lib1 [comrade/them]

Remember the scene in Breaking Bad where they dissolve a body in acid? It’s that one. Just in some dude’s butt. So maybe he was watching Breaking Bad and misunderstood what was happening

That’s fair. I wouldn’t go as far as saying everyone could be a phd candidate. For one thing, I think that’s a skill set that goes beyond intellectual aptitude and not everyone has the necessary temperament and set of tertiary skills. There’s also a big difference between what could have been if everyone had been educated properly from birth vs where people are at after decades of neglect and trauma and atrophy. That shit literally causes brain damage.

That’s not a matter of capacity though. Most kids are able to learn to read through basic instruction and almost all of the remaining kids can learn through appropriate intervention. This is why literacy is largely a policy decision rather than a matter of aptitude.

Endogenous human insulin is stable up to five freeze-thaw cycles. However, various types of synthetic insulin become less potent once they’ve been frozen. It functionally becomes impossible to know how much insulin you need to compensate for the food you’re eating

I haven’t had an apple since I got my doctorate

I can’t speak for everyone, only for myself. My opposition to AI isn’t an opposition to the disembodied, out-of-context concept of AI. It’s an opposition to the context in which AI exists and of which it’s emblematic. The form that LLMs take in our society exists because of a prioritization of profit and ownership over workers. I can go more in depth about the specifics of that that if you’d like.

We can have a discussion about the efficacy of luddites and their strategies in working class liberation. I don’t disagree that they achieved little. I just don’t think that their methods failing means we should dismiss the anger they felt or similarly the anger people feel about AI. That’s the truly analogous part. When I rail against AI on Lemmy, I’m not advocating for individuals to start breaking into a smashing up data centers. That would be just as ineffective. But that expression of anger is still valid.

Ah, okay. I mean, they weren’t doing that for its own sake. It was about the impact the looms were having on workers. I’m not just a loom hater

Is this an assumption that my problem with AI art is its environmental impact followed by an insistence that I can’t be upset about that because the clothing industry is also bad for the environment and I wear clothes? Because if so that’s hilarious

Good

Question for the science side of Lemmy: Does putting a spider outside ever hurt the spider? Like if it’s too cold or something?

My favorite is the people who respond “Oh, you know, living the dream”. Only the most depressed people in the pits of despair answer like that