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- Comment on Mandola effect 1 day ago:
So that’s it huh? We’re some kind of fellowship of the ring?
- Comment on You don't say. 2 days ago:
- Comment on You don't say. 2 days ago:
Not until you’ve filled the elevator with spiders
- Comment on 4 days ago:
That’s his biological job
- Comment on Good luck 1 week ago:
I used to do that but after a while the washing machine got a buildup of foul gunk that leaves little bits of crap stuck to everything you wash. Apparently an occasional hot wash is needed to keep the machine clean.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’d get a whole bunch of these and keep a different book on each one, so you could just pick it up and read it. But it’ll never work, it’s too much trouble to keep them all charged.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 5 weeks ago:
What seems really off to me is that Firefox has one standout feature that people really love: extensions. You can customize your browser however you want. So it makes sense that if they wanted to integrate AI into their design that it should be done via extensions. They could produce a mozilla-approved pack of extensions which add whatever AI features they want to offer. That way any AI functionality is opt-in, and transparent in the sense that you have a specific feature set for each extension so you kind-of know what you’re buying into, rather than having a built-in set of opt-out features that are ill-defined and constantly changing. Such a radical and unnecessary change of their whole design philosophy seems very suspect to me.
- Comment on I've always thought THIS was unfair 5 weeks ago:
Oh come on now, they don’t really have to do that until stalactites start forming
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 5 weeks ago:
The tooth fairy can go where it wants, and can see in the dark. Why would it need to dig them up?
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 month ago:
I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you’d firstly have to say who it’s being racist towards, and it’s just a bit… vague… for that.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 month ago:
OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is a font racist?
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 month ago:
He’s going to find out who’s naughty and nice
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
Nah, you’re thinking of a hundred-plus-million dollar company. Being understaffed and disastrously managed is about right for a million dollar company.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 month ago:
So I can outnumber my enemies
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 month ago:
I just don’t think this is a problem in the current stage of technological development. Modern AI is a cute little magic act, but humans (collectively) are very good at piercing the veil and then spreading around the discrepancies they’ve discovered.
In its current stage, yes. But it’s come a long way in a short time, and I don’t think we’re so far from having machines that pass the Turing test 100%. But rather than being a proof of consciousness, all this really shows is that you can’t judge consciousness from the outside looking in. We know it’s a big illusion just because its entire development has been focused on building that illusion. When it says it feels something, or cares deeply about something, it’s saying that because that’s the kind of thing a human would say.
Because all the development has been focused on fakery rather than understanding and replicating consciousness, we’re close to the point where we can have a fake consciousness that would fool anyone. It’s a worrying prospect, and not just because I won’t be immortal by having a machine imitate my behaviour. There’s various bad actors trying to exploit this situation. Elon Musk’s attempts to turn Grok into his own personally controlled overseer of truth and narrative seem to backfire in the most comical ways, but that’s teething troubles, in time this will turn into a very subtle and pervasive problem for humankind.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 month ago:
Well, that’s why we need clones with mind transfer, and to be unconscious during the process. When you wake up you won’t know whether you’re the original or the copy so it’s not a problem
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 month ago:
People used to talk about the idea of uploading your consciousness to a computer to achieve immortality. But nowadays I don’t think anyone would trust it. You could tell me my consciousness was uploaded and show me a version of me that was indistinguishable from myself in every way, but I still wouldn’t believe it experiences or feels anything as I do, even if it says it does. Especially if it’s based on an LLM, since they are superficial imitations by design.
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 1 month ago:
Obviously anything by Mariah Carey would be a contender but I stand by my assertion
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 1 month ago:
Fact: the best Christmas song ever is “All I Want For Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
- Comment on idk 1 month ago:
AI generated content is what ought to be disclosed, and even then it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I can see how it might usually be. But AI in general encompasses a broad range of tools which is bound to get broader and more ubiquitous with time.
- Comment on Why? 1 month ago:
^ updooted
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 1 month ago:
just like Windows itself
- Comment on Parenting advice 1 month ago:
3/5 nice clear instructions but it tastes like gasoline
- Comment on Parenting advice 1 month ago:
Alright but where’s the recipe?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month ago:
Heretic! There is only one true god and it’s name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month ago:
I’ve been in a situation where I thought I might well die, and this point of view flitted across my mind, as it is bound to do. Followed immediately by the certainty that this would be the most wretched, hypocritical and worthless way to spend my final moments. If I had no survival strategies to consider or ways to contact my loved ones, I’d rather spend the time looking out the window and admiring the view.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 1 month ago:
How much have you got? I’ve got about 3kg of coffee.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ikr? Who buys salt and pepper pots with their weekly groceries?
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 2 months ago:
If they hadn’t had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain, that could have been embarrassing. Close call!
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 months ago:
Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure
