dream_weasel
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- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 59 minutes ago:
I get it. You can’t get by “Ai iS slOp” at top level comments anymore. I get that kind of ending because I would add it… but then I also don’t mind collecting downvotes so ymmv I guess.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 hours ago:
I feel like there needs to be a post (and I don’t want to write it, but maybe I eventually will) that outlines what a model really is. It is not just a statistical text prediction machine unless you are being so loose with the definition of “statistical” that it doesn’t even mean anything anymore.
A decent example of a statistical text prediction machine is the middle word suggested by your phone when you’re using the keyboard. An LLM is not that.
In the most general terms, this kind of language model tokenizes a corpus of text based on a vocabulary (which is probably more than just the words in the dictionary), uses an embedding model to translate these tokens into a vector of semantic “meaning” which minimized loss in a bidirectional encoding (probably), that is then trained against a rubric for one or more topic area questions, retrained for instruction and explainability, retrained with reinforcement learning and human feedback to provide guardrails, and retrained again to make use of supplemental materials not part of the original training corpus (resource augmented generation), then distilled, then probably scaled and fine tuned against topic areas of choice (like coding or Korean or whatever) and maybe THEN made available to people to use. There are generally more parts to curriculum learning even than that but it’s a representative-ish start.
My point being that, yes, it would be nuts to pose ANY question to a predictor that says “with 84% probability, the word that is most likely follows ‘I really like’ is ‘gooning’ on reddit”, but even Grok is wildly more sophisticated than that and Grok is terrible.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 hours ago:
A little personal flourish doesn’t invalidate the rest IMO. Humans get aggravated and humans are aggravating.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 hours ago:
20 line commit: 5 issues and suggestions.
5k line commit: “looks good to me!”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 hours ago:
I’m just gonna stop you right there.
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- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 6 days ago:
You should be all the way joking because giving this sort of agency to an LLM shows an all the way misunderstanding of what they are and how they work.
You not alone in these feelings, but just like the title of the article, they are fundamentally misguided.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 6 days ago:
The difference is, when a LLM tells you, it’s news. The only thing bigger in business than AI hype is AI hate.
Besides, what are you gonna do if you ask AI how many rocks to eat? NOT eat rocks? People can’t handle responsibility like that. It is literally putting ten of lives at risk!
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 weeks ago:
Supposing the prices they charge are still less than what you would pay for the convenience of purchasing a product with no extra effort, why would you switch?
I have myself had aspirations to buy fewer things from Amazon. However. Even including stuff like this, I am happy to pay $10 extra to not have to dick around.
I hope Amazon has to pay money for this and that it hurts their business model, bit as a customer they are still scratching my itch 2 times out of 3.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 weeks ago:
I would like to remove the word “slop” from common speech for overuse. Sorry for your jack stand experience.
- Comment on it's just science 3 weeks ago:
He traveled forward to ADD his name to give additional notoriety to the files like a Chad.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 weeks ago:
So I find it to actually be a really helpful “barometer” of language skill. When I’m in France, if I go in a store and conduct s full conversation in French, I know my accent, word choice, and general language skill is good. If halfway through the exchange we switch to English, I know I either made an egregious language error or I started sounding like an American. If the conversation switched to English right away, I either made a critical language mistake OR I just happened across a very competent English speaker.
- Comment on Sleep well 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not much of a belt buckle guy so it probably wouldn’t get as much use.
- Comment on Sleep well 3 weeks ago:
Get out of here BBB!
- Comment on Sleep well 3 weeks ago:
I want the shit out of this pillow
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been trying to play it on switch and it’s basically impossible with 2 sticks. Also it’s really jarring after a few hundred hours in breath of the wild.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 4 weeks ago:
Just fill it with water. People love indoor pools.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 4 weeks ago:
I roughed it like that in college with a book and a hookah, but a little bigger is a lot better to me if you’re average height or taller. Otherwise it’s tough to get knees and nipples in the water at the same time.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the same it is way better.
Not the shower/tub combo bath, those kinda suck, but a jacuzzi or soaking tub with a book is excellent.
- Comment on YSK About Resilience Targeting 4 weeks ago:
A great article the author didn’t even proofread.
Remember your tarot cards to help you deal with “CyThe cynicism” you develop when you get bogged down, the same way you do all that doomsday prep!
I’m not saying there isn’t some potentially good stuff in here, but this article is clickbait publishing for its own sake.
- Comment on Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway 4 weeks ago:
It’s too hard to get the bits of radish out of the strings at the top of the fret board for me.
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 4 weeks ago:
And yet still in no way equivalent to a dick pic. Equivalence here is “raspberriesareyummy doesnt like that” which doesn’t exactly meet muster, even for a shower thought.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
Chocolate?!
- Comment on YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water 5 weeks ago:
Look at the size of the bones on that rat!
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 5 weeks ago:
I’m from North kilt town!
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 5 weeks ago:
There is value in talking to people, but that has nothing to do with a question or situation you might Google or look up in a book. These are fundamentally different things.
Subjective information is inherently less valuable than objective information for trying to learn something unless you are writing a survey paper. If you want to have a chat to combat loneliness or try to better understand your grandmother you’re not answering a question so you wouldn’t look it up anyway. If you’re googling what it feels like to make a roux you are probably not neurotypical.
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 5 weeks ago:
No?
If there’s no objective, correct answer to a question then the point is moot. If you’re getting something out of some individual’s subjective answer it’s based on the want to build a relationship or gain understanding of that person which inherently has nothing to do with the question itself.
That’s fine and all, but not really what I understand your original question to be asking. People have experiences, and those experiences are theirs: they can’t give them to you. If you like hearing about it anyway, cool, but you might as well read a poem.
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 5 weeks ago:
You’re describing qualia which are necessarily subjective. These accounts are not helpful whether you get them from Google or anywhere else.
Anecdotes may be interesting, but on the whole they are not as useful as objective answers.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 1 month ago:
You can’t afford it.
- Comment on thank you fb 1 month ago:
Probably Roko’s Leviathan.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
hunter.h2