Sanity_LARP

Sanity_LARP t1_jdo318u wrote

  1. Why would human impacts on climate and Milankovitch cycles be mutually exclusive?

  2. Why would it matter that we've "understood something longer than I've been alive" when our ability to measure things and the things we're measuring are changing drastically in our lifetime? Like a century ago a dude figured something out and we've confirmed it lines up with observations of the past, so that's the way it's going to be? The way the world would change every 10 years would have blown his mind and the factors involved now would have been beyond the predictions of sci-fi.

  3. If it's meaningless then is it fine that they're spending billions on it? Or are they heroes? What's more likely: the massive scale of humanities dumping of waste into the ocean and gasses into the air would have no impact on the environment, or that a large corporation would invest to avoid short term changes in crop futures even if it hurts us?

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Sanity_LARP t1_jc2cchs wrote

I don't get it

It only has two parts so why not include the first half:

"Delusion is a divine curse that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious, so that he doesn’t know the evil he does will strike him back.

If he could see his nothingness and his deadly, festering wound, pain would arise from looking within, and that pain would save him."

It's interesting but I wouldn't call it particularly motivational. Motivation is kind of the art of delusion.

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Sanity_LARP t1_jbxr0cp wrote

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The key is choosing a good dream. Don't dream of killing tons of people. But ignore the naysayers and your own doubts for your dreams that don't include mass murder.

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Sanity_LARP t1_j84z7lr wrote

Seems like you're being pedantic about what "learning" is, because machine learning exists and I don't know how you can argue that it isn't happening at all. You could argue it doesn't work the same way as our learning or that it's fundamentally different, but by the accepted meaning of the term, robots can learn. Can ALL robots learn? Obviously not. But you don't have to dig very far at all to find examples of learning.

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