PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
No, keep proudly displaying your ignorance. We’ve got time.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 3 days ago:
In amongst then pack, it seems
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
It’s easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
My child is autistic.
The only way to get him to be calm in a restaurant was to give him earphones and play something comfortingly familiar.Now that hes a bit older, it’s a bit better. But he still frequently needs something similar in those kinds of situations.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
But you also watched new grounds and shit like goatse
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 4 days ago:
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
- Comment on Making a custom pc case for my next home server 4 days ago:
I think you’re going to have a problem keeping your power supply floating in the air like that
- Comment on Laser 4 days ago:
A later touched me as a kid!
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 1 week ago:
Taste? I’m talking about behaviour
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 1 week ago:
Nope, it’s like fish.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
Damn it, Princess Georg
- Comment on Ponder not the Demoncore 1 week ago:
Armed with my screwdriver
Life is never a bore
I study and research
Data galore
Nothing can stop me
Accolades and more
Now let me prop open
The Demon Core - Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 1 week ago:
This is a red, yellow, and green checkered flag.
- wants to chase down people
- is whimsical
- can’t make up his mind
- is controlling
- cares about fitness
- not a gym bro
- Comment on Post your homescreen 1 week ago:
I’m kinda surprised that people are so offended by a homescreen that they’re downvoting.
Do you not like my arrangement? Or is there something about live tiles themselves (what? They’re just like widgets)? What is it that has you downvoting over something so benign?
- Comment on Post your homescreen 2 weeks ago:
Windows phone for life
- Comment on Or at least I will when I find another FWB 😅 2 weeks ago:
I should have known
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 2 weeks ago:
I believe our table (and most tables) are tempered glass, so if it breaks it shouldn’t be dangerous.
We did get rid of a glass coffee table though, for that reason
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 2 weeks ago:
Placemats.
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 2 weeks ago:
I clean it every day, because I see how much there is, so it never gets that bad.
But when I think about what’d be under there if I didn’t know it was happening for years, I shudder
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- Comment on Companies be like 2 weeks ago:
Product managers everywhere looking at a text inputs in their products and going 🤑
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
No, the general public doesn’t know what LLMs are.
we know what it is so we can have a conversation with the more specific terms.
But not only is this comic probably geared towards a larger audience, this is probably one of the things they’re joking about.I personally don’t give a rats ass that openAI and other scum are trying to appropriate the term AI for themselves.
What bothers me about them is that their marketing anthropomorphizes their products, making it almost impossible for people to have rational discussions about the tech without emotion coming into play. - Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
Your clearly didn’t actually read the nuanced take, which is why I didn’t provide a nuanced take in the first place.
I didn’t expect you to read between the lines.
I’m shocked that you expect people raising the alarm about something to also promote all the good features of the harmful thing, in the same breath.Watch out! The Ford Pinto may explode while you’re driving it! But wow, what a bargain! You’ll burn to death, but you’ll look chic in that fantastic modern styling, and the fuel economy is great! Take yours home today for only $8000!
Like can you imagine?
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
A slur is still a word.
I know youre trying to trap me in some stupid gotcha, but idk what you think that’d prove.What would you consider “linguistically correct” if not “follows grammar rules and conveys the intended meaning”?
If I say something absolutely heinous about your mother, does it stop being valid English just because it is morally reprehensible and fallacious? Of course not.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
That is beyond pedantry.
That is how language works. Word definitions are literally just informal consensus agreement. Dictionaries are just descriptions of observed usage. Not literally everyone needs to agree on it.
This isn’t some kind of independent conclusion I came to on my own; I used to think like you appear to, but then I watched some explanations from authors and from professional linguists, and they changed my mind about language prescriptivism.If you say “AI” in most contexts, more people will know what you mean than if you say “LLM”. If your goal is communication, then by that measure “AI” is “more correct” (but again, correctness isn’t even applicable here)
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
🙄
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
You know that things can both harm and benefit you, right? That’s the whole idea behind the idiom “the pros outweigh the cons”.
If someone is making an argument about the cons of a thing, it’s insane to expect them to just list of a bunch of unrelated pros, and likewise it’s an unreasonable assumption to believe from that, that they don’t believe in the existence of any pros.
I think that LLMs cause significant harm, and we don’t have any harm mitigation in place to protect us. In light of the serious potential for widespread harm, the pros (of which there are some) dont really matter until we make serious progress in reducing the potential for harm.
I shouldn’t need this degree of nuance. People shouldn’t need to get warnings in the form of a short novel full of couched language. I’m not the only person in this conversation, the proponents are already presenting the pros. And people should be able to understand that.
When people were fighting against leaded gasoline, they shouldn’t need to “yes, it makes cars more fuel efficient and prevents potentially damaging engine knock, thereby reducing average maintenance costs” every time they speak about the harms. It is unreasonable to say that they were harming discourse by not acknowledging the benefits every time they cautioned against it’s use.
I don’t believe that you’re making a genuine argument, I believe you’re trying to stifle criticism by shifting the responsibility for nuance from it’s rightful place in the hands of the people selling and supporting a product with the potential for harm, onto the critics.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a strawman, it’s hyperbole.
There are serious known harms and we suspect that there are more.
There are known ethical issues, and there may be more.
There are few known benefits, but we suspect that there are more.Do we just knowingly subject untrained people to harm just to see if there are a few more positive usecases, and to make shareholders a bit more money?
How does their argument differ from that? - Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
Linguistically correct, and morally correct, are not the same thing.
