Lodespawn
@Lodespawn@aussie.zone
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 14 hours ago:
Google says $1M in 1990 is worth just under $2.5M today. I guess in the 90s houses were worth more like a 20th to a 10th of that rather than a 5th but I think you’d still have been pretty short sighted to give up working on that kind of windfall. Giving every American $1M is not anything like what the original post is talking about. It’s talking about taking half of Bezos net worth and giving it to Amazon employees, which equates to maybe 2 years of a shitty wage, and would likely only be deliverable as stock in Amazon. The other point about redistributing some of the 1%s wealth to the wider citizens of the USA again only nets each individual 70k. Noones quitting their job over that and most people will be either be dumping it straight back I to the economy or paying down some debt.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 19 hours ago:
There are so many issues with this but the primary one is that you’d be an idiot to try and never work again with only a million bucks in your hand.
- Comment on Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video 4 days ago:
Weird, ICP has always been slop of one form or another, seems odd to get mad about it now …
- Comment on Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent 5 days ago:
Just make a rule that a company will be taxed on its local revune assuming it made profits equal to it’s most profitable “related party”. Eg, Adani Ireland has 30% profit, then we assume Adani Australia’s revenue includes 30% profit and we tax that.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
Nah so their definition is the classical “how confident are you that you got the answer right”. If you read the article they asked a bunch of people and 4 LLMs a bunch of random questions, then asked the respondent whether they/it had confidence their answer was correct, and then checked the answer. The LLMs initially lined up with people (over confident) but then when they iterated, shared results and asked further questions the LLMs confidence increased while people’s tends to decrease to mitigate the over confidence.
But the study still assumes intelligence enough to review past results and adjust accordingly, but disregards the fact that an AI isnt intelligence, it’s a word prediction model based on a data set of written text tending to infinity. It’s not assessing validity of results, it’s predicting what the answer is based on all previous inputs. The whole study is irrelevant.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
I guess, but it’s like proving your phones predictive text has confidence in its suggestions regardless of accuracy. Confidence is not an attribute of a math function, they are attributing intelligence to a predictive model.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
Why is a researcher with a PhD in social sciences researching the accuracy confidence of predictive text, how has this person gotten to where they are without being able to understand that LLM don’t think? Surely they came up when he started even co soldering this brainfart of a research project?
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 1 week ago:
Murdoch is one of the first people Trump entertained in the oval office when he took over this round.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 1 week ago:
I dunno, James doesn’t seem like a complete fuckwit
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be pretty funny if a mushroom learns to drive before Musk’s cars
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 3 weeks ago:
Man Im not experienced in paying for blow jobs but my gut feeling is that you could get a pretty great one a lot cheaper than that. I dunno, maybe the multi million dollar bureaucracy blow job is really really great.
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 3 weeks ago:
The Palantirs werent technically evil, they were just stones that let you see the truth, it’s just the strong holders could manipulate what was seen through them by the weak holders to bend the truth.
In that respect the company is pretty aptly named, the owners (strong in the rights of the admin) can warp the insights to fit their narrative and feed those to the clients (weak in the rights of the admin). The problem being that the clients are also feeding huge amounts of data (truth) to owners to allow them to do their work. That data is ours.
Arguably, the naming of the company should at least give any government pause for thought about the reliability of the information provided to them and the true cost of feeding information to them. It’s not like the company isn’t broadcasting the issues with their system by using that specific name … surely there’s no in depth discussion of how a system like this could possibly end badly for someone who doesn’t have completed control over it?!
- Comment on Epstein died by suicide, did not have 'client list': govt memo 3 weeks ago:
Also we’re not going to release any of the files unredacted, because … err … what files?
- Comment on That's really not okay 3 weeks ago:
Because paper is just thinly sliced tree, like prosciutto
- Comment on Have a good trip 3 weeks ago:
Blurst Bong …
- Comment on As the world grows more unpredictable, Australia’s defence should be focused on people, not purchases 4 weeks ago:
Need to be investing in drone development, resources processing, renewables and fertiliser manufacturing
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 4 weeks ago:
Hoo boy Netanyahu is gonna be invading Elon Musk and having settlers selling up shop in 3, 2, 1 …
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 1 month ago:
If the peer review are unable to differentiate between student output and AI output then they are either incompetent or they are inundated with absolute garbage. The latter also suggests the former is true.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 1 month ago:
Yeah given the quality of AI outputs they could just read the papers to spot it … you know … do their jobs? I mean there’s a few layers here for thesis review, you supervisor, your professor, the other peer reviewers. They are all supposed to review the paper and at least some of the data that led to its production.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 1 month ago:
Well that’s a much better question.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 1 month ago:
Jesus how bad are their student papers that they can’t tell whether an AI wrote one?!
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
To be fair Russia is at war with the US as well, just they’ve captured the government
- Comment on Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath 2 months ago:
Arguably we should be imposing 25% DST on digital products to counter the 25% tariff on aluminium and steel and then 10% on everything else. The US started it by imposing blanket tariffs in spite of our free trade agreement.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Someone needs to spin up an AI that continuously generates pictures that annoy Donald Trump and posts them to all social media, it should actively learn what makes him and his supporters feel the saddest and optimise for those attributes.
- Comment on ℞osaur 2 months ago:
OP is named hippo and has an icon of a hippo …
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
He knows the Nazis would have straight up murdered him without even blinking right?
It seems Mr West has been on a wild algorithm ride over the last few years.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
I think they like the free money, the old money boys club and the chances to tell the poora whats best for them …
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Australias Labor party is sits slightly progressive and slightly left of centre, the greens sits hard left/progressive, given we have more than 8 parties, 4 of which could be considered major parties with 2 of those in the left and none of the issues associated with FPTP and that electoral college nonsense I think Australia is doing alright in the scheme of things, especially compared with the US and UK.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Kind of, its a little more complicated than that, I think its probably more accurate to say they have their own issues. The UK system is pretty different from the shitshow in the US.
They also use FPTP but have no electoral college and multiple parties including 4 major parties. So while there are multiple parties, in any given electorate you really need to vote for the party you hate the least that has a chance of winning. The two parties in an electorate that have a chance of winning varies across electorates and regions. They also have the House of Lords instead of a senate with members of House mostly being appointed (for life) rather than elected.
So … its own nonsense. Still seems less shithouse than the US system.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Is anyone calling UK Labour centre-left? I would have thought theyd be sitting just inside the lower right quadrant of the political compass, they might have been centre left when Corbyn was the leader but that was a while ago and Starmer isn’t that kinda guy.