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toasthaste wrote

Reply to comment by Jenheadjen in Nitter is dead. by anethum

yeah mood. I only just realized I could be using nitter to bypass login a few days ago! and now this 😔 back to just saying "hey I can't see the thread you're linking to can you screenshot it or something" on discord all the time i guess

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Reply to netflix on pluto is very bad by hollyhoppet

I was just reading about this recently-ish, they got (or are soon getting? this isn't the article I saw the other day I couldn't find the exact one so hopefully this one is actually accurate idk) fuckin hella fast internet on the ISS, I wonder if that means it would be easy to get fast wifi on pluto too. You should find a better pluto-based ISP, I think you're getting ripped off

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to test_post by cute_spider

you've been shadowbanned but the shadowban realm has lots of bots that will still interact with your posts so that you can't tell you've been shadowbanned (this is a lie but. oh jeeze I could actually see this happening on social media sites in the future)

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Reply to pluto on netflix is very good by twovests

I've heard it's very good but my impression is that there are nearly no women in it, is that accurate? (this is often the deciding factor in me deciding to not watch animes that are otherwise supposed to be very good 😔)

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to Carol and the End of the World on Netflix is Good. by cute_spider

Yes! YESSS! I watched it a couple weeks ago and have been trying to get everyone I know to watch it since (no luck yet but I'm TRYING). It's so good and it's not like anything else I've seen and it gives me a lot of hope for adult western animation.

I kept expecting the rug to get pulled out from under me for some cheap gag every time the show got really slow and quiet and earnest and it just kept... not happening. Show gave me a lot of indescribable feelings, I think March Comes In Like A Lion might be the only other thing that comes to mind in the same brain-feelings-zone. Good good good show, I'm so glad it exists and that I watched it and that other people can watch it too

"Coming of age story where the protagonist is in her 40s" is like. Man!

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in i used to do machine learning ("AI") research, and i hate how bad the repute for AI has gotten by twovests

I am someone who is quite pro-EA in the sense of "charity donations can go a lot farther if you apply them thoughtfully, I love it when fewer children die from malaria", which in my mind is/should be the core Thing of EA, and I deeply deeply resent the AGI people sucking all the oxygen out of the room and torching piles and piles of goodwill the way they do. So please don't read the following as a defense of the AI doomers and longtermists, I find them very tedious and frustrating:

  1. The reason EA types don't tend to touch on climate change is because of its core Thing which is trying to find and address problems that are "important, neglected, and tractable". Stopping/reversing climate change is both Important* and Tractable, but it's really not Neglected-- there are tons of really really smart people working on it, it's far from low hanging fruit, and that means the floor for meaningfully contributing to those efforts is pretty high, diminishing returns and all; Altruism in this area will be less Effective. This is definitely a bullet to bite but I think it basically makes sense.

  2. I think EA was at one point trying to do stuff about nuclear threats? Maybe it still is, idk, my understanding was that it ended up really not being very tractable, like, how do you know you're reducing the overall threat of nuclear war and proliferation? What does that look like? The most tractable part of that that I can think of (getting existing nuclear weapons dismantled) is not very directly solvable with money, which is the primary tool EA uses (since the original point is making a donated dollar do as much good as possible)

  3. Now you might ask, well, how does AI extinction risk rank in important/neglected/tractable, I mean for one how tractable could "AI alignment" possibly be? To which the AI people will say "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

* (The AI people will say it's not that important because climate change isn't going to drive humans extinct, let alone wipe out all life on earth/the galaxy the way they say AI will, it's just going to make lots of people die and make life worse for everyone who survives.)

Anyway even if EA never does anything tangibly good ever again (unlikely imo, the We Want Less Kids To Die From Malaria faction is still going strong), I think they at least get credit for GiveDirectly, which lets you give direct cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty around the world with no strings attached, so they get to decide where it's best spent, rather than someone half a world away dictating that to them. I highly recommend anyone and everyone donate money to GiveDirectly if they have some spare cash lying around.

In conclusion, sorry if you already knew all this or it's an illegible wall of text, it turns out I was in an infodumping mood, what can ya do.

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to Boy and the Heron rules by devtesla

I'm gonna see it tomorrow! dubbed tho so hopefully that does not detract too much. i think it is very funny and good how robert pattinson only plays total freaks (just watched The Batman as well)

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Please wear a mask by flabberghaster

oh y'know what I'm not sure I actually saw anything specifically pointing toward n95s and up, it might have just been something about smaller particle sizes making most masks less effective/ineffective that I extrapolated to the good ones, but I'm not sure. Tried googling it just now but it's so hard to find actual relevant information on google these days >_<

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Reply to Please wear a mask by flabberghaster

iirc their efficacy has waned significantly as the virus has evolved (esp for weaker-than-N95 masks (most cloth masks are... more or less security theater at this point, has been my understanding)) but I am still wearing my N95s when I go places in part because I'm not interested in going back to breathing strangers' stank mouth-air, and in part because, how did it go, "like I'm ever going to let some absolute godless pervert see the bottom half of my face ever again. in a TARGET, no less"

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