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- Comment on Russia Responds to Israel's Strikes on Iran: 'Full-Scale War' Possible 30 minutes ago:
Your metaphor is not describing the role of Russia, but rather of US, UK, France, Germany etc. siding with Israel, despite Israel launching the attack on Friday to sabotage diplomatic solutions with Iran and aiming for an all out war.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 17 hours ago:
I never said that.
The key point is that we are still limited by what LLMs can and can’t do and fundamentally this is no new technology, just refined technology.
Think of it like cars. Cars exist since more than a hundred years. A modern car looks much fancier than a car a hundred years ago. But when it comes to the core aspect -moving passengers and cargo around on the ground- modern cars can’t do more than cars from a hundred years ago. They are restricted by the same restriction (usually requiring some sort of road, requiring refueling points…)
We are pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do, but there seems no indication, that it actually is a suitable tool for automated programming. LLMs are most likely just cars, where you need something that can fly.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 20 hours ago:
Learning a language and forming and expressing complex thoughts in an efficient way are three different things.
Learning the syntax of a programming language doesn’t make you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language makes you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language in an efficient way makes you a good programmer. - Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 20 hours ago:
You can 3D print a concrete hull with limited structural strength. All the rest still needs to be done by humans.
Also you could achieve the same effect in terms of manpower required for the structure just using prefabricated concrete modules.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 21 hours ago:
A lot of the things that current “AI” is doing exist since the 90s or even earlier. It is just that now the computational capacity is big enough to make much more complex looking inputs and results.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 21 hours ago:
This also applies to your manager and coworkers though.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 day ago:
Also bring an ID and some cash. E.g. to buy some snacks/meal/water if the day goes longer than you planned for.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 2 days ago:
The government was elected by the people.
You are German or you are at least able to speak it well. You know what is going on. You know how it is consistent. You know how much the country has shifted back to the right/far-right. You know how supposedly progressive parties are complicit in this.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 2 days ago:
The CSU, the bavarian sister of the CDU and party who runs the ministry of the interior had meetings with Trumps republicans to learn how to do Trumpism from them.
Merz said he supports Trumps demand for 5% of the German BIP being used for military expenses. That corresponds to half of the total government budget in Germany.
The new government is even more fiercely pro Israel than the previous one and like the US attacks the authority of the ICC and ICJ, which are core institutions of a rules based international order and by extension European integration.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 3 days ago:
You just described that he is in fact indifferent.
It is not like we don’t have easy to access knowledge about authoritarianism and how it plays out. It is not like we lack information about the criminal and murderous stuff Palantir is involved. FFS the company is owned by a guy who lets himself be “refreshened” with the blood of younger people.
Anyone who does a minimal level of due diligence in looking up his employer knows what kind of company it is. And it is an intelligence company, so the type of people working there must bring a higher level of research and diligence skills.
They know exactly what they are doing and they are fine with it.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 3 days ago:
If you expect liberation or standing up for good in the world to come from Germany, you will be disappointed.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 3 days ago:
Don’t worry. Germany always sides with genocide and the new government is eager to lick Trumps boots.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 3 days ago:
Police issues a dispersal order, but blocks all routes to safely leave the area.
Congratulations, you will now be charged as having committed a crime and good luck proving in a court that there was no realistic option for you to leave.
Also police seizes your phone. Congratulations now they access your data and either go after people you have had contact with or they claim you to be part of a criminal organization as they pin other charges on people they found a connection with.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 3 days ago:
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 5 days ago:
I recently had an online event about using “AI” in my industry, construction.
The presentor finished on “Now is no the time to wait, but to get doing, lest you want to stay behind”.
She gave examples of some companies she found that promised to help with “AI” in the process of designing constructions. When i asked her, if any of these companies are willing to take the legal risk that the designs are up to code and actually sound from an engineering perspective, she had to deny.
This sums it up for me. You get sold a hype by people who dont understand (or dont tell) what it is and isnt to managers who dont understand what it is and isnt over the heads of people who actually understand what it is or at least what it needs to be to be relevant. And these last people then get laid off or f*ed over in other ways as they have twice the work than before because now first they need to show to management why the “AI” result is criminal and then do all the regular design work anyways.
