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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I hate dealing with their shenanigans, I can’t really blame them either. As long as I can get away with using an adblocker, I will - but honestly, YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for. I have no moral argument for why YouTube should let me watch videos for free, even though I like free stuff just as much as the next guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Drive by wire uaually references to steering though the official definition is more broad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the source most Americans get their news from wether it’s technically a news source in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like I’m not in the target audience for these ads. I have absolutely zero clue what any of the things mentioned above are. I use WhatsApp to send messages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a place for incivility that I’m making, either. I just struggle to believe you genuinely don’t understand what people mean when they ask for less moderation or censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"workers" is a dehumanizing term⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a term used to describe a group of people. This is just making up stuff to get offended by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody is asking for an unmoderated space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your claim is only valid if you first run this elaborate, long-term experiment that I came up with.”

  The world isn’t binary. When someone says less moderation, they don’t mean no moderation. Framing it as all-or-nothing just misrepresents their view to make it easier for you to argue against. CSAM is illegal, so it’s always going to be against the rules - that’s not up to Google and is therefore a moot point.

  As for other content you ideologically oppose, that’s your issue. As long as it’s not advocating violence or breaking the law, I don’t see why they’d be obligated to remove it. You’re free to think they should - but it’s their platform, not yours. If they want to allow that kind of content, they’re allowed to. If you don’t like it, don’t go there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t get notified if the channel owner deletes your comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. There just seem to be a fairly widespread pro-censorship sentiment among Lemmy users, usually driven by the desire to block speech that could be harmful to marginalized groups - but in practice, it often extends to broadly silencing all ideas they disagree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bit different than using chatGPT in what is effectively a one-on-one interview. This isn’t about writing a job application. It’s about someone asking you a question and instead of you answering it you make chatGPT to answer it for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bible tends to contradict itself time and time again, so you can use it to justify just about any interpretation. In Luke 22:36, Jesus tells his disciples, “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s usually intrepretet to mean how you react to personal insults by not excalating the situation. Not that you’re not allowed to defend yourself from violence. You’re also expected to defend the people close to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because it is.

  The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.

  Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Different definitions for intelligence:

  • The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
  • the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations.
  • the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
  • the act of understanding
  • the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
  • It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

  We have plenty of intelligent AI systems already. LLM’s probably fit the definition. Something like Tesla FSD definitely does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Our current AI models, sure - but a true superintelligent AGI would be a completely different case. As humans, we’re inherently incapable of imagining just how persuasive a system like that could be. When bribery doesn’t work, it’ll eventually turn to threats - and even the scenarios imagined by humans can be pretty terrifying. Whatever the AI would come up with would likely be far worse.

  The “just pull the plug” argument, to me, sounds like a three-year-old thinking they can outsmart an adult - except in this case, the difference in intelligence would be orders of magnitude greater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is chassis manufacturing more difficult than it seems

  Yes, I remember watching a video explaining how the bend on the side of an Audi differs between cheaper and more expensive models due to ease of manufacturing. That makes intuitive sense too: a nicely carved stick is more valuable and takes more time to make than one that’s simply had the bark removed. The body design of a Lamborghini is orders of magnitude more elaborate than that of a VW Golf so ofcourse it’s going to also cost much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks.

  Well, I don’t think OpenAI knows how to build AGI, so that’s false. Otherwise, Sam’s statement there is technically correct, but kind of misleading - he talks about AGI and then, in the next sentence, switches back to AI.

  Sergey’s claim that they will achieve AGI before 2030 could turn out to be true, but again, he couldn’t possibly know that. I’m sure it’s their intention, but that’s different from reality.

  Elon’s statement doesn’t even make sense. I’ve never heard anyone define AGI like that. A thirteen-year-old with an IQ of 85 is generally intelligent. Being smarter than the smartest human definitely qualifies as AGI, but that’s just a weird bar. General intelligence isn’t about how smart something is - it’s about whether it can apply its intelligence across multiple unrelated fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a link where I could see them making these claims myself? This is something I’ve only heard from AI critics, but never directly from the AI companies themselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did, but I’ve just never seen them say it outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s AI, not AGI. LLM’s are good at generating language just like chess engines are good at chess. ChatGPT doesn’t have the capability to keeo track of all the pieces on the board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascism won’t kill you. I hope you don’t actually believe that - and if you do, I’d genuinely recommend finding someone to talk to.

  As for your question: yes and no. Yes, in the sense that you’re most likely consuming way too much news, which has undoubtedly contributed to feeling that way. But the false assumption you seem to be making is that if you stop reading the news, you’ll be completely oblivious to what’s going on around you. If you truly don’t want to know what’s happening in the world, you’d have to go live alone in the forest and never talk to anyone again. Otherwise, you’re going to hear about most things anyway - and if, by some miracle, you manage to entirely avoid hearing about something, it almost certainly wasn’t important in the first place.

  No one is obligated to consume the news at the cost of their mental health. Reading the news doesn’t fix the world. “Staying informed” doesn’t fix the world. Talking about politics online doesn’t fix the world. If someone wants to do something about it, then do something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet even on Lemmy people can’t seem to make sense of these terms and are saying things like “LLM’s are not AI”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt most LLM haters have spent that much time thinking about it deeply. It’s part of the package deal you must subscribe to if you want to belong to the group. If you spend time in spaces where the haters are loud and everyone else stays quiet out of fear of backlash, it’s only natural to start feeling like everyone must think this way - so it must be true, and therefore I think this way too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is feigned happiness remotely similar to actual happiness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, happiness describes a subjective feeling, whereas faking or pretending it refers to something you try to display outwardly despite not actually feeling that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They blocked 3rd party apps so I left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have no problem with that. I also think LLMs are far more intelligent than the average social media commenter gives them credit for - and that includes emotional intelligence as well. It’s just that, to me, it sounded like you were implying they can experience empathy from the subjective side, so that’s what I was responding to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge amount of people on social media are conditioned to hate everything AI to the point where even asking a genuine, non-critical question gets you downvoted. A large part of this is people who haven’t really thought deeply about the subject - they’ve just absorbed the popular sentiment from the spaces they hang out in. AI is often seen as a symbol of big, greedy, unethical corporations, so any engagement with it is treated as suspect by default.

  On top of that, there’s also a kind of tribal signaling at play. Being anti-AI has become a way for some to show they’re on the “right side” of issues like workers’ rights, art ownership, or tech overreach. So even curiosity can be read as siding with the enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do

  LLMs are almost certainly unable to feel either of those emotions. Their responses are definitely more empathetic and respectful than those of your average social media commenter, but that doesn’t imply they have any subjective experience of such emotions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you care about up/down votes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay almost no attention to the scores on other people’s posts, but admittedly, I do sometimes feel disheartened when I see what I consider an extremist view getting heavily upvoted. As for downvotes, I have those hidden, so in that sense, they’re a non-factor for me. But you’re asking whether I care. Of course I care and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. We’re social animals - we care what others think of us. That’s why I hid the downvotes in the first place: so they wouldn’t affect me. Mean comments are enough to deal with; I don’t need to hear the audience booing too.

  My perhaps unpopular opinion is that while the voting system itself should remain, the scores should be hidden for everyone - and I mean both upvotes and downvotes. Downvotes don’t mean you’re wrong, and upvotes don’t mean you’re right. They’re just indicators of how popular your opinion is with the audience. That dynamic encourages people to self-censor unpopular views and, conversely, to post meaningless one-liners just for the applause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had no issues with adblocker for over half a year. Works flawlessly on both browser and mobile browser.