hera
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- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 hours ago:
Well you are doing a poor job of it and are bringing an unnecessary amount of heat to an otherwise civil discussion
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 hours ago:
Haha wtf are you talking about. You have no idea what generation I am, you don’t know how old I am and I never said there is nothing new under the sun.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 7 hours ago:
You seem to think that one day somebody invented the first language, or made the first song?
There was no “first language” and no “first song”. These things would have evolved from something that was not quite a full language, or not quite a full song.
Animals influenced the first cave painters, that seems pretty obvious.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 16 hours ago:
No… There are a lot of radio shows that get scientists to speak.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 16 hours ago:
Haha coming in hot I see. Seems like I’ve touched a nerve. You don’t know anything about me or whether I’m creative in any way.
All ideas have basis in something we have experienced or learned. There is no completely original idea. All music was influenced by something that came before it, all art by something the artist saw or experienced. This doesn’t make it bad and it doesn’t mean an AI could have done it
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
What do you mean what do I mean? You were the one that said about ideas in the first place…
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
I am more talking about listening to and reading scientists in media. The definition of consciousness is vague at best
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
What new idea exactly are you proposing?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
This is always my point when it comes to this discussion. Scientists tend to get to the point of discussion where consciousness is brought up then start waving their hands and acting as if magic is real.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 days ago:
Philosophers are so desperate for humans to be special. How is outputting things based on things it has learned any different to what humans do?
We observe things, we learn things and when required we do or say things based on the things we observed and learned. That’s exactly what the AI is doing.
I don’t think we have achieved “AGI” but I do think this argument is stupid.
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 5 days ago:
Maybe you can provide some context of what you mean? I assume it is very contextual.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 1 week ago:
Love seeing open source projects from companies that aren’t specifically tech firms
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 2 weeks ago:
I’m super interested in alternative browsers but never have the time to test them. I always wonder what the Internet would be like if we built it from scratch right now instead of having the legacy of 30 years of development to support.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 2 weeks ago:
What browsers does it block?
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 2 weeks ago:
Stupidity knows no bounds
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 4 weeks ago:
I have an old kindle and I love it. Does everything I need it to. Read books with a backlight, that’s it.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 4 weeks ago:
Same as wept
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 4 weeks ago:
Susie Dent mentioned on a radio 4 show that words that maintained the archaic -t ending are usually more commonly used words. Words that are used less lost their -t ending and gained a more generic -ed ending as people were not taught it and used the rule they knew. So words we have like slept, dreamt, smelt are regularly used words day to day.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 4 weeks ago:
Someone might recognise your issue though and have suggestions, even if you can’t reproduce it exactly
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 4 weeks ago:
This seems very odd, I’ve been using syncthing for a good 5 years and never had a single file corrupt - might be worth opening an issue on their github
- Comment on Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound 1 month ago:
It was the plan all along. Deposit the building materials for later use.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Feel like we’ve been waiting a long time for it :(
- Comment on AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say 2 months ago:
As a very experienced python developer, I have tried using chatgpt for debugging and vibe coding multiple times and you just end up going in circles and never get to a working solution. It ends up being a lot faster just to do it yourself
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 2 months ago:
Super interesting blog, also love that there are still some people blogging and it snot an insta post or YouTube video
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 2 months ago:
I literally can’t think of a scientific use case where lossy compression would be acceptable?
- Comment on World's first quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication with multiple ground stations 3 months ago:
I understood some of those words. Sounds like the future though
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 3 months ago:
It’s really surprising this doesn’t already exist. It’s such a hated piece of tech, I would have thought someome would have thought they could do better! I don’t know enough to do it myself but I’d sure as hell support a project to do it!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Incredible to see how far blender has come. I remember using it over ten years when I was trying to get off pirated software (3ds max), while it’s still recognisable the capability has exploded
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 4 months ago:
I’ve been using it for 8 years and haven’t paid, is there any benefit for paying?
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 4 months ago:
Wow, I’ve got more than that pinned