Th4tGuyII

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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignoring the fact that you're clearly high as a kite - it's all tricks your brain does to conserve resources. Without any focus or filter, your brain would very quickly spread it's resources too thinly, and subsequently burn out.

It is much easier for your brain to process a lot of data about a small number of things, than a small amount of data on many, many things.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Nitrogen Asphyxiation in the workplace is insanely dangerous specifically because humans (and most animals) don't have a way to detect nitrogen displacement...

The body detects hypoxia by build up of CO2, or more accurately carbonic acid, not loss of O2 - it doesn't expect for nitrogen to be the thing to displace all the oxygen, so you literally don't notice it. There's countless stories of people fainting and dying due to not realising the situation they were in.

So how in fuck's name did Alabama manage to botch it so badly that the first guy had an agonising death via seizure?? It takes a special kind of neglect to make that happen.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong - I was just pointing out it's always been that way. The rich never played fair, they played to win.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago (18 children)

It's not like they didn't look through your financial history before then - they just didn't have to show their working publicly, which meant you could ne discriminated against for any number of things

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 136 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine completely legally swindling your way into living rent free in one of New York's most prestigious hotels only to completely fuck it up by trying to fraudulently claim you own the building

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's the theoretically part - there are processes that will capture the energy generated that would've otherwise become heat, but that only affects the timeliness. Given enough time, all workable energy generated by a heater would become heat, even if you had to wait for the matter itself to decay trillions of years from now when all the stars have long since breathed their last breath.

Also has somebody watched Technology Connections by any chance?
Heat pumps are so cool - if you showed onw to someone even a hundred years ago, even knowing what electricity was, they'd think it was magic.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Because it will always take more energy to break the water than you will get burning the Hydrogen in Oxygen back into water - it's basic thermodynamics.

You will lose some energy as heat that you cannot get back*.

You can't power a car from a process that loses energy. Even if you use a battery to donate the lost energy, then you might as well just cut out the lossy middleman and just run off the battery or generate the Hydrogen elsewhere - which is what we currently do.

It is better to think of Hydrogen as an energy transporter than as a fuel, as you'd need to generate the Hydrogen somewhere that has abundant energy (ideally renewable), then transport I where needed, such as a Hydrogen powered generator.

*Interestingly the fact that all processes generate waste heat means the only theoretically 100% energy efficient process is heat generation itself, as all forms of energy eventually degrade to heat (as it is essentially the universe's waste energy).

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes sure, but an LLM realistically has no decision making ability - it isn't considering strategies or ethics, or anything else for that matter, it's just pulling together an answer based on what people have said in similar contexts in it's training data.

I wouldn't want a parrot to decide who 's shooting who, nevermind nukes - though to be fair no one person or thing should be deciding either of those things anyway

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mind having my own arguments thrown back in my face, but I do disagree with the premise that humans are anything like LLMs.

We have more than just a catalogue of conversational training data. We are hugely influenced by our current emotions, experiences, and traumas/fears.

I do agree with the idea that we shouldn't give too much power to one person, but I'd argue it's due to a lack of objectivity and a tendency towards selfish actions, rather than acting like an LLM.

Ultroning the world to achieve world peace isn't exactly the best outcome, especially for innocent folks caught in the crossfire

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 87 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Why the actual fuck is anyone considering putting LLMs into the driving seat of anything?!

Of course they make fucked up decisions with no proper or justifiable rationale, because they have no brains. They're language models, stochastic parrots stringing together sentences to fit the prompt(s) given to them.

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