Skip Navigation

User banner

Melllvar

@ charonn0 @startrek.website

Posts
11
Comments
1509
Joined
3 yr. ago

Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

  • Spore drive?

    Jump

  • For some reason fungal mycelial networks and tardigrades were all the rage in pop sci and internet memes circa 2015. The writers just hopped on the bandwagon when they were deciding how their non-warp propulsion plot point would work.

  • How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

    Jump

  • Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

  • Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?

    Jump

  • It's pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.

  • What car did you learn to drive in?

    Jump

  • My mom's early 90's minivan. I think it was a Voyager.

  • The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites

    Jump

  • Me over here in my Spaceballs shirt.

  • Acceptable loss.

    Jump

  • I bet they have good weed, though.

  • When it’s none of your business, you should keep scrolling.

    Jump

  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

    Jump

  • "Privacy" in the modern sense is less about protecting you from personal embarrassment or financial loss, and more about protecting society from the dangers of mass data collection.

    Historical examples of mass datasets that were misused:

    • The Nazis used demographic records (birth, death, marriage records, etc.) to identify Jews and other undesirables in conquered countries.
    • Japanese Americans were identified for internment in part through illegal use of census information.
    • The Rwanda genocide was facilitated by tribal information being printed on drivers licenses.

    In none of these examples were the data collected for the evil purposes it was eventually used for. In some cases, the evil purposes were completely forbidden by the rules governing the data, but they were used anyway.

    Information is a form of knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.

  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

    Jump

  • When in doubt, shut up.

  • Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently

    Jump

  • Surprised the article didn't point out that the "Tim" axis is also pointing in the wrong direction.

  • Why do you hate AI?

    Jump

  • The economic bubble being created between the AI and hardware companies is going to pop and take out huge swathes of the broader economy, a la mortgages in 2008.

  • Captain's orders

    Jump

  • Human rights? The very name is racist.

    Jump

  • Not all species reproduce sexually. Not all sexual reproduction involves pairs.

  • Thoughts on Kanar

    Jump

  • I got a contact sugar high just from clicking that link.

  • Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval

    Jump

  • The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it's bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

    otherwise we would just switch it off

    If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

  • do it right now

    Jump

  • What, am I meeting the Pope or something?

  • Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval

    Jump

  • A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

  • It is indeed

    Jump

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

    Jump

  • Pirate King: HE DID?!? ... oh... oh, yes so he did... I was there.

  • Only the finest quality!

    Jump

  • Now wait a second. I don't think Quark ever sold shoddy merchandise. Overpriced? Sure! Stolen? Probably! Contraband? Absolutely! But low quality merchandise doesn't breed customer loyalty. It doesn't generate repeat business.

    Remember the 57th rule of acquisition: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Did you know that the Internet Archive has classic sci-fi radio dramas?

    archive.org /details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Not like that!

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Wife trouble

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Two hunters

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Of Biblical Proportions

  • Lord of the memes @midwest.social
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    the paramount digit loop

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Hell yeah its weed

  • Risa @startrek.website
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Often-wrong indeed