Wirlocke
@Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
If he was that competent why would resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.
He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn’t make him a good puppet master.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure he gave am outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it’s stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.
I don’t think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it’s value to come back and buy it on the cheap.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 months ago:
From a game theory perspective, a trumper discouraged to vote is worth 1 vote, a flipped Republican vote is worth 2 votes.
So the appeal to the right makes sense if it works, because every vote from that camp is also a negative vote from Trump.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 months ago:
I have the hope that she’ll end up being more progressive after votes are counted.
Partially because she has Walz which is a good sign, but mostly I’m hoping for hopes sake. 🤞
- Comment on Never Thought 2 months ago:
This is dumb, I deeply love it.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
The people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse
In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or
a ponzi schemeinflated stocks. - Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Eeeeeh maybe not “CP settings”…
- Comment on Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots 4 months ago:
To get more direct to the point you could use those unrendered dummy links to ban whatever IPs click them.
With the vast amounts of training data and how curated they’re becoming (Llama and Claude are going that direction) it’s infeasible to actually poison a large model to this degree.
- Comment on Community 5 months ago:
I can imagine it to be the opposite.
Maybe irritant tears have less protein to not clog your vision when in a fight or threatened?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It’s a little funny how everyone sobered up from perpetually investing in unprofitable free social media then they dove right back in to perpetually investing in LLMs with no real plan for sustainable profit.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
In terms of LLM hallucination, it feels like the name very aptly describes the behavior and severity. It doesn’t downplay what’s happening because it’s generally accepted that having a source of information hallucinate is bad.
I feel like the alternatives would downplay the problem. A “glitch” is generic and common, “lying” is just inaccurate since that implies intent to deceive, and just being “wrong” doesn’t get accross how elaborately wrong an LLM can be.
Hallucination fits pretty well and is also pretty evocative. I doubt that AI promoters want to effectively call their product schizophrenic, which is what most people think when hearing hallucination.
Ultmately all the sciences are full of analogous names to make conversations easier, it’s not always marketing. No different than when physicists say particles have “spin” or “color” or that spacetime is a “fabric” or [insert entirety of String theory]…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
On Discord though there are a lot of unchecked predation. Theoretically if this were implemented it would let them see the most suspicious users that interact with an unusual amount of children and review if the messages are inappropriate.
But all that’s unlikely because if they actually cared they’d implement other simpler solutions first. So this idea is just hypothetical but not ideal.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
I’m a bit annoyed at all the people being pedantic about the term hallucinate.
Programmers use preexisting concepts as allegory for computer concepts all the time.
Your file isn’t really a file, your desktop isn’t a desk, your recycling bin isn’t a recycling bin.
[Insert the entirety of Object Oriented Programming here]
Neural networks aren’t really neurons, genetic algorithms isn’t really genetics, and the LLM isn’t really hallucinating.
But it easily conveys what the bug is. It only personifies the LLM because the English language almost always personifies the subject. The moment you apply a verb on an object you imply it performed an action, unless you limit yourself to esoteric words/acronyms or you use several words to overexplain everytime.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The gender thing is creepy, but if they could predict age groups then in a perfect world they could analyze adult users talking to children and shut that down.
In a perfect world though, I doubt they’d put effort into making their app safer, heavens no.
- Comment on Iron 6 months ago:
Listen there’s definitely enough carbon in the body to boost that into a steel sword.
If we can make diamonds out of corpses, we can make steel.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 6 months ago:
I hate that it’s links are “incompatible” with Firefox, even though if you trick it into thinking it’s Chrome, it works just fine.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
You would like Global Workspace Theory, basically says your consciousness is the result of components of the brain broadcasting their information to the whole.
I also like Integrated Information Theory which measures the conscious experience of a system by how integrated it is, which means that you can’t reduce the system to the sum of it’s parts without losing the emergent properties.
- Comment on fossils 7 months ago:
From what I know, most raptors had feather and that’s where birds came from.
The broader group of theropods, including the T-Rex, had a precursor to feathers literally called “Dinofuzz”.
All other kinds of dinosaurs I believe are actually scaly like we thought.
- Comment on Snikt 8 months ago:
I think he grows around his skeleton.
I’m pretty sure the wolverine is technically not immortal (depending on canon) however the Adamantine casing which is pretty indestructible means there’s always a piece of him to regenerate from.
- Comment on Eat him 8 months ago:
- Comment on Your honor this is bullshit 9 months ago:
On the flipside, if the language is too casual you’d end up with people winning cases by being popular and snarky.
Part of the reason why Trump’s cases have such a high turnover of lawyers. His antics just don’t amuse a judge used to professionalism.
Not saying you don’t have a point. After stuff like bees being classified as fish in California to protect them. It’s clear to see legalese has gone to far.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
I feel the tracking and hunting capabilities of a dog will more than make up for what they need to eat.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
Gas will expire eventually and you could just hotwire one of the many abandoned cars anyways, if the roads aren’t blocked by said cars. Bullets will run out unless you find a gun shop, in which case you get guns anyways. Water purifying is easy enough to do without a machine.
My picks would be German Shepherd, Axe, First Aid, and Radio.
There’s a reason we domesticated dogs, they are useful in so many different ways like hunting, defense, and security (and companionship). Especially German Shepherds, you can see the damage they do when used by police.
Axes are survivalist 101 and some are practically multi tools despite being simple.
First Aid because infections, zombie or not, are the real killers throughout history.
The radio’s more of a gamble, but it’s your best chance to find a new settlement, monke strong together and all that. Also you can maybe stay informed on what’s happening in other parts of the country. (And it lets me flex my Amateur Radio License).
- Comment on Why?? 11 months ago:
Not enough negative mass
- Comment on They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude 1 year ago:
