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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on Sesame Seeds 1 day ago:
Sesame paste aka tahini proves 3/4 of those points objectively wrong!
…I know, I know, “objective” when it comes to tastes is an oxymoron. But seriously, tahini is awesome: flavourful, won’t get stuck in your teeth, and it makes a lot of dishes go from “meh” to “wow”. Still a bit messy, as it’s a paste.
Bonus points if it’s halawa (dunno the English name), a sweet made with tahini and honey. I seriously love that stuff.
- Comment on What's the coolest organic compound, chat? 5 days ago:
- Comment on What's the coolest organic compound, chat? 5 days ago:
I don’t know which one is the coolest. But people keep me asking this one:
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“MSG ME! MSG ME!” - Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 5 days ago:
Shhh, don’t give it feedback. Let it rot, let it be hated, without knowing why.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 5 days ago:
I like the generative tech itself but feel disgust at the industry. First they grab the artists’ content, with no permission; then they feed it into their models; then they make a product out of it; then they screech at those same artists “you’ve become obsolete trash! Our model makes everything you do!”; never acknowledging it’s built upon their labour.
So I think there’s a big case to tag the usage of AI into products, to mildly discourage it. And more importantly, people want this info.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 5 days ago:
News from the “users are cattle to be herded, not humans to be listened to. Instead listen to ME! ME! ME!” department.
…seriously. Steam is doing it because people want to know if the games are made with AI or not. If that goes against the best interests of Epic, let them eat cake.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 6 days ago:
How would you distinguish a sufficiently advanced word calculator from an actual intelligent, conscious agent?
The same way you distinguish a horse with a plastic horn from a real unicorn: you won’t see a real unicorn.
In other words, your question disregards what the text says, that you won’t get anything remotely similar to an actual intelligent agent through those large token models. You need a different approach, acknowledging that linguistic competence is not the same as reasoning.
Nota bene: this does not mean “AGI is impossible”. That is not what I’m saying. I’m saying “LLMs are a dead end for AGI”.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 6 days ago:
when at most they only deliver Wernicke’s + Broca’s area of a brain.
Not even. LLMs don’t really understand what you say, and their output is often nonsensical babble.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 1 week ago:
The main division was about why language appeared; to structure thought, communication, or both. But I genuinely don’t think anyone serious would claim reasoning appeared because of language. …or that if you feed enough tokens to a neural network it’ll become smart.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 1 week ago:
Whataboutism + false dichotomy.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 1 week ago:
Linguists have been saying this over and over, but almost everybody ignored it.
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 2 weeks ago:
The strategy of using Windows monopoly to force other programs+services is so deeply ingrained in Microsoft that, when it fails, MS doesn’t know what to do. Specially when dealing with a bigger bully like Google.
First MS tried to be pushy with Edge. Users remembered IE, and said “no”.
Then MS tried to be even pushier. Except being too pushy backfires, so users were saying “no” louder.
Now they’re offering “rewards”? This won’t change shit, except highlight that MS knows Edge to be useless to the users, and that the only way people would consider using Edge is if they’re paid for that.
And it’s no secret that Edge is a reskinned Chromium. As in, anyone who’d avoid Google software would also avoid Edge.
- Comment on Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics 3 weeks ago:
That sounds fun. I hope the game is moddable, so you can use other languages with it too. (Let’s say my ability to quickly remember English words is less than stellar.)
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
0.25 mL of lemon juice is probably too much already.
She’s doing the maths for the concentration of citric acid in lemon juice through the formula C(acid) = 10^(-pH). That works fine for a strong acid, because you can be pretty sure all that acid in the solution is dissociated, and thus lowering its pH… but citric acid is weak - and weak acids don’t dissociate properly in already acidic conditions.
This means there’s probably way more acid in that solution than the pH makes you believe, but that acid will react once you raise the pH, by mixing the lemon juice into the water.
(I don’t blame her for using the strong acid maths. It’s already enough to convey her point, plus the maths for weak acids is a bloody pain.)
- Comment on Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated 4 weeks ago:
The title is a trainwreck but, basically: the art predates Homo sapiens sapiens reaching those regions.
- Comment on I spent 18 months training generative AI – here’s what I learned 4 weeks ago:
Both letters in “AI” are bullshit. Most of us know about the “I”; the text is about the “A”.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if that isn’t exactly the goal behind all this shit.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 4 weeks ago:
#3 would probably not work in a microblog service due to the structure, but the other two could be easily ported. I could see them popping up in Mastodon, for example; but Bluesky? Not really - it doesn’t want to empower users, it wants to herd them.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 4 weeks ago:
I should’ve made the sarcasm more obvious; my bad. (“Still a better love story than Twilight” kind of implies something is still bad or unremarkable; it’s like saying “wow, this meal tastes better than shit”.)
Yes, the Fediverse is genuinely good. And better than both Bluesky and Twitter.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 4 weeks ago:
Charitably, these tweaks sound like another way Bluesky is trying to give users more control over what they see on the platform, in the same way it does with things like notifications. Less charitably, you could read the “social neighborhood” concept as a way to entrench users in their “filter bubble” rather than address larger moderation issues.
