iglou

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, considering it is not impossible to geoblock per instance, they could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single part of your answer is about how the brain works.

  Concepts are not things in your brain.

  Consciousness is a concept. It doesn’t exist in your brain.

  Thinking is how a human uses their brain.

  I’m asking about how the brain itself functions to intepret natural language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t answer the question you quoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the “understanding” of an LLM is limited. Because the entire technology is new, and it’s far from being anywhere close to being able to understand to the level of a human.

  But I disagree with your understanding of how an LLM works. At its lower level, it’s a bunch on connected artifical neurons, not that different from a human brain. Now please don’t read this as me saying it’s as good as a human brain. It’s definitely not, but its inner workings are not so far. As a matter of fact, there is active effort to make artificial neurons behave as close as possible to a human neuron.

  If it was just statistics, it wouldn’t be so difficult to look at the trained model and identify what does what. But just like the human brain, it is incredidbly difficult to understand that. We just have a general idea.

  So it does understand, to a limited extent. Just like a human, it won’t understand what it hasn’t been exposed to. And unlike a human, it is exposed to a very limited set of data.

  You’re putting the difference between a human’s “understanding” and an LLM’s “understanding” in the meaning of the word “understanding”, which is just a shortcut to say that they can’t be compared. The actual difference is in the scope of understanding.

  A lot of the efforts in the AI fields gravitate around imitating a human brain. Which makes sense, as it is the only thing we know that is capable of doing what we want an AI to do. LLMs are no different, but their scope is limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are talking at a technical level only on one side of the comparison. It makes the entire discussion pointless. If you’re going to compare the understanding of a neural network and the understanding of a human brain, you have to go into depth on both sides.

  Mysticism? Lmao. Where? Do you know what the word means?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re entering a more philosophical debate than a technical one, because for this point to make any sense, you’d have to define what “understanding” language means for a human in a level as low as what you’re describing for an LLM.

  Can you affirm that what a human brain does to understand language is so different to what an LLM does?

  I’m not saying an LLM is smart, but saying that it doesn’t understand, when having computers “understand” natural language is the core of NLP, is meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is actually incorrect. It is also a language understanding tool. You don’t have an LLM without NLP. NLP includes processing and understanding natural language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Ha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck having that shitty tech win over Europe, where fiber is proliferating particularly quickly. We all know sattelite internet cannot come close to the speed and reliability of fiber.

  Plus we hate Musk.

  It’s good for remote areas and at sea, it’s shit everywhere else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. All that the stats do in this case is show what everyone knows: There is a racism problem in hiring.

  It doesn’t help prove anything in a court of law, and the multitude of excuses to hide racism make it almost impossible to prove that the true reason is racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not certain having data on people’s ethnicity is helping at all with discrimination on hiring.

  There is laws in France against discrimination as well. The problem isn’t that there isn’t ethnic data, the problem is that it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity.

  I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a small to medium company it’s not necessarily worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my own gitea server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I am assuming that it is actually a docker issue.

  Can you show your docker daemon configuration?

  Hard to tell where it is on your machine. Try ~/.docker/daemon.json, or maybe /etc/docker/daemon.json… Else look for it haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this is getting weird.

  Have you tried checking if your os has a resolution cashe active? If so, try to flush it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have read the rest of the comments to see what you already tried. I was about yo tell you to use sysctl to disable ipv6 but it looks like that is already done.

  As a matter of fact, it looks like you have no ipv6 address at all. Which makes me think that your DNS config is off.

  Can you show me the content of /etc/resolv.conf ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand ehy Github hasn’t been abandonned by users at this point. If I were a company, I’d either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.

  I’m just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What version of Pi OS are you running?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Was it ever since they got bought?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like your Pi thinks it can use IPv6. Find where, and disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As always, it’s not like both aren’t possible. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of railway projects ongoing at the same time.

  A government can take care of more than one issue at a time, luckily.

  It may be a small benefit for you (I assume you are german based on your server), but not every european country or citizen has the same access to internet. This is a good initiative, but obviously not primarily intended for the richer citizens/countries of the union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just hecause you have the option and can afford it does not mean every european citizen can have it or afford it.

  EU policies aren’t just for the privileged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not charging roaming does not mean that your unlimited plan carries over abroad. It just means you can’t be charged more for using your plan abroad.

  It is still legal and widely done to have different limits abroad vs domestic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not anerican so I’m unsure how pertinent my experience is.

  But yes, my representatives often hold public neetings in which anyone is invited, although I don’t go there myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, that’s a tough question to answer in here. There is no really good way to generalise who has what power, and there is probably many ways to split the powers in a meaningful way.

  You can read the articles on both positions specifically for France, which I do think in this case is a great example, on wikipedia, although if you want a more precise and complete understanding you’d probably have to read the french article and translate it.

  The main advantage of this system is that when the president doesn’t have the majority to support him in the parliament, most of the executive power de facto shifts to the prime minister, who is usually nominated (by the president) in accordance with the parliament’s majority coalition. When that’s not done, the parliament can move to “censor” the government and force the president to nominate a new prime minister, who then nominates the rest of the government.

  That system is a good way to make sure the president doesn’t do whatever the fuck they want if the parliament disagrees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Then we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.
  2. I’m not overthinking it. Doing stuff like this is my job. I receive a problem, I ask the questions to get precise requirements. What I am telling you is that depending on who answers these questions, the outcome of the elections can be completely different. In a very oversimplificated way, it’s a new, even sneakier way to gerrymander.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is better than FPTP, but not a great system either. The flaws are similar to FPTP: The final winner may not be the candidate that would be most approved by the pooulation.

  The main arvantage of it is that you can go wilder during the first turn, and pick a small party that you truly support, in hope it passes to the second turn. That happens often enough. And if it doesn’t, then you vote for the least bad candidate in the second turn/the closest candidate to what you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No! France has a head of state (the president) and a head of government (prime minister).

  They are both powerful, none of these role is performative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. You are conflating complexity with difficulty. But I’ll argue it’s both more complex and more difficult. It’s more complex because rather than choosing your candidate, you have to express your opinions. You have a bunch of choices to make instead of one. That’s complexity. But jt js also more difficult, because it rewuires you to have a grasp of all the issues that are brought up. Not everyone is able to give their opinion on how to best fight a job crisis, for instance. And picking what “feels” best makes the choice pointless and dangerous. It also doesn’t prevent lies, marketing and false promises at all, as a candidate could still be lying about their intentions just to get more votes.
  2. It is very hard to find the closest match. I tell you that as a software engineer. Because what rules do you use to determine the “closest”? Do you consider every opinion as important? Do you minimise the average distance? Do you minimise the amount of extreme differences? Do you prioritise some “more important” issues? Who even decides what is important? There are so many ways to bias and twitch a system like this.
  3. Then you’re probably better off advocating for a direct democracy, which is another topic and can be done in a mich easier way than trying to adapt a representative democracy for it!