Tar_Alcaran

There are also issues of societal specialization leading to the ability of individuals to specialize in gaining knowledge, instead of 100% of the population working 99% of the time on survival.

But my brain and Og the Caveman are basically the same.

It’s not illegal here, but sufficiently heavily discouraged and socially frowned upon that indeed, you have to look hard to find em.

Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.

“Hey Dario Amode, your stupid AI isn’t telling me what I want to hear! I demand you remove the guardrails!”

It’s legal censorship. Kinda like how I’m kicking you out of my house if you go around heiling hitler.

But, what could possibly go wrong by putting an LLM and a password manager in the same package? I mean, it’s like the CEO isn’t getting their bonus just because some users get their private data horrible compromised.

The reason is, and I’ll bet a lot of money on this: an LLM told them to.

I know you didn’t create this data, but wouldn’t “by weight” or “by volume” have a more meaningful impact on reducing the amount of plastic in our oceans?

Yes, but that data is also harder to gather. It’s very easy to count pieces, it’s much harder to asses volume or dry weight. I’m also not entirely sure if that gives meaningful answers either, because a kilo of polystyrene is worse than a kilo of bottlecaps. If you’re working with a huge of different stuff, all measurements are kind of arbitrary.

If we take a PET bottle as an example; it is likely to sink as it fills up with water, but the cap, which is made of different type of plastic (HDPE), will stay afloat for much longer.

The marine litter in the paper is specifically about stuff that gets fished up. It covers floating AND seafloor debris, and floating stuff to a much lesser degree (since nets don’t drag over the water surface). So if the bottles are mostly on the floor and caps mostly float, we would expect to find many more bottles in marine litter.

this seems like a really convoluted way to “fix” the problem and will only mitigate the issue

Mitigation is good though. If you can reduce the volume of plastic in the ocean by a noticable fraction, by basically just very slightly changing the manufacturing process, that’s a good thing.

According to The Ocean Cleanup Project

Oh no… You’ve triggered one of my ecological pet peeves.

The Ocean Cleanup Project is a terrible fucking idea. It’s basically a scam that turns a HUGE amount of amount into a tiny amount of recovered plastic. The OCP reported on twitter in 2025 that they have, in total, removed 40.000 tons of plastic from all their activities. According to this they got about 300m in $A in funding since 2019. I’ll just pretend that’s all they’ve ever gotten, and conclude they spent 5300 USD to remove one ton of plastic waste.

So let me be extremely pessimistic and offer a vastly superior alternative to sailing around with boats and removing basically no waste:

Since OCP already knows where all the waste is coming from, what they SHOULD be doing is going there, buying up all the trash for 1000 USD per ton (which is an absolute fortune to most people there, so they will absolutely cooperate), shipping it to, I dunno, Australia for 100 USD/ton (which is again a fortune), and dispose of it for another 400 USD per ton (which is more than double what we pay here in Europe), and then they would still be 350% more efficient than what they’re doing, assuming the most impossibly generous terms for them.

Strange New Worlds is great for all of those reasons too. It’s so much better than Picard or Discovery.

Really? Name one for me.

Microslop should ask their own NoPilot about the Streisand Effect.

It’s an untestable “theory” that has no predictive power and explains nothing. It could be entirely true or entirely false and it would make no difference. It’s literally useless.

Nah, the DoD contract is also very likely running at a loss, like every other subscription.

And as an adult, you’re suddenly in a new house that doesn’t have the dozens of tweaks that you fixed in the past years, and you’ll have to deal with the moronic amateurism from the previous owners.

Which is exactly what the people moving into your house will say as well.

I mean, he doesn’t demand worship, but you will get an extra burger during grilling if you say a prayer.

Ohhhhhh, its solipsism in a trenchcoat.

Indeed, I can’t solve the problem of hard solipsism, but neither can you. I can only say that we’ve made a pretty successful run at things by just assuming we all share an objective reality.

And if that reality doesn’t exist outside my brain, I’m a pretty fucking impressively smart girl, with some really fucked up issues.

To say anything about the world, you blatantly obviously need consciousness first. That’s the status quo. The burden of proof is on materialists.

Burden of proof for what? That you need a brain to make observations of the world? That’s not a hard claim to support.

You, however, seem to assert some form of magical super-consciousness that seems utterly undisprovable

For many people, the foundational promise in a relationship is being monogamous. If you betray the foundational promise to your partner, that shows they don’t give a shit about everything that’s built on that foundation.

You foundational promise could be “Brush your teeth every morning” and it would be no different.

I wouldn’t be so dismissive. This is a very active area of research

Well, like with all religions speculative fields with zero evidence back it, I’ll consider it further when they present some empirically testable claims. Right now, it rests on the same level as “The rock-god Unk-Amun who lies in backyard created the universe via timetravel, which can be shown by the number of atoms in Unk-Amun”.

Or possibly “The number of peas on my dinnerplate shows the level of my household’s Runath”. What is Runath? Well, it’s obviously the thing that’s measured by the number of peas on my dinnerplate.

it is a panpsychist theory

That does not speak in it’s favor.

Scientific thought demands proof of consciousness using matter as the base assumption

Would it? I’d say that would depend on the theory being defended at the moment. Which one are you talking about, and how does it define consciousness?

Helping people move is fun. Moving is hell.