FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? 21 hours ago:
The only way I can imagine this working is by twisting the definition of the words "search engine" enough that you can claim that there aren't search engines, but really there are still, just under a different name.
Search engines aren't actually the "problem" that OP is wanting to address, here, though. He just doesn't like the specific search engines that actually exist right now. What he should really be asking is how a search engine could be implemented that doesn't have the particular flaws that he's bothered by.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 2 days ago:
Nor is it up to you. But fact remains, it's not illegal until there are actually laws against it. The court cases that might determine whether current laws are against it are still ongoing.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 2 days ago:
Also pretty sure training LLMs after someone opts out is illegal?
Why? There have been a couple of lawsuits launched in various jurisdictions claiming LLM training is copyright violation but IMO they're pretty weak and none of them have reached a conclusion. The "opting" status of the writer doesn't seem relevant if copyright doesn't apply in the first place.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
Existing AIs such as ChatGPT were trained in part on that data so obviously they've got ways to make it work. They filtered out some stuff, for example - the "glitch tokens" such as solidgoldmagikarp were evidence of that.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
By "old archives" I mean everything from 2022 and earlier.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
There are torrents of complete Reddit comment archives available for any random person who wants them, I'm sure Reddit themselves has a comprehensive edit history of everything.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
"Model collapse" can be easily avoided by keeping old human data with new synthetic data in the training set. The old archives of Reddit content from before there was AI are still around.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
You think they don't have the originals archived?
- Comment on Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches 5 days ago:
Some are, but they still don't build rockets. I think there's some other factor that's important.
- Comment on Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches 5 days ago:
And even if SLS is an example of non-private rocketry, it's hardly something that should be touted as a positive example. Especially not when launch pace is your criterion.
- Comment on Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches 6 days ago:
Yeah, why aren't regular folks building reusable heavy-lift rocket systems?
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 6 days ago:
Maybe, but Trump has already had a weird vendetta against wind turbines for a long time. They had the audacity of being near enough to one of his golf courses that he imagined they might be visible (they're not) and reduce its value. Ever since waking from that night-terror he's been on the warpath.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting people shouldn't be allowed to own stuff? There are very few economic systems where people aren't allowed to own stuff and they tend not to be popular. Most of the people who are complaining about landlords and rent and whatnot really just want to own their own houses.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
You answered your question in the sentence right after your question. The landlord owns the property and so he can do what he wants with it. He's letting you live there but has decided he wants something in exchange for letting you live there. If currency didn't exist he'd want something else in exchange.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
I should note that currency and capitalism are not the same thing. Pretty much every existing economic system has currency of some form, it's just a way of tracking the relative values of various things so that people can make agreements about who gets what.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Fortunately the AIs are getting quite good at answering technical questions like these.
- Comment on Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds 1 week ago:
That's not a "tipping point", then. Being past a tipping point means that future harm is unavoidable.
- Comment on Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds 1 week ago:
Well, there you go. How can you expect people to pay attention when you're telling them there's nothing they can do?
- Comment on Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds 1 week ago:
I mean, we keep hearing breathlessly alarmed articles about how "this year is a tipping point!" and "if we don't do X by next year it's all over!" And then those dates pass, and either new dates are announced or they're just forgotten about.
Crying wolf means that when the actual wolf comes nobody pays attention any more.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
You're describing Bing Chat.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
This sort of thing is so self-sabotaging. The website already has your comment, and a license to use it. By deleting your stuff from the web you only ensure that the AI is definitely going to be the better resource to go to for answers.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Maybe for people who have no clue how to work with an LLM. They don't have to be perfect to still be incredibly valuable, I make use of them all the time and hallucinations aren't a problem if you use the right tools for the job in the right way.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 1 week ago:
A couple of months ago the average temperature where I live was well below freezing. Now it's around twenty degrees C.
By this time next year it'll be thousands of degrees!
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 1 week ago:
Pretty sure the big AI corps aren't depending on obsolete second-hand half-burned-out Ethereum mining rigs for their AI training.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 1 week ago:
Sure, but it's simply not physically possible for AI to be consuming that much power. Not enough computers exist, and not enough ability to manufacture new ones fast enough. There hasn't been a giant surge of new power plants built in just the past few years, so if something was suddenly drawing an India's worth of power then somewhere an India's worth of consumers just went dark.
This just isn't plausible.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 1 week ago:
No, it makes no sense. India has over a billion people. There's no way that amount of computing power could just magically have poofed into existence over the past few years, nor the power plants necessary to run all of that.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
It's just a matter of land management. Many of those grassland areas used to have other large grazing animals on them, so as long as the cattle herds aren't bigger than those old herds it should be sustainable.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Do you think people in non-capitalist societies only eat the healthiest of foods?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
There's no need to "torture" cattle to get meat from them. Indeed, meat from animals that are experiencing stressful conditions tastes worse. Not to mention simply having lower productivity. A farm with happy cows is going to be more profitable than one with stressed ones, all else being equal.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
And in those specific cases, sure, you could do more efficiently by getting rid of the cattle.
The point I'm making is that there's plenty of cattle raised in places that aren't like that.