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- Comment on Was my ex really sorry/guilty? 1 week ago:
If he blames you for his grooming of you, he’s not sorry. He might feel guilty (or might not), but if he’s refusing to accept blame, it doesn’t matter; He doesn’t feel sorry and doesn’t want to change his behavior.
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 2 weeks ago:
I expect its mostly just because its unpleasant and taboo.
That said, they do show up occasionally in more adult-oriented movies. The Shining is an example that immediately comes to mind.
- Comment on Is there any open source tv focused os/ui? 2 weeks ago:
I went down this rabbit hole about a year ago, and didn’t have much luck. In the end, the best results I was able to get were from Steam’s Big Picture Mode on a Windows device, mostly launching Firefox (might have been Chrome?) with different launch arguments to immitate a smart TV.
Most available software either doesn’t support Linux well, or doesn’t support non-kb&m input methods. You could try SteamOS, now that its out, but unfortunately my hopes wouldn’t be high for it.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 3 weeks ago:
You seem to be missing what I’m saying. Maybe a biological comparison would help: An octopus is extrmely smart, moreso than even most mammels. It can solve basic logic puzzles, learn and navigate complex spaces, and plan and execute different and adaptive stratgies to humt prey. In spite of this, it can’t talk or write. No matter what you do, training it, trying to teach it, or even trying to develop an octopus specific language, it will not be able to understand language. This isn’t because the octopus isn’t smart, its because its evolved for the purpose of hunting food and hiding from predators. Its brain has developed to understand how physics works and how to recognize patterns, but it just doesn’t have the ability to understand how to socialize, and nothing can change that short of rewiring its brain. Hand it a letter and it’ll try and catch fish with it rather than even considering trying to read it.
AI is almost the reverse of this. An LLM has “evolved” (been trained) to write stuff that sounds good, but has little emphasis on understanding what it writes. The “understanding” is more about patterns in writting rather than underlying logic. This means that if the LLM encounters something that isn’t standard language, it will “flail” and start trying to apply what it knows, regardless of how well it applies. In the chess example, this might be, for example, just trying to respond with the most common move, regardless of if it can be played. Ultimately, no matter what you input into it, an LLM is trying to find and replicate patterns in language, not underlying logic.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 3 weeks ago:
The LLM doesn’t have to imagine a board, if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
That assumes it knows how to play chess. It doesn’t. It know how to have a passable conversation. Asking it to play chess is like putting bread into a blender and being confused when it doesn’t toast.
But human working memory is shit compared to virtually every other animal. This and processing speed is supposed to be AI’s main draw.
Processing speed and memory in the context of writing. Give it a bunch of chess boards or chess notation and it has no idea which it needs to remember, nonetheless where/how to move. If you want an AI to play chess, you train it on chess gameplay, not books and Reddit comments. AI isn’t a general use tool.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like you’re talking about communities versus user. In the same way Reddit had u/xxxx for users, and r/xxxx for subreddits, its u/xxxx for users and c/xxxx for communities (our subreddit equivalent.)
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 4 weeks ago:
I know at least one person like that. They won’t outright avoid prop planes, and they know its illogical, but the idea of flying on one still makes them nervous.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 5 weeks ago:
I’m assumimg you have a store key.
You could post to one of the relevant communities for game giveaaways, such as !freegames@feddit.uk or !Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee
Standard practice is to pretty much just say what game you’re offering, and the dm the key to a random respondent after a day or two.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 1 month ago:
Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 1 month ago:
Honestly, I like the weekly missions. Back in GO, when there was more discussion about the lack of willingness of players to learn/play new maps, this is one of the solutions I proposed. Its a good, non-invasive way to incentivize playing new and different maps.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 1 month ago:
I mean, in this case it was a complete technical overhaul. Graphically and technically, its much more flexable and more modern.
It is an Overwatch 2 situation in that it had more of its content removed compared to CS:GO though.
- Comment on Is Catholic dating culture often mistaken for incel-style pessimistic desperation? 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.
- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 1 month ago:
Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.
Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.
