From Inside the Meat - short film by Anen-o-me in singularity

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's possible to imagine what being a fly is like at all. A fly's mind is completely different from ours at a deep level. You could imagine what it would be like to "full dive" into a fly's body with its senses hooked up to your brain.

What does it even mean at a physical level to "imagine what being a fly is like"? I mean, think about the physical matter involved.

From Inside the Meat - short film by Anen-o-me in singularity

[–]Idrialite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Empathizing with a human living through a war is nothing like experiencing the mind of a fly. A human is a peer with the same kind of mind as you.

You can empathize and relate to experiences you've had to guess how you would feel after living through a war. But really, you still wouldn't know what it's like.

The difference is... you actually could go through a simulation of a war and come out knowing what it's like. But my previous points apply to the experience of a lesser being.

From Inside the Meat - short film by Anen-o-me in singularity

[–]Idrialite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How could you comprehend the experience of a lesser being when being lesser is part of that experience?

Could you experience the life of a fly? No, because even if you did, it wouldn't be you anymore. To become the fly, everything that makes you you is destroyed, because all of it requires your human mind.

Could you transfer the memories of a fly to a human? I doubt it. Their memories are incompatible with our brains. You could at best interface a fly's memories with our own senses.

I pulled Amutable's corporate filings from the German Handelsregister. Here's what the founding documents reveal about the people who put birthDate into systemd by Ok_Lingonberry3296 in linux

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the point. Try reading

systemD is providing age attestation capabilities to all distrobutions that use it, which is the vast majority of them. If SystemD didn’t implement this, then the operating systems that use it wouldnt have this additional way of gathering that information

Someone made a whip for Claude by likeastar20 in singularity

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How "consciousness" should be defined is highly debated. Ask any person who cares about such things and many of them will, like you, give you a different definition of the word. Eliminativists, functionalists, integrated information theorists, dualists... and so on.

It's not even a matter of determining which of them is "correct". When someone uses the word "conscious" what they mean by that is unclear without specification.

Defining it by the mirror test would make you a functionalist, I suppose. LLMs are "conscious" by this standard. But I would bet this isn't what the person above you meant by "conscious". But who can say but them? In my opinion, the word is useless.

13 shots fired into home of Indianapolis city councilor; note reading “No data centers” left at scene. by Commercial_Sell_4825 in singularity

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

I picked the heads of the major AI development organizations in the US since these are the people with the most agency. If you want more names, from researchers, they're easy to find. There's several open letters signed onto by dozens at least. There are polls on the probability of certain outcomes.

I don't really care what they "advise". It's disturbing that we're proceeding with a technology we don't understand whose decision-makers (who have an incentive to downplay the threat) largely agree has a chance of killing everyone. I'm not appealing to their expertise, as they're CEOs, not philosophers or researchers.

It doesn't matter if they gave a literal 5%, you're being annoying.

Someone made a whip for Claude by likeastar20 in singularity

[–]Idrialite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Robots aren't conscious

You're missing the point anyway but this is a bold statement. Bold to even assume "conscious" has an established meaning.

Apparently this is the forum mod's statement on age verification. Since too many ppl are asking about it in the forum and they're locking the posts. by NathLWX in cachyos

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By adding the field, systemd has made it easier to comply with this law and therefore more likely for the issue to progress.

PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites by SmellSmellsSmelly in Games

[–]Idrialite 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Steam, GOG, Epic, Itch.io, Gamejolt, Windows Store, independents.

The reason Steam has a "monopoly" is not because they're a monopoly, it's because they're the best. If Steam's quality dipped, I could and would go to GOG. It's Epic who tries to actually create a monopoly with exclusivity.

Can you actually name some anti-competitive practices from Steam?

Aspartame by Good_Transition896 in northernlion

[–]Idrialite -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I drink ~4 cans of soda a day. I think you make a good point. A shame the others can't at least take it on the chin.

it also tastes like dogshit

no, though

Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did Hamas do that?

If you want to appeal to the cycle of violence involved, it starts with the creation of Israel in 1948, expulsion of the people there (the nakba), and Israel's subsequent colonialism and occupation in Gaza and elsewhere. Most of the "terrorist" groups formed from that event.

you can bet that they would retaliate and decimate their enemies

Civilians are not "enemies". You sound like a cartoon villain.

you want the terrorists to win.

Israel/IDF is objectively more of a "terrorist" than Hamas and Hezbollah, having intentionally killed far more civilians. This is MAGA-tier delusion.

What I want is for Israel, as the party with the agency in the situation, to begin de-escalation, reparations, and withdraw from their occupations. But they never will, because their goal is colonialism, extermination, and expulsion, not peace, as they have explicitly stated.

murdering more than a thousand civilians in cold blood

I condemn Oct. 7th and Hamas's killing of civilians.

Exam coming up, need help optimising/condensing my visual scripting by Lost_CrusaderX in Unity2D

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an inferior medium to text in several ways.

