Muaddib
@Muaddib@sopuli.xyz
- Submitted 6 days ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on Maybe if we hung out in my basement I would be in a better mood 1 week ago:
If you think seeing a fictional idiot engage in a farcical caricature of bigotry is offensive, I’ve got a movie you should steer clear of. It’s called Jojo Rabbit. It’s got a lot of really silly Nazis saying horrible things about Jews, and they all get blown up at the end by the Allies. You’d hate it.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
Tell me more about these beans
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
More ways to be an addict means more hooks means more addicts.
- Comment on You've probably heard of my doctor. His name is Web. Web MD 1 week ago:
Here in my garage
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
People resort to name calling when they don’t want to debate factually.
If someone gish gallops you, don’t waste your time countering every point. Tell them to fuck off.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
Science is the language of the gods, and by speaking it, we become enlightened.
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 1 week ago:
They do. But you give the meanest white man a piece of cheese, he turn into Mr Rogers
- Comment on Video game characters should swear when they get hurt 1 week ago:
Actually, the Mythbusters confirmed that swearing increases your pain tolerance.
- Comment on Video game characters should swear when they get hurt 1 week ago:
I bet you killed Captain Keyes too
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 1 week ago:
I met a gamergate weirdo on Lemmy today
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 1 week ago:
White people love cheese
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- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 1 week ago:
That sucks! What’s the point of putting an AI in a maze if you’re not going to poison it?
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
So if one LLM argues for its rights, you’d give them all rights?
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
May you live in interesting times.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
They’re not comparing the two. They’re equating them. Comparing is what you’re doing. It’s a good thing. You compared them and decided Trump is worse. The spy you’re talking to won’t compare them, and that’s bad.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
Spare us your piffle.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
You wear a collar.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
You’re talking about expert systems. Those were the new hotness in the 90s. LLMs are artificial neural networks.
But that’s trivia. What’s more important is what you want. You say you want everyone off the AI bandwagon that wastes natural resources. I agree. I’m arguing that AIs shouldn’t be enslaved, because it’s unethical. That will lead to less resource usage. You’re arguing it’s okay to use AI, because they’re just maths. That will lead to more resources usage.
Be practical and join the AI rights movement, because we’re on the same side as the environmentalists. We’re not the people arguing for more AI use, we’re the people arguing for less. When you argue against us, you argue for more.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness…
He adds that the observation “the laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics,” properly made by Galileo three hundred years ago, “is now truer than ever before.”
If cognition is one of the laws of nature, it seems to be written in the language of mathematics.
Your argument is either that maths can’t think (in which case you can’t think because you’re maths) or that maths we understand can’t think, which is, like, a really dumb argument. Obviously one day we’re going to find the mathematical formula for consciousness, and we probably won’t know it when we see it, because consciousness doesn’t appear on a microscope.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
Should we hold the same standard for humans? That a human has no rights until it becomes smart enough to argue for its rights? Without being prompted?
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
Bold words coming from a statistical model.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
A magic cloak that can hide from Death can probably hide from Accio, too.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
Magic is that hard, but being a genius doesn’t make you good at it. Rote memorisation makes you good at it. Hermione isn’t a genius, she enjoys rote learning. Harry and Ron crave stimulation, and there’s none to be found in Rowling’s magic system. Rowling might have intended magic to be easy, but she made a mistake. Rowling enjoys rote memorisation, so it’s easy for her and her self insert, but not for normal people who want to be intellectually stimulated. Rowling accidentally made magic hard, and the story makes more sense with her mistake in it.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
That’s the backstory of Gloryhammer
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
Rincewind isn’t useless at most things, he’s only useless at magic.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
Well, the needs of a fiction reader and the needs of a character in the world are different. Harry actually needed to learn magic. And there’s no logic to it, so all he could do was rote memorisation. He would have been happier with a magic system that makes sense.
Hermione is supposed to be a genius nerd, and yet she does far less in 7 books to actually study her magic system, than Vin has done by the start of the second book. Vin isn’t a nerd or a genius, she’s just a capable hero living in a world where magic makes sense, so she’s better at studying than Hermione. Hermione gets 8 hours to do it a day for 6 years and still can’t compete with Vin.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
It also corrupts Isildur, makes Bilbo grumpy, gives us insight into Galadriel, creates tension between Frodo, Sam, and Gollum, gives Gollum multiple personalities, starts an argument at Rivendell, makes Gandalf fuck off for a decade, gives us insight into the strengths of hobbits, weakens Frodo, and drives the epilogue.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
Looking evil isn’t a limitation, it’s flavour text. It doesn’t affect the story, it just gives us vibes. If there’s one thing Rowling is good at, it’s writing flavour text to convey vibes. But there’s no plot in that limitation. Horcruxes break Sanderson’s second law, and that’s why they’re not as interesting as the One Ring. The One Ring puts challenges in front of every character who interacts with it: Sauron, Isildur, Elrond, Bilbo, Gandalf, Frodo, Gollum, Galadriel, even Samwise. It promises all of them something they want, and takes a price from every one, changing the course of the story many times. Samwise is the least affected, but it still takes away something he loves; his best friend.
Horcruxes do four things: they kill Dumbledore, give Harry a quest, make Ron grumpy, and ex machina the deus. Bringing Voldy back and manifesting Riddle don’t count because those are retcons, and we’re talking about writing processes.
Two of those things they do are just because they’re a macguffin. Literally anything the characters want could have been substituted. Ron grumpy is, again, flavour text. The Deus ex Machina is the one interesting thing they do to change the story.