It is the same toxid dynamic like with any tech bro hype before. Just now it seems to look good at first and is more difficult to show why it is not.
This is especially dangerous when it comes to engineering.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 1 week ago:
Not just Russia.
Israel, US, China, North Korea, India and other countries… Nuclear Lobby, Fossil Fuel Lobby and countless other industry lobbyists.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim “Privacy by default” has held up in this context.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Using machine learning including neuronal networks, generative AI based off of neuronal networks and so on exist well longer than since the past few years.
“DeepDream” was released as a software ten years ago. Research into LLMs exists since at least the 90s.
“AI” also has been a hype term in many industries since a decade, just that it reached the general public with the ChatGPT hype.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
“our crypto is backed in value by bitcoin”
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
If i understood it correctly, meta wants to slap its own crypto-currency on everything.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
Well, the decentralization of Bitcoin only lasted so long. Now it is in the hand of a few large “mining” corporations who can afford the hardware and have access to cheap electricity.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 1 week ago:
LLMs among other things lack the whole neurotransmitter “live” regulation aspect and plasticity of the brain.
We are nowhere near a close representation of actual brains. LLMs to brains are like a horse carriage compared to modern cars. Yes they have four wheels and they move, and cars also need four wheels and move, but that is far from being close to each other.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 weeks ago:
And that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.
- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 2 weeks ago:
Hamas has set up a roadblock? I thought the area was under IDF control…
Even when they lie they lie.
- Comment on The Gooner 2 weeks ago:
okay boss -> no need to argue, no need to talk about the task, just leave me alone.
you need to talk to the boss -> i am not taking responsibility for any decisions that if they go wrong will be blamed on me and if they go well i won’t get credit for.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 weeks ago:
BDS is a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and ultimately sanctions of Israel and companies complicit in Israels illegal occupation and other crimes against the Palestinian people.
Microsoft provides AI tools to the Israeli army -IDF- which are used to automatically designate people as targets for bombing. Among other things a particular heinous AI is infamously named “Where’s Daddy”, where bombings are timed so that the target is killed upon arriving home, so their entire family is also murdered.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
apnews.com/…/microsoft-israel-military-gaza-hamas…Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, iD-Software, Zenimax, Mojang (Minecraft) and others are all owned by Microsoft.
- Comment on DNC can't communicate 2 weeks ago:
And Joe Biden voted for the “defense of marriage” bill in 1996 to prevent states from recognizing same sex marriage. The bill was signed into law by Bill Clinton. Husband of later candidate and loser to Trump Hillary Clinton.
Almost as if the DNC is opposed to progressive politics until too much of their base has been affected by what their kids learned in college. Unless it is about genocide. The DNC would never stop supporting genocide and rather beat up their own kids on college campus.
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 2 weeks ago:
We don’t need heroes. we need people who shop up regularly. And many of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is that aspect taught in school properly?
Because i mostly remember the teachers telling me to shut up (at best) if i questioned the veracity of what they were teaching. I also got thrown out of math class for saying the method of the teacher is more complicated than what is needed.
Exams are designed so that you regurgitate mostly what you have been told. Maybe you get lucky to have a good teacher in the humanities who is open to individual thoughts and teaches how to think about things critically. Most of the time it is “here is the official and only correct interpretation of event X, place Y, article Z…”
School for the largest part leaves no space to teach about ambiguity and evolving knowledge. Even if the curriculum allows for it, the class size usually doesn’t.
Which brings me back to my thesis. People criticizing the changed status of Pluto are feeling betrayed by school.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, someone said this was knowledge important to have in general education, so people learned it in school.
Now people are told what they learned in school is either wrong, or not important, so they shouldn’t concern themselves with it.
This raises some important implications about education and its purposes and the role of schooling in manufacturing consent in Democracies, the question of how much an individual should trust the state and so on.
If you cannot express or understand these properly or if they contradict other core ideological believes of you, ending up with arguing about Pluto rather than these issues, is normal.