makyo

@makyo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. Wouldn’t it be something if they weren’t overtly running their companies to replace all of us? If feel like focusing instead on creating great personal assistants that make our lives easier in various ways would get a lot of support from the public.

  And don’t get me wrong, these LLMs are great at helping people already but that’s definitely not the obvious end goal of OpenAI or any of the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost seems like they’re afraid of us or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Downtrodden Billionaires⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I was a skeptic too but got to play it for an hour during the network test and am actually cautiously optimistic. I could still be wrong but it seemed like they put a lot of thought into the new systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This, OP - this is the right answer. Take all the opportunies you can. AOC recently said it best: you won’t regret anything you try. Some of it won’t work but if we all work now and keep trying things we can make a difference.

  In the 1930s in Germany there was a group that basically tasked itself with the protection of democracy and they waited for a signal from leadership that never came. Because leadership was waiting for the one moment. Don’t wait, try things.

  But what, you say, well we’re in uncharted territory now but: join activist groups, protest, make memes, call your congresspeople, if you’re in the gov’t somewhere - gum up the works, if you have money - give to liberty advocates, think of things I haven’t thought of here and do them, and bring friends.

  The important thing is that we all do something, and keep doing something. They can only win when we let them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what I think would be helpful would be to have someone in the know compile a list of the organizations who are already active and planning things like this and distribute it around Lemmy and other circles.

  Motivating people to act is one thing but telling them how and showing them where and who to get involved with is much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the price at their Edeka was €2.79 for 18 eggs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No good excuse to still be on Xitter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that it used to be a great place for really niche stuff. BUT your point still stands because I’m really not sure why that would be. Maybe the interface or something lent itself to that well or maybe it just hit the right moment and took off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sorta thought that even if egg prices in the USA were high the global prices must be too but then someone sent me a picture of prices in Germany - they’re literally 1/10th the price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha well that’s one way to do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I found that page too but I don’t think that is what OP was talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow you got me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All due respect, wtf is a battery ship

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s past time, the working class has basically lost the class war and we’re just running on fumes now. At the same time, the owner class is working double time to implement AI so they can employ even fewer of us.

  Anyone not in a corporate atmosphere is probably not as privvy to this, but it’s insane the effort going into replacing human work with AI. Of course it’s all under the guise of ‘improving working conditions’ or ‘keeping current employee levels’ but in the end you know they’re salivating at the thought of firing a bunch of people.

  And we can’t fight progress but we sure as hell should be fighting for some kind of UBI and share of the work that gets done by AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Trump orange?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you start thinking about the relationship between Trump and his base like pro wrestling it all makes a lot more sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who makes that argument has no idea how bad things can get and how fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm that seems like something I’d want even if I don’t want Windows 11

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My PC is really up to date and yet somehow it fails the Windows 11 ‘test’ you can run. Not sure why but it’s pretty nice so I haven’t looked into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My toddler is on to me...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I though Trump would be in this punchline somehow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife said it’s fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah my favorite is a plain cheeseburger with fresh sliced jalapenos. So yummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience the spicier jalapenos are also the tastier ones so I have a hard time imagining how this works.

  I mean, I also probably wouldn’t eat the spicy stuff if I didn’t love the flavor - I’m not suffering just for bragging rights! So I’d definitely be down for trying something like the coolapenos here, just would be going into it with some skepticism that it’s anything more than a mild pepper with the mild flavor they produce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO it’s even worse than that. At least from what I gather from the AI/Singularity communities I follow. For them, AGI is the end goal - a creative thinking AI capable of deduction far greater than humanity. The company that owns that suddenly has the capability to solve all manner of problems that are slowing down technological advancement. Obviously owning that would be worth trillions.

  However it’s really hard to see through the smoke that the Altmans etc. are putting up - how much of it is actual genuine prediction and how much is fairy tales they’re telling to get more investment?

  And I’d have a hard time believing it isn’t mostly the latter because while LLMs have made some pretty impressive advancements, they still can’t have specialized discussions about pretty much anything without hallucinating answers. I have a test I use for each new generation of LLMs where I interview them about a book I’m relatively familiar with and even with the newest ChatGPT model, it still makes up a ton of shit, even often contradicting its own answers in that thread, all the while absolutely confident that it’s familiar with the source material.

  Honestly, I’ll believe they’re capable of advancing AI when we get an AI that can say ‘I actually am not sure about that, let me do a search…’ or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does that work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert but I’d suppose it’s nothing more than marketing getting in the way and insisting on an over engineered solution because it’s flashy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Vacuum Cleaners Are So Loud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the Dark Forest theory is true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam’s improved family sharing is out now for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh nice I’ve been waiting for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the larger point was that they’re using plenty of sources that do not lie in the public domain. Like if I download a textbook to read for a class instead of buying it - I could be proscecuted for stealing. And they’ve downloaded and read millions of books without paying for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s what Google does, launch products -> cancel them, buy products -> cancel them. I have been burned enough times by them that I don’t use anything they make anymore out of the certainty that it’ll get canceled just as soon as I’ve grown to depend on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn’t really a planet.