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- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 6 months ago:
I want a spinny as a pet now. Sounds cute.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
I agree with you, and you worded what I was clumsily trying to say. Thank you:)
With naturalism I mean the philosphical idea that only natural laws and forces are present in this world. Or as an extension, the idea that here is only matter.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
Doesn’t that depend on your view of consciousness and if you hold the view of naturalism?
I thought science is starting to find more and more that a 100% naturalistic worldview is hard to keep up.
I guess my initial question is almost more philosophical in nature and less deterministic.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
The Chinese Room experiment is great! Thanks for reminding me about that :).
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
Interesting thoughts! Now that I think about this, we as humans have a huge advantage by having not only language, but also sight, smell, hearing and taste. An LLM basically only has “language.” We might not realize how much meaning we create through those other senses.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
Thanks for your thorough answer.
I’ll see if I can find that article/paper about the chess moves. That sounds interesting!
Could it be that we ascribe an LLM with conceptual knowledge while in fact it is by chance? We as humans are masters at seeing patterns that aren’t there. But then again, like another commenter said, maybe the question is more about conscience itself, and what that actually means. What it means to “understand” something.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
After reading some of the comments and pondering this question myself, I think I may have thought of a good analogy that atleast helps me (even though I know fairly well how LLM’s work)
An LLM is like a car on the road. It can follow all the rules, like breaking in front of a red light, turning, signaling etc. However, a car has NO understanding of any of the traffic rules it follows.
A car can even break those rules, even if its behaviour is intended (if you push the gas pedal at a red light, the car is not in the wrong because it doesn’t KNOW the rules, it just acts on it).
Why this works for me is that when I give examples of human behaviour or animal behaviour, I automatically ascribe some sort of consciousness. An LLM has no conscious. This idea is exactly what I want to convey. If I think of a car and rules, it is obvious to me that a car has no concwpt of rules, but still is part of those rules somehow.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
I commented something similair on another post, but this is exactly why I find this phenomenon so hard to describe.
A teenager in a new group still has some understanding and has a mind. It knows many of the meaning of the words that are said. Sure, some catchphrases might be new, but general topics shouldn’t be too hard to follow.
This is nothing like genAI. GenAI doesn’t know anything at all. It has (simplified) a list of words that somehow are connected to eachother. But AI has no meaning of a wheel, what round is, what rolling is, what rubber is, what an axle is. NO understanding. Just words that happened to describe all of it. For us humans it is so difficult to understand that something uses language without knowing ANY of the meaning.
How can we describe this so our brains make sense that you can have language without understanding? The Chinese Room experiment comes close, but is quite complicated to explain as well I think.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
Hmm, now that I read this, I have a thought: it might also be hard to wrap our heads around this issue because we all talk about AI as if it is an entity. Even the sentence “it makes shit up” gives AI some kind of credit that it “thinks” about things. It doesn’t make shit up, it is doing exactly what it is programmed to do: create good sentences. It succeeds.
Maybe the answer is just to stop talking about AI’s as “saying” things, and start talking about GenAI as “generating sentences”? That way, we emotionally distance ourselves from “it” and it’s more difficult to ascribe consciousness to an AI.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
I think what makes it hard to wrap your head around is that sometimes, this text is emotionally charged. What I notice is that it’s especially hard if an AI “goes rogue” and starts saying sinister and malicious things. Our brain immediatly jumps to “it has bad intent” when in reality it’s jus taking some reddit posts where it happened to connect some troll messages or extremist texts.
How can we decouple emotionally when it feels so real to us?
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- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Touché.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 months ago:
You don’t meed to have any advanced meta knowledge to play most games. There are options like playing against easier ai’s or similarly skilled players.
Look at some Low Elo Legends from the game Age of Empires 2 on Youtube from T90. Most don’t use advanced meta.
Heck, I as a kid never used advanced meta and had loads of fun.
The internet TELLS you that the latest meta is necessary and that you play suboptimally. But they’re just optimizing the fun out of the game for you if you’re not that kind of player.
