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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first minds to be controlled by generative AI will live inside video games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well no one can prove they have a mind to anyone other than themselves.

  And to extend that, there’s obviously a way for electrical information processing to give rise to consciousness. And no one knows how that could be possible.

  Meaning something like a true, alien AI would probably conclude that we are not conscious and instead are just very intelligent meat computers.

  So, while there’s no reason to believe that current AI models could result in consciousness, no one can prove the opposite either.

  I think the argument currently boils down to, “we understand how AI models work, but we don’t understand how our minds work. Therefore, ???, and so no consciousness for AI”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s successful in spite of himself. He makes terrible decisions constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who claim “real estate value!” have just latched onto the simplest reason they can which aligns with their worldview.

  The reasons I suspect companies are forcing return to office are more:

  • shareholders don’t like unused assets, so they tell the ceo to "use it or lose it"
  • the people who make the decision have the type of extroverted personality where they actually do work better in the office and they can’t fathom people being different
  • the people who make the decision prefer to have the office full because it makes them feel more powerful. They can see the people they lord over.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fireplaces?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would help all of their competitors. A non zero number of people would move from windows to each of the others.

  Whether or not the number moving away from windows and on to each of the others is significant or not is a different matter.

  The biggest thing helping Linux right now is Valve’s work improving the gaming experience, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You actually agree with me more than you disagree. If they have the mentality to send out clear text passwords, they probably don’t hage the natural talent to design an asynchronous system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why wouldn’t it be generated and sent immediately? If someone has the inclination to do this type of thing, they probably also want to do things synchronously and immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Duck duck go has kept getting better and google has kept getting worse.

  I find the results are pretty even now and often lean in DDG’s favour (but not always, obviously).

  Because of this, I’ve set my default everywhere to DDG and give Google a whirl sometimes if that doesn’t work out for a specific search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | "Software Executive Focals" will be laying down the law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. The managers prefer in-office and companies are addicted to “corporate culture” which they can’t control if you’re working from home.

  It has nothing to do with firing people (unless you want the most competent people to quit) nor does it have anything to do with real estate (no company will try to help fix a collective action problem voluntarily unless the attempt gives good PR or profits)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I think people are just missing the point. It’s really far from being able to replace a worker.

  It’s current capabilities at best can help that worker be slightly faster at certain things. It’s akin to a type of search engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It can generate simple stuff accurately quite often. You just have to keep in mind that it could be dead wrong and you have to test/verify what it says.

  Sonetimes I feel like a few lines of code should be doable in one line using a specific technique, so I ask it to do that and see what it does. I don’t just take what it says and use it, I see how it tried to solve it and then check it. For example by looking up if the method it used exists and reading the doc for that method.

  Exact same as what I would do if I saw someone on stack overflow or reddit recommending something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it for certain techy things. I just used it to create a linux one-liner command for counting the unique occurances of a regex pattern. I often forget specific flags for Linux commands like how uniq can perform counting.

  And something like that is easy to test each piece of what it said and go from there.

  As long as you treat it like a peer who prefaced the statement with “I might be wrong / if I recall correctly” it ends up being a pretty good aid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t understand how people find accounts they like to follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When smartphones first took off, each new one was a large upgrade. But each passing year sees new phones being more and more iterative. There’s hardly any difference at all anymore between individual years.

  I’m at the point now where I keep my phones until they break or stop getting security updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a reasonable sort for lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve had the best experience with top 6 hours for all. Blocked a couple communities but not as many as I would’ve thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t he offer to buy it so he could sell a bunch of tesla shares without sinking the value? And then he tried to back out, but was forced to buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself taking my Steam Deck into the washroom instead of using reddit in there. Play a game for 10 minutes instead of doom scrolling.