Potentially both simultaneously.
I think that a few key factors would be:
- will the algo deciding who’s in your “social neighbourhood” be publicly available? Or is it a matter of “trust me = be gullible trash”?
- which will be the rules deciding it? Poor rules can backfire really bad, encouraging mob mentality instead.
- are they going to address the poor moderation of their own platform, regardless of the above?
Either way the prospect is good. Still a better love story than Twitterlight.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 4 weeks ago:
I hear ya. In fact your rant overlaps quite a bit with my own rants against witch hunters (people who screech, bash, or try to denounce someone else, online and in the open, with little to no grounds to do so).
I know this is not every or most interactions on Lemmy, but…
…but it’s like biting into something rotten: the foul taste lingers for a while, no matter how much good food you have afterwards.
- Comment on Paradox apologise for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's new Halloween gear initially only being a treat for fresh saves 4 weeks ago:
As I often say: Paradox is the hipsters’ Electronic Arts. It sees you as cattle ready to be milked (through DLCs), its QA resembles used toilet paper, and it loooves some corporate apologies that sound a lot like “Who’s some gullible trash? You are! Yes, you are! Good customer!” Just like EA does, except they handle niche games.
That said the bug doesn’t look that bad, given it’s only cosmetics.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
While I do criticise MinecraftOnline policies regarding free speech as short-sighted, enabling hate, and making the world overall a worse place, this is the minor issue here. The major issue is that you got a corporation bossing you around on what you can/can’t do with the copy of the game you bought, including dictating which servers you’re allowed to use it with.
Don’t get me wrong - my issue aren’t the “I wanna spam slurs lol” braindead trash being silenced, it’s that Microsoft has that power. And it will use that power to silence things you might want to say, even when moral and reasonable to do so.
Remember: if crushing puppies is profitable, you’re bound to have corporations crushing them, and then silencing people who defend puppies as “anti-puppy-crushing terrorists”. Specially given we’re dealing with Microsoft, that is in hot beds with fascists (including Zionists).
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Disregard the binary “free speech” label. Focus on “freedom of speech” instead, since it’s easier to see what goes on with it.
Nobody has full freedom of speech, but you can have more or less of it. It is desirable, and you want to maximise the freedom of speech of everyone.
There’s a catch, though: sometimes enabling more freedom of speech to certain actors means you’re removing freedom of speech from other actors - by forcing the later to leave, by silencing them, by preventing them from reaching a willing audience, etc.
With that in mind:
It’s become really hard to tell what something like this actually means. Does free speech mean [being able to speak out against authoritarian power structures]¹? Or does it mean [throwing slurs and hatred around]²?
It’s both. However:
- #1 is about giving more freedom of speech to a lot of people who barely have some
- #2 is about giving a few individuals freedom of speech and silencing the target of their slurs and hatred
So if you want to maximise freedom of speech, you need to allow #1 and disallow #2. Or like you correctly said, it makes #1 worth defending and #2 reasonable to limit.
The fact that they just typify it as having a free speech policy without qualifying what that means makes my skeptical.
They qualify it in the wiki, and it includes #2:
[…] You will not be banned for anything you say, aside from spamming. This includes but is not limited to: // Swearing; // Personal attacks; // Racial or cultural insults; // Asking to be banned.
Intentionally being insulting or offensive will be treated as an open invitation to PvP, and as such will not be protected by rules against PvP “bullying”, since you will be considered to have invited it. So long as you continue being offensive, other players are free to respond with PvP.
- Comment on Civilization VII set for a big change to allow you to play as one civ continuously 5 weeks ago:
The game is unreasonably expensive, and bundled with malware (DRM). Both issues can be fixed by pirating it, but… frankly? I don’t think it’s even worth pirating it.
Check the Steam reviews. Bad interface, the ages system undermines the premise of the game, shallow diplomacy, AI is easy to manipulate, and apparently released in a broken/incomplete state. Whoever made this game doesn’t play the series, and it shows.
- Comment on [Episode] My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s • Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga - Episode 4 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Surprisingly wholesome episode given naughty elves, sibling fights, and the overall edgy aesthetic of the series.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 1 month ago:
For those that aren’t sure if you have fiber, the fiber will literally run into your “modem” (your Optical Network Terminal or ONT) and it will be incredibly clear that you have fiber. The wire is incredibly thin and they will warn you about bending it too much.
And if the connector breaks, you can’t simply fix it at home like you would do with copper. You’ll spend an internet-less weekend until the technician fixes it.
Source: got this shit happening with me this month. On a lighter side the work piled up disappeared real fast!
- Comment on [Episode] Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill Season 2 • Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2 - Episode 3 discussion 1 month ago:
Fenrir: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Dora-chan: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Sui: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Yes, yes. Dungeon now.”That’s blatantly preferential treatment!
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 1 month ago:
I’m surprised the best strategy wasn’t the neutral prompt, due to removal of any fluff.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 1 month ago:
At least you got a nice example of the third paragraph.
