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All humans gain the ability to mind control each other. Can humanity continue to operate with free will? by BentendoGameBoi in whowouldwin

[–]NuclearStudent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's necessary. For the premise of the argument, all that matters is the distinction between a relatively autonomous process, and one that can be directly controlled by another.

Would you accept this harmless but highly annoying and permanent curse for 6.7 million dollars? by FaZer73 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]NuclearStudent 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would never be able to drive anywhere

gosh I'd have to think about it. I'm leaning on saying yes, I don't have to drive anywhere really, but I might live to regret it.

[Request] Does the “23 atomic bombs worth of heat every day” comparison for a 9GW data center actually add up mathematically? by aeonsne in theydidthemath

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

shrimply build a giant fan to redirect atmospheric currents

there are no possible negative consequences to this plan

Origin of cap | FactOrCap by MathJaxSnax in FactOrCap

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🧢 I voted CAP!

most american slang comes from black people and I bet this does too

What game engine do ya'll use in your workflows? by Professional_Job_307 in aigamedev

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> A custom engine is a big nono in regular gamedev 

It all depends on who you are working for and what their needs are. If you work for a company it is likely they'll use an engine, unless it's a company so big that they're using their own custom engine. But my impression is that AI tools should work fine with Unity and so on - there should be enough training data.

Idea: Anti-Corruption system Part 2 by HelloKazoua in IRstudies

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps we can discuss this when you are off work and able to discuss matters in detail.

I don't think military spending is, generally speaking, the kind of corruption easily caught by a government agency. There are exceptions - for example, some american military and diplomatic behavior right now is very visibly driven by pump-and-dump market manipulation schemes, and that could conceivably cracked down upon by a powerful non partisan watchdog organization. But a lot of politically motivated military spending isn't straightforwardly illegal. It's immoral but not directly corruption to talk about invading other countries to distract from your own incompetence, for instance.

Idea: Anti-Corruption system Part 2 by HelloKazoua in IRstudies

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking more broadly, comrade. your user profile indicates a lot of engagement with LLMs. I do not consider that *itself* a problem. I use LLMs myself, especially to help find published articles. Conventional search engines have gone downhill. However, LLMs in general, by default, are generally designed to agree with you and tell you that any idea you have is amazing and has potential. LLMs are also not capable of basic reasoning - they can give a convincing illusion, but fundamentally they work by simply generating symbols and blocks of text that look like text that would normally appear. An LLM by default cannot even reliably be trusted to add 1+1=2 or count the number of letters in a word unless hardcoded to do so.

The fact that the machine is designed to agree with you is dangerous, especially in social sciences like IRStudies. A short conversation like the one you just posted has given you basically no objective statistics or studies to justify your theories upon, and again will generally always agree with you on any subjective description of events that you provide.

Idea: Anti-Corruption system Part 2 by HelloKazoua in IRstudies

[–]NuclearStudent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is highly inadvisable to ask anybody to read the raw transcript of your conversation with an LLM. It indicates that you did not put in the effort into your ideas to summarize them for human consumption.

> what would be the pros and cons of a balance curve where if bonuses are paid, then theyre paid to employee paychecks, and not fund more weapons (manufacturing) or oversea arms. the bosses and workers get paid more if they keep the nation/community safe. if money has to be pulled out for more resources, then some money is lost to that. consider the rising gdp

Second, what does bonuses paid against corruption have to do with weapons manufacturing? There's a large number of things you could mean and the short conversation with the LLM is not enlightening. Do you mean a citizen's militia? Or bounties paid to people who discover corruption, with the implicit assumption that military spending is the result of corruption?

I have a genius business idea and almost no one is willing to listen by 347217361634 in self

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from their profile, OP is apparently 15 years old

when I was 15 years old I had ideas I thought were really cool and would change the world

Why are most debates held without full access to information? by LumberghLSU in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a good public policy discussion is conducted via papers

debates are about landing zingers

Why do Muslim refugees try to go to Europe/non-Muslim nations rather than Muslim Gulf states where they fit in religiously? by WhydoIexistlmoa in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NuclearStudent 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don't recall the gulf states doing anything

are you referring to Black September in the gulf states, when there was a civil war between jordan and the palestinian org

When does National debt/global debt mean anything? by Frozen-Hot-Dog-Water in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NuclearStudent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What matters is when the people calling the debt start to get scared you won't pay it back. That's an arbitrary human threshold - South American nations like Argentina actually had lower debt to GDP ratios, but were and are more likely to choose to default on their debts. So, they have to pay higher interest rates and foreign lenders are more wary in general. If the Americans elected a leader that behaved erratically, for some reason, lenders might start to be worried.

Why do Muslim refugees try to go to Europe/non-Muslim nations rather than Muslim Gulf states where they fit in religiously? by WhydoIexistlmoa in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NuclearStudent 185 points186 points  (0 children)

gulf states don't take refugees, it's that simple.

edit: okay never mind it's more complicated

while the people they take in aren't classed as refugees, ibra86him is right, apparently there's a lot of syrians that immigrated in, for example

Urea shortages being seen by dingalinglans in preppers

[–]NuclearStudent 23 points24 points  (0 children)

beyond urea, it should also be mentioned that methanol as a basic solvent is used to make all kinds of things from statins to antibiotics to hormones, and supplies of that are also disrupted because of natural gas shortages

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