I appreciate this, I really do, but you do have to be careful not to end up like certain leftist Reddit subs where I got banned for the heinous crime of suggesting that voting for Harris might produce better outcomes than voting for Trump. Some level of discussion that goes beyond what the majority (or, lbr, the mods) think has to be allowed or you just have an echo chamber.

Granted, that isn’t what is happening in the comic. The apologist here is genuinely advocating tolerance of Nazis. This situation is appropriate.

Damn, no one ever put it into words like that but this describes me perfectly

Fill my holy churn with honey cheese

I’m sorry what the fuck

I was curious about this, did some reading - not only is it true but the effects are farther reaching than that.

Ah but don’t forget, we in the UK left the EU. Bo Jo already considered invading the Netherlands once.

One kid’s getting garbage collected either way

I certainly don’t do any punching. My weak floppy little arms were made for operating a keyboard.

There’s only so much population. Afaik availability of housing isn’t particularly a limiting factor for population growth, either, so I don’t think this is true. If we all moved into apartments then there would be less land used, no question.

Yes! I can’t tell you how many arguments I’ve had with people who genuinely think that burglars deserve to be shot and killed.

Can you imagine if it did? Such potential for abuse lmao. “Sorry neighbour that I hate, I planted a rare tree on your doorstep, guess you’re stuck with it now!”

Yes that’s what I’m thinking, some modernised physical data storage technique.

Punch cards? Stored correctly there’s no reason they couldn’t last many human lifetimes. But… Yeah it’ll take a while to encode everything.

I would have thought that with modern technology we could come up with something like punch cards but more space/time efficient. Physical storage of data - only one write cycle of course, but extremely durable. Even just the same system as punch cards but using tiny, tiny holes very close together on a roll of paper. Could be punched or read by a machine at high speed (compared to a regular punch card, presumably still Ber slow compared to flash media).

MBAs should be renamed Master’s in Bullshit Administration.

Check the other comment thread from the parent, there’s a discussion which goes into it.

Here you go

20 years… In base 6?

Do people hoard food? I suppose preppers, but they aren’t likely to want any kind of method to decide what to get rid of. Plus, if you do decide to you can just stop buying food and eat your hoard.

Your model is lacking in one area - poopy() has an inverse poopwash() where for some set of poopy objects Y, poopwash maps Y to a subset of the set of real world objects, but there exists a set of poopy objects Z for which poopwash maps Z to a subset of poopy objects.

My initial instinct was to suggest that for all z in Z, keep(z) = false, however I believe your million dollar example runs counter to this. Nonetheless, I suspect there is a useful subset of Z, let’s say S, for which we can say, for all s in S, keep(s) = false.

It’s an interesting point. If I need to confirm that I’m right about something I will usually go to the internet, but I’m still at the behest of my reading comprehension skills. These are perfectly good, but the more arcane the topic, and the more obtuse the language used in whatever resource I consult, the more likely I am to make a mistake. The resource I choose also has a dramatic impact - e.g. if it’s the Daily Mail vs the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I might be able to identify bias, but I also might not, especially if it conforms to my own. We expect a lot of LLMs that we cannot reliably do ourselves.

LLMs are just that - Ms, that is to say, models. And trite as it is to say - “all models are wrong, some models are useful”. We certainly shouldn’t expect LLMs to do things that they cannot do (i.e. possess knowledge), but it’s clear that they can do other things surprisingly effectively, particularly providing coding support to developers. Whether they do enough to warrant their energy/other costs remains to be seen.