mirshafie

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[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why didn't I think of that?

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not sure if this is real, but just to be clear, it is totally stripping your body of all ions, including the electrolytes that your nerves need to keep your lungs and heart functioning.

Small amounts will be fine, especially if you don't hold your pee, but it can absolutely kill you. Read up on water intoxication if you want to know more.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She barely even criticized Israel, she just said it broke her heart to watch children die and that she wanted to help them. That was enough to trigger the misanthrooy of these bigoted ethnosupremacist doomsday-accelerationist ghouls.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What would you prefer calling them?

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.

Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.

Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn't have saved me either.

This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.

That's not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago

That's one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won't even get notified that this action has been taken against you.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah they make hair products.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alright you know what, I'm not going to argue. You do you.

I just know that I've been underwhelmed with conventional search for about a decade, and I think that LLMs are a huge help sorting through the internet at the moment. There's no telling what it will become in the future, especially if popular LLMs start ingesting content that itself has been generated by LLMs, but for now I think that the improvement is more significant than the step from Yahoo→Google in the 2000s.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Edison was a problematic person to say the least, but he was an inventor and he did not come from wealth. I think that nowadays it's pretty much known that he was an asshole that attached his name to inventions that he had very little to do with, but at least he did contribute some things. Elon Musk is a con-man through and through.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago

This is obvious when you think about it even a little bit. You can't buy safe streets.

What's the point of being ultra-rich when you have to step outside into Phnom Penh and watch how toddlers collect scrap?

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think you're underselling it a bit though. It is far better than a modern search engine, although that is in part because of all of the SEO slop that Google has ingested. The fact that you need to think critically is not something new and it's never going to go away either. If you were paying real-life human experts to answer your every question you would still need to think for yourself.

Still, I think the C-suite doesn't really have a good grasp of the limits of LLMs. This could be partly because they themselves work a lot with words and visualization, areas where LLMs show promise. It's much less useful if you're in engineering, although I think ultimately AI will transform engineering too. It is of course annoying and potentially destructive that they're trying to force-push it into areas where it's not useful (yet).

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you need to wash something with hot water but don't like the steam, mix it with cold water before applying.

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