calcopiritus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it is. In Spanish it is “No a la guerra”. I found it weir that they translated the quote but didn’t just change 4 for 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war'⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Minor nitpick. But it seems the actual article has been edited and no longer says “four words” for obvious reasons. Could update the summary too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You went through my comment history and quoted me, to just not read the whole quote.

  Here, I’ll help you:

  It’s fine if someone already answered with what you were going to answer. You can just upvote that guy and move on.

  As I said, there are already 3 top comments explaining to you why you’re being downvoted. I don’t need to explain myself when I mostly agree with them, I just upvote them.

  If everyone had to explain every downvote, we would have hundreds of comments on each post, and most of them would say the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are at least 3 comments with well laid arguments (hint, they have way more up votes than the post). You have answered to none of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, the LLMs are not the ones that actually generate the images. They basically act as a translator between the image generator and the human text input. Well, just the tokenizer probably. But that’s beside the point. Both LLMs and image generators are generative AI. And have similar mechanisms. They both can create never-before seen content by mixing things it has “seen”.

  I’m not claiming that they didn’t use CSAM to train their models. I’m just saying that’s this is not definitive proof of it.

  It’s like claiming that you’re a good mathematician because you can calculate 2+2. Good mathematicians can do that, but so can bad mathematicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have all been children, we all know the anatomical differences.

  It’s not like children are alien, most differences are just “this is smaller and a slightly different shape in children”. Many of those differences can be seen on fully clothed children. And for the rest, there are non-CSAM images that happen to have nude children. As I said earlier, it is not uncommon for children to be fully nude in beaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you don’t think?

  Why does being a parent give any authority in this conversation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The wine thing could prove me wrong if someone could answer my question.

  But I don’t think my theory is that wild. LLMs can interpolate, and that is a fact. You can ask it to make a bear with duck hands and it will do it. I’ve seen images on the internet of things similar to that generated by LLMs.

  Who is to say interpolating nude children from regular children+nude adults is too wild?

  Furthermore, you don’t need CSAM for photos of nude children.

  Children are nude at beaches all the time, there probably are many photos on the internet where there are nude children in the background of beach photos. That would probably help the LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it have any full glasses of water? According to my theory, It has to have data for both “full” and “wine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf it’s not needed. If it can draw children and it can draw nude adults, it can draw nude children.

  Just like it doesn’t need to have trained on purple geese to draw one. It just needs to know how to draw purple things and how to draw geese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to. Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be shoes on.

  You just wake up, put on underwear, pants, shirt, socks and shoes, in that order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  4k is noticeable in a standard pc.

  I recently bought a 1440p screen (for productivity, not gaming) and I can fit so much more UI with the same visual fidelity compared to 1080p. Of course, the screen needs to be physically bigger in order for the text to be the same size.

  So if 1080p->1440p is noticeable, 1080p->4k must be too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The words of someone that has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you 0.00113636 miles tall though? We use centimeters for height. You are 191cm tall, not 1,91m.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a weird argument. There is no practical difference between 180°C and 180,5°C. No need for ovens to have decimal precision.

  Thermostats do have increments lower than 1°C though. My car’s AC increments in 0,5°C steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, I’m going to replace AI with LLM, since that’s probably what you meant.

  There are 2 distinct questions asked in this post:

  1. Why not use LLMs to provide different levels of automation? (Like, manual, medium, auto)

  Answer: you don’t need LLMs for that. You can just code it in like any other feature. It’s not particularly hard, game developers know how to do it since they are used to programming automation for NPCs.

  2. Why not use LLMs to procedurally generate NPC dialogue?

  Answer: games are primarily a form of art. NPC dialogues are written with a purpose. Different characters have different personalities. Some dialogues are meant to drive the plot. Other dialogues are meant to teach the player how to play. Others are meant to show the player things that they may have missed, or things that are interesting.

  Procedural dialogues removes all the control from artists. They would all be generic npc n#473, with the personality of the LLM, maybe slightly varied if the developer writes a different prompt for each character.

  Procedural dialogues would have the same issues as procedural world generation or photorealistic graphics, it would just not be interesting.

  There is a practically infinite amount of Minecraft worlds, yet they all feel the same way. The thing that differentiates a Minecraft world from another is that which the player has built. The only part of the world that wasn’t procedurally generated.

  There is a great amount of photorealistic games. And they all look very similar. You may only distinguish one from another by looking at their handcrafted worlds or their handcrafted characters. But not by staring at a wall. You can stare at a wall in non-photoreslistic games and know what game it is.

  So if you put procedurally generated dialogues, no one will read them, since you’ll be bored by the time you read the same thing being said by 5 different NPCs from 5 different games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the British empire was absolutely huge. Which lead to many countries having English as an official language. Which means those countries would conduct trade in English. Followed by American dominance, which also has English as its main language.

  And that American dominance includes dominance in media, especially films because of hollywood. Technical documents, research and especially computer-related technical documents are mainly in English for the same reason.

  Sure, English is not that hard of a language. But it’s not the easiest either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t make me repeat the curriculum. The curriculum is the same for everyone.

  I didn’t use basque outside school, but I barely used English. Inside school, it was ~7 hours every day of basque. And ~3h per week of english.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not research, personal experience:

  Even after many years of school/high-school in basque, I learnt it at a way slower rate than English, which was just 1 subject.

  I didn’t speak neither basque nor English outside school. At most, the difference might be that I consumed a little bit of media in English while none in basque. But all subjects except spanish and English were in basque, so that should make up for the difference.

  And I don’t think it’s just a me thing. Since the curriculum has mostly been the same for all those years of school:

  Learn how to say a verb.

  That’s it. Many years of school just to say verbs correctly.

  The exams where mostly just fill in the blank exercises, where the blank was a verb.

  I still don’t know how to say verbs that aren’t the simplest ones.

  So to your question I’d say yes. Even though neither are my native tongue, I learnt both since I entered school, but learned them at wildly different rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who said it’s okay to invade Greenland? And of course it’s not ok to invade ukraine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is important to me. More than “time until login” I’d prefer “time until queue”. I want to login before walking away because I want to open certain programs. So if an OS allows me to tell it “after you boot up, open these 3 programs” but hasn’t completely booted up, I would prefer it to one that only lets you open programs once it has booted.

  And no, configuring so it opens the same programs at startup doesn’t count. I wanna choose every time I turn on the computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone on Microsoft probably needed an excuse for their pay increase.

  “I rebuilt/had the idea to rebuilt the taskbar” sounds a lot better to managers than “I maintained the taskbar”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One slur to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the techniques I’ve seen it’s like a “password”. So for example if you write a lot the phrase “aunt bridge sold the orangutan potatoes” and then a bunch of nonsense after that, then you’re likely the only source of that phrase. So it learns that after that phrase, it has to write nonsense.

  I don’t see how this would be very useful, since then it wouldn’t say the phrase in the first place, so the poison wouldn’t be triggered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in “other”. So that peak is probably “windows but we messed up with data collection” or “some browser in windows changed its user agent”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare they collect data and display it in an accurate manner! They should just start by putting Linux at 50% and then move the lines a little bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.

  In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.

  The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.

  Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.

  Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.

  I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.