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- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 2 days ago:
Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum
- Comment on xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” 3 days ago:
*not all humans. Apparently. Like billionaires and the presidents they bought.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 3 days ago:
Then you are not on loudspeaker and speaking with an extra loud voice and it is not a problem.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 3 days ago:
There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 days ago:
You are free to do whatever you want that makes you happy in private bud. Anything. Almost.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 days ago:
Hands full, disabled, multiple people, yes. Holding the phone like an extended duck face, no.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 days ago:
If only there was a way to speak privately on a phone.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 4 days ago:
Today I was annoyed by a man in his 30-40s that was talking on his phone like he was a reality soap star with speaker on full blast in a doctor’s waiting room.
Then I remembered the most absurd moment on the tram some time ago when a two teen girls were talking to a third and the one holding the phone told her friend to go sit somewhere else because they wanted to talk in private. The second girl moves and the first one proceeds to have their private talk on speaker. In a tram full of people and her friend sitting a few seats away.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Yeah but not one “master” language. All knowledge it can relate across languages is available in all languages. LLM (and computers) don’t care about the data, they just process it. Humans would translate it and compile it in ordered encyclopedia. For LLM it is all just an insane number of references and cross references all over that is available from anywhere that the link has been established. The input/output of desired language and formulation and whatever is a different part of it.
As far as I understand it.
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- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 days ago:
I hear a whisper in the wind about file size being a distinct though not foolproof hint of quality.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I know that the current generation of LLM have a language agnostic knowledge base, which is damn awesome, but I don’t know how the language layer works.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Bringing back the absurdum to Reduction Ad Absurdum.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
While applying this technique, the caller may well hang up, so the quandary is solved regardless.
- Comment on DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
Uh, so it begins with blocking piracy. What’s next? Which public DNS can still be trusted to not be kept on a leash?
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 1 week ago:
Here in Sweden we have “sticklingbytardagar”, “cutting trade days”, commonly arranged by enthusiasts in Facebook groups. Name a place and a time and people show up with their excess sprouts and cuttings to trade and give away.
- Comment on Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted? 1 week ago:
Deleted by berator.
- Comment on Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface 1 week ago:
I have a brain computer interface. It’s called fingers. I can use my brain powers to communicate and even move moderately sized things with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I too was one obnoxious little fucker when I went all in on politics in my teens before I came to acceptance that it doesn’t have to marinate exactly everything and everybody at every single moment in time.
I’m still very political though I no longer need to make a display of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Haha I’m streets ahead.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok Britta.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“I think the weather is rather nice today.”
This opinion is now about global warming and the impact of logistics in post imperialist globalist consumerism.
Because I’m first year in uni and have just discovered politics and you bet I can shoehorn it into anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nah, this opinion of yours for example is just a simplistic soundbite that you think might sound informed and intelligent but it is not.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I agree but i don’t agree that anything is a shower thought and even more rarely do political options fit in as one.
- Comment on Exposing Zalando 3 weeks ago:
I don’t buy much clothes but I’m in need to order some new ones. Zalando was great because of the vast selection of brands - despite them making it harder to filter on environmentally better options already several years ago. Now I don’t want to use them any more. Any suggestions for good, ethical and preferably environmentally friendly online stores for Sweden/EU?
- Comment on How would you run a society? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be a person or an entity or deity.
I haven’t been nerdying on religion for much long many moons but AFAICR Buddhism has this core idea that “yeah we have symbols and chants and icons and totems and rituals and we pray but the more we dedicate ourselves we understand that they are just there for us to see beyond them into the nothing and the everything”. In Buddhism this has evolved into place, so it would be interesting to see if it was possible to kickstart straight into some sort of non deity centric anti religion without the animistic precursory heritage.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 3 weeks ago:
I’d prefer not to. I’d like to make it Buddhist philosophy inspired non-religion if possible. But people seem to have this need of something to gather around and have rituals and festivities and believe in so religion is still useful. I’m thinking it would be easier to get everybody pulling together early on in a theocracy though the deep teaching aims to dissolve itself.
The teachings would promote (or demand) something of an egalitarian society with food and shelter and healthcare for everybody and encourage learning and education and culture and arts and own responsibility and critique and discussion and questioning the whole shebang in orderly fashion with ongoing goals of improving it for everybody.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 3 weeks ago:
First steps would be to create a religion with all the usual “be kind and caring and patient and forgiving and nice in general to others and yourself” and then “do not be an asshole unless the others were an asshole first and then you may respond in moderation with an appropriate pinch of extra salt” and the ritual of an Aztec pyramid with slice and dice and flush them down the sewage sacrifice of any billionaires and power hungry totalitarians and corrupt public servants. Every year that do not require any sacrifice pleases the gods. But any year it is needed, the gods are content that required action was taken.
- Comment on What causes individual variation in what animals you like? 3 weeks ago:
Biological programming goes a long way.
It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.
- Comment on A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more 3 weeks ago:
Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of implementing TTS for some customer or service:
Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.
Just don’t. Everybody hates it.