photonic_sorcerer
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I’m just a simple man, trying to make his way in the universe.
- Comment on kwah 2 days ago:
This made me legit lol. Thank you!
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 days ago:
If the bribe money is less than what you would have paid for a premium subscription over the lifetime of the product, then you would’ve still come out on top.
- Comment on Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible 6 days ago:
Pretty sweet stuff - they combined metalens tech (lens miniaturization) with a nonlinear optical material (Lithium niobate). The physics of harmonic generation is amazing by itself: light entering such a crystal induces photons of a smaller wavelength to be emitted.
- Comment on 'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture 1 week ago:
I wonder what those fertility rituals entailed…
- Comment on Why you should always hide the evidence 1 week ago:
Isopropanol is your friend
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and it’s waaay too small for that fish bro
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 2 weeks ago:
The overall plastic mass equated to about 6 milligrams per person per year, or about a quarter of the weight of a grain of rice
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 2 weeks ago:
Nah that’s either 000 or the auralnauts villain
- Comment on Toronto business owners are using AI-generated “concerned residents” to fight a proposed bus lane 2 weeks ago:
As with any technology, it’s how it’s used that counts.
- Comment on Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps the fact that it was fired over the internet has something to do with it 🧐
- Comment on Dream day 2 weeks ago:
A feastpost?
- Comment on Sourdough Pizza! 3 weeks ago:
Lots of love & scrub. Thanks!
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- Comment on Popcorn, more like cocporn (I'm sorry) 3 weeks ago:
We talkin hard or soft?
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 3 weeks ago:
You need to opt in to the public beta. Once it’s out of beta… Who knows!
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 3 weeks ago:
That’s the thing: your claim of a reputation means nothing to me. I don’t know you. Trust is earned, not freely given.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 3 weeks ago:
There’s a reason we don’t share, download and open random .exe files. On first glance, there’s no way to know what’s contained. Web apps, on the other hand, don’t run on your hardware so you don’t have to trust the developer.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Anyone got a full list of the actual meanings?
- Comment on The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it just breaks and you need to reset the watch. When it does work, it takes forever to find a signal. That’s been my experience, anyway.
- Comment on The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google 4 weeks ago:
I have one, it’s not great but it’s not terrible. The heart rate monitor leaves much to be desired and I’ve never gotten the GPS to work. It’s pretty cool if you need a new project to sink some time into.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 1 month ago:
I see you’ve never had the pleasure of eating street tacos my friend - treat yourself!
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 1 month ago:
Soft taco supremacy
- Comment on something's got to give 1 month ago:
Then you would be wrong.
- Comment on Hear The Good News 1 month ago:
Happy Easter!
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 1 month ago:
Mondragon was founded by a humanist and ingrained the company with a set of core virtues. I think most companies wouldn’t be able to transition so radically.
I learned about Mondragon from your comment, they seem to do great work! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 months ago:
Honestly, I’m not surprised. I obviously didn’t phrase my argument in a compelling way.
I disagree that we don’t have evidence for conciousness in LLMs. They have been showing behavior previously attributed only to highly intelligent, sentient creatures, i.e. us. To me it seems very plausible that when you have a large network of neurons, be they artificial or biological, with specialized circuits for processing specific stimuli that some sort of sentience could emerge.
If you want academic research on this you just have to take a look. Researchers have been discussing this topic for decades. There isn’t a working theory of machine sentience simply because we don’t have one that works for natural systems. But that obviously doesn’t rule it out. After all, why should sentience be constrained to squishy matter? In any case, I think we can all agree something very interesting is going on with LLMs.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
Sure. But if they can’t afford the loans they can’t afford the car, either. No one really needs a $40k new car, anyone could get by with a $2000 used beater.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 months ago:
I know I’m the smartest man on earth. And I’m correct.
See how crazy that sounds? Just because someone is confident about something doesn’t make it true.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
Buy the car you can afford. If you can’t buy it outright or make a significant down payment (20-30%), don’t take out a loan, look for a cheaper option. Those interest rates are insane, I’m amazed how anyone would accept them.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 months ago:
I’m not saying I believe they’re conscious, all I said was that I don’t know and neither do you. Of course we know what’s happening in processors. We know what’s happening in neuronal matter too. What we don’t know is how consciousness or sentience emerges from large networks of neurons.
