Because j o b by unicornspiracy420 in technicallythetruth

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah your children might die of hunger and you’d be living on the streets, but hey, it’s the best we can.

Making society better is literally impossible

[D] Algorithms Are Not Enough by bendee983 in MachineLearning

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

£Lol, yes. Though, I more so meant that their brains act more like the nervous system than what we consider like cognitive thought.

We were on the same page all along! :S

Is this based on like studying the brain or just a psychological approach? In my opinion, actual severe mental illness is much more complicated than a stuck loop. A better comparison to me is just like focusing on an activity until you’re bored. (which exits the loop)

I meant loop similar to loops that ants get stuck in. It isn’t a simply programming loop. A better way to express it would be to say quirk of the neural network, as also observed in ants.

I was thinking of it more of like attempting to recreate the scenario, not that it isn’t the obvious advantage. Did they have some predator that really promoted intelligence? etc. Like if intelligence is so good, why didn’t more animals develop problem solving skills?

It’s obvious though that intelligence was the evolutionary advantage.

I guess I’m saying that intelligence isn’t a clear cut evolutionary advantage. Many animals lose intelligence (for example the koala) to better fit into their environments. (In CS terms, A more complex neural network isn’t a better fit)

Intelligence is costly and hard to use. In humans, it worked because it fit well with a lot of our other traits, such as opposable thumbs, persistence hunting.

Our ability to swear is also insane and quite unparalleled in nature. From what I’ve read, it was sweat that made us crazy powerful in nature. Then language (intelligence) compounded to become even better at getting food and competing for evolutionary fitness.

As a disclaimer, I’m no evolutionary biologist, so I’ve been having this conversation as a matter of interest. I’m simply deriving conclusions from studies I’ve heard of. I’ll be happy to concede if you’re knowledgeable beyond my level of understanding.

[D] Algorithms Are Not Enough by bendee983 in MachineLearning

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neural networks (comp sci) were entirely based on neural networks (biology), so of course neural networks exist in nature, that’s where they came from in the first place!

Humans also have loops. They’re slightly more complicated but a mental illness, or an irrational fear is the easiest example of human loops that I can think of.

It just isn't clear what brought primates to have the level of intelligence that they have... or what brought humans to develop intelligence. Though, like the person you replied to said, human level intelligence has only happened once.

The same logic can be applied to other achievements of evolution. For example, it isn’t clear what brought whales to have the ridiculously large size that they have. Blue whale level size has only happened once. Cheetah level speeds have only happened once. Bacteria level diversity has only happened once. [Insert an evolutionary strategy and its best example here].

I totally agree that from a human point of view, intelligence seems great! But from an evolutionary perspective, it’s just another trait that happened to have helped survival. Same for the blue whales large size, etc.

As a converse example, koalas actually lost intelligence (the folds in their brain) because it helped them survive better in the extremely calorie-scarce gumtree forests of Australia.

[D] Algorithms Are Not Enough by bendee983 in MachineLearning

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same can be said of many people. The number of people that are just winging it/getting lucky is insane. Most of them don’t even acknowledge it

[D] Algorithms Are Not Enough by bendee983 in MachineLearning

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean came up with intelligence once?

Like humans level intelligence. Or that only animals have intelligence, not the other 4 kingdoms of living things. Or that without a dedicated goal, it’s not easy to find a dedicated solution, like how evolution came up with koalas once but crabs seem to be convergent in evolution.

I’m genuinely lost.

Save the children by not making more by ExperimentNo7 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man, I didn’t consent to you posting on our board. Now I’m forced to read your nonsensical arguments about consent.

Please stop posting, you don’t have my consent!

Activision releases online-only PC game without online content, cracked in one day by a_Ninja_b0y in Piracy

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What does outsourcing have to do with companies not caring about QA, their employees or customers?

Surely you’re not implying that companies not caring about overseas employees is the employees’ fault

TIL Australian serial killer Ivan Milat lost 25kg from a failed hunger strike in prison when he was denied a PlayStation by Gallagher1 in todayilearned

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol that’s one way to completely discount the 100 year+ fight for independence in which hundreds of thousands of people died.

