TheBeege

I'm glad you haven't been in that situation and hope you never are.

I disagree on its relevance. In such a situation, it would make sense to have the desire to kill that soldier, but you might not hate him. Does that make sense? I'm asking you to use your imagination of such a situation and how you might feel about it. If you think you would feel or behave differently, I'm all ears

Ohh, very cool. I learned a thing. Thank you for sharing!

Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but... I don't know much beyond electrons moving between their shells

How would you feel if you were in a war, defending your country and family, where the attacking soldiers were conscripts and didn't want to be fighting you in the first place?

I pose a different thought: there are different ways to want someone's death.

There's wishing someone is dead because you hate them.

There's wishing someone is dead because there is no other way to stop the harm they're causing.

On the outside, it's hard to tell the difference, but I think it's profoundly different internally. In my opinion, the former lacks deeper thought. I think most people genuinely believe that whatever they're doing is good, or at least justified.

To a large degree, we are shaped by our environment. Yes, we can argue free will, but there's always a bias. It's similar to what Christians told me when I was a kid when I asked if indigenous tribes in the middle of nowhere could be saved by Jesus. Teachers told me, "well, they can find God/Jesus in the world around them." Like... theoretically, that's not impossible, but realistically, no. If there's some kid growing up being told his whole life that black people are evil and want to hurt him, and the only time he sees or meets black people are in hostile situations... what else is he going to believe? Should we excuse him? His actions, absolutely not. Him as a person... no... i think...? But how do we solve that? Should we just obliterate the population that kid was a part of? I don't have a great answer.

Basically, I think we should avoid hating people, and you can wish someone to die without hating them. The sheep can wish for the wolf to be dead so the sheep can be safe, but the wolf has to eat, too.

In case anyone gets suspicious like I was, the domain name seemed... odd to me. I expected something more like losangeles.nbc.com or something.

But I did a WHOIS lookup and confirmed the company that registered it is NBCUniversal, which is the legal name of the company.

I also saw KTLA reporting this, but I didn't bother to check them. So yeah, seems like real news, for better or worse.

I hate that we need to check these things now on top of all the shit going down

I was really hoping someone would catch this. I'm glad someone else was also paying attention in biology

That's... huh...

Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???

(Unless you're a physicist, in which case... fuck)

That's really cool. I figured it could obviously be done with fission, but I didn't think we could just strip protons out of a nucleus. Cool share

I learned a thing. Thank you.

I argue that this is due to the poor definition of a coastline. I don't know why. I go into problem solving mode, and I'm like... yeah... poorly defined problem. Root cause found... uhh... now what. Coastline starts at where water reaches only high tide? No. Continental shelf? Certainly not. Point where building foundations are no longer stable? Maybe, but I don't know enough... yet.

.... is this ADHD? Seriously, my psychiatrist thought I was right on the border. I dunno

Edit: I'm dumb and misunderstood the problem. Disregard me

This. I work at a medical computer vision company, and our system performs better, on average, than radiologists.

It still needs a human to catch the weird edge cases, but studies show humans plus our model have a super high accuracy rate and speed. It's perfect because there's a global radiologist shortage, so helping the radiologists we have go faster can save a lot of lives.

But people are bad at nuance. All AI is like LLMs -_-

That is a damn good point.

It's tricky because sometimes you need to find something specific for good reason, and other times, exploring would do you good.

In any case, very helpful perspective. Maybe it's good I'd never have the time to build something like this anyway.

I wonder... this is slightly off topic, but fun to think out loud. In Korea, search super sucks. Most content is shared via blogs, and back links aren't a thing. All bloggers, and even the blogging platform, actively discourage any kind of copying. In the West, we solved this with sharing and back links, but that hasn't caught on here. But Koreans seem to (to me, at least) almost enjoy drudging through blog after blog trying to find what they're looking for. I always thought it's because they felt they had no alternative, but now I wonder if they have your perspective in mind.