A guy who is really* smart.

I do not believe that “belief in aliens” almost universally means believing that aliens have visited earth. If you believe people mean this, I think you have a distorted perception because you have only listened to people talk about crazy people. I have asked many of my friends about if they think aliens exist – some said yes, some said no; the ones who said yes all made reference to drake’s equation and similar. I suppose we may live in different social spheres, but still.

You don’t need to signal to people that you dislike reddit by saying r-word. It’s a given that anybody on lemmy dislikes reddit.

(Btw, I believe in aliens, most people with even passing familiarity with astronomy do.)

oh nice catch. In retrospect this might actually be an older photo.

Advertising is illegal in São Paulo. At least, outdoor advertising is illegal.

Look closely – what don’t you see?

This is actually an easy thing to do – usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.

If there’s a problem with him being a doctor, he shouldn’t be a doctor. The idea that vaginas are somehow especially vulnerable is mysticism.

what does gynaecology have to do with this?

They were both drunk. She was more drunk.

His training to be a gynecologist is irrelevant. Please do not propagate the myth that men go into gynecology to take advantage of women. If he’s a rapist, that’s independent.

I don’t see why. The problems with global tariffs notwithstanding, can you explain the downside to setting a tariff on these islands?

My guess is just that they’re trying to idiot-proff the tariffs (i.e. prevent someone from putting up a shack on this island and using that to somehow evade tariffs.)

why not tvtropes?

guy in singular is generally considered gendered.

“apparently a right-wing [person] said this” is low-quality content, gets my downvote. Such an unspecific comment serves only to outgroup people.

Every single one of those girls is clearly an arrowhead-repeller. (Men have it so easy.)

You could say the same thing about rewiring a human’s neurons randomly. It’s not the powerful argument you think it is.

We don’t really know exactly how brains work. But when, say, Wernicke’s area is damaged (but not Broca’s area), then you can get people spouting meaningless but syntactically valid sentences that look a lot like autocorrect. So it could be that there’s some part of our language process which is essentially no more or less powerful than an LLM.

Anyway, it turns out that you can do a lot with LLMs, and they can reason (insofar as they can produce logically valid chains of text, which is good enough). The takeaway for me is not that LLMs are really smart – rather it’s that the MVP of intelligence is a lot lower a bar than anyone was expecting.

I think it’s incredible that so much of what the human brain can do can be emulated with predictive models. It makes sense in retrospect – human brains are doing prediction at every level that we can model.

This was actually my favourite detail though. It gives the apocalypse this sense of immediacy which I think is important for the message it’s trying to tell.

I’m sorry, that’s against my terms of service whoops, sorry. I meant – thank you for educating me about the latest human trend.