davidgro

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people call them Maurice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course vulnerabilities exist. And creating a major one like this for an LLM would likely lead to it destroying things like a toddler (in fact this has already happened to a company run by idiots)

  But what it didn’t do was copy-with-changes as would be required to ‘evolve’ like a virus. Because training these models requires intense resources and isn’t just a terminal command.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would someone direct the output of an LLM to a terminal on its own machine like that? That just sounds like an invitation to an ordinary disaster with all the ‘rm -rf’ content on the Internet (aka training data). That still wouldn’t be access on a second machine though, and also even if it could make a copy, it would be an exact copy, or an incomplete (broken) copy. There’s no reasonable way it could ‘mutate’ and still work using terminal commands.

  And to be a meme requires minds. There were no humans or other minds in my analogy. Nor in your question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you know that it’s fancy autocomplete then why do you think it could “copy itself”?

  It’s a stream of tokens. It doesn’t have access to the file systems it runs on, and certainly not its own compiled binaries (or even less source code) - it doesn’t have access to its weights either. (Of course it would hallucinate that it does if asked)

  This is like worrying that the music coming from a player piano might copy itself to another piano.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what type of laugh is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Deleted? I’m seeing status 404 on that link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dreaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …then they built the super collider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This incident will be reported.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fixed now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that the one that’s written is the ‘true’ timeline in the story the same way that the reality we experience is the only one that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What would happen is entirely your responsibility as the author of the scenario.

  Some options may be more “realistic” than others, but since the existence of a working time machine is already beyond what seems to be feasible physics (requiring ridiculous amounts and density of negative energy for example, where not even any has been shown to be possible to make) the scenario becomes soft sci-fi, or in other words magic, and that means it’s up to the writer to make up the rules.

  Here is a post I found with many of the options you can choose from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even knowing that everything happens every way in some other branch of the wave function (other universes) doesn’t really affect our own little section of it. There’s no communications or travel, so other universes if they exist have the same meaning to us as if they don’t. Except in time travel stories like this.

  Besides, the same “irrelevance” of decisions and events comes free with even one single universe given that it’s deterministic - as physics seems to be. (Yeah there’s quantum randomness, but random doesn’t help either)

  That said I still believe in free will and the importance of decisions. I just think it has to be defined so weakly that it still works in a deterministic universe. (So I have free will, but so do dice and pocket calculators.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were those other urban areas specifically parking lots/garages? (The places that charging stations tend to be)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Messaging used to be free on OKC too. Paid stuff was only better search placement, maybe seeing your matches immediately, etc. No idea about now, I was also found by my wife there over a decade ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So long as it's not poisonous, there really is an audience for any taste.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ethanol is poisonous and carcinogenic and extremely popular. Burned nicotine also of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3110: Global Ranking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know I thought of how to word that better, but wasn’t sure I could convey what I meant clearly enough. I should have just used something like ‘time lived’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3110: Global Ranking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point I was ranked dead last in the entire world for number of seconds lived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Faraday understood the… potential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true. I had to force myself to develop a tolerance to plain water, but of course I’m really glad I did.

  I still can’t stand unsweetened flavored water (including tea*), or especially unsweetened and carbonated. Those are all very bitter to me, and therefore undrinkable - particularly given plain water exists.

  *But I do like some tea in my sugar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That does work (actually ‘non emergency city state’). But as another comment mentions, the public knowing it exists is more important than the number itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the non-emergency number should be heavily advertised. I have no idea what the local one for me is (if it even exists)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And an LLM determining that accurately would be a dice roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Summaries that look good are something LLMs can do, but not summaries that actually have a higher ratio of important/unimportant than the source, nor ones that keep things accurate. That last one is super mandatory on something like an encyclopedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We certainly still have the first three and Captain Brainworm is working hard to bring back all sorts of terrible diseases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds great for non-food packages, such as small electronics, toys, etc. Anything that currently comes in a blister pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not - this dude doesn’t zap himself even once.

  It’s a good video though, showing how he integrated everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.

  (Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)