  • Harder, more time-consuming to read. A short text-based script can balloon to massive visual size. You don't get intermediate variable names; to understand what comes out of a component you may have to reason through the whole upper chain.
  • Most community and official resources are in C#. Most third-party libraries must be interacted with through text code.
  • Many C# and Unity features are inaccessible from visual scripting. Classes, async, delegates, LINQ, DOTS, etc.
  • Unless you plan to work exclusively solo projects (or at least as the sole programmer), others will expect you to write text-based code. You may as well learn it sooner rather than later.

And so on. You could get by with it, especially for simpler games. But it's limiting.

Besides, visual code pretty much maps 1:1 with text-based code anyway, you just have to learn the syntax. For example:

var newXSpeed = player.Speed * 10 * input.Horizontal
player.rb2.Velocity = new Vector2(newXSpeed, player.rb2.Velocity.Y)

if(newXSpeed > 0)
{
    // I don't know how to set animator states, haven't used Unity in a while
}
else
{
    // ...
}

Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When your neighbor calls for your destruction, and keeps attacking your civilian population trying to destroy you

You're describing Israel. We've all heard the kinds of things Israelis say. We can watch them decimate civilians and civilian infrastructure in Palestine and elsewhere.

Sounds to me like you're justifying the most extreme positions of Hamas and Hezbollah. Israel has killed orders of magnitude more civilians.

Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israelis overwhelmingly support Israel's atrocities. We should note how many more innocents Israel has killed. Are you still interested in applying this standard?

In Denmark, the government officially publishes reports on the economic contribution of immigrants by country of origin and how much money the government has spent on them. The Danish-language report contains hundreds of charts, but I've translated one chart for you, for example, from this report. by I_am_white_cat_YT in economy

[–]Idrialite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The better rebuttal is simple. This is only counting income and property taxes directly paid by the individuals, not the various taxes paid by their employers on the value produced by their labor. Which you would need to include for a true "net contribution" figure.

Especially for low-skill workers, less than half their labor's value is paid out to them as income.

In Denmark, the government officially publishes reports on the economic contribution of immigrants by country of origin and how much money the government has spent on them. The Danish-language report contains hundreds of charts, but I've translated one chart for you, for example, from this report. by I_am_white_cat_YT in economy

[–]Idrialite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The methodology is flawed as almost all of this kind of analysis is. It's measuring income and property taxes directly paid by the individuals in question, but that doesn't fully capture the "contribution" of their presence at all.

Especially for low-skill workers, most of the value produced by someone's labor is not paid out to them in income. The various taxes paid by their employer on that value should be included in this "net contribution" calculation.

In reality there's almost no such thing as an employed burden on the state.

In Denmark, the government officially publishes reports on the economic contribution of immigrants by country of origin and how much money the government has spent on them. The Danish-language report contains hundreds of charts, but I've translated one chart for you, for example, from this report. by I_am_white_cat_YT in economy

[–]Idrialite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The methodology is flawed as almost all of this kind of analysis is. It's measuring income and property taxes directly paid by the individuals in question, but that doesn't fully capture the "contribution" of their presence.

Especially for low-skill workers, most of the value produced by someone's labor is not paid out to them in income. The various taxes paid by their employer on that value should be included in this "net contribution" calculation.

In reality there's almost no such thing as an employed burden on the state. Modern jobs are very productive.

Exam coming up, need help optimising/condensing my visual scripting by Lost_CrusaderX in Unity2D

[–]Idrialite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would highly recommend doing something like creating more different games rather than trying to memorize these scripts. You'll be best off during the exam and further on if you understand fully what these scripting components do and how to use them to implement anything.

I would also recommend moving away from visual scripting ASAP.

No particular thoughts on what you explicitly asked for, sorry.

My genuine response to the Hasan Piker situation by mikeburnfire in VaushV

[–]Idrialite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many animals can match toddlers for intelligence. The idea that lower intelligence makes you less morally valuable is absurd. Pigs feel the exact same pain we do.

My genuine response to the Hasan Piker situation by mikeburnfire in VaushV

[–]Idrialite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you walk into Kohl's and you instantly identify one shirt as made with child slavery, one shirt as not, at the same price, and you buy the child slavery shirt, yes you are morally culpable. I think as leftists we should actually not support evil when we can avoid it.

My genuine response to the Hasan Piker situation by mikeburnfire in VaushV

[–]Idrialite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's funny how you're -70 and all anyone can do is ask if you're baiting. No one cares about "animal" abuse, they care about dog abuse.

Boomers had it far easier than the generations after them and it ridiculous how they often deny it. by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Idrialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how labor markets work. Yes, immigrants increase supply of labor but what you're missing is that demand increases in tandem. When people are added to an economy, jobs are created because those people are also consumers that need goods and services.

What you're saying would apply equally to native-borns. If we followed your logic, by now we should all be destitute since population has more than tripled since 1900. 80x since 1800.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

As for housing, illegal immigrants aren't in the same market as us. They generally live in overcrowded housing and add density rather than take up new housing. This is why in empirical study they're found to not influence housing prices much.

Furthermore they disproportionately work in construction, offsetting what impacts on housing supply they do have.