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 How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 day ago:
Yes. I addressed that. Fasten it to flat pieces of stiff material, not to the floor. The stiff material keeps it from curling but can be moved.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 day ago:
I addressed that. I'm not proposing fastening it to the floor.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 day ago:
Use carpet tape (double-sided tape that's meant for sticking rugs to the floor) to fasten stiff squares of material to the undersides of the corners. The stiff material will keep it from curling, but it won't be stuck down to the floor so you can still move it.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 3 days ago:
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 1 week ago:
Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must've just not wanted to wait.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 1 week ago:
Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don't those businesses just download the torrents?
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 1 week ago:
Seems strange. Anna's Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn't need to "cut a deal" for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you've got the whole collection available locally.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 1 week ago:
Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases.
So 38% saw benefits from AI, whereas "nearly" 26% saw cost increases from it. One could just as easily write the headline "More companies experience increased benefits from AI than experience increased costs" based on this data but that headline wouldn't get so many clicks.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
I'd consider that a "lose" condition.
It's possible for everyone to lose a war.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you're using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
I'm not "minimizing" nukes. I'm describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I'm saying it's not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you're interpreting that as "it's fine, there's no downside"?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as "it's fine to be punched in the face"?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
- Comment on Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark 1 week ago:
Oh no, the orange toddler would get angry?
How angry do we need to make him before blood vessels start popping? Would be such a shame if that happened.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 1 week ago:
Youtube isn't the way you think it should be, though.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn't winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
I assume you're worried about nuclear war? It'll be bad, but there simply aren't enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 1 week ago:
"Why did they take that feature away? I was busy abusing it!"
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
- Comment on Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke 2 weeks ago:
He manages to also insult Canada with that joke too, by assuming they'll get past 51.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
I have a sneaking suspicion that the vast majority of the people raging about AIs scraping their data are not raging about it being done inefficiently.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
You're thinking of "model decay", I take it? That's not really a thing in practice.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
Raw materials to inform the LLMs constructing the synthetic data, most likely. If you want it to be up to date on the news, you need to give it that news.
The point is not that the scraping doesn't happen, it's that the data is already being highly processed and filtered before it gets to the LLM training step. There's a ton of "poison" in that data naturally already. Early LLMs like GPT-3 just swallowed the poison and muddled on, but researchers have learned how much better LLMs can be when trained on cleaner data and so they already take steps to clean it up.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea what "established means" would be. In the particular case of the Fediverse it seems impossible, you can just set up your own instance specifically intended for harvesting comments and use that. The Fediverse is designed specifically to publish its data for others to use in an open manner.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
Are you proposing flooding the Fediverse with fake bot comments in order to prevent the Fediverse from being flooded with fake bot comments? Or are you thinking more along the lines of that guy who keeps using "Þ" in place of "th"? Making the Fediverse too annoying to use for bot and human alike would be a fairly phyrric victory, I would think.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
A basic Google search for "synthetic data llm training" will give you lots of hits describing how the process goes these days.
Take this as "defeatist" if you wish, as I said it doesn't really matter. In the early days of LLMs when ChatGPT first came out the strategy for training these things was to just dump as much raw data onto them as possible and hope quantity allowed the LLM to figure something out from it, but since then it's been learned that quality is better than quantity and so training data is far more carefully curated these days. Not because there's "poison" in it, just because it results in better LLMs. Filtering out poison will happen as a side effect.
It's like trying to contaminate a city's water supply by peeing in the river upstream of the water treatment plant drawing from it. The water treatment plant is already dealing with all sorts of contaminants anyway.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
I think it's worthwhile to show people that views outside of their like-minded bubble exist. One of the nice things about the Fediverse over Reddit is that the upvote and downvote tallies are both shown, so we can see that opinions are not a monolith.
Also, engaging in Internet debate is never to convince the person you're actually talking to. That almost never happens. The point of debate is to present convincing arguments for the less-committed casual readers who are lurking rather than participating directly.