Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 6 days ago:
It’s not mine. Literally look back through this comment thread.
The person you replied to said “steal” was a poor choice of words and you piped up to say it wasn’t. That was the moment you entered into a semantic argument.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 6 days ago:
Your disagreement with op about the definition of stealing IS the semantic argument. That’s what a semantic argument is.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
You got into a semantic argument… and then started laying down incoherent definitions that you made up on the spot.
Yes, I agree, you are absolutely trolling.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
You’re the one who invented a definition of “theft” that for reasons beyond my understanding consider the consuming organisms specific mechanism of utilization that also specifically considers if the organism has the ability to synthesize the structures independent of consumption and now also demands that the process be sustainable for an arbitrary (but not indefinite) amount of time AND the structures must meet an arbitrary bar of complexity (which you’ve proclaimed unilaterally is greater than fat) etc etc etc
I’m going to drive now directly to my point now that hopefully you can see how your ever-expanding definition of “stealing” (which is promise you, im not even getting STARTED on pushing issues that would force you to continually expand it) is just bad.
Counter Definition: Eating isn’t theft. The degree to which ingested materials must be broken down to be useful is interesting, but none of it is stealing. The article used a word that while amusing to read isn’t technically accurate.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.
Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way.
Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.
- Comment on Any Klingon speakers around who play Arc Raiders by chance? 1 week ago:
Only a Varool would use such language in public
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 weeks ago:
For those specific questions usually like 1 second.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 weeks ago:
I see it supports many cameras, but you need to pull them apart and use a serial hookup to flash the firmware… but for the wyze cams and a few others you can flash them directly with an SD card.
I liked how cheap the wyze cams were but desperately wanted to get them offline. This was my silver bullet.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
Generally speaking (by theory subscription), moral evaluations of an action consider the state of the agent.
“Is this a good technology?” And “Is Sam Altman doing good?” Are two radically different questions with radically different answers.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 weeks ago:
For non cloud cams, someone posted here a while back about thingno firmware, takes cheap cams off the cloud. Works great on a wyze cam and was a gamechanger for me. Sttrroonngglllyyy recommend
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
It’ll only be available for the super rich, will expand to other augmentations/engineering, and will result in further reinforcing social mobility boundaries.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 3 weeks ago:
I love the hubris of this argument. It’s the identical construction of guys who say a woman must be a lesbian if they’re not into them.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 3 weeks ago:
NAIL. FINAL ANSWER!
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate the sanity check, but just to throw a monkey wrench into your model…
I think the square-cube law will bite you here. I expect power/mass isn’t constant. Mass grows faster than cross-sectional area which is key in muscle performance.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 weeks ago:
I have been asked to add many more lines of code for much worse reasons.
- Comment on Fictional 5 weeks ago:
Technically a second is an arbitrary measure of a proprty cesium133. Now, anyways
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:
String.replace(“þ”,“th”)
It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.
How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.
Specifically regarding communication:
Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.
I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.
For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.
So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.
Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.
That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.
Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 1 month ago:
Oh for sure Thief 2. Used to scribble down guard routes/timings on areas I’d have to traverse multiple times.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 1 month ago:
Underrated mechanic was the map.
Just a scrawled paper that you could write your own notes on.
Oh, also rope arrows. Fantastic level design to make them compelling but sane.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 month ago:
At one point it was possible to download every reddit comment ever. I think it was around 10 years ago I had a copy of that. I can’t remember if it was from reddit directly or from some third party with scrapers. I recall the dataset being free… but it might have been free for me because I had an academic justification? Really don’t recall.
Anyways, point being that you’re delusional if you think anything you post online ever goes away. Secondly, you can be much less than palentir and have “deleted reddit account comments”. Anyone can get them.
- Comment on We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours 1 month ago:
r/nothingeverhappens
- Comment on yo: sup? 1 month ago:
And don’t call me Shirley.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 month ago:
Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.
I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.
I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 1 month ago:
Keeping anything at any temperature different than whatever it’s interacting with takes energy. Hot or cold.
- Comment on I Quit 1 month ago:
I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 month ago:
I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.
Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.
Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”
Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?
Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.
- Comment on minor inconvenience 2 months ago:
Not sure if it was Microsoft or my org but I was asked several times to stop using “bummer burt” in all my comms
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.
Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.
So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.
I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?
I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.