7bicycles

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7bicycles,

Even if ChatGPT was literally a perfect copy of a human being it would still be 0 steps closer to a general intelligence because it does not fucking understand WHAT or HOW to actually do the things it suggests.

What if we AI passes the turing test not because computers got intelligent but because people got dumber

7bicycles,
  1. a self-fulfilling prophecy of pitbulls having a bad reputation and actively being sought out by people who want vicious dogs and who will treat their dogs in such a way as to encourage that behavior.

I’m pretty neutral on dog genetics but tbh it still ends you at the same conclusion; not everyone should just be able to get the dog that kills you

7bicycles,

the grind got so shitty the logistics players actually went on strike

7bicycles,

TF2 Competitive

7bicycles,

I feel like Battlebits gets pretty close to this?

7bicycles,

Explore might be pushing it but there’s the old 3rd Gen AA title Darkest of Days where you you’re a timecop and get to mow down american civil war formations with your future machine gun

7bicycles,

I understand your vision now

7bicycles,

love to have people in management who cannot for the life of them manage their own workload or inbox. I don’t even know when I last got a response from my manager for anything, I just send it to the void at this point as shit falls apart

7bicycles,

It is rather clear, that this code is not aimed at firefox users to slow down their loading time.

alternatively it’s just well designed

7bicycles,

we get a lot of people learning what “digital sovereignity” means

just kidding, the state is going to pay every business affected gajillion dollars to buy more google

7bicycles,

gripping experiences such as: not being homeless, not starving

7bicycles,

what the fuck man

7bicycles,

I feel like there’s a great vibe difference in people collecting things that are unintentionally rare and those that collect intentionally rare things

To stick with the given example: I think some guy collecting vintage Mockbas would be a lot cooler than some guy collecting the newest limited edition sneaker.

7bicycles,

you ever wonder if there was like a short outlier on national core strength during that era?

7bicycles,

I’m pretty sure even Horses beat cars by a mile on enviromental standards. They’re needless though, we have invented the bicycle

7bicycles,

yeah and tyre abbrasion correlates with weight, which given the current trend of “Same car but now EV = lots heavier” that one’s just gonna get worse, same for brakes. Pretty much just trading exhaust particles for more particulate dust from tyres and brakes

7bicycles,

We eventually need to recognize that rubber wheels on asphalt simply isn’t a very efficient or durable method of moving large amounts of stuff long distances.

I disagree here, there’s in here for cars that’s hard to do otherwise. I think the problem is more that that is also not at all what cars are primarily used for. Like even in the US 60% of trips are under 6 miles and average occupancy rate is 1,5 persons. That’s a bike ride.

7bicycles,

Which market is it that is producing smaller EVs? They’re all just regular cars turned EV, which means they’re heavier and you can’t feature-rich your way out of physics as per pedestrian safety

7bicycles,

Funny thing about horses - apparently when cities moved over to cars from horses they became safer. Because horses spook: and one spooked horse can spook the rest and you get a stampede.

You seem cool enough / not carbrained that I’d like to suggest you to take a closer look at this. The perception of “horse -> car” as per transportation is pretty prevalent but it doesn’t really hold up in the sense this fun fact is often touted, it’s born out of a car based status quo applied backwards to horses mostly.

7bicycles,

I suppose if cars, in their same number and usage, were traded for horses, then besides the epic problem of feeding them all, many cities would be far more dangerous now from the great horde of horses marching through every day!

I’ll start off here: eh, maybe. Certainly a lot more full of massive amounts of poop everywhere, that was a common problem even with not every man, woman and child a horse, it’s where we got sidewalks from - so you could walk in not-poop.

Sure, and you also don’t refill them every 200 miles from the nearest highway hay-station. (Well, kind of…) But there were still horses clustered in many cities for a lot of the time, right? Where now there are cars?

Yes, but nowhere near the same extent. Check out old city street pictures from the 1910 and 1920s. Sure, you’ll see cars, they had been invented and hell, you still see horses, except pretty much all of them barring the ones with cops on it are pulling some thing or another. And also there’s trams and also there’s just a buttload of people walking - which is what most of them did.

The point I’m getting at is the notion that we basically just replaced horses with cars, for the most part, but that’s ahistorical. We’ve replaced horses and trams and walking and cycling - all of which were done a lot - with cars. People used and could use a variety of options, now, eh, not so much, they’re not really viable for a lot of people.

But then that’s not because cars are so inherently great for any and all transporation, it’s just we’ve built cities to accomodate cars first, foremost and nigh exclusively, to the detriment of everything else. You wouldn’t find me arguing to bring back the horses, but trams, cycling, walking? Absolutely.

Because we have pretty much gained nothing from cars. People still have roughly the same commute as before - they just live further away and travel the same time, except now the societal cost of doing that is 10x the price per trip. People have a time budget for travel, not a distance budget, and that’s stayed pretty much the same.

7bicycles,

wow that sucks, good luck though

7bicycles,

I know the feeling and also I’m curious, what’s the difference here? What choices present themselves?

