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  • “Agnostic” is just a more specific kind of atheist. You’re still an atheist.

    Some people who call themselves agnostic lean atheist like you say, and might call themselves “agnostic atheists” as a more specific descriptor of their atheism. Some people who are agnostic may lean theist, and call themselves “agnostic theists” (this is usually the label I give myself). Others may not lean one way or the other, or may not care, and may call themselves simply “agnostic.” Or there could be any number of other reasons someone uses the term they prefer.

    The differences might be minor or non-existent in your view, but might be important to another individual. Don’t presume to understand what someone else believes simply because of your interpretation of a term.








  • XP was the first NT-version with a Home Edition. If you’d been running Windows 2000 at home you would’ve felt the same way (XP is basically just 2000 with a facelift, NT 5.0 to NT 5.1) and even NT4 was pretty good (though 2000 was better).

    The 9x series (95, 98, ME) were built on a different kernel and designed specifically for home use and were, in comparison, terrible. ME was especially terrible as they tried to bring plug-and-play to the 9x core without NT’s hardware abstraction layer and shit did not work well.


  • One day an AI might be, it won’t be an LLM though.

    I’m no expert, but I feel like that’s akin to saying a human may be intelligent, but it won’t be Broca’s area of the brain.

    I would think a true AGI would involve a lot of different neural networks doing different things. And an LLM could end up being a useful component of allowing it to communicate. Though who knows how the model would need to change if its language prompts are inputs from other neural nets.

    And I have to imagine at this point major AI models aren’t just LLMs, that’s just the part we interface with.

    Again, I’m very far from an expert. What I do know is that the current MASSIVE push with the technology* we have now is causing more harm than it’s worth.

    *edit: typo