I’ve seen a lot of variations of the trolley problem, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard the “heavy man.” It also makes zero sense, because a heavy man would do nothing to a trolley.

Frequently the point of comparing the two is to caution before they actually become comparable, though. I think it’s intentional hyperbole to make a stark point, not an insensitive reduction.

Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you’re doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn’t put them aside because they’re a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren’t just getting an averaged version of the process; you’re getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.

So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you’re probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it’s not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I’ve personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there’s no consistency because it never “knows” anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, “I like that recipe, but let’s try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin,” it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.

So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they’ve been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.

SEO is part of it, but it’s also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn’t matter, but longer text means more space for ads.

I miss Mike Rugnetta’s PBS Idea Channel so much, and it absolutely would have belonged on this list, imo.

Either existence is a empty nothingness devoid of meaning, or existence is a empty blank canvas upon which we can imbue our own meaning.

It’s not even real. It’s a fabricated story to push an agenda of a special interest group.

Edit: to clarify, the news story is real, the mom’s story isn’t. It’s just a fiction to push the agenda.

As does scissors before paper, since paper is just one of the many things you can cut with scissors

I’m so confused, I’m a Spotify user and there are multiple artists I’ve selected “don’t play this artist” on that Spotify blocks for me; it won’t even play those artists when I click playlists including them.

I bought a projector in the current millennium, so my projector actually doesn’t have a VGA port, just HDMI.

Man, I fucking love LJS and wish I had one within driving distance.

Nothing like ordering a fish & chicken plank combo and not knowing which of the identical diamond-shaped planks is which before biting.

Well anything after 3.5e is a watered-down, bastardized version of the game anyway.

That’s the meaning you imbue life with; it’s not inherent to its state.

You know that for the vast majority of human history copyright didn’t exist, and yet people still created art and culture, right?

edit: If you’re gonna downvote, have the balls to explain how I’m wrong.

My sister in DC spent so much money on a Charlotte Hornets Starter Jacket.

It was her prized possession.

I am confident she has never watched a Hornets game in her life.

bait

Honestly, I’m a fan of abolishing IP law too, but for some reason I suspect the implementation of that they support is very different than the one I support

Are the cops you know actively marching in the streets in the name of justice and demanding police reform from their unions and leaders? Are they actively and consistently doing this, actively working to dismantle corruption and systemic problems with policing, every day?

Because if not, that’s how we know.

It wasn’t the only memorable thing for me, but it was memorable. Honestly I still think Starfield is a great basic framework for a video game, I just wish they put an actual finished video game onto that framework

If you think that bad dog owner entitlement is an exclusively Californian issue then I regret to inform you that I have terrible news about the rest of the country.