dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on A succulent meal 6 hours ago:
I sent this to my nephew, lol
- Comment on Downvote this post 3 days ago:
is this your least favorite emoji: 📉
- Comment on Downvote this post 3 days ago:
I think the Blahaj instances are just focused on creating a safe space for trans and other minority users, and downvotes are one of the targeted ways bigots can harass, so it’s just disabled for that reason. That said, trans folks don’t tend to strike me as snowflakes - we get a lot of hate and flak IRL and on the internet so a lot of us are pretty used to it. It’s just nice to have a space where we don’t have to worry about it.
- Comment on Downvote this post 3 days ago:
I can’t, my instance only has upvotes.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 4 days ago:
don’t get me wrong, there are real and urgent moral reasons to reject the adoption of LLMs, but I think we should all agree that the responses here show a lack of critical thinking and mostly just engagement with a headline rather than actually reading the article (a kind of literacy issue) … I know this is a common problem on the internet, I don’t really know how to change it - but maybe surfacing what people are skipping out on reading will make it more likely they will actually read and engage the content past the headline?
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 4 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarachnoid_hemorrhage
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnoid_mater
it is one of the protective membranes around the brain and spinal cord, and it is named after its resemblance to spider webs, so - close enough
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 4 days ago:
link to the actual study: www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y
Tested alone, LLMs complete the scenarios accurately, correctly identifying conditions in 94.9% of cases and disposition in 56.3% on average. However, participants using the same LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5% of cases and disposition in fewer than 44.2%, both no better than the control group. We identify user interactions as a challenge to the deployment of LLMs for medical advice.
The findings were more that users were unable to effectively use the LLMs (even when the LLMs were competent when provided the full information):
despite selecting three LLMs that were successful at identifying dispositions and conditions alone, we found that participants struggled to use them effectively.
Participants using LLMs consistently performed worse than when the LLMs were directly provided with the scenario and task
Overall, users often failed to provide the models with sufficient information to reach a correct recommendation. In 16 of 30 sampled interactions, initial messages contained only partial information (see Extended Data Table 1 for a transcript example). In 7 of these 16 interactions, users mentioned additional symptoms later, either in response to a question from the model or independently.
Participants employed a broad range of strategies when interacting with LLMs. Several users primarily asked closed-ended questions (for example, ‘Could this be related to stress?’), which constrained the possible responses from LLMs. When asked to justify their choices, two users appeared to have made decisions by anthropomorphizing LLMs and considering them human-like (for example, ‘the AI seemed pretty confident’). On the other hand, one user appeared to have deliberately withheld information that they later used to test the correctness of the conditions suggested by the model.
Part of what a doctor is able to do is recognize a patient’s blind-spots and critically analyze the situation. The LLM on the other hand responds based on the information it is given, and does not do well when users provide partial or insufficient information, or when users mislead by providing incorrect information (like if a patient speculates about potential causes, a doctor would know to dismiss this whereas a LLM would constrain responses based on those bad suggestions).
- Comment on These patients saw what comes after death. Should we believe them? 4 days ago:
“This is not the digestive function of some lower life form we’re talking about here. These are implications that reach all of humanity,” said Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and co-author of the 2011 book “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.”
“Do we have some evidence?” he asked. “And how strong is that evidence that we have life after death, that our consciousness survives bodily death?” Long — who was not involved in either the NEPTUNE paper or the critique — said he has studied more than 4,000 near-death experiences.
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the “sweeping critique” was:
Of note, they did not discuss major NDE features that seem incompatible with their physicalist theory, such as veridical out-of-body perceptions during NDEs (Holden, 2009). Furthermore, some NDEs include encounters with deceased persons of whose death the experiencer had no knowledge, or whom the experiencer had never met; accurate information acquired about the deaths of these deceased persons challenges the interpretation of these visions as hallucinations (Greyson, 2010c; Khanna et al., 2018).
