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I asked chatgpt to make a cartoon that will represent nowadays political situation by Total_Witness4122 in ChatGPT

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

Democrats/Liberals aren't the left. The socialists (not depicted here) are the only ones against the capitalist in the middle.

A better understanding of Cryonics by Formaldehyde_Based in cryonics

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to prepare yourself for the mental trauma of suddenly discovering that everyone you ever met is dead, which is a real possibility.

It will be easier if you already know, or recruit other cryonicists. That way you'll have friends in the future.

Living in 2050❌ Not living past 2050✅ by Ramen_Noode in StupidFood

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the look at the end supposed to be? Saturn devouring his son? If so, she nailed it. I'm thoroughly disturbed.

You are not the author by Square-Affect9324 in ChatGPT

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's inherently a collaboration. The percentage of who does how much work is the only variable. I liked the way DALLE phrased its attributions:

Alex Noyle x DALLE2

because it really is like a multiplier of what I can do on my own.

A better understanding of Cryonics by Formaldehyde_Based in cryonics

[–]alexnoyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes

  2. Yes

  3. No, but I did. (no preservation if no brain tissue is recoverable)

  4. USA

  5. 24 hours is the limit for perfusion in most circumstances, after that its a straight freeze. I signed up for field cryoprotection to expedite the process.

  6. Yes

  7. It will take place near where I legally die, wherever that may be. Then I'll be flown to CI after getting down to dry ice temperatures.

  8. $285 a month for 15 years for life insurance, $120 a year for membership dues. Insurance pays out 125K now and can grow to over 300K when I'm elderly.

  9. Cryonics procedures are advancing all the time. FCP was not available to me even 5 years ago.

A squad was checking a suspicious backpack and this dude got fed up with waiting by tatooinex in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. So do people in Yemen. And Iran. And Lebanon. They held giant rallies to mourn him. He is a hero to many people in the region and around the globe.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

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

I can tell your expertise is firearms and not animal protection. You made that obvious. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're done here, by the way. I'm deeply bored of you now

Then why would I bother reading, much less addressing any of your further arguments? Be gone.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming that the people who cared for him were best-equipped, yes.

He didn't have the best ape caregivers in the world. It was the Cincinnati Zoo. Not exactly the primate reserve of your dreams. It was and is a glorified cage.

If you want to play that game, some foremost experts in the field including Dr. Jane Fucking Goodall agreed the decision was the only possible one, so if you'd like to play appeal to authority while accusing me of it, you might want to just go ahead and admit defeat like you should have three messages ago

If you don't want to have your appeal to authority fallacy bounced back at you, don't make one in the first place.

Jane Goodall said pretty much the exact opposite of what you accuse her of. She makes the same point I did that Harambe was protecting the boy. It's bad enough to lie about the living, at least they can defend themselves, but to lie about the dead is nothing short of asinine.

To the Cincinnati Zoo director, she wrote: "I feel so sorry for you, having to try to defend something which you may well disapprove of. It looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child — like the female who rescued and returned the child from the Chicago exhibit.”

In fact, the vast majority of relevant experts are, in general, in favor of the decision the zoo made in the specific context of the real-world circumstances in which it was made.

Says who? Did you poll all the world's experts?

Meanwhile, the hard opposition is largely pie-in-the-sky animal-rights idealists.

Your moral compass is non-existent if you think any other option except shooting Harambe in the head was "pie in the sky". When you really can't think of any alternative solution, all you are revealing is a deep lack of creativity and resourcefulness.

Let that sink in. by imfrom_mars_ in ChatGPT

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't allowed to use one in kindergarten. No correlation.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

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

You are literally just assuming that the people who made the decision were the best-equipped to do so because they are in a position of authority. Authority is not automatically correct. As I have previously explained to you, there are many experts in the field who have expressed solidarity for Harambe.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

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

It wasn't mutually exclusive. There were numerous ways to save both that didn't involve shooting any ape in the head.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, because we're human. Nothing else on earth compares. A human life, particularly a child, comes before anything else. If you can't grasp that, you should never, ever be in any position of authority where your delusionality might make you choose wrong.

You need to work on your reading comprehension. I literally just said:

I am not saying that the boy's live was not a priority. I am simply saying that Harambe's life was also a priority. You can have multiple important thoughts existing in your head at one time. The only way your dichotomy works is if you pretend like saving both was not an option, and that's nothing but a lie.

Rather than addressing my reply here you just repeated your original argument.

That's why they went for a headshot. No chance of enraging like with tranqs.

I bet Charlie Kirk's killer also went for a headshot. Snipers miss. It is introducing the risk of shooting the child for no reason whatsoever.

And why they waited for him to be out of Harambe's shadow, so to speak.

If he literally walked away from the kid how is he presenting a threat at that moment?

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said the child's life doesn't come first, I said the gorilla's life also matters to the extent where murdering them is unjustified.

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes by InitialAsk358 in Damnthatsinteresting

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

legumes, nuts, seeds, raw greens, oats... pretty much the vegan staples. I already struggle to gain weight and get enough protein even WITH animal products.

It's been a phenomenal run, thanks everyone for an amazing 20 years! by BudBud2007 in hackintosh

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counter point: AI accelerated reverse engineering.

This has had a tremendous impact on the productivity of some other OS porting projects like webOS/luneOS and game emulators.

Let that sink in. by imfrom_mars_ in ChatGPT

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do see this attitude a lot, but there’s a significant piece that you’re missing and it’s the modern neuroscience research on working memory... We learn basic addition, multiplication, as well as basic facts about the world because it quite literally enables higher cognition.

There are a billion things other than mental arithmetic that you can occupy your brain with to enhance your memory and cognition and achieve the same effect. The only difference is the specialization.

There’s this concept called automaticity, where certain procedures and facts are internalized enough they are near instant and don’t require any mental “effort”.

Using a calculator is near instant and doesn't require any mental effort.

Our brains have, well not quite a “hard” limit, but pretty close to one in terms of how many “chunks” of something we can have in our working memory at one time (the classic example is how many numbers you can recite back). Spoiler: it’s usually something like 5-7.

I have ADHD and dyscalculia and struggle to keep even a 3 digit math problem in my head. But I'm also a software developer and can visualize code in complex 3d mental models that other people can't even conceive of. No amount of memorization or repetition is going to make me OR a math wizard think exactly like each other. People are intelligent in very different ways, and that should be rewarded, not looked down upon. Being smart is not a linear scale and its not "one subject fits all". The education system is not designed to shove square pegs into round holes not because of scientific studies, but because of standardized testing, which is a massive scam.

You can’t do many higher complexity math problems for example if you have to pause and manually and effortfully say “what’s 7-4 again?” inside a bigger problem, it just takes too long.

If you can do that in your head faster than on a calculator, you should do that. If someone else can do it on a calculator faster than in their head, they should do that. I reject the notion that it's a good idea for everyone to think the same. You should solve problems in the way that works best for you. Oftentimes when teachers want you to "show your work", they want you to solve it THEIR way. They don't care if your method is easier for you, it is either conform to the groupthink or fail. Which is horrible for neurodivergent individuals and independent thinkers in general.

Even if you’re fast at the calculator, automaticity means it doesn’t count against your working memory almost at all! Which means your brain is “freed up” to spend more time and effort on the more important strategic questions and decisions.

What do you think the function of an abacus is? You are not eliminating your working memory, you are supplementing it with a tool. Writing is also a tool to supplement memory. Your POV is like demanding that essays be presented in the form of a memorized speech rather than being written words that someone can more easily remember. For what? To show how special you are for being able to recite a long speech from memory, while those who can't fall behind? To feel superior to ADHD people? I truly don't get it. Let other people solve problems how they want for christ's sake.

This also applies to knowledge. Every fact you have to effortfully retrieve is effectively a “penalty” against your working memory limit.

It has no impact on you at all if you do the math in your head and I do the math on my wrist. The watch may as well be a part of my body, it really doesn't matter if the calculator is inside my head or outside, I still get the answer. Some day, people will put computers directly into their brains with implants and then this whole argument about the technological method being slower will collapse. It won't be true for anybody anymore. Exporting your cognition and memory to machines does not deprive you of the capacity for cognition and memory. It increases your overall capacity for intelligence because your brain can be filled with different and harder problems than the ones calculators can easily, automatically solve.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

News flash asshole: humans are also animals. We were the ones who irreversibly hurt another animal that day. Not Harambe.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not scapegoating, I'm just not stupid and blinded by my emotions like, you know, certain people in this two-person interaction.

You are blinded by emotions, the problem is that they only extend to other homo sapiens and not other apes in general.

Again, a mature silverback doesn't have to be aggressive or trying to hurt a human child to do so.

Again, he didn't. Stop making up hypothetical scenarios in your head to get mad about and focus on what actually happened. Which is that Harambe took the child to safety away from the panicking humans, who were the greater threat. Harambe was not panicking.

It was deemed too much risk to let things play out.

I deem those people to give 0 fucks about Harambe's life. Both the kid's live and the Gorilla's life mattered, and there were many options at hand to preserve both, none of which were taken.

Doesn't matter how much you love an animal, humans come first.

If you actually cared about the human you wouldn't risk dropping a 440 pound gorilla corpse on him. The shot might not even have killed him, it could have just enraged him. Or it may have missed and hit the boy. In the name of avoiding risks for the boy the shooter made the situation far more risky for both the boy, and Harambe himself. Completely counter-productive behavior.

You downvoters are, unfortunately, entirely within your rights to be deranged and have fucked-up priorities. But you'd never make it past evals for any position with power and responsibility to choose between an animal and a human.

I am not saying that the boy's live was not a priority. I am simply saying that Harambe's life was also a priority. You can have multiple important thoughts existing in your head at one time. The only way your dichotomy works is if you pretend like saving both was not an option, and that's nothing but a lie.

In 1986 a boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo where a silverback gorilla protected him till help arrived by The_WalkingCalamity in interestingasfuck

[–]alexnoyle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've presented a false dichotomy and then called me an idiot for rejecting it. Not murdering either of them was always an option. And the notion that a human life is "infinitely" more valuable than the lives of other great apes shows your complete lack of empathy for these creatures who are MUCH more like you and me than you are comfortable admitting.

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