flerp

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[–] flerp@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Evidence shows that women have better endurance for long distances. They tend to be less susceptible to fatigue and beyond 195 miles are actually faster than men. Considering humans were better at outlasting their prey and chasing them to exhaustion rather than burst speed, this data indicates that women are at least as capable as men at those tasks if not better.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

You don't call a lion immoral because lions can't comprehend morality. That doesn't mean that humans can do the same actions without being judged morally. Lions can also kill other lions which would be more comparable to murder than your hunting example and still they wouldn't be held morally responsible and yet humans would if they killed another human. A lot of animals rape too, doesn't mean it's moral for humans to do.

The difference is that we CAN understand morality which is why we are held to moral standards and animals aren't. This is like, pretty basic stuff and shouldn't be at all confusing. Maybe read a book or two before having loud opinions?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

These mitts were made for murderin and that's just what they'll do

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You think it's funny that someone cares about truth and reality?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I look forward to lunch every day. I make myself a wrap with some sort of oven cooked filling and a bunch of fresh veggies and some apple slices and a small bag of wasabi peas for dessert.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

autistic/non-autistic, asexual/sexual, aromantic/romantic, trans/cis

asexual and aromantic are already based on being the negative, adding another term to reverse that just makes a double negative

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I'm definitely not pushing for more AI and I like to try to stay nuanced on the topic. Like I mentioned in my first comment I have found it to be a very helpful tool but if used in other ways it could do more harm than good. I'm not involved in making or pushing AI but as long as it is an available tool I'm going to make use of it in the most responsible way I can and talk about how I use it knowing that I can't control what other people do but maybe I could help some people who are only using it to get answer hints like in the article to find more useful ways of using it.

When it comes to regulation, yeah I'm all for that. It's a sad reality that regulation always lags behind and generally doesn't get implemented until there's some sort of problem that scares the people in power who are mostly too old to understand what's happening anyways.

And as to what's the rush, I would say a combination of curiosity and good intentions mixed with the worst of capitalism, the carrot of financial gain for success and the stick of financial ruin for failure and I don't have a clue what percent of the pie each part makes up. I'm not saying it's a good situation but it's the way things go and I don't think anyone alive could stop it. Once something is out of the bag, there ain't any putting it back.

Basically I'm with you that it will be used for things that make life worse for people and that sucks, and it would be great if that was not the case but that doesn't change the fact that I can't do anything about that and meanwhile it can still be a useful tool and so I'm going to use it the best that I can regardless how others use it because there's really nothing I can do except keep pushing forward the best I can, just like anyone else.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

RFK sweating bullets

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't worry, one day you'll get to grow up and complain about the next generation behaving in the exact same way! Kids these days, amirite?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. It's a helpful tool but it needs to be used responsibly. Writing it off completely is as bad a take as blindly accepting everything it spits out.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not at all confident in the answers directly. I've gotten plenty of wrong answers form AI and I've gotten plenty of correct answers. If anything it's just more practice for critical thinking skills, separating what is true and what isn't.

When it comes to math though, it's pretty straightforward, I'm just looking for context on some steps in the problems, maybe reminders of things I learned years ago and have forgotten, that sort of thing. As I said, I'm interested in actually understanding the stuff that I'm learning because I am using it for the things I'm working on so I'm mainly reading through textbooks and using AI as well as other sources online to round out my understanding of the concepts. If I'm getting the right answers and the things I am doing are working, it's a good indicator I'm on the right path.

It's not like I'm doing cutting edge physics or medical research where mistakes could cause lives.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 28 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

Like any tool, it depends how you use it. I have been learning a lot of math recently and have been chatting with AI to increase my understanding of the concepts. There are times when the textbook shows some steps that I don't understand why they're happening and I've questioned AI about it. Sometimes it takes a few tries of asking until you figure out the right question to ask to get the right answer you need, but that process of thinking helps you along the way anyways by crystallizing in your brain what exactly it is that you don't understand.

I have found it to be a very helpful tool in my educational path. However I am learning things because I want to understand them, not because I have to pass a test and that determination in me to want to understand is a big difference. Just getting hints to help you solve the problem might not really help in the long run, but it you're actually curious about what you're learning and focus on getting a deeper understanding of why and how something works rather than just getting the right answer, it can be a very useful tool.

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