7bicycles,

Carbrain is a systemic issue

7bicycles,

This is just reinventing homo oeconomicus but for transportation. People aren’t rational

7bicycles,

it’s “the computer is a magic box that can do anything (customer side)” clashing against “the computer is a magic box that can do anything (IT folks)” and boy do these two seemingly similar views not mesh well

Allthough I swear to god, unless you’re actively developing new tech like LLM or something most everything is a problem of processes and organisation first and foremost and then an IT problem much, much later

7bicycles,

Some dudes in the 80s realized this and tadaa, shadowrun was born

7bicycles,

absolutely perfect useage of the word “visage” here, really adds to it

7bicycles,

I mean yeah probably but you gotta have a certain je ne sais quoi to pull that shit off. it’s hard. but when it works it’s so good

7bicycles,

This feels like cybersecurity cosplay

you want a kilswitch on a camera you go for a slideable plastic covering, like most laptops have, because you can’t hack “being able to look through solid objects” into a phone camera

why would this just be an electronic disconnect. Love to bee concerned enough about privacy to not trust google, but I do trust random kickstarter that they wire their phones up properly and also that it gets to me with no intervention

7bicycles,

I don’t get the advantage, android already tells you “This app wants access to your contacts” or whatever?

7bicycles,

I always figured if any given app wants my contacts it’d scrape and upload them somewhere so I always say no, but I see the use case now

7bicycles,

Useage of roller suitcases is now bound to a license and it gets taken away if you do some inconsiderate shit like blocking off half the walkway with it behind you to gawk at a sign or run over peoples feet with it

Could probably further this to most things around having 0 spatial awareness but that one the most

Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?

One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural...

7bicycles,

Thanks, I’m already thinking of ways I am off the mark though, like how things like race science and eugenics have been the “academic” position in the past.

That was very useful to people. It’s not like a majority, even those disliking academia, will trust no scientific study or something, they just don’t trust the ones they disagree with politically

7bicycles,

The nestlé boycott has always struck me as mostly hollow. I mean sure, it’s not a bad thing to do, but it seems for the majority of people it starts and ends there. Like yup, that’s the one bad company

7bicycles,

Microsoft never gave a shit about private piracy barring some noteable examples from countries with very strict anti-piracy laws like germany. The tactic has always been to get everyonem on windows and then make the big bucks seeling the OS to enterprises, because everybody wants to use windows, since they’re at least halfway competent at that

Now, it’s my opinion that people, en masse, can’t use computers to save their fucking lives anyways and whether they’re too stupid to utilize windows or too stupid to utilize Linux doesn’t make much of a difference, but boy do the people get angry when anyone suggests switching off windows

What's the longest time you've had to wait for vehicles to stop so you can cross the street?

Where I live, there’s a law that says all vehicles have to yield for pedestrians at crosswalks. Of course this would be a thing, otherwise crosswalks would only be as good as any part of the road. Despite this, it’s a largely unfollowed rule, to severe degrees. To the extent that me and some friends have a “running gag”...

7bicycles,

And do you notice any etiquette trends like I describe in that one part?

Absolutely, yeah, allthough it has little to do with type of vehicles and seems to be entirely down to location of the zebra crossing.

7bicycles,

Oh buddy then we’re historically remembered. Like, that’s a lotta porn.

That ain’t special

7bicycles,

Are the Russian people going to be angry at the lack of clown/king related branding?

I point to things like Aunt Jemima or something and tell you I can see how this might seem like it works to the US

7bicycles,

I struggle to think of a view where plastic straws are a no no (which I agree) but car tyres aren’t. It’s both convenience product.

7bicycles,

Sure, buses have fewer wheels per passenger but they are also heavier so go through their tyres much faster.

Per Passenger? A bus weighs like 40,000 pounds at most going by a quick google. The average car in the US weighs about 4,000lbs and the occupancy rate of cars is about 1,5, so 2,666lbs / passenger on a given trip. Every bus that has an average passenger rate of 15 and up beats that.

7bicycles,

15 passengers on average seems way higher than most buses I’ve been on. Maybe during the very busiest times, but buses run all day. The many hours they spend with just four or five people aboard will really tank the average.

I don’t wanna say there isn’t busses that might producre more microplastic but an average of 15 passengers per bus isn’t like some insane goal to achieve, even in the current world, especially once you factor in that there’s also times that there’s way more than 15 people on one for a given trip

7bicycles,

I’m mostly going for the “entirely unnecessary (unlike tires)” thing, especially given consumption levels. I don’t think I would’ve gotten through a single tyres worth of plastic in straws in my lifetime even if they weren’t banned.

Like, sure, there is use cases for tyres even in utopia, hell, a tyreless bicycle sounds shit, but we’re talking what, like a percent of what is currently used?

7bicycles,

E-Bikes, maybe. There’s argument to be made that given a typical western diet heavy on meat (and not changing that) it’s better to just use electricity to power bicycles rather than meat filtered through humans

7bicycles,

I spent my drunk youth listening to these people and my conclusion is they basically all got fucked, metaphorically or literally, by something, honestly. People don’t just turn self-destructive by themselves

7bicycles,

I had sort of the same thing happening with a glob of rice noodles and I was quite surprised that I was quite occupied with how dumb of a death that would be instead of anything remotely helpful

7bicycles,

get in my car

gross

7bicycles,

Maybe if the WTC was wearing high vis the pilots would’ve been able to see it

7bicycles,

I am judging the fuck out of nazis though and I will not stop

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