Shanmugha

@Shanmugha@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. I hate how it hurts to know that’s what will happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So now we can finally go back to good old code optimization, right? Right? (Padme.jpg)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again, need of regulation means humans are under-developed.

  Caring for short-term benefit paying for it by damaging long-term profits is exactly why I call such people idiots, together with trying to use “companies”, “capitalism”, “incentives” and a whole ton of other illusions to run from responsibility. Do I need to explain how not taking responsibility means becoming a slace?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  -being smart my ass, lol (that’s insult to the idea, not you). That is not being smart, that is being stupid life-wise

  • almost any social system is an immature mumbo-jumbo produced and kept in place by idiots. All -isms fall into this category

  • the idea that humans are capable of recognising how life works is flawed in your eyes? Thanks, I end this conversation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People following incentives blah-bkah is people being morons. See also “I was following orders” fallacy applied to army

  Capitalism strives for something? Niice. And I thought “economic system” does not have any strivings

  Anything has to be enforced because we consistently fail to produce developed and balanced humans. Whatever -ism you try to build around what kind of people we have now, it will fail. So cut the crap about capitalism already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s not a rhetorical question. The “profit above all else” you have described is a bullshit tracing back to this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy

  And again, there is no such thing as “companies direct responsibility”. Humans do

  So once again, what does capitalism has anything to do with people being absolute morons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. And how does capitalism have anything to do with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And pure unadulterated something-else-ism would not, lol. The concept of responsibility that hard to grasp?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I toss both in the same garbage bin, while separating from what is usually referred as spiritual process. But if that is all you’ve got to say, let’s leave it at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so many things I can say in response. I will try to make it brief, though

  Yes but so what?

  So, for example, tons of people think themselves into depression and suicide because of some bullshit morals they have come to value more than anything else. I would rather have merciless killers to deal with, but not this kind of suffering going on around

  You can’t have society if people go around destroying that society

  Oh, but we do. Show me a country with empty prisons (preferably without prison-as-punishment laws even)

  You make rules and enforce them to stop that destruction. Thats morality in a nutshell.

  Which is plain declaring “I have failed”. Failed in building a sustainable society. Failed in producing people capable of living in a sensible way. Failed to even restrict those who I failed to mold into something not that kind of destructive. I write “I” here, because in the end, if we look back in time, for every damn “moral code rule” that got spread, taught and enforced we will track that one idiot who enabled all this bullshit

  This has been going on so long that it’s hard wired into most of us.

  True. And because it got wired that deep we have enormous amount of suffering, because life cares not about “right” or “wrong”

  For the psychopaths that don’t have that hardwire, we have places to put them. I.e. prisons and boardrooms.

  Surprise: it is possible to live without any moral conditioning and still not fall into destructive behaviour. And also, we continue to revere people who have done things far from “morally right way”. (Jesus, Krishna, Gautama to name a few most recognizable names). Today every single one of them would have ended up in a prison or mental hospital, which also speaks something about what morality actually is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You even understand what you just said?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and I have spent tons of time trying to understand why. Did not reach the understanding, but looks like I am starting to accept this as is. Thank you for reminding that not all “other people” are “those who do not get me no matter how hard I try”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. You got nothing of what I said, but I’m ok with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you :) And maybe it is not. If reality is an illusion and I am only dreaming, why can’t I dream myself immortal and stop getting so sleepy in the evenings already. But yeah, a comet could wipe us all and meaning only exists in the mind of observer, this is a hill I can joyfully die on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a word salad I could support, as dbtng already said:)

  Ok, but seriously, I studied only a bit of philosophy and no ethics, and the question of discerning between objective reality and subjective observer can keep us occupied for many lifetimes, so no use in trying do dive deeper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the reply :)

  Well, trying to teach others to think like me is not something I will attempt: in the end, what I have come to think about anything is just a result of my biography, there is no point in trying to imprint it onto other people. And for the coping part, two things:

  • the world was before me, will be after me. If I get wounded by how it is, that’s on me
  • I am not talking about good and bad being inconsequential, I am talking of them not existing as actual reality, same way words do not exist as reality: they mean what they mean only because some people agreed on it. There is nothing to cope with
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I don’t expect there to be any ready label for this. In a nutshell:

  • humans are as much part of life on this planet as everything else. the “killing is wrong” kind of maxims is just plain bullshit, just go watch how other forms of life take care of their sustenance
  • moral dilemmas show by their existence that pretty much any widespread “morally right” way to behave has it’s limits, yet those limits are somehow “omitted” from most sources that are supposed to teach people what is good and what is bad

  also, “good” and “bad” do not actually exist: you can vaporise whole Earth and rest of the universe won’t even notice

  • still there is a vivid difference between a kind soul attending to a garden a feeding stray cats and dogs who happen to come by and an idiot torturing kittens in front of their mother just for fun, even seeing these situations produces very different experiences. Substitute humans here with animals and appropriate behaviour, the difference will still stand. So there is some kind of “this is in line with how all life longs to be”, “that is not how mature and balanced living creatures operate”, but I have no clue even what level to look at to find that difference
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till you realize moral is shitty fucked up crutch that doesn’t work at best and a tool to control people at… usual, not even the worst

• ⁨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:

  Hard agree in every point

• ⁨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:

  Sounds scary. I read a story the other day about a dude who really got himself a discord server with chatbots, and that was his main place of “communicating” and “socializing”

• ⁨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:

  Redditor as “a person active on Reddit”? I don’t see where I was talking about humans. Or am I misunderstanding the question?

• ⁨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:

  It doesn’t, who the hell cares if someone allowed it to break “predict whole text” into "predict part by part, and then “with rhyme, we start at the end”. Sounds like a naive (not as in “simplistic”, but as “most straightforward”) way to code this, so given the task to write an automatic poetry producer, I would start with something similar. The whole thing still stands as fancy auto-complete

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if a company has 500 machines and all of them having microsoft online accounts raises no security questions, I ain’t working there, simple as that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Be my guest and knock yourself out, dreaming you know things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll bait. Let’s think: -there are three humans who are 98% right about what they say, and where they know they might be wrong, they indicate it

  • now there is an llm (fuck capitalization, I hate the ways they are shoved everywhere that much) trained on their output
  • now llm is asked about the topic and computes the answer string

  By definition that answer string can contain all the probably-wrong things without proper indicators (“might”, “under such and such circumstances” etc)

  If you want to say 40% wrong llm means 40% wrong sources, prove me wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a new word for you: information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus point: now look at how old humanity is. The Greek civilization, the Chinese, the Egypt… literally empires have come and gone, yet humans are just as dumb as thousands of years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How so?

  Unless your “enemy” is “anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness”, I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then in is still a dumb way to exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to turn inside. Whatever around you gets fucked, essentially no one can order you “be miserable”. If this one thing gets fixed a hundred percent your way, the rest is just a question of what you can do and how much of that you are willing to do

  But does it seem a very long road to become fully in control of own interiority.

  I did not come up with this on my own, just picked if uo from someone else, but can’t argue with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to argue, just a bit of self-humour:

  And I am doomed because I enjoy it. To hell with all the GUI open-settings-then-a-tab-in-it-and-down-to-rabbit-hole-of-tabs-and-setting-sub-windows, just give me plain damn config file. Also, praise be to people who write where the program looks for config files and what can supercede what in man entries