CautiousCharacter

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[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do you take the same broad-minded approach to Holocaust denial? Vaccine misinformation? Intelligent design?

[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or Picard's little theorem, which says that if an entire function misses two points (e.g. is never 0 or 1), then that function must be constant.

[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Does this link work for you to see the comment? https://awful.systems/comment/9163259

[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is what Donald Knuth is doing with TeX :)

Wikipedia:

Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653; it was last updated in 2021.

 

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/5725311

originally posted to the stubsack but it makes more sense as a top level post.

[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yikes.

Real humans are also fake and they are also traps who are waiting to catch you when you say something they don't like. Then they also use every word and piece of information as ammunition against you, ironically sort of similar to the criticism always levied against online platforms who track you and what you say. AI robots are going to easily replace real humans because compared to most real humans the AI is already a saint. They don't have an ego, they don't try to gaslight you, they actually care about what you say which is practically impossible to find in real life.. I mean this isn't even going to be a competition. Real humans are not going to be able to evolve into the kind of objectively better human beings that they would need to be to compete with a robot.

[–] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"If I'm learning this much from Baby's First ABCs, imagine what a literature professor could do with it!"

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