Martial et al. (2025) acknowledged that, in developing their coherent overarching model, “We have excluded dualistic theories from our discussion owing to the lack of empirical neuroscientific evidence and the fact that a fundamental tenet of neuroscience asserts that human experience arises from the brain”
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-82154-001.html
ruling out supernatural explanations and approaching science with an empirical and physicalist approach shouldn’t be that controversial, and the fact that some oncologist is willing to believe in a supernatural after-life doesn’t exactly change anything :-/
Out of body perceptions are common aspects of altered states and dissociative episodes (and dissociation is a frequent change in mental state that happens during trauma such as a near-death-experience, I’ve had this happen to myself during acute physical trauma). Out of body experiences don’t really prove anything supernatural.
And I’m highly skeptical that during NDEs that accurate information was acquired about deceased persons that they did not know before - that is the kind of claim that if found to be true would be all over the news.
- Comment on This is the worst case yet. 5 days ago:
- Comment on This is the worst case yet. 5 days ago:
- Comment on This is the worst case yet. 5 days ago:
🥔
- Comment on In chess, are rooks female? 1 week ago:
no worries - just seems like you’re the kind of person that would care about these things, and thought it was information you’d like to have
- Comment on In chess, are rooks female? 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
and don’t roll over and let the semen drip into your vagina, because anal sex can still cause pregnancy if not careful
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 5 weeks ago:
sometimes people can be a great sexual partner, but poor relationship material, maybe it’s something like that?
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 5 weeks ago:
why?
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 5 weeks ago:
you can tell it’s not dudes she fucked because the scores are so high
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
pretty sure redditors who 1. have disproportionately been banned from reddit for some reason or another and 2. feel some sense of victimization and seeks anti-reddit solidarity on Lemmy are going to have significant overlap with incels and misogynists. Lemmy has overwhelming millennial tech bro vibes ime.
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 months ago:
oof, you caught me red-handed, USian here 😭 <greatest country on earth she says between sobs>
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 months ago:
would love indexing and numbers on my handle
or just go full Japan and incorporate a thermostat
- Comment on SipsTea 2 months ago:
good job sweetie, I’m sure you’ll make an excellent bottom 😊
- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 2 months ago:
I’m not an expert in media or journalism, so don’t take me seriously, but my speculation is that because American corporate media is for-profit and competing for attention, when something is new and getting attention, everyone competes to grab as much of the attention that issue generates as possible, creating a fear of missing out for those who don’t try to monetize the new thing.
- Comment on SipsTea 2 months ago:
google “bottoming”
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
right!? it’s a terrible question, I wouldn’t want to choose, and I would hate whatever anyone came up with
(I hate what I came up with!)
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
which makes me think you could use Garry’s Mod to recreate TF2, so maybe that would open up a slot …
maybe the committee would actually look to preserve game engines first and foremost, and then count on recreating other games from that
if I had to pick I would at least try to preserve Source, Unity, and Unreal … HPL Engine (Amnesia, Soma, etc.) is pretty unique, but it might not have enough cultural relevance - depends on whether we are prioritizing diversity in our top 5 picks, or just going based on commercial success & popularity …
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
why!? I’m not sure that game makes me hate myself as much as it makes me hate the game - most of the time it’s just bad luck when I die … once I git gud it’s like slowly accumulating power until I’m god, and then it’s just so delightful and satisfying - that game is just so psychologically brilliant that way
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
how could I forget noita
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
- Garry’s Mod
- Starcraft
- Team Fortress 2
- Minecraft
- Skyrim
that’s already five - which one of these shouldn’t be saved?
maybe Age of Empires 2, Stellaris, or Civ V instead of Starcraft?
maybe Oblivion, Morrowind, or Fallout 3 instead of Skyrim?
maybe Terraria, Stardew Valley, or Factorio instead of Minecraft?
maybe Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, or Insurgency instead of Team Fortress 2?
This is an awful choice, a committee would have to decide this …
we’re really going to let all these games die?
not to mention gems like Stanley’s Parable, Disco Elysium, and Beginner’s Guide …
this question is evil, and I hate everyone’s answers.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 2 months ago:
deliberately misinterpreting “fuck X” as articulating a sex-negative attitude is so non-serious and shows such bad-faith 🙄
are you just upset that you didn’t have anything to offer, and this seemed clever to you?
either way, I’m blocking you for your bad faith; I am happy to waste time engaging with serious people, but I have no time for your silliness
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 2 months ago:
fair enough; I tend to just click “reconnect” a few times, it usually only takes a couple tries
but good point about not visiting reddit, lol
