nimpnin

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Things are weirder than they seem on the surface.

A math professor collegue of mine calls extremely restrictive use of language ”rigor”, for example.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Independent thought? All relevant thought is highly dependent of other people and their thoughts.

That’s exactly why I bring this up. Having systems that teach people to think in a similar way enable us to build complex stuff and have a modern society.

That’s why it’s really weird to hear this ”people should think for themselves” criticism of AI. It’s a similar justification to antivaxxers saying you ”should do your own research”.

Surely there are better reasons to oppose AI?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Some of the more complex proofs might be wrong just because so few understand them, and the ones who do might have made mistakes.

Hell, I’ll trust a math result much more if it’s backed up by empirical evidence from eg. engineering or physics.

Don’t know if that counts as being ”in math” by OPs definition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I find it cool when AI is being used for something useful, this article has a suspicious amount of AI optimism. I’d like to hear a bit less uncritical perspective

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That’s what the wikipedia article might say but there are definitely studies on the long term effects of cannabis use: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fi&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=long+term+effects+of+cannabis

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

There are very few cons, all the negative effects of cannabis can be better handled when it’s legal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes? What the hell are you talking about

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For small-scale stuff like that it will surely work. It’s unclear if it scales to youtube volumes. Maybe it doesn’t have to though, small scale stuff is valuable too.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Hosting video requires a lot more resources than hosting text, hyperlinks, or even pictures. It might be too much for individuals to self host video on a scale that could even distantly resemble how we use youtube today.

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller. IIRC Peertube does do some p2p stuff to try and share the burden a bit but I’ve also heard that it’s not really feasible to rely on that to scale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I truly do not understand this... it's a niche QA forum

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What's their motivation to do this?

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