BodilessGaze
@BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 4 days ago:
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 week ago:
But the company has already invested so much into the CEO, they can’t just let him go because he doesn’t understand the sunk cost fallacy! /s
- Comment on Fluffy Plums 1 week ago:
And it’s highly effective!
Predation accounts for a relatively low rate of nest failure: only 34% compared to an average of 80% for birds in similar habitats. This may be enabled by their well camouflaged nests, or simply the lack of local predators.
- Comment on Fluffy Plums 1 week ago:
Only for male fashion. For the ladies, brown is in. Female tit-warbler showing brown coat
- Comment on Programmer Socks!! 1 week ago:
Your going to regret those words when you die and face judgment before the Moth God.
- Comment on Programmer Socks!! 2 weeks ago:
Is it really worth it?
- Comment on Gluttony 2 weeks ago:
They say money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy apples, and that cat looks pretty happy to me.
- Comment on Microsoft axe another 9000 in continued AI push 2 weeks ago:
I work at big tech (not MS) and yes, the comp package really is that good, though not as good as it used to be. I immediately doubled my total comp when I came here from my last job, and now it’s ~5x. I could retire right now if I wanted, so I don’t care about layoffs anymore.
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 3 weeks ago:
In a sense, AI is already fucking with everyone’s brain when it comes to mass-produced ads and propaganda.
- Comment on Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle? 4 weeks ago:
Better than creating this culinary atrocity in real life.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 1 month ago:
I agree, but I’m not sure it matters when it comes to the big questions, like “what separates us from the LLMs?” Answering that basically amounts to answering “what does it mean to be human?”, which has been stumping philosophers for millennia.
It’s true that artificial neurons are significant different than biological ones, but are biological neurons what make us human? I’d argue no. Animals have neurons, so are they human? Also, if we ever did create a brain simulation that perfectly replicated someone’s brain down to the cellular level, and that simulation behaved exactly like the original, I would characterize that as a human.
It’s also true LLMs can’t learn, but there are plenty of people with anterograde amnesia that can’t either.
This feels similar to the debates about what separates us from other animal species. It used to be thought that humans were qualitatively different than other species by virtue of our use of tools, language, and culture. Then it was discovered that plenty of other animals use tools, have language, and something resembling a culture. These discoveries were ridiculed by many throughout the 20th century, even by scientists, because they wanted to keep believing humans are special in some qualitative way. I see the same thing happening with LLMs.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 1 month ago:
I don’t know how I work. I couldn’t tell you much about neuroscience beyond “neurons are linked together and somehow that creates thoughts”. And even when it comes to complex thoughts, I sometimes can’t explain why. At my job, I often lean on intuition I’ve developed over a decade. I can look at a system and get an immediate sense if it’s going to work well, but actually explaining why or why not takes a lot more time and energy. Am I an LLM?
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla 1 month ago:
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kevin Ross Digg wgah’nagl fhtagn
- Comment on Speak American 2 months ago:
I woke up screaming last night because I dreamed I went to grab my colored pencils and they said “colour” on the box
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
The OG. The fact it was all done by a single dude blows my mind. People often praise Toby Fox for the same reason, and he definitely deserves it, but he wasn’t good at programming. Pixel was good at everything: programming, music, writing, and art.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
I’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
