Schadrach

@Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, read the rest of the comment. Wikipedia very much repeats the views of reliable sources on notable topics - most of the fuckery is in deciding what counts as “reliable” and “notable”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I first watched it during University years, and I was very much of the camp that was doing the vicariously living through the power fantasy of Walt’s rise to power and the bitch wife and crying jessie ruining it for him.

  I recently, like a year ago as a 31+ year old rewatched it again, and jesus christ what a top to bottom egoistic selfish asshole Walt is, all I did is feel sorry for Skyler and Jessie.

  I think knowing where it’s going makes a big difference. Like, first time in going in blind Walt is a sympathetic for the first bit, and for most of the story is dealing with the unintended consequences of raising funds for his treatment. Knowing where it’s going it’s a lot easier to see him in a lot worse light earlier in the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that he just wants a propaganda bot that regurgitates all of the right wing talking points.

  Then he has utterly failed with Grok. One of my new favorite pastimes is watching right wingers get angry that Grok won’t support their most obviously counterfactual bullshit and then proceed to try to argue it into saying something they can declare a win from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More like 0.7056 IQ move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia is not a trustworthy source of information for anything regarding contemporary politics or economics.

  Wikipedia presents the views of reliable sources on notable topics. The trick is what sources are considered “reliable” and what topics are “notable”, which is why it’s such a poor source of information for things like contemporary politics in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s being a mail carrier in a world that is maximum Kojima.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed a lot of videos give me a still ad and make me click “skip” at the very start of videos through my ad blockers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior,

  Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that’s essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt’s Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble’s work heavily relied on hers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and they have also moved me to be more open minded about some things I thought I would never agree with.

  Such as? I’m curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of writing code is relatively standard patterns and variations on them. For most but the really interesting parts, you could probably write a sufficiently detailed description and get an LLM to produce functional code that does the thing.

  Basically for a bunch of common structures and use cases, the logic already exists and is well known and replicated by enough people in enough places in enough languages that an LLM can replicate it well enough, like literally anyone else who has ever written anything in that language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they are both masters of troll chess then?

  See: King of the Bridge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  only those companies that actually gave a shit continue to support Pride.

  By which you mean only those companies that believe appearing to give a shit will be more profitable than sucking Trump’s dick continue to support Pride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”

  To the people who consider them being trans headline-worthy, “trans person” and “mentally-ill person” are synonyms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am not a builder… but that does not seem right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend no longer lives in that condo lol

  By choice? Or by being forcibly evicted by the rapid expansion of heated gas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote LazyTown: Yar har, fiddle de dee…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the thing a lot of people seem to miss is just how major of a geographic barrier the Sahara is. As a consequence, northern Africans weren’t generally very black for most of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

  I still find it funny that just a few years ago a feminist social work journal called Affilia published an article that was essentially a rewrite of a section of Mein Kampf in terms of sex and with some “fashionable buzzwords” included under the title “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism.” Especially since the bit is spelled out right in the title (for anyone who doesn’t know, “Mein Kampf” literally translates as “My Struggle”). It was part of the grievance studies affair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prices are out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in.

  The only artificial sweetener I get a nasty aftertaste from is saccharine. But I get a really absurdly foul aftertaste from saccharine, I can’t even compare it to anything because it’s easily the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life and I can’t think of anything even sort of similar. Glad basically nothing uses it any more, but it was more of an issue as a type I diabetic kid decades ago. Sucralose doesn’t give me an aftertaste at all though, neither does aspartame or acesulfame potassium.

  My preferred sweetener though is stevia (I used to go to the local new age shop and buy just dried stevia leaves for my tea and such during the time it was legal to sell in any amount for any purpose as an herbal supplement so long as you didn’t mention it had a flavor which turned it into an unsafe food additive because fuck NutraSweet corp). It took such a ridiculous time to get approved because of NutraSweet, when stevia really should have fallen under GRAS status for the same reason things like tomatoes did - New World plant used in food forever by the natives, but wholly new to Europeans when they came to the Americas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You never hung out on IRC warez channels getting stuff by DCC or by trading dodgy FTP servers? Young whippersnapper!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

  Napster was feature poor though. CuteMX was much, much better and out while Napster was still running, but it closed down after Napster lost the court case. Feature set was closer to Kazaa, including filters and being able to browse a user’s shares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

  This is literally how I got introduced to several bands I never would have heard otherwise. Missing one track off one album, downloading…this definitely isn’t the right track, but who is this? And now I need to download another 8 albums by that band…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI didn’t exist, it would’ve probably been Astrology or Conspiracy Theories or QAnon or whatever that ended up triggering this within people who were already prone to psychosis.

