What’s the dark twist that these usually have? That they’ve accidentally introduced a foreign spider that will become an invasive species? That the ship goes abandoned, implying they were all killed in battle and can’t return to the ship? Or are they all just afraid of spiders and fleeing the ship rather than charging to attack?
At some point, so many different aliens have infiltrated starfleet admiralty that its a wonder that they dont discover eachother’s schemes by accident.
Hmm, that is fair. I would suggest making votes not federate at all in that case, except doing that would make single person or very small instances effectively be limited to sorting by new
thats fair I suppose, though in practice id assume that making a whole bunch of individual instances is probably more difficult than making a much of accounts on one instance that you control, and thus vote manipulation in this manner should have a higher barrier to entry?
If one wanted to ensure that external content is still easily visible, one could always have things set up so that posts on local communities only appears in local and subscribed, and only posts from outside appear in all (though it might need to be renamed to better fit such a layout I suppose)
Honestly, I’ve begun to think the upvote/downvote model is a bad fit for the fediverse in general:
*Different instances have different rules around it, and in some cases (for example, an instance disabling downvoting) this might give a modest advantage in the sorting for content on that instance
*Instances have to trust votes by other instances, and while an obvious manipulation could be defederated, that has to be noticed first
*Votes are more publicly visible than on a place like reddit, potentially leading to something like a downvote being a catalyst for incivility towards the downvoter by whoever posted something
Honestly what I would do with Lemmy voting is just make vote counts mostly not federate. Have instances send a single up, down, or neither vote depending on if the net number on their insurance passes a certain up or downvote threshold, just so people on private instances have something to sort by, and have the score of a post or comment otherwise just go off of whatever the users within an instance vote. Then, an individual instance could have whatever rules or restrictions on voting it wanted, without worry over if that gets its votes drowned out by the wider network or seen as vote manipulation.
Technically, a diety that created the constituent parts of the dirty dishes in that roundabout manner also creates in the same way the constituents of the soap and water, and therefore would have a hand in all dishes washed within their universe.
I forget, do the replicators produce utensils to go with the food or is there like a reusable set somewhere? If the former, maybe some dish or another comes with wooden chopsticks or such out of tradition? Or perhaps some species or another might have a diet that includes wood in some way and they can accidentally leave splinters around like crumbs or something.
Are you breeding them, or throwing eggs in through the top, or have some automatic egg throwing mechanism? (I don’t see the latter but it looks modded so I’m not sure what could be there). If it’s throwing eggs related, I think from time to time I’ve had baby chickens spawned that way end up inside the side if a block where they immediately suffocate. I’m not sure glass has that suffocating effect because it’s a transparent block, so maybe some of the chicks spawn glitchily partly inside the glass and some of them manage to get out the other side of it somehow?
To be fair , if foreign students are coming and paying tuition, that does provide some small benefit on the jobs front as both the money the college then spends and that spent by the students in the area around the school should create demand that requires a workforce to fill.
Well no, but I was more referring to the general statement than the notion that it applies to musk. Having the self awareness to see the harm in what he’s done and those he’s supported doesn’t seem particularly in character for him in any event.
I mean, if someone was to argue about that topic they could probably examine like, Oskar Schindler or John Rabe or such, but that’s besides the point I suppose.
after years and many billions of dollars of technological development, we have finally invented a machine that can be scammed
I saw a variation on this once that added something else as “knowing how to make a tomato-using fruit salad taste good” or somesuch, but I forget what trait they assigned that to.
As someone who used to live in NC but no longer does because of the car dependence and horrible state politics, how the heck is it one of the highest ones? I didn’t think the other states even thought about NC very much outside of election season tbh.
I’m surprised Texas is so high, but I’m not surprised that NJ is low, isn’t there an old meme to the effect that New Jersey smells bad/ is full of toxic industrial chemicals or something?
While I don’t think this scenario likely, something that I can’t help but thinking when this sort of statement comes up is, well, how do we know what it’s doing isn’t thinking? Like, I get that it’s ultimately just using a bunch of statistics to predict the next word or token or whatever, but my understanding was that we have fairly limited knowledge of how our own consciousness and thinking works, and so I keep getting the nagging feeling of “what if what our brains are doing is similar somehow, using a physical system with statistical effects to predict stuff about the world, and that’s what thinking ultimately is?”
While I expect that it probably isn’t and that creating proper agi will require something fundamentally more complicated than what we’ve been doing with these language models and such, the fact that I can’t prove that to my own satisfaction makes me very uneasy about them, considering what the ethical ramifications of being wrong about it might be.
Literally how could we? It’s a big rock, it has no ecosystem whatsoever, and any effort to live there someday would require environmentally sealed and radiation resistant structures. Degrading what it does to earth would require significantly altering it’s mass or orbit, which would require an amount of energy that isn’t in the cards for a long time to come even optimistically.
The way the kid’s torso just goes backwards in the second panel is horrifying if you look too hard at it.
I long for days when tech CEOs weren’t so vocally obsessed with space, such that taking about space development could lead to interesting discussion of what a realistic timeframe actually is and what progress can be made, rather than just an assumption that one is a Musk or Bezos fanboy that actually believes we can do the work of centuries in 20 years somehow by giving the people that aready have too much money, even more money.