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- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 week ago:
Not really, the politicians with a Trumpian style (Johnson and Truss) came after brexit and got there because of the polarisation caused by brexit. There was definitely a lot of lying and false claims that were used by the leave campaign in order to get brexit and it shared some similarities with Trump, but it wasnt politics in the the style of being completely divorced from reality and overwhelming incompetance that defines Trump.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System 1 week ago:
10% to 80% seems like too wide a range for your range of “how many are on the largest instance” 10% means only 1 in ten users are on the largest instance and 9/10 are spread out on the rest, If anything that seems overly fragmented. On the other end 80% means 4/5 users are on the largest instance and 1/5 are shared between all other instances which is incredibly concentrated.
I’d sugest narrowing the range to 20% to 66%, 1 in 5 on the largest instance is still plenty dispersed to ensure that there is competition/variety and 2 in 3 users on the largest instance is already well into monopoly territory.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
As per the article:
It uses high frequency radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside drones, causing them to crash or malfunction.
Its not jamming the comms, its inducing currents inside the electronics of the drone to fry them.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
Even if it were true (which I’m pretty sure it isnt) so what? The whole benefit of free software is people can fork it and make their own version if they dont like where it is headded.
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of which now run fine on linux with proton.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 weeks ago:
We also didnt understand how the internet would change the world, still went ahead with it. We didnt understand how computers would change the world, still went ahead with it, we didnt understand how the steam engine would change the world… etc etc.
No one can know how a new invention will change things, but you are not going to be able to crush human’s innate creativity and drive to try new things. Sometimes those things are going to be a net negative and that’s bad, but the alternative is to insist nothing new is tried and thats A bad and B not possible.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 weeks ago:
People being economically displaced from innovation increasing productivity is good provided it happens at a reasonable place and there is a sufficient social saftey net to get those people back on their feet. Unfortunately those saftey nets dont exist everywhere and have been under attack (in the west) for the past 40 years.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s really a fair comparison, babies exist with images and sounds for over a year before they begin to learn language, so it would make sense that they begin to understand the world in non-linguistic terms and then apply language to that. LLMs only exist in relation to language so couldnt understand a concept separately to language, it would be like asking a person to conceptualise radio waves prior to having heard about them.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 3 weeks ago:
Probably, given that LLMs only exist in the domain of language, still interesting that they seem to have a “conceptual” systems that is commonly shared between languages.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 3 weeks ago:
Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I’ve used except to make sure I’m following the rules of grammar.
Interesting that…
Anthropic also found, among other things, that Claude “sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of universal ‘language of thought’.”
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 weeks ago:
Translations apps would be the main one for LLM tech, LLMs largely came out of google’s research into machine translation.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 3 weeks ago:
No you’re not going crazy, you just understand economics and trade more the the President of the USA.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 weeks ago:
Obviously its important, but pretending its not political doesnt make any sense. If a community doesnt want to discuss politics (and as far as I’ve seen the OP didnt say which community this was in) then its a reasonable post to remove.
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 4 weeks ago:
It does not, unless you run weights that someone else has modified to remove the baked in censorship. If you run the unmodified weights released by deepseek it will refuse to answer most things that the CCP dont like being discussed.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 weeks ago:
Of course its political, what else would it be? You are talking about peoples rights (a political concept) being breached by an administration (poltical) using an atm of the government (political) as a paramilitary force (political).
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 1 month ago:
Yeah, fair enough, I was refering to posts and comments not other metadata because that isnt publicly available just as a get request (as far as I’m aware)
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 1 month ago:
Everything on the Fediverse is almost certainly scraped, and will be repeatedly. You cant “protect” content that is freely available on a public website.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 month ago:
There’s a vast gulf between automated moderation systems deleting posts and calling the cops on someone.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 month ago:
Look, Reddit bad, AI bad. Engaging with anything more that the most surface level reactions is hard so why bother?
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 month ago:
Modernised as in made to work on modern systems, not a change to the game.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 month ago:
I dont think that is the motivation, they already have modernised versions of these games available on steam.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 month ago:
For a bit of extra context, points 5,6 and 7 only apply if you distribute the software that is based on the GPL licenced software, if you just use it for your own internal use you dont have any obligations (not really relevant for games but just for additional info).
- Comment on Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords 2 months ago:
labor 1 of 3 noun la·bor ˈlā-bər plural labors
- expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory was sentenced to six months at hard labor
- the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits
- human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy Industry needs labor for production.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 2 months ago:
So by going harder on blocking content that China? Because that’s what they do but most of the big providers get through after a day or two of downtime each time the government make a change to block them.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
It would be more productive if you said how you think im wrong. Just saying ‘youre wrong’ doesnt really andd anything to the discussion.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
It produces about the same power per cubic metre as compost does, which is pretty crazy when you think about it.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
Inertial confinement doesnt produce a “stable reaction” it is pulsed by it’s nature, think of it in the same way as a single cylinder internal combustion engine, persiodic explosions which are harnessed to do useful work. So no the laser energy is required every single time to detonate the fuel pellet.
NIF isnt really interested in fusion for power production, it’s a weapons research facility that occasionally puts out puff pieces to pretend it has civilian applications.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 2 months ago:
Let me try with another example that can get round your blind AI hatred.
If people were using a calculator to calculate the value of an integral they would have significantly less diversity of results because they were all using the same tool. Less diversity of results has nothing to do with how good the tool is, it might be 100% right or 100% wrong but if everyone is using it then they will all get the same (or similar if it has a random element to it as LLMs do).
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 2 months ago:
That snark doesnt help anyone.
Imagine the AI was 100% perfect and gave the correct answer every time, people using would have a significantly reduced diversity of results as they would always be using the same tool to get the correct same answer.
People using an ai get a smaller diversity of results is neither good nor bad its just the way things are, the same way as people using the same pack of pens use a smaller variety of colours than those who are using whatever pens they have.