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@Jonathan_Blow should've used unity...

Something that comes up every single game: "I want to draw some text centered nicely in a box. I have the coordinates of the text, how much of a margin do I add to the box on each side?" The answer is, "It is different for each language and each font. Hack and figure it out."

@zeta_globin Wissenschaftsleichtgläubigkeit

is there a german word for watching your idols fall for bad science by simply not reading the methods section

@thetomska it was a long week, i get it

Thanks for sticking around, Weeklings! Here's a new Last Week 💕 youtube.com/watch?v=Qm-Yrb…

@thestanduppod that's ben awad

A Real Question

i love how the matrix movies correctly predicted that linear algebra would be a central element of ai development

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@Romy_Holland even the smartest people get their brain fried by politics

I read a long article recently about a child prodigy with a 173 IQ who grew up really isolated because of geography, family circumstance, and because she ended up attending college at elementary school age so she was never socialized and basically only hung out with her mom. she ended up never leaving her hometown and after a violent incident against her family, she basically went into seclusion. I looked her up to see if there was anything new in the years since she was profiled, and the only thing I found was her fb profile, which is full of nothing but extremist content about "islamist scum" and "Kremlina Harris, her Commie squad and their ilk." it's not nuanced or interesting, and it's being posted to an audience of 23 people. this has caused me to update significantly on the potency of culture/memes. I've always thought the concept of mind viruses was a bit overblown, but that feels like the most accurate description of what happened to this woman. mental horsepower alone was not sufficient to inoculate her. if anything, I wonder if smart people sometimes talk themselves more fully into wrong ideas, and are harder for others to dissuade. anyway, this is super sad. I know plenty of ppl who spend all of their energy gathering bad info to prop up bad world views, but none of them were previously on track to do something extraordinary in the world.

@Aella_Girl software engineering is solved

are ANY results for this showing for anyone else?

Did you vote blue or red button? || Agree or disagree: Intelligence is mainly determined by genetics

@Romy_Holland vibe goding

me (joking, in high-context situation): *prayer hands* please lord, may my next pregnancy and baby be super easy and chill. *pause* but not like, because my baby is born without a cerebral cortex or something. make it a good baby who just likes to nap independently and stuff. no funny business. fiance: yeah you don't have to do that, in christianity god is omnibenevolent, he's not a trickster or anything me: okay well probably still safer to be super specific fiance: well god is also omniscient so he actually just knows what you're really going for me: *prayer hands* okay god just do the thing I want, you know what it is *wink* ...so that's allowed?? fiance: yeah I guess? me: dope this is so easy, total shortcut

@Pandora_Delaney tbf you can't really know someone's preferences on the first date

Flowers Discourse Part 2: It is almost like people have individual preferences and the best way to get what you actually want in relationships is to talk about this directly instead of just assuming and following scripts

@wordgrammer most importantly: humans also often can't reason

It’s good to see philosophers working on AI. I hope we see more philosophers like this. We gotta get some Kant scholar to figure out “what is the part of reasoning that humans have that LLMs lack”… I’m so sick of hearing“LLMs can’t reason” because they fail a test for one, specific part of what we might call “reason”. LLMs have some capacity for reason but not all capacity for reason… someone gotta go through the 600 page book and dig up what Kant would say about it… prolly something like “they have the capacity for analytic judgements but no intuition manifold” or something

@memecrashes you should only use code comments if the most readable implementation is not self-explanatory

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@wordgrammer do you think most philosophers could already be replaced by ai?

Philosophy is the thrift store of ideas. Compared to science, where every idea is vetted, philosophy is a disorganized mess. There’s some gold in there, and if you care about good deals/outside payoff/anti-consensus bets, it’s worth the dig, but man is there a lot of trash

every tech ceo this month:

@alltejuupptaget @Aella_Girl what's the problem with elo?

@Aella_Girl I wonder why they use elo for that... feels like a misunderstanding of how elo works

On glosso, you can rate your friends against each other in wars (e.g. most autistic, most 'mommy', kiki/bouba, etc), and they get an elo. My elo is very high in several flattering war types I don't think I should be high on, and I think this is probably because I'm high status in my local group. This freaks me out though - I suspect people are falsely viewing me as better along some axis because of some type of... power/popularity halo effect going on, and I did not realize the extent to which this was affecting perceptions of me

@Romy_Holland i don't think there is a single case in history where workers have won the fight against a superior technological solution. i do feel sad for these people but they can't possibly win this one long term. but we should find a way to guarantee better life outcomes for people >

@Romy_Holland displaced by technology because it's going to hit a lot more industries in the near future

wait til they hear about the impact of safer roads on poor ER docs. trauma surgeons might be out of a job. in all seriousness i don’t understand the current obsession with protecting uber drivers. like 10 years ago these same ppl were up in arms about uber drivers stealing the taxi drivers’ jobs. a lot of ride share drivers are barely making a living bc they don’t account for expenses correctly. clear improvements to road safety aside, it is not a great loss to remove this type of employment.