  Or hearing the Beatles White Album and believing it tells you that a race war is coming and you should work to spark it off, then hide in the desert for a time only to return at the right moment to save the day and take over LA. That one caused several murders.

  But the problem with ChatGPT in particular is that is validates the psychosis… that is very bad.

  If you’re sufficiently detached from reality, nearly anything validates the psychosis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand at a nuanced and historically informed level what’s happening at a political and geopolitical level here, and all of my bleakest predictions keep coming true

  Let’s test this: Make some specific predictions for various points over, say, the next 5 years (start near future and work your way out). Put them somewhere where they can remain generally fixed but available (say on a pastebin or lemmy post or something). Then come back to look at them after those times have past and see how accurate you are. This would let you see your actual rate of accuracy as opposed to just the ones that stand out because they ended up true), which would ideally lessen your panic or alternatively if you really are getting it right in a consistent fashion we can start calling you gravitas_deficiency the Bleak Prognosticator.

  For example just glancing at your profile one you seem to be doubling down on a lot recently is that there will be either no US presidential election in 2028 or no peaceful transfer of power in January 2029. That is easily verifiable in four years time. How do you imagine this will happen? Is it enough to satisfy this if the election happens and the GOP wins with a non-Trump candidate? Do you think opposition to the GOP will simply be made illegal? Do you think they will push an amendment to let Trump run again? Do you think Trump will just run again regardless and argue that the Constitution doesn’t apply to him because seemingly no other law does?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, when you say “seeded from” you mean an image that was analyzed as part of building the image classifying statistical model that is then essentially running reverse to produce images, yes?

  And you are arguing that every image analyzed to calculate the weights on that model is in a meaningful way contained in every image it generated?

  I’m trying to nail down exactly what you mean when you say “seeded by.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, so this is just the general anti-AI image generation argument where you believe any image generated is in some meaningful way a copy of every image analyzed to produce the statistical model that eventually generated it?

  I’m surprised you’re going the CSAM route with this and not just arguing that any AI generated sexually explicit image of a woman is nonconsensual porn of literally every woman who has ever posted a photo on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and I became a vegetarian.

  That’s just the estrogenization keeping itself active through phytoestrogens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  was seeded with the face of a 15yr old and that they really are 15 for all intents and purposes.

  That’s…not how AI image generation works? AI image generation isn’t just building a collage from random images in a database - the model doesn’t have a database of images within it at all - it just has a bunch of statistical weightings and net configuration that are essentially a statistical model for classifying images, being told to produce whatever inputs maximize an output resembling the prompt, starting from a seed. It’s not “seeded with an image of a 15 year old”, it’s seeded with white noise and basically asked to show how that white noise looks like (in this case) “woman porn miniskirt”, then repeat a few times until the resulting image is stable.

  Unless you’re arguing that somewhere in the millions of images tagged “woman” being analyzed to build that statistical model is probably at least one person under 18, and that any image of “woman” generated by such a model is necessarily underage because the weightings were impacted however slightly by that image or images, in which case you could also argue that all drawn images of humans are underage because whoever drew it has probably seen a child at some point and therefore everything they draw is tainted by having been exposed to children ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  97% of the internet has no idea what Matrix channels even are.

  I’ve been able to explain it to people pretty easily as “like Discord, but without Discord administration getting to control what’s allowed, only whoever happens to run that particular server.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A more apt comparison would be people who go out of their way to hurt animals.

  Is it? That person is going out of their way to do actual violence. It feels like arguing someone watching a slasher movie is more likely to make them go commit murder is a much closer analogy to someone watching a cartoon of a child engaged in sexual activity or w/e being more likely to make them molest a real kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …and most of the people who agree with that notion would also consider reading Lemmy to be “trawling dark waters” because it’s not a major site run by a massive corporation actively working to maintain advertiser friendliness to maximize profits. Hell, Matrix is practically Lemmy-adjacent in terms of the tech.