Enkers
@Enkers@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A 'Death Stranding' Anime Is Reportedly in the Works, Kojima Says 3 days ago:
It’s been a while, but I recall it kinda felt the gameplay oscillated between high stress and boredom. And the stressful parts I didn’t find fun, just stressful. They almost reminded me of Amnesia, and I’m not much of a horror game fan. Not sure if that makes sense.
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 4 days ago:
That’s just a cat thing. Some of them are intent on displaying their poopers whenever possible, especially if it’s right in your face.
- Comment on A 'Death Stranding' Anime Is Reportedly in the Works, Kojima Says 5 days ago:
Man, death stranding was the game I really really wanted to enjoy, but just couldn’t. I was enamoured with the aesthetic and story, but I hated the gameplay so much.
I’d honestly love to see an anime in that world.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 6 days ago:
Thank you for your correction**.**
- Comment on I think we've all been there. 6 days ago:
Not to be too dark, but some people probably start in the die state and never even get to have any sort of poop. :(
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 6 days ago:
It’s kinda funny that a screwhead intended to solve one problem went on to create an arguably worse problem for many applications.
Shoulda just payed Robertson.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 6 days ago:
Damn, I was with you until the unnecessary vegan bashing.
- Comment on Turbulence 6 days ago:
Not my proudest fap…
- Comment on I am disappointed in the AI discourse 6 days ago:
Appreciate the correction. Happen to know of any whitepapers or articles I could read on it?
Here’s the thing, I went out of my way to say I don’t know shit from bananas in this context, and I could very well be wrong. But the article certainly doesn’t sufficiently demonstrate why it’s right.
Most technical articles I click on go through step by step processes to show how they gained understanding of the subject material, and it’s layed out in a manner that less technical people can still follow. And the payoff is you come out with a feeling that you understand a little bit more than what you went in with.
This article is just full on “trust me bro”.
- Comment on I am disappointed in the AI discourse 6 days ago:
I’ll preface this by saying I’m not an expert, and I don’t like to speak authoritatively on things that I’m not an expert in, so it’s possible I’m mistaken. Also I’ve had a drink or two, so that’s not helping, but here we go anyways.
In the article, the author quips on a tweet where they seem to fundamentally misunderstand how LLMs work:
I tabbed over to another tab, and the top post on my Bluesky feed was something along these lines:
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information. You cannot use it as a search engine. LLMs only generate statistically likely sentences.
The thing is… ChatGPT was over there, in the other tab, searching the web. And the answer I got was pretty good.
The tweet is correct. The LLM has a snapshot understanding of the internet based on its training data. It’s not what we would generally consider a true index based search.
Training LLMs is a costly and time consuming process, so it’s fundamentally impossible to regenerate an LLM in the same time it takes to make a simple index.
The author fails to address any of these issues, which suggests to me that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
I suppose I could conceded that an LLM can fulfill a similar role that a search engine traditionally has, but it’d kinda be like saying that a toaster oven is an oven. They’re both confined boxes which heat food, but good luck if you try to bake 2 pies at once in a toaster oven.
- Comment on I am disappointed in the AI discourse 6 days ago:
God, that was a bad read. Not only is this person woefully misinformed, they’re complaining about the state of discourse while directly contributing to the problem.
If you’re going to write about tech, at least take some time to have a pasaable understanding of it, not just “I use the product for shits and giggles occasionally.”
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
Cool cool cool. I’ll just continue not using chatgpt and we’ll call it a wash.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 1 week ago:
There is still no good definition for what “consciousness” is
We don’t have a fully concise definition, but we have a strong general understanding that is supported by a large body of scientists:
fcmconference.org/…/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscio…
It doesn’t seem to me that this would preclude AI. You’re definitely right that there’s a lot of ongoing sensationalism.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
I have a hard time considering something that has an immutable state as sentient, but since there’s no real definition of sentience, that’s a personal decision.
Technical challenges aside, there’s no explicit reason that LLMs can’t do self-reinforcement of their own models.
