Can someone explain what is going on here?

Oppenheimer is a mainstream movie though. It’s not that geeky.

There are no down votes I can see. I also don’t think tone tags are a bad thing given how much misinterpretation happens on the Internet, even if this example is kind of obvious.

The problem is that some people like me won’t get that reference and instead think AIs are universally bad. A lot of people already think this way, and it’s hard to know who believes what.

AI at this stage is just a tool. This might change one day, but today is not that day. Blame the user, not the tool.

AI and ML was being used to assist in scientific research long before ChatGPT or StableDiffusion hit the mainstream news cycle. AIs can be used to predict all sorts of outcomes, including ones relevant to climate, weather, even medical treatment. The University I work for even have a funded PhD program looking at using AI algorithms to detect cancer better, I found out because one of my friends is applying for it.

The research I am doing with AI is not quite as important as that, but it could shape the future of both cyber security and education, as I am looking at using for teaching cyber security students about ethical hacking and security. Do people also use LLMs to hack businesses or government organisations and cause mayhem? Quite probably, and they definitely will in the future. That doesn’t mean that the tool itself is bad, just that some people will inevitably abuse it.

Not all of this stuff is run by private businesses either. A lot of work is done by open source devs working on improving publicly available AI and ML models in their spare time. Likewise some of this stuff is publicly funded through universities like mine. There are people way better than me out there using AIs for all sorts of good things including stopping hackers, curing patients, teaching the next generation, or monitoring climate change. Some of them have been doing it for years.

I mean writing systems are not a part of the real spoken language and how it evolved. I think it’s fine to be prescriptivist about writing systems as many did not evolve naturally anyway, and many could be made far easier to learn and use. You shouldn’t mess with spoken language as that’s the part that did evolve naturally and is still subject to evolution. The focus though should always be on making these writing systems simpler and a better reflection of the spoken language. Hangul is a great example of prescriptivism over writing systems.

Why do they have those restrictions? Someone must have gone out of their way to put those in place.

This exactly. The reason people left reddit is because of the actions of the people running the site, not the user base or culture.

Maybe look at plants and fungi and how they do it.

You had me up to here: “LITERALLY COSTS NOTHING, HARMS NOTHING, AND CAN BE SUPREMELY THERAPEUTIC.”

Religion has historically been extremely damaging to many groups of people including religious people themselves. Religion has caused wars, the persecution of: gay people, trans people, polygamous people, people of other religions, atheists and agnostics, scientists, and so on. It’s also been used as a justification for monarchy, slavery, caste societies, and fascism. It leads to all kinds of crackpot conspiracies including modern flat earthers. It’s caused more harm than pretty much any other idea in human history, other than perhaps money.

From my perspective religion is a kind of mass delusion. Delusions aren’t always harmful, and provided they are benign it might be better to just let them be. This stops the moment those delusions become harmful to either the person having the delusion or the people around them. If your religion harms no one including yourself then that’s a-okay by me. Otherwise we need to disabuse you of it as quickly as possible, or at least try and replace it with a harmless delusion if reality is too painful to bare.

Comparing religion to celebrity worship isn’t a good argument to make. Celebrity worship isn’t a positive thing either, and imo needs to happen a lot less. It’s a bit like saying thing b is bad so why care about bad thing a? I dislike harmful religions and harmful celebrities.

Also I don’t care about Christianity in particular. I don’t consider islam or Judaism to be good either. Nazis were not atheists, and any religion that causes harm is a problem.

Where are Nazis in government in the US or EU? Even Donald Trump isn’t a card carrying Nazi, even though he isn’t a good person or politician. He also isn’t in office, and that’s the closest to an actual Nazi I can think of in either place.

Anyway, someone made space for you and then you decided to call them a doltish sod. After calling yourself awesome no less. The truth is you’re not “awesome” if you are going to behave like this. There is something wrong with you.

Having to deal with a drug dealer that wants to also sell you actually addictive drugs is the gateway.

Marijuana is addictive though. Maybe not as addictive as some other things, but pretending it’s completely non addictive is disingenuous and misleading. It’s more addictive than say LSD or psilocybin for example.

That isn’t to say it should remain illegal though. Legalisation has positive benefits even for harder, more addictive substances than marijuana. See the history of alcohol prohibition for example, or the disaster that is the war on drugs.

That’s an entirely different problem to the issues with dopamine the other guy is talking about.

I heard that Manjaro has greatly diverged from Arch over the last couple of years. Someone said EOS, which I think stands for Evolution Operating System is closer to Arch now, but I haven’t actually looked into it so idk how accurate that is. Arch takes more work to get set up than Pop does though, just FYI if you’re considering it. It doesn’t come with anything by default, unless you use a script to install.

You’re talking to someone who used to be an Arch user. It’s nothing actually specific to arch, it’s an initiative by KDE. People link to arch wiki because the wiki is a good source, and also because arch has more up to date packages than pretty much everything else.

Sorry, I don’t actually know how to do it. I was wondering if you can use the instructions on that page but change the package name to the latest package name. That would definitely install it, but I don’t think it will work. Based on what I read after commenting, Ubuntu LTS doesn’t have the required dependencies, and Pop is based on Ubuntu LTS. It should be available in the next version though.

Is it actually a different package name? That’s not how these types of things normally work. Either the new version is in the repos or it isn’t. The package name doesn’t container the version number either, it’s just kde-standard. I believe KDE 6 isn’t in the standard Ubuntu repos at all, even for 24.04, which is newer than the one Pop OS is based on. It seems you have to use KDE Neon to get 6 on an Ubuntu based system.

I tried manjaro Linux on a live USB and it didn’t work. I specifically used manjaro because it’s an easy way to get Nvidia drivers on a live system, yes I know it has issues. I doubt Arch would be any better in terms of HDR support.

Can you just follow the instructions from this page and change the package from KDE plasma to KDE 6?

How would you do this? I don’t think that’s actually possible but if you know a way lmk.

Thanks I had no idea that was even an option. I knew framebuffer programs could use HDR, but had no idea Kodi was one of them.

Are you talking about two stroke petrol engines or something else?

Check the usernames

On that same note, if I were born in communist China, I would never call myself Chinese.

What does China being communist or not have anything to do with this conservation?

This post is massive misinformation. They claimed to be “Irish and Scotish” yet they were born in America. It’s classic Americans pretending to be something they aren’t to make themselves sound cooler, because it’s not cool to be American. They then start claiming they are descended from British royalty and all sorts of things. They took that comment out of context to make me look like the bad guy. Also tried saying they had stronger blood than me or some shit. It’s mental.