shawn1122

@shawn1122@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid a kid who really likes you?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it bother him when you don’t respond? I don’t know this boys particular circumstances but Western culture has a mentorship crisis when it comes to young boys and men.

  You shouldn’t have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable but, as an introvert myself, I have come to learn that kinship sometimes means doing your own thing in the presence of others. This is really important to children since they want to feel like they’re part of something bigger.

  If he’s not expecting a response to everything and you’re OK with just being together I’d advocate for that. It might be healthy for both of you. Depends on your specific circumstances though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cuts tariff on UK cars; American carmakers not happy about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good they should pressure their government for a similar exemption on Canada and Mexico.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK-US TRADE: “Caving into a bully is not something to be celebrated”, campaigners say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK has not been in a strong financial position in terms of growth and investment since Brexit so I imagine he sees it as taking one for the team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pakistan's Chinese-made jet brought down two Indian fighter aircraft, US officials say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’s saying that BJP propoganda on social media is so ham fisted that, if Indian pilots are of a similar quality, the planes may have just fallen out of the sky.

  Pretty standard for a Western layperson’s idea of insightful analysis of geopolitical issues in Asia lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see where you’re coming from but I think that line can be drawn by those with a moral compass, which I understand America is failing at right now.

  I truly believe most people can distinguish between threatening to bomb children and any of the examples you’ve listed but perhaps I’m giving people too much of a benefit of the doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.

  If they aren’t going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Temporary blocking doesn’t seem unreasonable to me there. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bros being bros⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How did they find two dudes that look exactly the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found it, for anyone reading don’t bother. It’s still images with an AI voiceover. I was hoping for half baked AI generated video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have a link to the video? Looking for a good laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment actually perfectly encapsulates how the US has got to the point that it’s at today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes having to lick the boot of an autocrat with no freedom to dissent. That sure sounds like working to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They must enter a unique switch serial number (that corresponds with inventory) to make the purchase? Don’t see why it has to be contigent on a subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the ARC-AGI test by Chollet has also shows regarding current AI / LLMs. They have a tendency to approach problems with this trial and error method and can be extremely inefficient (in their current form) with anything involving abstract / deductive reasoning.

  Most LLMs do terribly at the test with the most recent breakthrough being with reasoning models. But even the reasoning models struggle.

  ARC-AGI is simple, but it demands a keen sense of perception and, in some sense, judgment. It consists of a series of incomplete grids that the test-taker must color in based on the rules they deduce from a few examples; one might, for instance, see a sequence of images and observe that a blue tile is always surrounded by orange tiles, then complete the next picture accordingly. It’s not so different from paint by numbers.

  The test has long seemed intractable to major AI companies. GPT-4, which OpenAI boasted in 2023 had “advanced reasoning capabilities,” didn’t do much better than the zero percent earned by its predecessor. A year later, GPT-4o, which the start-up marketed as displaying “text, reasoning, and coding intelligence,” achieved only 5 percent. Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3.7, flagship models from Google and Anthropic, achieved 5 and 14 percent, respectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence states the nation was founded on the “national and historic right of the Jewish people”

  Israel’s 2018 Basic Law constitutionally enshrined the state as the "nation-state of the Jewish people. " granting exclusive national self-determination to Jews, prioritize Jewish settlement as a “national value”, designate Hebrew as the sole official language (with Arabic demoted to “special status”), affirm Jerusalem as the capital, and guarantee Jewish immigration rights

  This may be why people conflate the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US compartmentalizes based on race. It’s apparent in essentially all of the media they export to the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh you can achieve similar or greater privacy on a Android phone simply because it’s not locked down in the way an iPhone is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely that’s not a uniquely American phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They used to innovate, no doubt. But their products provide absolutely terrible value now. Great resale, sure. But you’re overpaying 20-30% for the hardware you’re getting which is not the case on the Android side. The only thing iPhone universally does better is 1) video and 2) ecosystem (if all your products are Apple). The rest is tomaeto vs tomahto situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I access it via Eternity app? Is it basically another instance?