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ContrarianTrail

@ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

Open to reconsider my views in light of good-faith counter-arguments but also willing to defend what's right, even when it's unpopular. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • What's the consensus on the definition of incel?

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  • Maybe they should be called far-incels

  • Not judging anyone by the way, but how do you justify or fix the following quirk in your version of capitalism/communism?

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  • Were I complaining?

  • Not judging anyone by the way, but how do you justify or fix the following quirk in your version of capitalism/communism?

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  • I asked chatGPT to extract the question from that as I struggled to pinpoint it myself. I'll put it here as I'm probably not the only one wondering. So it seems like what OP is asking is (correct me if I'm wrong):

    How do you adjust or change your beliefs (about capitalism, communism, libertarianism, or other ideologies) to deal with the fact that some people or countries naturally have more advantages than others?

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    Is it fair to ask individuals to make significant changes to their lifestyles to combat climate change?"

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  • Nothing wrong with asking as long as you're also willing to accept no as an answer. If you're going to attack them for refusing, then it wasn't really a question in the first place but rather a demand masked as one.

    Also, I'm not sure if this is the correct community to ask this.

  • The last time you were wearing a hat, what type was it?

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  • I wore a beanie this morning as it was quite chilly outside.

    Yesterday I wore a helmet while riding my bike. Not sure if that counts as a hat.

  • Meta Plans to Ban the Russian TV Network RT From Its Apps

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  • Perfect, just in time to stop Russia from meddling with the 2016 election!

    Great, now Putin will have absolutely no way whatsoever to spread his propaganda on Facebook!

    I really struggle to see the point of these comments. It's a valid criticism to say it should've been done sooner or they should've done more, but doing something is better than doing nothing and also better late than never. So what are these commentors trying to achieve here other than applause and upvotes? This is one of the things my autistic brain has a hard time figuring out about social media. Is it just to say what's popular so people come and pat you on the back?

  • People who stuck around on Twitter; what's it like being force fed conservative social media?

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  • They would need to be force feeding me conservative content in order for me to be able to answer the question. They're not and never have been. Same applies to ads.

  • AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses

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  • I've yet to see generative AI make an error that a human couldn't make. Maybe that's why people seem so hateful of it; they were expecting it to be superhuman but instead it's too much like us.

  • Terence Tao: GPT-O1 nearing "competent grad student" usefulness

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  • Aren't the grad students similarly trained on books that other people wrote?

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    Is "retard" a slur?

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  • I take slight issue with every demand to not use a specific word. I think the better advice here would be to simply suggest not calling people names to begin with. It's not what you call them that's the issue, but rather the intention to offend in the first place.

  • OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities

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  • That's a bit like taking issue with the terms jig, spinner, spoon, and fly, and saying you don't care what some random fishermen call them; to the rest of us, they’re just lures.

    AGI is a subcategory of AI. We've had AGI systems in science fiction for decades, but we’ve just been calling them AI, which isn’t wrong, but it’s an unspecific term. AI is broad and encompasses everything from predictive text input to AGI and beyond. Every AGI system is also AI, but not everything AI is generally intelligent. ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) would be an even more specific term, referring to something that is not only artificial and generally intelligent but exceeds human intelligence.

    Artificial intelligence

    The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence.

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    Is "retard" a slur?

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  • Dictionary definition for a slur is: an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo

    Calling someone a retard definitely aint a compliment and even when used jokingly among friends, the meaning of the word itself still remains the same. I think everyone agrees that the n-word is a slur too despite black people calling eachother that without the intention to offend and no offence being taken. By this definition, I'd say retard counts as a slur too.

    However, if someone takes issue with the word retard but doesn't mind the use of words moron, idiot or imbecille, then they're just being a hypocrite.

  • If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be?

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  • Coffee shop tables should be 3 legged to prevent them from wobbling and me spilling my coffee when I lean onto the table even just a bit.

  • What stands out the most about you?

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  • I'm tall, fit, relatively handsome, somewhat charismatic and have good manners.

    Not necessarily how I see myself, but the stack of evidence to the contrary grows higher each day.

  • OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities

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  • I don't see the need to be such a dick about it. The term AGI was coined in the 90's.

  • OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities

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  • It is literally artificial intelligence though. Just because chatGPT doesn't perform as a layperson imagined it would, it doesn't mean it's not AI. They just have an unrealistic expectation of what counts as AI along with the common misconception of AI and AGI being the same thing.

    A chess playing robot uses artificial intelligence as well. It's a narrow AI, meaning it can do one thing really well but that doesn't translate to other things. AGI on the other hand stands for Artificial General Intelligence. Humans are an example of general intelligence meaning that we have the cognitive ability to perform well on several unrelated tasks.

  • Not everyone needs to have an opinion on AI

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  • But if you’re view is that you’re not actually adding anything, you’re just doing more of what already exists

    That's not my view.

    Okay, assume someone has. Is your art meaningless, then?

    No. That's my point. Art isn't dead.

  • Do you have trouble explaining your job to people?

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  • Older houses often to have oil boilers. Newer ones tend to have either geothermal or air heat pumps. District heating is quite common as well, especially on commercial and apartment buildings meaning the heat is transfered via hot water from the power plant.

  • Not everyone needs to have an opinion on AI

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  • I'll ignore the first part as it doesn't represent my view.

    I don't think art is dead and I disagree with the implication that AI simply hands you a copy of something somebody else did before. That's not how generative AI works. There would be nothing generative about that. Instead it studies the prior work of humans, finds patterns and combines these in unique and novel ways. If I ask for a hybrid of Harry Potter and Lord of the rings then obviously its using existing building blocks but the outcome is still something that has not been written before.

    I'm an artist myself. I take photographs. I'm under no illusion that all my photos are completely unique, they're not. I'm well aware that if I had a database of every single picture ever taken, then there would hundreds if not even thousands of photos that are near identical to the ones I've taken and are so proud of. That takes zero joy out of my creative process and from the enjoyment other people find in my work. Nobody has seen every photo in the world. My art is not meaningless just because someone did it before me.