This mentality is even worse in competetive shooters. People playing the latest “meta” even though they don’t realize they don’t even have the skill to pull that meta off. I wish the “internet” would just let players have fun in their own way. And that playing games “suboptimally” can still be jist as fun and rewarding an experience.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
Not if your culture doesn’t value tradition. Yet there are cultures where tradition is ingrained in it’s value systems.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
So are there stupid questions?
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 6 months ago:
Slightly unrelated, but one of my recommendations would be to buy a VPN and download all the movies instead of ripping DVDs. Unless you care about the extras of course.
I’ve recently digitized my DVD collection with MakeMKV(best tool for this) and boy is it hit and miss quality wise. Some are very watchable on a 1080p tv, while others look like a pixel mess. Also, mpeg2(which dvds are encoded in) are huge for what quality they offer.
I, as a European, had double trouble: our PAL dvd movies actually run slightly faster than American dvd’s, so most subs found online simply won’t synchronize. So that meant ripping the subs, converting them to a sensible format, finding all the spelling mistakes from converting… A pain.
If I’d do it over again, I’d pay 5 bucks for a VPN and download some bluray rips. Even stuff that is deemed low quality by the pirate community (YIFY rips) are better AND 1/4th the size than your DVD rips will ever be.
You could go the ISO route, which preserves the menus. You can open ISO files with Kodi.
Or rip your dvds if you want to make sure it’s all legal. You do you 😜
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Yes, I think a minority group of IT enthousiasts will be pushed towards Linux. But for a lot of average users, it is way too much of a hassle, unless the ONLY thing they do is browse the web.
In my 4 weeks with Mint, I encountered: -Complete system freezes from plugging in USB to USB hubs. -Bluetooth not working (fix was updating to a newer Kernel… ok… why is that kernel not standard when bluetooth is broken on the older kernels?) -Random inconsistant UI scaling issues when working with two monitors (and even on the same monitor) -permission issues when instaling flatpacks from the software manager (let’s disable USB permission for arduino… yeah… that’s silly)
I figure all the shit out because I want it to work. But it’s not the be-all end-all that people here on Lemmy make it out to be.
Switching an OS is always difficult. In 2006 I switched to Mac for about 6 years. The first few months were pain and agony. After that, it was great. Same with many Windows upgrades. And the same will be true for switching to Linux.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I feel you man. I’ve finally used Cubase enough to get proficiently fast at editing stuff, and I can’t get it to work on Mint. It is quite the dilemma. From what I’ve seen from Bitwig, I still might switch though. It looks a lot like Ableton, but I much prefer Bitwig’s UI. And my most used plugins (arturia stuff) happens to run without any hassle on Wine (for now).
Still, I’ll probably keep dual booting for a while. I have so many Cubase projects backed up that I don’t feel like converting all to Bitwig projects.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I think for that usecase, Lutris might help. It is basically Wine for games, where it tries to find the right settings for your specific games. If the Epic store installs at all, that is.
But I’ve commented this a few times now: Wine is… very hit and miss and might not be worth your time.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I got my info from the Affinity Forum
No first hand experience. However, with my short time with Wine, I’m hestitant to rely on it. Any update from either Wine or the software it’s running could break things. Cool if it works, but not something I’d want to bet my work on.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Haha agreed.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Thanks for the heads up about flatpaks! I’ll look into it.
I believe debs are installed through my Software Manager ? When I said “get debs from official source” I meant that bigger software like Godot, Steam, Handbrake etc I prefer to download from their official website. Most stuff in software managers are several versions behind.
I agree that you shouldn’t be downloading random debs for some small apps made by a random person, for obvious security reasons.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Good to know!
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I would say: don’t rely on Wine if you’re dependent on the programs it runs somehow. If you don’t want to spend hours troubleshooting programs, then accept your losses.
