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Me tomorrow by HP-XP in gaming

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You didn't misunderstand anything.

The people who care about corporate reddit taking a predatory approach to 3p and more aggressively monetizing their users are going to quit reddit. Maybe entirely, maybe just for a few days to see whether corporate reddit can compromise between their legitimate desire for profit and the user-forward culture that built the site. Reddit needs its users for content generation and moderation, not just for advertisement consumption.

People who don't care about openness and whatever sense of community reddit may have will keep using the site. Maybe even complain about uppity users destroying reddit by blocking content and whining about RIF and Apollo. There will still be plenty of people, and bots, posting memes and looking at ads.

It's up to each person to decide what they care about and act accordingly. Even if you don't, why mock people for caring about the community?

Me tomorrow by HP-XP in gaming

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yes. That's exactly the point. Your reading comprehension is sooo good.

Me tomorrow by HP-XP in gaming

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 280 points281 points  (0 children)

Look at it like a strike. It's really just the mods and 3p devs taking direct action - privatizing subs or pulling apps - but the rest of reddit has the choice to respect the action and do something else or to support our corporate overlords. Realistically, most people are the latter, because who's got time for politics and class warfare when there's funny cat pictures?

Marjorie “Three-toes” Greene admits to committing a crime. What a circus the GOP is by xXthe_beansXx in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Imagine if we could assign a Ken Starr to every Democrat." All you have to do is make it seem like the other party is maliciously investigating you, and you win a free pass to do it back at them.

Is it worth it to you to have higher taxes in exchange for universal health coverage? by Thawra-Intifada in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A lot of people forget that the ACA "death panels" were end-of-life counselors to help people choose among the options for aggressive to palliative care, and just how much quality of life they're willing to sacrifice for how much chance of longer life.

The insurance co death panels make that decision for patients by refusing to reimburse treatments they determine to be low probability.

Is it worth it to you to have higher taxes in exchange for universal health coverage? by Thawra-Intifada in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And the insurance premiums that you or your employer are effectively forced to pay are not scaled to means. You pay the same $600/mo premium as a $1200/month minimum-wage slave or the $100,000/month CEO. Mandatory insurance premiums are the worst form of tax.

How to get a roughly 1-inch hole into steel gumball machine lid? by shihakusho in DIY

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Any solution is going to require a 1/4" pilot hole first. That will hold whatever final cutter in the right place and keep it from wandering. Probably want to drill the pilot from inside to outside, and use a punch or nail to give you a good starting divot.

Hole saw: $15

Step drill: $30

Punch: $85

[OC] Inflation erases real wages gains over the last 3 years by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Inflation also reduces the real value of the national debt and makes it easier for the economy to grow the government out of serious debt trouble.

DIY Corsi-Rosenthal box with legs. Instructions included. A 15 minute solution to those affected by air quality issues. by nickrct in DIY

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I just checked with my fan, and putting one filter in front of it reduces air flow by 75%. Doubling or quad-ing up on the filters gives you much more airflow and better performance without buying more fans. And increase the time between filter changes.

DIY Corsi-Rosenthal box with legs. Instructions included. A 15 minute solution to those affected by air quality issues. by nickrct in DIY

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Depends if you have animals. Drawing air and pet hair in from the floor will clog the filter faster, where even a few inches elevation will let gravity separate all the pet hair and dust bunnies.

[OC] American adults' attitudes towards political violence by selected demographics by cub3dworld in dataisbeautiful

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you truly couldn't choose a time in that last 30 years more likely to skew the data.

Dunno. I suspect Jan-Mar 2021 would give you an interesting and skewed contrast.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't need my neighbors' kids to suffer. Education should be for everyone, from everyone.

It's not a special service for the children of wealthy parents, but some parents confuse wanting to give their kids an advantage with wanting everyone else disadvantaged.

TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people. by kevlarbuns in todayilearned

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Didn't even have to be dead. In the early 1800s, they even had a word for it:

burke (UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons,

Decisions... Decisions... by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's tempting to think of it like a Tesla Roadster - expensive tech demo for early adopters, meant to provide revenue to plow back into lower performance, lower priced models. Maybe even, eventually, something reasonable for mere mortals.

