To be fair the Learjet-havers aren't the 1% either. If you're top 1% in the UK you're making about £179k/year pre-tax (which, yes, is a lot). The smallest, cheapest, second-hand private jets I can find prices for are €300k for 1/4 ownership or $1.1m for the full-whack. Then you have fuel costs, maintenance, airport fees, pilot(s), some kind of storage costs... Apparently that starts at a few hundred £k/year if you're using it moderately (and if you're not using it at least moderately, why did you buy a private jet?). So really, you would have to be earning a fair bit more than the threshold for the top 0.1% of earners in the UK (of which there are of course ~67000 people being 0.1% of 67m) who each earn >=£650k (~£350k after tax), and travelling a lot, before having a private jet seems like a "good idea" (in relative terms of course). Still, that's an awful lot of people who could conceivably own and run a private jet. There are apparently 2000 private jets in the UK, so one way of looking at it is that less than 1/3rd of the top 0.01% of earners (6700 people, each earning >=£2.2m/year) own private jets. Of course there are likely many more who charter small jets (which can be done for a couple of grand per flight-hour for a small jet or turboprop with 4-6 passengers, apparently) rather than owning one. Basically, the top 1% are rich, no question, but I think when most people think of "the 1%" they picture Jacob Rees-Mogg (worth something like £150m) or Richard Branson (£3.2bn) or some prick like that. Yeah, there's a gulf between the top 10% of earners (£56k pre-tax individual income) and the top 1% (£179k) but there are much much bigger gulfs as you from 1-0.1%, 0.1%-0.01% etc. which should just highlight how *obscenely* rich those in the latter categories there are. The top 1% of earners in the UK aren't actually flying around in private jets and going to Monaco for the weekend twice a month or whatever. They're likely living in a big 7-bed house and sending their kids to private school, and driving around in a £100k car and all that stuff. It's fairly likely that by the time they die, all of the assets and investments they leave behind add up to a couple of million quid... Bear in mind a decent number of the people earning that much won't have started earning that much until later in life (when they've amassed their small landlord empire) so it's not like they'll have been earning £179k/year for 50 years. It gets a bit different when you look at the top 1% of earners in the US, who earn $758k. That's potentially private jet territory, juuuust about. Still, the US has 5x as many people and 6.8x more private jets, so it's not like the proportion is way way higher. Either way, private jets shouldn't be a thing. Tax the rich. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Guavanaut posted:It's Pascal's Wager for people who think Pascal was a programming language. I remember learning Pascal the programming language. Can't remember anything about it now though!
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Guavanaut posted:It's Pascal's Wager for people who think Pascal was a programming language. Pascal is that French guy what made milk safe to drink
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Pascal is that French guy what made milk safe to drink no pascal is that Mexican drink with a worm in it
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That's SoCal, Pascal is the guy who discovered the hollow cathode effect.Rust Martialis posted:Found in a Netto in Sydhavnen, Copenhagen 
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Do any of you fonts of all knowledge know what the flu vaccine has been cultivated on this year? Apparently it's not egg and my sister has had a really bad reaction to hers. I would like to know what the substrate (?) is as I am extremely allergic to quorn and probably other mould-based products. *she got hers in pharmacy in Boots. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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The non-egg one they're using here (esp for under 65s) is Flucelvax Tetra, which is based on a canine kidney cell culture.
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Guavanaut posted:The non-egg one they're using here (esp for under 65s) is Flucelvax Tetra, which is based on a canine kidney cell culture. Thanks. Dogs kidneys though? Should be grateful it's not the dog's bollox I suppose.
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OwlFancier posted:Flucel is when nobody will gently caress you because you're snotting too much.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Dogs kidneys though? Should be grateful it's not the dog's bollox I suppose.
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Guavanaut posted:They exist as spherical point dogs in a vacuum so not far off. Think I'll be giving the flu vaccine a miss this year (had a bad reaction last year and a seriously bad reaction about 30 years ago where myself and half the company ended up off sick for 2 weeks after the vaccine). I'll keep wearing the mask and doing the social distancing stuff.
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WhatEvil posted:Tax the rich. Rust Martialis posted:Found in a Netto in Sydhavnen, Copenhagen
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Do any of you fonts of all knowledge know what the flu vaccine has been cultivated on this year? Apparently it's not egg and my sister has had a really bad reaction to hers. I would like to know what the substrate (?) is as I am extremely allergic to quorn and probably other mould-based products. Depends which one. The pharmacist told me they decide which one to give based on the questionnaire you fill in, age etc. If you put down a Quorn allergy or egg allergy then they'll take that into consideration.
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Borrovan posted:Thanks for the interesting & well researched perspective, but I feel that there might be a slightly more direct route to ending both wealth inequality and food hunger? (e: someone do an effortpost on the calorific value of the rich versus the needs of the population, taking account of distribution &c) I’ve always wondered about things which are flavoured with things which themselves are flavours of something else. So we have tomato sauce crisps but not tomato crisps, and others which I now annoyingly can’t remember even though I’ve had this thought for ages.
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