LesserAbe
@LesserAbe@lemmy.world
- Comment on The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important. 6 days ago:
I’m a socialist so no big fan of capitalism. That said, I don’t think capitalism is just about selling things for more than they’re worth.
We add value through our labor. Think of a log, it has some value as raw material. A worker might cut it into planks, and another might make a table out of it. It’s now worth more than when it started. The value came from our labor, and we should be compensated for it.
The issue with capitalism is that the few benefit off the work of many. Based on the rest of your comment I think we’re pretty much in agreement, but just want to highlight that as a worker-owner (vs robber baron) there’s nothing wrong with charging for what you’re worth.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Wow if its rumoured it must be true
- Comment on DHS asks tech companies for names, email addresses and phone numbers of accounts that criticize ICE 1 week ago:
If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.
If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.
The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.
Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).
- Comment on radish come from the Latin word radicem which means radish 2 weeks ago:
Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 month ago:
Yeah, fuck Facebook. But also lets not share misleading images alongside what is a true and horrible injustice.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 month ago:
To be clear these photos are from a dramatization of the execution. Here’s a Facebook post saying so, I’m sure a more in depth search would turn up a better source
- Comment on How fake admiral Jonathan Carley was caught by sword and rare medals 1 month ago:
Yeah. Adults are held to a higher standard than children. But in practice many adults aren’t that much different from children.
- Comment on How fake admiral Jonathan Carley was caught by sword and rare medals 1 month ago:
People are so weird.
When I was at a religious summer camp (sleep over) one of the kids who had attended multiple years in a row told everyone his mom had cancer and didn’t have much time left. Everyone was understandably sympathetic and people were referencing her specifically in group prayers and things like that. The camp director reached out to the family and they were like “what? No, she’s fine.”
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 1 month ago:
Cool. Reminds me a little bit of literary interpretation. There’s no such thing as “just reading what’s there”, everyone interprets.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
Sorry for a casual, what do you mean cap at 60hz?
I just use Firefox on Ubuntu, which fifteen years ago seemed like enough.
Which also doesn’t seem that casual, but this shit is too much to keep up with. Today my engineer dad was complaining about search engines having too many ads and I asked what he used, and he said besides Google on the one computer he uses Bing on the other.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 months ago:
No, this is looking at it wrong. You get to fuck the sexy hybrid human-dog abomination
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 2 months ago:
I responded to your other comment, but yes, I think you could set up an llm agent with a camera and microphone and then continuously provide sensory input for it to respond to. (In the same way I’m continuously receiving input from my “camera” and “microphones” as long as I’m awake)
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 2 months ago:
I’m just a person interested in / reading about the subject so I could be mistaken about details, but:
When we train an LLM we’re trying to mimic the way neurons work. Training is the really resource intensive part. Right now companies will train a model, then use it for 6-12 months or whatever before releasing a new version.
When you and I have a “conversation” with chatgpt, it’s always with that base model, it’s not actively learning from the conversation, in the sense that new neural pathways are being created. What’s actually happening is a prompt that looks like this is submitted: "{{openai crafted preliminary prompt}} + “Abe: Hello I’m Abe”.
Then it replies, and the next thing I type gets submitted like this: "{{openai crafted preliminary prompt}} + "Abe: Hello I’m Abe + {{agent response}} + “Abe: Good to meet you computer friend!”
And so on. Each time, you’re only talking to that base level llm model, but feeding it the history of the conversation at the same time as your new prompt.
You’re right to point out that now they’ve got the agents self-creating summaries of the conversation to allow them to “remember” more. But if we’re trying to argue for consciousness in the way we think of it with animals, not even arguing for humans yet, then I think the ability to actively synthesize experiences into the self is a requirement.
A dog remembers when it found food in a certain place on its walk or if it got stabbed by a porcupine and will change its future behavior in response.
Again I’m not an expert, but I expect there’s a way to incorporate this type of learning in nearish real time, but besides the technical work of figuring it out, doing so wouldn’t be very cost effective compared to the way they’re doing it now.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 2 months ago:
Yeah, it seems like the major obstacles to saying an llm is conscious, at least in an animal sense, is 1) setting it up to continuously evaluate/generate responses even without a user prompt and 2) allowing that continuous analysis/response to be incorporated into the llm training.
The first one seems like it would be comparatively easy, get sufficient processing power and memory, then program it to evaluate and respond to all previous input once a second or whatever
The second one seems more challenging, as I understand it training an llm is very resource intensive. Right now when it “remembers” a conversation it’s just because we prime it by feeding every previous interaction before the most recent query when we hit submit.
- Comment on We all know people like this who deal with the horror and yet never complain. They are heroes 2 months ago:
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
I’m an atheist, but if you read about Jesus specifically you won’t find a lot of hate.
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- Comment on Open Source Power 3 months ago:
Thanks for sharing. Although I’m an enthusiastic open source user, I haven’t written any code of significance, so I’m not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I’m picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.
- Comment on Robot rescues Ukrainian soldier trapped 33 days behind Russian lines, navigating minefields and mortar strikes 3 months ago:
Pretty cool. Does make me wonder functionally if the robot part actually increases the odds of success, or if it just means fewer people put at risk. Because it both came under fire and hit a mine. But maybe because it’s smaller it was less likely to be detected than a crewed vehicle? Maybe it would have been hit more or more fatally if it was larger?
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 3 months ago:
I did read it. Here’s the company post that the article references and links to.
The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don’t, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.
They say the dislike button will apply to “Discover and other feeds” which is a little less relevant to me because I don’t use discover. Maybe I’d check it out more if it was better.
It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn’t indicate they’re changing that.
Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 3 months ago:
I’m not here to tell you that their motives are pure. But I don’t see how a dislike button or social proximity are enshittification. And I don’t see how it’s tighter reliance on their control.
Is Lemmy having the ability to downvote enshittification? That’s what drew me to Reddit and now to Lemmy. It pushes less useful/interesting content down and brings better content to the front (generally)
Is showing you posts from people connected to people connected to you enshittification? That’s a feature I genuinely like about LinkedIn. I’ve seen posts from people I know but wasn’t connected to yet. I’ve seen pictures from events I attended but uploaded but people I don’t know personally.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 3 months ago:
I don’t know, I could see that improving the experience.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
Because the only way Marvel movies know how to ratchet up the stakes is having more and more people die.
- Comment on Photographer combines family faces together to show genetic similarities 4 months ago:
Thanks for sharing this link!
- Comment on When this aired, it was a joke. 5 months ago:
I don’t know OP’s intent but there is a genre of porn where the one person isn’t into it, but it’s not rape. It would be like them playing a video game or washing dishes and being indifferent/unresponsive to the other person having sex with them.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 5 months ago:
Sorry friend, but if someone is asking a question, telling them to read about it rather than provide the meat of the answer doesn’t seem too helpful.
You’re under no obligation to explain anything to anyone, but if you’re going to take the time to respond why not elaborate?
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 5 months ago:
I don’t get my hair cut that frequently, but to each their own. This was downvoted to zero when I found it, I like to imagine one of the “six months” or “never” guys were responsible.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I used to go to a place where they’d schedule me out based on three weeks, which I liked better, but now this new place leaves it to me to remember and schedule myself. I don’t remember, so it’s closer to 4-5 weeks.
- Comment on Never get a tattoo when you are drunk 5 months ago:
I worked with a guy who let his friend tattoo him while they were both on LSD. It wasn’t as long as this, I think it was just one word but it was in this style handwriting.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 months ago:
This is helpful, thanks.
