Opinionhaver
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- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 1 week ago:
We seem to be finding our way into echo chambers just fine without algorithms or big tech as well.
- Comment on Humans domesticated wolves into dogs. Then domesticated wolves' food. Then trained dogs to protect that food from the wolves. 1 week ago:
I believe that, in reality, wolves domesticated themselves. They started hanging around humans because it was a mutually beneficial arrangement.
- Comment on Humans domesticated wolves into dogs. Then domesticated wolves' food. Then trained dogs to protect that food from the wolves. 1 week ago:
Dogs and wolves are the same specie - just a different subspecie. A Chihuahua could breed with a wolf.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 1 week ago:
I’m not 100% sure but I don’t see why not if that’s the name you gave them when registering as a customer. They all read in my ID as well.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
Does this help?
- Comment on If I had a hammer … 1 week ago:
You’re not hoping anything, you’re just trying to look clever by pretending to be worried about phrasing no one actually misunderstood.
Concern trolling / weaponized empathy - Pretending to care as a disguise for judgment or hostility.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 1 week ago:
I have 3 first names and I’m legally allowed to use any of them.
- Comment on If I had a hammer … 1 week ago:
Ironically I had to use AI to figure out what this is supposed to mean.
Here’s the intended meaning:
The author is critiquing the misapplication of AI—specifically, the way people adopt a flashy new tool (AI, in this case) and start using it for everything, even when it’s not the right tool for the job.
Hammers vs. screwdrivers: A hammer is great for nails, but terrible for screws. If people start hammering screws just because hammers are faster and cheaper, they’re clearly missing the point of why screws exist and what screwdrivers are for.
Applied to AI: People are now using large language models (like ChatGPT) or generative AI for tasks they were never meant to do—data analysis, logical reasoning, legal interpretation, even mission-critical decision-making—just because it’s easy, fast, and feels impressive.
So the post is a cautionary parable: just because a tool is powerful or trendy (like generative AI), doesn’t mean it’s suited to every task. And blindly replacing well-understood, purpose-built tools (like rule-based systems, structured code, or human experts) with something flashy but poorly matched is a mistake.
It’s not anti-AI—it’s anti-overuse or misuse of AI. And the tone suggests the writer thinks that’s already happening.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
A self-aware or conscious AI system is most likely also generally intelligent - but general intelligence itself doesn’t imply consciousness. It’s likely that consciousness would come along with it, but it doesn’t have to. An unconscious AGI is a perfectly coherent concept.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
What do you not agree with the graph?
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
No I didn’t. I said that they’re not generally intelligent.
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 1 week ago:
The whole ETF thing is partly a grift
Are you mixing up ESG and ETF by any chance?
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
It mean Artificial General intelligence and the term has been around for almost three decades.
The term AGI was first used in 1997 by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named ‘Nanotechnology and international security’
By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be “conscious” or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.___
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
If you have a better term, what is it?
Large Language Model. AI is correct as well but that’s just way more broad category.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
AI is a parent category and AGI and LLM are subcategories of it. Just because AGI and LLM couldn’t be more different, it doesn’t mean they’re not AI.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 week ago:
Why? We already have a specific subcategory for it: Large Language Model. Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence aren’t synonymous. Just because LLMs aren’t generally intelligent doesn’t mean they’re not AI. That’s like saying we should stop calling strawberries “plants” and start calling them “fake candy” instead.
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 1 week ago:
Independent of what anyone is saying, the mere fact that someone is commenting on social media at all makes it highly likely they’re one of the people the article is talking about. As the saying goes, a tiny number of users produce nearly all the content. Most people don’t post comments online. The average person doesn’t. So if someone does, that alone already marks them as unusual in some way.
This becomes especially obvious on Lemmy, where you can see people’s moderation history - and it takes only a few seconds to notice how many users are spouting mean, violent, and extremist views. You might not see those views as extreme because this is an echo chamber and you probably agree with them, but they’re extreme nonetheless when compared to what the average person would say.
Nobody ever thinks of themselves as the problem - we all have some story about how our behavior is justified and how those people over there are the real issue. Nah, you’re probably part of the issue as well. I am too.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 1 week ago:
Nobody has claimed otherwise.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
I would not eat nor sleep if it wasn’t mandatory. I consider both chores and waste of time.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
The only strategy to a long term weight loss is a diet you can maintain and only eating bland food is not it. That would work if no other food was available but that is not the case.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
Nice to meet you too.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
Right there with you. I can’t wait to be able to take all my nutrition in a pill form.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 1 week ago:
You’re advocating for ditching due process and sentencing people to death not for what they’ve done, but for the group they happen to belong to. That’s not a sensible position to hold, in my opinion.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 1 week ago:
Being a commander of a mercenary group doesn’t count as proof of being a rapist by my books.
Sorry, but I don’t want to live in the world you’re advocating for and luckily I don’t have to. We’ve granted war criminals due process in the past and we’re going to do it again. I’m proud to live in a country where we have sensible adults in charge.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
What exactly are you suggesting we do about it? They’ve got enough conventional artillery aimed at Seoul to cause millions of casualties the moment it even looks like we’re about to intervene.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 1 week ago:
Or maybe lets be better than Russia and grant people due process before labeling them rapists and murdering them.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 1 week ago:
I literally thought of this yesterday and now it’s a real thing.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 1 week ago:
“Low to average level” means 50% of them.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 week ago:
Stereograms? Yeah I can. I’ve even made them myself.
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 2 weeks ago:
I read a book by Alan Weisman titled The World Without Us, which covers this very specific topic. According to it, among the very last man-made structures left after hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of years would be the Channel Tunnel between England and France. Another notable example would be the stone faces on Mount Rushmore, as well as some old steel bridges built in an era when engineers couldn’t yet calculate structural load precisely, so they simply overbuilt everything.
