davidgro
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- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 day ago:
That’s obviously not how the billionaires who create it would train it.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 day ago:
I don’t get it.
Are you perhaps calling all of humanity a dragon?
- Comment on New Apple technology could allow social media apps to tell whether users are under 16 2 days ago:
Actually doesn’t sound too bad, just makes it a parental control thing.
The Google system mentioned at the end sounds like a nightmare of false positives and negatives.
- Comment on Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog 1 week ago:
That’s insane that they apparently replace the subject line. Completely irresponsible.
Should also be labeled as AI regardless. (Or ideally disabled, especially after incidents like this)
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 week ago:
The GPS ‘time zone’ does not account for leap seconds at all and is currently 18 seconds ahead of UTC. The GPS navigation messages from the satellites do however include the current offset.
- Comment on star bae 1 week ago:
Yes. 1/2 c is super fast still and gravity that strong would have effects like noticably bending outgoing light.
Neutron stars are right on the verge of becoming black holes and are incredible.
- Comment on HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Game Bundle - $25 for 30 games 2 weeks ago:
For some reason they don’t mention in the description that most or all of these games are not videogames, they are tabletop role playing game manuals. (The digital downloads are .pdf files)
Nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly seems like an important detail.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 3 weeks ago:
Whatever that is, I’d assume it’s a bad idea to drink it.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 3 weeks ago:
The electrocution risk would actually last even after it’s unplugged: Power supplies can have big capacitors in them.
- Comment on 30 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech 3 weeks ago:
There used to be pornlemmy but it died (and was too restrictive in my opinion)
I don’t know why not the one you named, as far as I know it’s the only remaining general porn instance. There’s just a few scattered communities on other instances.
There’s also a bit on Mastodon but mostly reposting from reddit.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
It also applies to technologies that don’t in fact exist but could. Those are much harder to name (besides sci-fi) since almost by definition we don’t know about most of them. Nor how many, compared to existing tech.
I’m not actually saying it’s impossible, just saying that local maximums (as described by the other users here) are a thing and it’s possible to be trapped for a very long time by them. Potentially forever, but you’re right that odds of breaking out do increase over time.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
It’s true that I can’t know for sure that they won’t lead to AGI (or like you say give clues) - however it’s definitely a scenario I can imagine, and that’s what I was responding to: The idea that incremental improvements Must lead to a given goal. I don’t think that’s the case. Here in particular I think it’s not only possible that it won’t, it’s even somewhat likely.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
In this scenario reaching the goal would require an entirely different base technology, and incremental improvements to what we have now do not eventually lead to AGI.
Kinda like incremental improvements to cars or even trains won’t eventually get us to Mars.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
I can imagine it really easily for the foreseeable future, all that would need to happen is for the big corporations and well funded researchers to stick to optimizing LLMs.
Yeah that’s not the rest of human history (unless the rest of it isn’t very much) but enough to make concerns about AGI into someone else’s problem.
- Comment on Long-running tech forum DSL Reports goes offline 5 weeks ago:
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that place in ages… Naturally most others who knew about it haven’t either and that’s why it’s gone I’m sure.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 month ago:
Also The Hive, just being huge and underground:
- Comment on Honda says the Acura RSX will be the first original EV with the Asimo operating system 1 month ago:
No description at all of the OS itself.
What kernel? Can the user interface do Android Auto? Will it have 3rd party apps?If it’s going in the headline I think at least some details would be nice.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 month ago:
I think that is awesome, but the thumbnail image is totally giving T-Virus vibes.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 1 month ago:
Genshin Impact just released a new version that for most of the world became playable on Jan 1, but where I live it started several hours before the end of Dec 31.
So that.
- Comment on Seamantic: A Semantic-Web-Bridging Mastodon Client 1 month ago:
querying raises the “sea-level,” and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked
Yeah, this seems to assume that the set of people able and willing to make contributions overlaps the set interested in simply asking questions, and I can’t imagine that working. You know the rule that in any community 90% just lurk, 9% comment, and maybe 1% actually contribute. For everyone but the 1%, I foresee querying until they hit the limit, then they leave.
This might be somewhat mitigated by it being a very technical system to begin with, so even being interested in queries is a barrier.
- Comment on lewd noodles 2 months ago:
Send danger noods
- Comment on punchable babies 2 months ago:
It’s just the American spelling.
- Comment on Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition 3 months ago:
Yes because as I understand it the custom domain is basically just a pointer. Everything still goes through the bsky servers and you can be deplatformed there at the whim of an admin/mod (On Mastodon if you don’t run your own instance that can still happen, but you can instance hop. If you run your own then other instances can block your instance but it’s not the whole network all at once)
- Comment on But yes. 3 months ago:
Wind turbines also.
But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 months ago:
I’m talking long before digital channels existed. (In the US anyway)
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 months ago:
Even before the 2000s they started showing a blue screen instead of static.
That wasn’t just a digital or flat panel thing.
But of course old sets were around for a long time.
- Comment on Give them space!! 3 months ago:
I’m surprised it’s not by Eiffel.
- Comment on Kill it with fire! 3 months ago:
Yup. Kids are jumpy alright. I expect to see a lot more of them this evening.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 4 months ago:
Link please? Looks more informative than the one in another comment
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 months ago:
In opposing corners no less
