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  • ryrybang@lemmy.worldtoVideos@lemmy.world•On This Problem Rational People Do Worse— Two boxes, one choice, and $1,000,000.
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    2 months ago

    I agree with you, but in context.

    Meaning, ask me for my superpower and what I’d do with it, sure!

    But this channel makes really good science-focused content. So to present this video, which essentially requires an all knowing god-like entity, then try and break down the game theory and probabilities, just seems odd and out of their lane a bit.

    The money is the the less interesting bit, the belief in God and outcome is the more interesting one.

    If you believe the god bit and play the game:

    Take box A&B, get $1.001M: you fooled god, there is free will. Or you are the lucky 1% god can’t predict.

    Take box A&B, get $1000: you did not fool god, there is no free will.

    Take box B, get $1M: you did not fool god, there is no free will.

    Take box B, get $0: you fooled god, there is free will. Or you are the lucky 1% god can’t predict.

    If you don’t believe the god bit, then this is just some sort of con man swindle and you are only getting a max $1000 anyway.

    So I sorta view this whole thing as religious philosophy, which is why it feels weird on a science channel.

  • ryrybang@lemmy.worldtoVideos@lemmy.world•On This Problem Rational People Do Worse— Two boxes, one choice, and $1,000,000.
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    2 months ago

    This was a pretty good video, but the supercomputer setup made me kind of meh on it compared to most of the channel’s videos.

    It isn’t really a “problem” in my mind because no such computer can or does exist (one that can predict your decision with 99% accuracy). And they hand wave away what the computer might be doing or collecting to make that decision prior to you even knowing what the problem is going to be. I don’t think you can just hand wave that away.

    So that “hypothetical supercomputer” is more like an “impossible supercomputer” which ruins this as a thought experiment part of this for me. It’s like saying all-knowing sky fairy/god/budda has made a prediction about your decision, what do you decide?

    Well, I’d say I don’t believe in the sky fairy/god/budda and need evidence about the 99% success rate before proceeding.

  • ryrybang@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for reading through this. No Nvidia card. it’s AMD Ryzen 7 CPU with integrated Radeon Vega 10 GPU. 20 GB system memory with 2 GB allocated for the video card. I didn’t install anything for graphics, I just let Fedora do its defaults.

    I looked up the codecs to get the specifics. This was the first thing I found when having Firefox + YouTube issues: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/openh264/

    Installed that and it wasn’t any better. Then had to figure out how to remove it and try the rpmfusion stuff (whatever that is).

    Here’s the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain:

    The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @12.832s

└─sddm.service @12.832s

  └─plymouth-quit.service @12.727s +98ms

    └─systemd-user-sessions.service @12.681s +20ms

      └─remote-fs.target @12.659s

        └─remote-fs-pre.target @8.131s

          └─nfs-client.target @8.130s

            └─gssproxy.service @8.044s +85ms

              └─network.target @8.037s

                └─wpa_supplicant.service @8.002s +33ms

                  └─basic.target @4.810s

                    └─dbus-broker.service @4.627s +137ms

                      └─dbus.socket @4.607s +1ms

                        └─sysinit.target @4.596s

                          └─systemd-resolved.service @4.452s +143ms

                            └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @3.827s +613ms

                              └─local-fs.target @3.814s

                                └─boot-efi.mount @3.692s +119ms

                                  └─boot.mount @3.552s +118ms

                                    └─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.service @3.206s +170ms

                                      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.device

    And here’s the output of systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg (had to covert to jpg to allow the upload):

  • ryrybang@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    I just switched from Win 10 & 11 to Fedora KDE, about 2 weeks ago. Total Linux newbie. Not looking to hack my OS or anything. I’m relatively computer literate, but not at all a programmer. I just want an OS that works and mostly gets out of the way. And obviously doesn’t spam me with ads or steal my data or lock me into a subscription.

    So far: Fedora and Plasma have been wonderful. But…

    • Computer feels slightly slower. I’m surprised by this.

    • Fedora or Mint…“it just works” isn’t exactly true based on my experience. “Most stuff mostly works okay” is more like it.

    • I had a service keep crashing upon boot: xwaylandvideobridge. Trying to read people’s reports and diagnose was frustrating. I ended up removing it (which I had to look up and figure out how to do). Not sure if I broke anything or not, but it seems like things are working.

    • Boot time is definitely slower compared to Win11. Not slow, just slower. Like 35 seconds. I tried to figure this one out using stuff like “systemd-analyze” but that was also annoying / frustrating. Trying to interpret the output and then trying to interpret what the tech people are saying in the forums. Plus my specific output I was getting from those programs didn’t look right or make logical sense (like it was adding up a bunch of processes as 11 seconds, but then saying each of those processes itself took 11 seconds, which I guess is possible if they are running simultaneously, but not sure).

    • Weird stuff with youtube / video codecs. Firefox would glitch/hang/freeze playing youtube, especially if god forbid you try and do something radical like scroll back in a video. I seriously thought my video card was self-immolating. I finally just figured this out after much suffering. I think there was something about cisco h.whatever codecs, which I installed. But those are apparently terrible. Then I followed this not newbie-friendly fix after trying to figure out how to remove the Cisco ones: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=(\bCategoryHowto\b). Not sure why this kind of stuff doesn’t work out of the box. Having one of the biggest websites glitch using one of the biggest browsers is…not…great.

    • HP printer: finally, some good news! I have an HP laser printer and had to print some stuff off last night (a PDF and Word doc). Plugged in the printer, it recognized it correctly, I added printer, it added itself smoothly. Then ctrl-p worked flawlessly.