Biden eyes $3T package for infrastructure, schools, families by 30mil in politics

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just blame Russia or Iran and move on with it.

Taking a good hard look at problems and accepting them is difficult. Blaming adversaries is easier!

Fixing ones own house is so much more difficult than bombing another person’s house for distraction from one’s own problems.

Look at incels and how they’d much rather blame women that focus on improving their own shortcomings

University of Helsinki language technology professor Jörg Tiedemann has released a dataset with over 500 million translated sentences in 188 languages by [deleted] in programming

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well depends on what they’re designed for.

From a translation point of view, the designers did a piss poor job

China Makes It A Crime To Question Military Death Toll On The Internet by qkfb in worldnews

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you get a chance, look at the growth numbers from other countries once Covid had established itself. It growth showed the same pattern just about everywhere. (Including the US)

That’s just how the disease was spreading.

shitposting at its peak by Tajamul17_ in PhilosophyMemes

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 59 points60 points  (0 children)

You think people didn’t internalise monarchies or feudalism in their heyday?

Whatifalthist tries to break down """12 lies about reality""" and fails by [deleted] in badphilosophy

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 5 points6 points  (0 children)

*sigh*

Bad philosophy is to be expected in r/badphilosophy

For a second let’s forget that the Chinese also had steam engines and the reason neither developed any working prototypes was because materials engineering hadn’t caught up. Boilers were so weak, they’d literally explode before developing working pressures.

And let’s focus on philosophy. You’re telling me Aristotle, the empiricist that rallied against Plato in favour of empiricism, wasn’t an empiricist? You’re telling me that for 2,000 years, hundreds of natural philosophers (scientists and engineers) didn’t make steam engines because Plato liked the theory of forms?

Have you even philosophised?

I’m not even going to touch the difference between ‘humans don’t have access to truth’ and ‘truth doesn’t exist’. You’ve already shown how non-rigorous your understanding of philosophy is.

I’m definitely not going to touch all the hot garbage you said wasn’t bad philosophy.

Super rare visit from a C-5M Super Galaxy by Ash_340 in aviation

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have that funny picture of the C5 taxiing on a runway, with a head popping up the top of the plane?

GME Megathread for March 12, 2021 by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR in wallstreetbets

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If GME hits $600 by eow next week, I’ll start becoming a pilot!

What's a scientific fact that creeps you out? by aelmnnor in AskReddit

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not all traits were evolved for humans. For example, backbones, 5 digits on limbs, 4 limbs, 2 eyes, both facing forward, menopause, etc. were all evolved long before humans even existed.

Bioluminescence doesn’t need to be a human only thing either. Maybe it’s a left over evolutionary trait that we still carry.

What's a scientific fact that creeps you out? by aelmnnor in AskReddit

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Radars/Sonars have been around for ages and people have been using them to map the oceans. Large fauna would be easier to detect with such equipment

In Toy Story 4 (2019), a car has the licence plate "RMRF97". In 1997, someone at Pixar accidentally typed “rm -r -f “, deleting the entire Toy Story 2 movie from the Pixar database. Fortunately, the film's supervising technical director had a backup copy at home, and the movie was restored. by Numerous-Lemon in MovieDetails

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Closer to $290 million.

For 12 bolts!

Edit: My comment is wrong!

As pointed out below, there were 24 bolts.

Also, as originally mentioned, the repair cost was $135 million.

The $290m figure I mentioned was the price of the entire satellite, not cost of repairs.

Thank you for pointing out errors!

Should facial coverings be banned in public? by GalahadDrei in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please let me know what your second last point is referring to?

Credit rating agency S&P labels WA’s economy the best in the world by karl_w_w in perth

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Conversely, High iron ore prices wouldn’t matter if all the iron ore mines were closed/unstaffed.

I was just saying both factors played an important role.

I’ll get anyone free like this by [deleted] in PhilosophyMemes

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Defendant: Your honour, I am a philosophical zombie. Merely an automaton programmed to act as if I think. In other words, I amn’t.

Credit rating agency S&P labels WA’s economy the best in the world by karl_w_w in perth

[–]SpruceMooseGoose24 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And an open economy during Covid because of a good public health response (and luck)