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- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 2 months ago:
Excluding email, nope. Seeing as no one else in my friend group uses Federated services, and they’re all still too small to have any niche content, there isn’t really anything for me.
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 2 months ago:
Pphysical copies are kinda besides the point in terms of ownership and preservation. Just because you own the disk, doesn’t mean you have access to the software on it. DRM, as well as the laws that make it viable, have been around since well before media was sold digitally. Physical copies of the Crew are no more playable now than digital. If you want to be able to keep your games, you need to buy DRM-free, whether that limits you to digital-only or not.
On the other hand, if you want to actually own your games, we need to massively rework copyright law. The fact that a company can sell you a software licence, but add dozens of arbitrary restrictions on when, how and why you can use it is absurd, nonetheless the fact that its always non-transferable and revokable by the company for any reason. None of that should be legal.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 2 months ago:
Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).
Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.
So bear. But…
Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?
The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 2 months ago:
Isolated as in only used by a specific region or culture. So in Weibo’s case, only in China with little connection to other countries. Another example would be 2Go, which was quite popular in Africa for years, but unlikely be to be known from anyone outside the region.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 2 months ago:
Stuff like Weibo are what I was refering to when I was saying more isolated platforms. A lot of regions have their own smaller social media platforms dominated by one or two cultures. As for Instagram and Facebook, those two are largely world-wide but often (again, massive generalization) less ubiquitous compared to social media in the west.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 2 months ago:
Social media in general (as we think of it) is much more popular in western nations. Thats not to say those outside the west don’t use social media, but it tends to be much more dominated by group-chats (IE WhatsApp, Telegram) and by more isolated platforms or sections of platforms. Of the social media platforms we’ll be familiar with, it tends to be mostly just the most popular and established ones like Instagram, Facebook, and now Tiktok, rather than something still relatively niche and nerdy like Reddit (nonetheless Lemmy).
All that said, again, this is a massive oversimplification talking broadly about trends. We’re talking about thousands of different cultures in entirely different countries and enviroments.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 3 months ago:
The main thing is post more. Lack of content is the main reason people don’t use Lemmy more, and the only way to fix this is to share/produce more.
Its a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think even (transparent, community-relevant) bots are a good idea at this point, given that 99% of interests have little to no activity currently. For example, if we had bots that post game update changelogs to their relevant communities, it would at least provide a baseline amount of content and make it easier to discuss for fans of those games.
- Comment on What do you do if you encounter a skunk? 3 months ago:
So you’re asking how to encouragd them to avoid you? Mostly, as you implied, you don’t want to suprise them. When you’re in the area, try and stay in the open, and if you can, make a bit of noise like whistling or that. They’ll naturally want to stay away where possible.
- Comment on "I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!" New Key Visual, PV 3 months ago:
I’ve been reading the manga for this, and its incredibly stupid, but fun nonetheless. Kinda reminds me of Overlord, minus all the tension and edgyness.
- Comment on Am I a bad artist 😂? 3 months ago:
If all your art looks like the single image provided, then the honest answer would be yes, unfortunately. That said, one image with minimal content isn’t much to go off, and as with any skill, this will change over time, esspecially with practice. Notably, this also looks like something dedicated to a loved one, so at that point intent matter more than artistic skill anyway.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 months ago:
From what I’ve heard, its mostly people expecting the game to be more dynamic - more akin to Skyrim’s varied gameplay systems or Fallout: NV’s story and quests. They’re going in expecting something with heavy RPG focus and getting something more action focused.
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 3 months ago:
At this point, I’m mostly just trying to figure out what my options are. Trying to search Mechanical Keyboards dot com just burries me in results with no meaningful way to filter them. PcPartPicker is slightly better, but lacks most of the dedicated keyboard brands. The only site I’d found that offered through filters was Memoey Express, although their selection was also very limited. The other comment suggesting Keeb-Finder was pretty much exactly what I was looking for (although a lot of the results aren’t available in Canada, but its still far better).
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 3 months ago:
I didn’t expect to get my answer from a marketing spam bot (nontheless one that can’t even link the relevant website properly), but here we are. Keeb-Finder was what I was looking for.
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 6 comments