5C5C5C

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Capitalism is all about efficiency. An efficient total loss is somehow a win!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have that totally backwards.

The board (which is the board of the non-profit) wanted the company to be more focused on its mission and less profit-driven. Altman is the one that's been letting Microsoft get its tendrils around OpenAI and push a narrative that everything must be closed off and profit focused.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's explained by the muscle memory of the sleeve that he's in. A mouth that has only practiced pronouncing American English will not have the neural pathways to pronounce words in a Japanese way. The consciousness and memories transfer but the sleeve doesn't change.

It's a convenient plot device but also it fits the narrative cleanly.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is that for one side the "violations of the Geneva convention" are not being carried out by the duly elected government 🤔

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a rare case where sentient is being used correctly. Sentient beings do have feelings, e.g. dogs and cats are sentient and can have cravings and even feel hate.

Sapient means having enough intellect to understand and reason about the situation. The post doesn't actually require that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A statement like "veganism is unhealthy" is so objectively wrong that it really harms your credibility in general. I wonder how much you actually read from the article, or did you just grab the title and run with it?

There are a small number of specific nutrients that are readily available in meat that are harder to come by in a vegan diet. Harder but entirely possible, especially with supplements.

And many of the meat alternatives that you were disparaging earlier are specifically engineered to provide those nutrients (in particular Impossible and Beyond brands).

"Veganism is unhealthy" in the same way that any eating pattern is unhealthy if you aren't mindful of what you're eating. Conventional meat-based diets have much higher risk of heart disease due to high cholesterol, so let's go ahead and label that unhealthy too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you think prices will be high without the use of fossil fuels, oooh boy just wait for the coming climate collapse that will obliterate all modern agriculture, create billions of climate refugees, decimate human civilization as we know it, and end all global supply chains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I think the "compiling Rust is slow" narrative comes from comparing it against scripting languages like Python. If you compare compiling Rust against compiling C++ code of similar complexity, I think Rust will come out very favorably since C++ templates and headers tend to carry a huge compilation burden.

view more: ‹ prev next ›