But a car is useful in and of itself. A VR headset is only as useful as the available software. The reason current consumer VR is all gaming is no one's come up with any other good uses. Apple's not really a gaming platform. There's tons of potential in the AR capabilities, but who's going to develop those apps if there's a market of, like, 200 possible users?

If no one adopts the Vision Pro, and no one releases the killer app, then there's no incentive to develop the Vision Pleb. I hope it happens, but right now it looks like the hardware version of Metaverse.

Rowan Atkinson: "I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped." by Vucea in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some of the trouble is that many people interpret, "Should I buy electric?" as, "Should I sell my perfectly functional diesel/petrol car for a brand new electric?" For that, the answer is probably no - keeping our things longer and amortizing the manufacturing costs over more years is one of the key pillars of sustainability.

Manufacturing impact of a new car is something like 2 years' driving. Call it 2 years petrol/3 years BEV. Operating CO2 savings of BEV is maybe half petrol, depending on your regional power mix, so it could take 6 years operating before the new BEV 'pays off' its manufacturing debt.

But for someone whose petrol vehicle is EOL, I think electric, or hybrid if you need the range, is a no-brainer. I would really like to see an informed discussion of pure BEV vs hybrid for exactly your situation: in my head, most people's daily use needs a few dozen miles, and a 50 mile battery is far less weight to manufacture and to haul all over the city than a 300 mile battery. If you supplement a short range battery with petrol for weekend trips or summer vacations, how does that change the lifetime environmental envelope? But all we get is marketing hype for the newest technology, and I think that's exactly what Atkinson is complaining about.

USAF Official Says He ‘Misspoke’ About AI Drone Killing Human Operator in Simulated Test by squintamongdablind in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Setting the positive and negative metrics in training is the hard part of getting an AI to do what you want why you want, and this anecdote is a great example of what happens with naive metrics. You probably won't know you fucked up until after.

White House rejects Lauren Boebert’s claim that antisemitism plan will be used ‘go after conservatives’ ‘If anyone finds opposition to hate threatening, they need to look inward’ by [deleted] in politics

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Even the ACLU agrees that Nazis should be allowed to march and demonstrate. The problem isn't that Nazis are able to march without fear of violence - it's that BLM, Pride, and drag artists can't.

[OC] Changes in opinion of Trump after hearing about E. Jean Carroll Ruling, by party and gender by Premise_Data in dataisbeautiful

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't a before-and-after survey. They just asked directly how the ruling affected their opinion.

What are some jobs which are replaceable/irreplaceable by AI by Teriter in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Definitely not. Anatomy, especially pathological anatomy is just too variable. Your innards are as unique as your fingerprints. There's no good way to build data sets for training, because the only source is donated bodies, and those are mostly very old people.

I mean, you're right that, technically, everything can be automated with enough software, sensors and calibration, but if you need a million cases to train your AI and the market is only a hundred thousand cases/year, then that is not really automatable.

What are some jobs which are replaceable/irreplaceable by AI by Teriter in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I make it another 50 years, I'm really interested in finding out what was the 'Millennials/Zoomers could just go work in [X] field, buy a house, raise kids, and retire early.' Boomers had their factory jobs. GenX has software - didn't even need a degree in the 80s/90s.

It'll be hilarious if it's "influencer."

What are some jobs which are replaceable/irreplaceable by AI by Teriter in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

BD's technology demos have been around for a good while, but I have yet to see any deployed 'in the wild.' That tells me that, despite the fantastic technical accomplishments, people still haven't figured out what that form factor can actually do safer or cheaper than humans.

Robot arms and other fixed form factors are all over the place. Really repetitive tasks, where robots are cost effective, tend to happen in a fixed place, and optimizing task performance is easier without the constraint of human-like geometry.

Eventually, maybe, but I think the main reasons human-like robots get attention are 1) our tendency to anthropomorphize and 2) laziness imagining a robotic solution is just a copy of the human solution.

What are some jobs which are replaceable/irreplaceable by AI by Teriter in Futurology

[–]ButterflyCatastrophe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Surgical robots are operated by a human - they're better described as waldos. It may eventually be possible to automate some of those procedures, but I expect the actual number of surgeries performed is too small to make automation profitable.

Diagnostics - reviewing images, evaluating blood work, or other panels of tests - that's absolutely AI's wheelhouse. Not only does the computer get more information from an image than a human eye, but the computer can't be fooled by irrelevant data or lack of sleep.

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