After days of messing about getting music VSTs to work, I decided to stop troubleshooting any error I have within Wine. If a program works with Wine straight away: lucky me! If something doesn’t work: I count my loss and accept I won’t be able to use that program on Linux for now.
And obviously, don’t install and run andom programs that you wouldn’t install on Windows either. But that’s just common sense.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
So for all people that are on the fence about switching to Linux: Here’s a sort of review and starter guide from a guy who switched to Mint about 4 weeks ago.
Are you someone who mostly plays non-competetive games (games without anticheat) and browse the web? You’ll probably have a hassle free life on Linux. Steam’s Proton layer does a lot of heavily lifting. Even if games are not officially supported. Turn the compatability on in the steam settings.
If you play VR or competetive games, it’s a different story. VR is dependant on the headset. I unfortunately have all Oculus Headsets, which there is no good controller support for right now from the open source community. Anticheat simply doesnt work on Linux.
Design software From what I’ve read, the affinity suite now can be used through Wine (a program that lets you use windows apps on Linux) However, from my time with Wine, it is hit and miss. One update from either the application or Wine can break everything. So it is not reliable, unless you freeze all updates from both the application and Wine. Wine can be great (working out of the box) but also the biggest pain in the ass with hours of debugging. Stay away if you dislike troubleshooting.
Inkscape can be an alternative to Illustrator if you don’t do heavy design work.
I haven’t touched Gimp for about 6 years (used to be my main editor) but when I switched to photoshop it qas no competition. Don’t know what the state of Gimp is now, will try it over the coming year.
music software Cubase or any of steinbergs plugins outright will not work on Linux (unfortunately my main DAW) However, I will probably switch to Bitwig (native Linux), which looks really promising. I got some VSTs working through Wine (all arturia stuff works great) but have had hours of troubleshooting without luck with others. Use Yabridge as a vstlink for windows VSTs. If you’re a professional musician with thousands of dollars in plugins, I’d be hestitant to switch to Linux. You’ll be dependant on Wine a lot, which is kind of a pain to rely on for professional use.
overall tips Might be a bit controversial, but if you’re a novice: don’t dump all the solutions you find online in your terminal. Actually, try to use the machine as much as possible like you normally would on Windows, unless you want to do Terminal stuff. If you dislike terminals, you’ll only be frustrated by all the terminal advice people give you, which might even break stuff on your machine.
Try to download .deb packages from the official sources.++ Software center on Mint is great, but will moatly be outdated or flatpacks. Flatpacks can work, but I’ve had many issues with permissions and flatpacks (like an arduino flatpack that didn’t give permission to use the USB port…)
Welp, I’m out of time, so I’ll just randomly stop my reviewish/comment here
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I moved to Linux Mint about 4 weeks ago (with optional dual boot Windows). All the games I tried have worked so far, even when not officially supported (turn on Proton compatibility in steam settings). If your multiplayer games use anticheat, Linux is a no go.
If you happen to have 2 harddrives, try installing Linux on one to see if it’s something for you.
- Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden 7 months ago:
I find that with the roguelikes where you upgrade in between runs, losing still feels like winning.
- Comment on Why do video cards get slow when there's an available update? 7 months ago:
I think computers can get slow when they are downloading shit in the background. Windows Updates have messed up performance on my work laptop many times.
I think it might just be a coincidence. I believe GPU drivers are updated fairly regular, so it’s most likely that everytime you had a slowdown on your computer for whatever reason, there happened to be an update ready. Corrolation =/= causation.
Others have stated that the restarting after driver install most likely “fixed” your pc everytime.
- Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden 7 months ago:
Space Food Truck is like FTL meets deckbuilding.
Fun stuff, can be played coop too.
- Comment on [CW: Slurs/pejoratives, morality] When is it considered immoral if someone is saying something that they know is pejorative and they are not intending it as disparaging towards the original group? 7 months ago:
Oh, my comment was more of an honest followup question about the language, not an attempt to attack the validity of your comment. I Didn’t mean to come across that way.