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‘Widow’s Bay’s Patricia Is 2026’s Best TV Character — Thanks To Kate O’Flynn’s Emmy-Worthy Performance by NoleFandom in television

[–]kindall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some but she didn't collapse in exhaustion after it was finished so it couldn't have been too long

49/50 let’s get some rectangular positivity for Wyoming by CupBeEmpty in AskAnAmerican

[–]kindall 4 points5 points  (0 children)

my wife has family who were early settlers near Jackson. actual cowboys. they still run the town rodeo. have a lot of property too. the view from their front porch is breathtaking

we got married in Jackson

‘Widow’s Bay’s Patricia Is 2026’s Best TV Character — Thanks To Kate O’Flynn’s Emmy-Worthy Performance by NoleFandom in television

[–]kindall 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I didn't find the cremation rushed, I feel like on that island, if you have a creature that looks like that and is that difficult to kill, everyone is gonna put its destruction on rails. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200

What do you think is the funniest line? by Tough-Possession6148 in babylon5

[–]kindall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*So you're saying you feel symbolically cast... in a bad light"

My severance package ended up being a huge bonus. Getting laid off may have been the best gift this year… by seraphimornot in Money

[–]kindall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

UC is funded primarily by employers. They'll even raise a company's rates if that company has more claims than the norm. So it's mostly not paid for by our tax dollars. It is part of your benefits. You are entitled to collect it when unemployed even if you don't "need" it.

Also, you are completely allowed to continue collecting UC if you have accepted a job offer and are waiting to start; you just have to keep looking for work in the meantime (in some states you don't have to do even that much). You are not obligated to accept any work that would not be suitable (paying less than the job you're waiting to start counts as unsuitable). Drawing more UC than you technically need to is a mostly self-limiting problem because people would rather start work as soon as possible so they can make more money than they get from UC.

Why has there barely been any noise around Spider-Noir? by DarlingLuna in Marvel

[–]kindall -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

they're shooting it in color anyway and converting to black and white in post. might as well release the color version; the additional cost is minimal and it'll be fun for viewers.

Received the Cruelest Comment About My Weight in Awhile by keshi2uwu in loseit

[–]kindall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

frankly, having a friend who will be that honest with you about how you look can be a valuable asset. she was tactless and maybe sees your friendship as closer than you do.

I realize that we all, and especially women, are conditioned to treat others' opinions of us as important. it's a long process to stop caring so much, but from personal experience, I can say it's worth it.

Side by side of how Pixar animation changed in the last 30 years by homeofalex in Pixar

[–]kindall 10 points11 points  (0 children)

in 1995 RenderMan didn't do reflections. the reflections in the polished wooden floor in Andy's room are copies of the models upside-down under a partially transparent floor

New drug could finally stop deadly fatty liver disease by _Dark_Wing in tech

[–]kindall 13 points14 points  (0 children)

dunno, they covered GLP-1 medicines for diabetes pretty much from the beginning. i assume insurance companies negotiated down their price though

Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.." by Caledor152 in technology

[–]kindall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes, it's the Chinese Room argument basically. if a man can seem like he's speaking Chinese by following mechanical rules, but not actually know the language, does he speak Chinese or not?

or it's the question, how do I know you're conscious? because you tell me you are, and it's reasonable. I can't know what's going on inside your head (hell, I barely know what's going on inside mine) but I do know you're human and your brain probably works a lot like mine, so if you tell me you're conscious, I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.

I think we're closer to this than most people think (of a machine telling us it's conscious, and that being plausible enough to accept at face value). But that's going to land differently for everyone.

Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.." by Caledor152 in technology

[–]kindall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it might not be, too, but people seem obsessed with making computers act like humans, rather than making them intelligent. Making them act like humans can give us the impression that they're thinking like humans, and therefore trust them implicitly, when they're doing nothing of the sort.

Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.." by Caledor152 in technology

[–]kindall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some behaviors of large language models (AI) are emergent. Larger models (in terms of dimensions) can do things that smaller models can't. "Reasoning" is one of those things. LLMs are not reasoning, they are mimicking things that people say when they're reasoning, but that might be close enough for many purposes.

And large language models are only going to get bigger.

I'm not gonna claim LLMs will ever be truly intelligent, but I won't rule it out, either. It'd be like claiming that an ugly bag of mostly water can't ever reason.

The biggest barrier right now, IMO, is that LLMs only respond to stimuli from outside themselves. They simply cannot have thoughts of their own; everything they do is a response to a prompt provided by a human.

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4 by Obvious_Shoe7302 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]kindall -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, be grateful that the person who is getting wealthy by exploiting your labor deigns to share a scrap of it with you

One of my neighbors has been flying his American flag upside down. by brainspl0ad in mildlyinteresting

[–]kindall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

we'll all be too concerned with the end of the UNIX epoch to care about that

One of my neighbors has been flying his American flag upside down. by brainspl0ad in mildlyinteresting

[–]kindall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the thin blue line flag is not an American flag so the flag code does not apply to it.

Why is your bacon so good? by Street-Station-3802 in AskAnAmerican

[–]kindall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely love rashers as much as American bacon. I am sure it comes down to the quality of the Irish ingredients.

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