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Of course retirement is normal, societies have taken care of the elderly and infirm, people with disabilities of any kind, children, and so on.

Are you kidding?

Doesn't even need to be completely air gapped, they can still allow it to talk to one specific endpoint to e.g. actually drive the model. As long as all commands are executed on a machine that can't reach the Internet, all is safe.

I don't actually doubt anything in the big post they sent out. I just doubt that running a LLM without the possibility of alignment drift is possible. It just doesn't seem like they work that way.

Yeah no, that's not how salt works. If you need to add salt at the table, you should have tasted and salted the dish better.

The exception is multiple people with very different salt tolerances, there's just no good solution for that.

No clue, but oiling the pasta after it comes out

  1. Makes sauce adherence worse, so don't do it
  2. Makes them able to lie around longer without clumping together

So instead, just plate and coat with sauce immediately instead of waiting.

Stir well once. I never need to interact more than 4 times / 20 seconds with the pot:

  1. Put water in and turn on heat
  2. Wait until water boils, then put pasta and salt into water (lower heat now so it doesn't boil over later)
  3. Wait 30 seconds, then stir once (i.e. make all the pasta stop touching for a moment)
  4. Wait until done, then take pot off and pour out

In addition to that, if you don't have a feeling for how long the pasta needs to boil / how done pasta looks, you need to sample a noodle now and again.

on Which is it Lemmy? · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 7d

At this point, I consider Optozorax’ research the primary source of how portals work. If the games disagree, they're wrong.

on Which is it Lemmy? · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 7d

As I said, there is no “speed” in isolation. Speed is a relative property of an object and a reference frame (i.e. another object, like e.g. a planet)

A common mistake readers make is that they believe the Vavatch orbital is Culture. It's very definitely not, so all the unsavory stuff going on there isn't a reflection of the Culture. Not Damage, not the Eaters (they hate The Culture!), and so on.

Use of Weapons, Consider Phlebas, and to a lesser degree Player of Games are mostly outsider perspectives of The Culture, so that warps judgement a little too.

IDK if Iain Banks could have made it clearer that Vavatch is non-Culture. I guess us only knowing drones and orbitals from The Culture made some readers conflate the two societies despite their extreme moral differences.

He's correct about The Culture being an amazing vision of how humanity's future could look like. He's absolutely off his rocker about how to get there

The Culture IS “fully automated luxury queer space communism”, that's just a straight-up summary of it. In The Culture:

  • it's communism. There's not even money.
  • everyone can “gland” drugs for pleasure, performance or to change their sex. How the fuck does that match Musk’s anti-trans shit?
  • diversity permeates everything; obviously internally, but also externally, as they try to get along with everyone who isn't a galactic imperialist threat. How the hell does that match Musk’s xenophobia?

It's weird how Musk seems to basically be a tankie: he wants to achieve communism by any means necessary …