nimpnin

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz -3 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Yeah but that’s not what we are expecting people to do.

In our extremely complicated world, most thinking relies on trusting sources. You can’t independently study and derive most things.

Otherwise everybody should do their own research about vaccines. But the reasonable thing is to trust a lot of other, more knowledgeable people.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah sure buddy.

Have you tried to shoehorn real life stuff into mathematical notation? It is restrictive. You have pre-defined strict boxes that don’t have blurry lines. Free form thoughts are a lot more flexible than that.

Consistency is restrictive. I don’t know why you take issue with that.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz -4 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks 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?

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month 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

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month 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

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 month ago

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

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes? What the hell are you talking about

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Pakollinen paikkavaraus joka pitää ostaa erikseen on kyllä erikoinen konsepti. Toki varmaan teknististä syistä mutta pohjoismaissa on tottunut siihen ettei tartte miettiä paikkavarausta ollenkaan.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 month 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.

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