electrodynamica

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[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Agreed. Especially when you consider that even fictional general AIs centuries more advanced than we are capable of making, such as Data or Isaac, aren't clearly shown to actually have what we call a soul, even if they're really good at emulating people.

[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stuff like this just proves Amazon knows absolutely nothing about automation. If you are trying to treat humans like machines, you're doing it wrong. You couldn't be doing it more wrong.

[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's funny is this really illustrates why intellectual property and indeed capitalism could only ever be a failure...

The whole system is predicated on being slightly better at getting something done and then holding on to that advantage forever through secrecy and legal protection instead of trying to improve.

If there were no intellectual property, if everything were completely open, then the competition wouldn't be about trying to hold on to a single advancement for as long as possible, instead it would be about competing to create better systems that continually bring more and more advancements.

 

For example, there is a cable from my monitor to my desktop that when plugged in straight is able to be disturbed or dislodged from my dog walking past it and the hairs on the top of his tail touch it with micronewtons of force. Yet if I coil it just 3 turns over 3 feet length it can withstand 10000 times as much force before becoming loose.

Another thing I'm reminded of is the coils in phone cords back when everything was wired with handsets. This must be a well known principal but I don't ever remember learning it.

[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't understand why youtube-dl is targeted so much in search results. YouTube keeps changing their scripts so that it has only worked about 1 week per month for the last 5 years. And that's when they push an update within a month. Sometimes it's as long as 90 days that the thing doesn't work.