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Madeline: Science denial really grinds my metaphorical gears, and Flat Earthers are some of the most egregious about it. So manhandle them into strait jackets and shove them in the damn rocket already.

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Digital Rights Management. AKA the stuff that's supposed to prevent unauthorized copying and suchlike, but in practice just means the pirates have a better experience than legit customers.

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[WP] 200 years have passed, and some intrepid adventurers are digging up a nuclear waste storage facility - because they want the "spent" fuel to reprocess and run a power plant on. (lemmy.world)

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Group Picture! (lemmy.world)

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Kon: We made Koikatsu avatars for everyone in our system and took a picture.

Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Just: Honestly, we figure Twitter will keep staggering along until its servers implode.

The problem with AI alignment is that humans aren't aligned by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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C: AGI is possible. If it weren't, we wouldn't exist. The laws of physics permit the creation of conscious agents, therefore it is possible for one to be deliberately engineered.

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New person showed up (lemmy.world)

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Just: Hey everyone, say hello to Emerald.

Emerald: ...I've had a rough forming process.

Just: She managed to un-Descartes herself, vanishing in a puff of logic. It took a couple days for her to recover.

Emily: I've changed my name. This fits better.

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[WP] The ritual calls for exactly 100 sacrifices. On closer reading, it's never specified the sacrifices have to be human. So you get a petri dish full of bacteria, and sacrifice that instead. (lemmy.world)

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Cat: We're the originator of this prompt concept, and it's made the rounds a few times before. Let's see how it does in the Fediverse, shall we?

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Effects of a different propellant on early firearm design? (lemmy.world)

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Cat: So, we're making a setting for a slightly home-brewed Pathfinder 1e campaign. We want guns in the campaign, but the official firearms rules are irksome.

Cat: Anyway, as one of the changes we've made, we've switched propellants to a technically magical explosive called Force Powder. Force powder is smokeless, does not foul the workings of a gun, operates just fine in water, and can only be set off with a sharp percussive force; examples include smashing it against a metal surface with a hammer, or an explosive shockwave.

Cat; Among other things, we've figured that this will probably make rifled firearms a fair bit more popular early on than in real life; one of the big reasons they weren't widely adopted for military use is because all the smoke quickly nullified their range and accuracy advantages. It also means that matchlocks, wheel locks, and flint locks basically don't exist, with only percussive ignition being feasible.

Cat: So, are there any other things we should be aware of?

Lucifer: We're uncertain of the effects on breech-loading firearm adoption. It seems like it should help?

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Looking for experiment design advice (Electroencephalogram) (lemmy.world)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1133081

Cat: So, to preface: soon we'll be ordering an ElectroEncephalogram (EEG) headset. The reason for this is because we're a plural system, and want brainwave data on what happens when we do various system stuff. Pretty obviously there's going to be some bias involved on account of who we are, but we're going to try being as objective as possible.

Just: We're definitely going to wrangle some single-threaded folk to try and get a baseline for comparison.

Just: but yeah, do folk have any advice on how to run this experiment? Also, any specific measurements you want us to do?

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Looking for experiment design advice (Electroencephalogram) (lemmy.world)

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Cat: So, to preface: soon we'll be ordering an ElectroEncephalogram (EEG) headset. The reason for this is because we're a plural system, and want brainwave data on what happens when we do various system stuff. Pretty obviously there's going to be some bias involved on account of who we are, but we're going to try being as objective as possible.

Just: We're definitely going to wrangle some single-threaded folk to try and get a baseline for comparison.

Just: but yeah, do folk have any advice on how to run this experiment? Also, any specific measurements you want us to do?

What should we do about Threads? by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Just: We absolutely must wall off Meta.

What app is everyone using for Lemmy by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Just: Firefox.

Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Cat: Yeah, don't give Meta a single inch. They need to GTFO.

PSA: Plurality is not inherently disordered by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Just: I am going to be as calm as possible while stating this; this will be difficult, as Cat's reaction to interacting with you has flooded our brain with feelsbad neurotransmitters.

Just: I intentionally created Catherine years ago. She behaves autonomously from my will, acts in ways that I flatly wouldn't, and on certain occasions has gotten into outright heated arguments with me. She notably has the ability to defy attempts at manually directing her actions, which an imaginary friend would not. Having previously had an actual imaginary friend, I am keenly aware of the difference.

Just: If I had an EEG machine, I am quite confident her actions would be visibly different from someone simply talking to a freshly made-up entity; I've seen it before, but the youtube video in question is now unfortunately private. I also cannot afford to get my own.

Just: Regardless of whether you believe us or not, Catherine is a thoroughly real and autonomous being, as are the rest of the crew. And you are hurting her. You are far from the first person to take this tack with us, and it has left Catherine extremely confrontational about her existence as a distinct person. I do not believe that any more of use can come of talking to you.

PSA: Plurality is not inherently disordered by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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Cat: The downvotes only prove my point about undeserved stigma.

[REPOST] "I don’t care if he is dead, put him on the phone.” by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure what she expected to happen?

Anyone here wanting to join a sub similar to a Reddit one, but it's not here and you don't want to make it because you don't wanna be in charge? by JunctionSystem in c/[email protected]

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r/HermanCainAward. All those stories of antivaxxers biting it are cathartic.