Budwig_v_1337hoven

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It'll be a software as a service subscription-based racket, possibly with micro transactions

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh you want blue skies? There's a VR-based software solution for that

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Blue skies? A sacrifice this guy and his friends in tech are apparently willing to make -, for all of us

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It kinda funny how the German is already heavily loaded and trying to make it a bad thing, but the English translation is reducing any amount of nuance the original text still had left in it, painting it as this devil institution brainwashing young people into becoming soulless borg commies.

for example, the original last sentence reads like this, faithfully translated: "Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills."

Here's the whole thing, trying to be as faithful and transliteral as I can be to the original:
Kindergarten served not only for childcare, it was also the first educational institution, anyone born in the GDR would visit. Obviously, because of this, state leadership had an interest in providing wide coverage: places at a Kindergarten were available for way more than 90 percent of children. The daily schedule was precisely planned and applicable to everyone: they would play together, eat together and have naps together - under instruction [you could read this as "guidance" too, but the tone of the original is very clearly already trying to make the supervision part of childcare into an evil commie thing, so yea]. Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Merry Hexmas everyone!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

where are you looking during the movement (don't look up, or try to follow the bar with your eyes) you want a fixed point on a wall to stare at so your neck is straight during the press

also, there's a certain movement of your upper back (it's probably got a name but I forget), basically you need to move your chin/head out of the barpath and then sort of tuck under after the bar clears your face. You do this by moving in/out the whole upper body/back, not just the neck area or head

Idk these two could probably lead to neck pain if done incorrectly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

some days you're the robot, some days you're the dog,

and other times you just happen to be a raccoon with a surplus ghetto blaster

I liked it as well, go watch it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If the Ukraine war has taught me anything, it's that you can drone people for a few hundred bucks now.

Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter

Like, get really into FPV racing or something, of course

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

someone needs to inspire Musk to build a hospital bed with a couple of industrial robot Cyber arms for accommodation and cyber care

if we also get him to test it on himself, I'm sure we can get this midgley to midgley himself in half

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

that's very interesting so far, thanks so much!

also, I didn't get a notification for this, are notifications busted or what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Very useful, that's an interesting possible link there - Intuitively, I'd have guessed it the other way around, ie. RSD being a symptom of an excess of inhibition. Gonna let this ferment a bit, maybe come back to it. A heartfelt thanks to you for sharing your experience and hypotheses, it's super helpful - and I'm sure not just - to me

 

Fb. Gurk Ordinariate
Klagenfurt, on [redacted] September 1949.
Subject: Reading banned books.

To Mr. [redacted]
in Gallizien / Carinthia.

By virtue of the authorization received from the Holy Apostolic See and in consideration of the reasons brought forward, your well-born is hereby granted permission to read and retain communist books, newspapers and periodicals.
You will want to take special care to ensure that these books do not get into the hands of the unauthorized.
To avoid being damaged by reading these books, you will want to pray and use the relevant Catholic literature so that the uncertainties may be clarified and falsehoods may be disproven.
The above authorization is granted for three years and expires on [redacted] September 1952.

The Prince-Bishop:
[Signature]

 

love that 'make up a bullshit article about anything' LLM "encyclopedia", it's a wonderfully useful creation with many real world applications

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976) by Joseph Weizenbaum displays the author's ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out the case that while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.

Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes one a human being. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for mathematical comparison.

Part 2 here

 

text they're talking about: Between the Sea and the Security Fence

In each case, the abstract works to optimize and rationalize all of the violence that relentlessly circulates, to classify life so as to better calculate and complete its destruction, to give form to a war and peace that only promise to annihilate you at different speeds.

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