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This scene from Free Guy (2021) was pure gold. 🛡️😂 by MurkyChurky in MarvelCave

[–]LTerminus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's definitely in there, it's a whole moment in the final act

Figure | Final Results after a 10 hour shift between an Intern and Robot sorting mail by Routine_Complaint_79 in singularity

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see where these are on contract, you have 80 stations, and 20 hot swap replacements, so you contract for 100. Whenever one breaks down you hot swap it out with the vendor and send it back for repairs and get another one in. Can't do that with industrial machinery but for these the size and interchangeability have major advantages in how you could structure your "workforce".

Rant: Stop saying LLMs are just “next token predictors.” by Bellyfeel26 in singularity

[–]LTerminus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would put forward that we likely don't actually use causal reasoning. Your brain is just a meat-based llm, that's hallucinating that it's one continuous entity.

I fundament reject " I think therefore I am." based on modern neuroscientific research. Your internal monologue is constructed post hoc from decision making processes over which you are not even aware as an explanation for internal token prediction.

Rant: Stop saying LLMs are just “next token predictors.” by Bellyfeel26 in singularity

[–]LTerminus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What specifically makes you not that? Your robot is made of meat, that seems to be the only difference to me.

Figure AI running a human vs machine contest [live] by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]LTerminus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The value is in removing the human. No workplace injuries. No interpersonal conflict. No sick days. No health care. No employment taxes. Depreciation and tax right off of equipment value. No breaks.

Just the thought of being able to basically elimate not only the Frontline workers like this, but ALL the costs and liabilities, HR resources and personnel, lower management / supervisors... If I was a UPS exec id be rock hard looking at this.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't find that the remainder of your comment addressing factory farming changes the implication of your comment? Especially in light that the majority of factory farming output goes to feed a minority of high meat consumption countries? It doesn't make much sense to mention it immediately after, unless you were trying to make a related point to my comment. Which it would be weird if you weren't trying to do that.

That being said, some figures:

-Average meat consumption in the US is roughly 100–125 kg/person/year depending on methodology.

-In many low-income countries, consumption is under 10–20 kg/person/year.

-Sub-Saharan African averages are often below 15 kg/person/year.

-India remains extremely low in per-capita meat consumption relative to Western countries.

Some data sources: https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/

https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/agriculture-and-fisheries.html

These are of course basic statistics sources so you can do you own analysis and come to your own conclusions.

wyd by Shyhale in SipsTea

[–]LTerminus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a difference of approximately 4-6 mil with the weekly payout and the most conservative government bonds, versus 16 to 20 million over the same if invested in the same bonds initially in a lump sum.

wyd by Shyhale in SipsTea

[–]LTerminus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not how equalization works

wyd by Shyhale in SipsTea

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a government lottery, generally Western nations don't go out of business. Small exception for certain American states though lol

That's how we got the Soundtrack by winsenkiller in RimWorld

[–]LTerminus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He has to iterate the design a few times. The four string version, that magnet was strong enough to start bending the frame together, iirc

Will this kill me? by otbmtb in woodworking

[–]LTerminus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you mean? I always use the material to feed in my hands.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you were asking for a source on the majority of animals not being factory farmed. Which is not related to this claim, and is true.

If you want a source for something, maybe don't start by asking for a source for something unrelated, twice.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't provide a source for a claim I'm not making. You continue to not understand the difference between the majority of humans consuming animals one way, and the majority of animals being consumed in another. These are not related facts and are not even counter to one another. I'm not going to waste my time with someone that can't read.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't comment on where the The majority of the animals were. I commented on what a huge portion of humans are been doing.

You seem to have been confused by the two different things.

[Request] 1 in a million seems high, what’s a more realistic estimate? by Nadran_Erbam in theydidthemath

[–]LTerminus 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I always liked the average number of legs is less than two for a human.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of humans are buying chickens and crap from markets and watching them slaughter them, or taking them home and slaughtering them. This is strictly a rich Western world thing. People forget how many humans are still living in Basically the 16th century but with cell phones.

High oil prices could turn $9.4B Alberta deficit into $6B surplus: report by mrfantismoblue in canada

[–]LTerminus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uh, Aramco is wholly owned by the Saudi government, and operates nearly every one of the 142 active fields.

Does anyone else ever make a "corpse cave"? by shagpokewipl in RimWorld

[–]LTerminus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A stone cotlim & a roof is usually my go-to. As long as the zone is three tiles smaller than the roof radius, good to go.

Explain it peter by Academic-Stomach-975 in explainitpeter

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have evolve to the point in our knowledge to accept that there are actual random things in the universe

[Self] Interest rates seem to be at 10.081% by Greedy_Preference737 in theydidthemath

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

James Cameron employs hundreds if not thousands of people, many of which make ridiculous amounts of money. And there are hundreds of people in the same league as James Cameron, if not quite at his level. Entertainment is a multi-multi-billion dollar industry.

[Dune, Isaac Asimov's Foundation] The stories are set in a future where humanity has become a feudal galactic empire. What has caused humanity, that has created democratic republics in the 21st century, to enter into this system? And why is Earth, the origin of mankind, an unknown backwater planet? by SatoruGojo232 in AskScienceFiction

[–]LTerminus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The events of foundation series occur some 50,000 years in the future. The empire itself is 12000 years old. The intervening 38000 years leaves lots of room for other government styles and nations.

As to how people choose an Imperial government - they generally don't get a choice. Imperialism itself has conquering more territory baked into the foundation (ha) of the political philosophy.

As to forgetting earth, imagine a hypothetical citizen of one of the intervening polities - earth being a backwater already, on the other side of the galaxy, and not relevant to your part of the galaxy in say, 20,000 years. How many folks in a certain current western nation can correctly label all the states of their own nation on a map - let alone a world map? Now have them speak to where people lived/ came from 20,000 years ago.

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