I think animal brains are also “fairly” deterministic, but their behaviour is also dependent on the presence of various neurotransmitters, so there’s a temporal/contextual element to it, so situationally our emotions can affect our thoughts which LLMs don’t really have either.
I guess it’d be possible to forward feed an “emotional state” as part of the LLM’s context to emulate that sort of animal brain behaviour.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
Not them, but static in this context means it doesn’t have the ability to update its own model on the fly. If you want a model to learn something new, it has to be retrained.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 2 weeks ago:
Uncountably infinite, even.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
Unless you’re in comp sci, and AI is a field, not a marketing term.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes, post pics of shoe on head.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
I prefer 20, but sometimes I’ll read on my phone in bed as 10, then accidentally fall asleep.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
This one here, right?
Endorsement of or justifications for Hamas or Hezbollah, or slogans or graphics positively referring to these organizations. These are considered terrorist organizations in Germany.
I don’t think expressing understanding is either endorsement or justification. So as written, it should be fine, but since it comes down to the mods interpretation, who knows what the outcome would actually be.
- Comment on Oh god 3 weeks ago:
Nonono… just do us a favour and don’t film it.
- Comment on Oh god 3 weeks ago:
Hairbrush. It’d fit fine, but it’s got rubberized paint that’s coming off the handle. :/
- Comment on Has the machine uprising already begun? In China, a humanoid robot suddenly attacked terrified engineers during testing 3 weeks ago:
And the video isn’t even THAT scary. When I first saw this video with a headline about a robot going “berserk”, I expected something closer to terminator like behaviour instead of erratic hand waving. It was clearly just a software bug with no “intent” behind it (apologies for the anthropomorphism).
- Comment on doctors 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, of course, it’s not impossible, but as someone who’s had several significant changes in BMI/body fat in my life, I can tell you exercising when you’re already in decent shape is SO much easier.
Being fat makes a lot of potential options for exercise much more difficult if not outright impossible.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, they were fully transparent about it:
“Hello, just to be clear for everyone seeing this, I am a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through AI that uses my picture and my voice profile,” the stilted avatar says. “I was able to be digitally regenerated to share with you today. Here is insight into who I actually was in real life.”
However, I think the following is somewhat misleading:
The video goes back to the AI avatar. “I would like to make my own impact statement,” the avatar says.
It’s the victim’s sister’s impact statement, not his.
I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. It seems that the motivation was genuine compassion from the victim’s family, and a desire to honestly represent victim to the best of their ability. Here’s what the judge had to say:
“I loved that AI, and thank you for that. As angry as you are, and as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness, and I know Mr. Horcasitas could appreciate it, but so did I,” Lang said immediately before sentencing Horcasitas. “I love the beauty in what Christopher, and I call him Christopher—I always call people by their last names, it’s a formality of the court—but I feel like calling him Christopher as we’ve gotten to know him today. I feel that that was genuine, because obviously the forgiveness of Mr. Horcasitas reflects the character I heard about today. But it also says something about the family, because you told me how angry you were, and you demanded the maximum sentence. And even though that’s what you wanted, you allowed Chris to speak from his heart as you saw it. I didn’t hear him asking for the maximum sentence.”
I am concerned that it could set a precedent for misuse, though. The whole thing seems like very grey to me. I’d suggest everyone read the whole article before passing judgement.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 4 weeks ago:
Now I’m curious how fennec stacks up. I’d imagine somewhere between Brave and TOR, since it still has addons and is thus susceptible to js fingerprinting. Ofc, you can also run NoScript as well, so that mitigates that issue, but it’s still not going to ever pass TOR.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 4 weeks ago:
🤦♀️ hey it works!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I’m playing V Rising for the first time, and doing it solo on brutal mode. I have to say it’s been very challenging, but also quite rewarding, and a ton of fun.
The way they do brutal mode is very cool. It’s not just number-based challenge scaling, but the bosses get new mechanics as well.
- Comment on Sweet pic 4 weeks ago:
Oh that’s funny I want for a walk today too! This is the picture I took:
- Comment on Mouse 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t call Ratrick short. He doesn’t like that at all.
