mindbleach
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- Comment on Ukrainian YouTuber arrested in Japan over Fukushima livestream 1 day ago:
The “Japanese first” Sanseito, which has tapped into growing concerns over over-tourism and immigration, made strong gains in an upper house election this year.
Every country on Earth is turning the same kind of stupid.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 2 days ago:
The war’s been over since blue team and green team started releasing near-identical machines, for nearly the same price, at basically the same time. There are no consoles anymore. It’s all just computers. Some computers have shitty locked-down app stores.
- Comment on Zelenskyy Says Trump 'Supports' Ukraine's Retaliatory Strikes On Russian Energy 2 days ago:
Who cares, do it regardless.
A country declared war on you. Fuck 'em up.
- Comment on oh cool 3 days ago:
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 4 days ago:
Insisting that someone could figure it out does not mean anyone has.
Twenty gigabytes of linear algebra is a whole fucking lot of stuff going on. Creating it by letting the computer train is orders of magnitude easier than picking it apart to say how it works. Sure - you can track individual instructions, all umpteen billion of them. Sure - you can describe broad sections of observed behavior. But if any programmer today tried recreating that functionality, from scratch, they would fail.
Absolutely nobody has looked at an LLM, gone ‘ah-ha, so that’s it,’ and banged out neat little C alternative. Lack of demand cannot be why.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 days ago:
Knowing it exists doesn’t mean you’ll ever find it.
Meanwhile: we can come pretty close, immediately, using data alone. Listing all the math a program performs doesn’t mean you know what it’s doing. Decompiling human-authored programs is hard enough. Putting words to the algorithms wrenched out by backpropagation is a research project unto itself.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 days ago:
… yes? This has been known since the beginning. Is it news because someone finally convinced Sam Altman?
Neural networks are universal estimators. “The estimate is wrong sometimes!*” is… what estimates are. The chatbot is not an oracle. It’s still bizarrely flexible, for a next-word-guesser, and it’s right often enough for these fuckups to become a problem.
What bugs me are the people going ‘see, it’s not reasoning.’ As if reasoning means you’re never wrong. Humans never misremember, or confidently espouse total nonsense. And we definitely understand brain chemistry and neural networks well enough to say none of these bajillion recurrent operations constitute the process of thinking.
Consciousness can only be explained in terms of unconscious events. Nothing else would be an explanation. So there is some sequence of operations which constitutes a thought. Computer science lets people do math with marbles, or in trinary, or on paper, so it doesn’t matter how exactly that work gets done.
Though it’s probably not happening here. LLMs are the wrong approach.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 days ago:
My guy, Microsoft Encarta 97 doesn’t have senses either, and its recollection of the capital of Austria is neither coincidence nor hallucination.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 days ago:
While technically correct, there is a steep hand-wave gradient between “just” and “near-impossible.” Neural networks can presumably turn an accelerometer into a damn good position tracker. You can try filtering and double-integrating that data, using human code. Many humans have. Most wind up disappointed. None of our clever theories compete with beating the machine until it makes better guesses.
It’s like, ‘as soon as humans can photosynthesize, the food industry is cooked.’
If we knew what neural networks were doing, we wouldn’t need them.
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 1 week ago:
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 4 weeks ago:
Alas, they’re the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 4 weeks ago:
See similar review of ant emoji.
“Firefox: that is a termite.”
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 4 weeks ago:
You have no idea how much labor a washing machine saves.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 4 weeks ago:
I find that any box folds clothes. If you mean folded such that they don’t wrinkle, I think you’re looking for a closet.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 4 weeks ago:
Ryedaft, founder of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 4 weeks ago:
Systems include plumbing!
- Comment on Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 4 weeks ago:
We automated plumbing. It’s called plumbing.
Same deal for laundry, dishes, farming-- there’s so much stuff where human labor has been almost entirely eliminated, and people still bitch about the tiny remaining fraction. Ugh, you have to put the dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them, and then take them out? That’s bullshit. Where’s my robot maid!
- Comment on The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it" 5 weeks ago:
‘We changed scope and it’s your problem’ does not parse.
- Comment on The new SNW episode "What is Starfleet?" has problematic, even dangerous connotations 5 weeks ago:
This kinda sounds like ‘Why did the creators make the sudden easy answer blatantly unbelievable? Are they stupid?’
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 5 weeks ago:
Could Lucasarts not secure the rights for “Fistful?”
- Comment on How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 5 weeks ago:
Quite possibly, yes. But how much is “a lot?” A wide network acts like many permutations.
Probing the space with small networks and brief training sounds faster, but that too is recreated in large networks. They’ll train for a bit, mark any weights near zero, reset, and zero those out.
What training many small networks would be good for is experimentation. Super deep and narrow, just five big dumb layers, fewer steps with more heads, that kind of thing. Maybe get wild and ask a question besides “what’s the next symbol.”
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 5 weeks ago:
Nevermind tearing a page out of your own copy of a book is not a copyright issue… at all.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 5 weeks ago:
Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 month ago:
It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 month ago:
Is there a difference, besides SSDs tending to be plugged-in all the time? Maybe better firmware?
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 month ago:
So… an SD card?
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 month ago:
Are you sure? Check.
Where you jumped in is me, pointing out, repeatedly, that LLMs and IT have nothing to do with the actual article. Y’know, the doctors I keep mentioning? They’re not decorative.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 month ago:
You literally did.
“Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”