Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 1 day ago:
It’s not about “AI stonks” really. If one genuinely believes that AGI will be the end of us then any form of retirement savings are just waste of time.
I really think that most investors aren’t as hyped about AI stocks as the anti-AI crowd online wants us to believe. They may have increased the weight of their investments on the tech sector but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio and if you’re someone with actual wealth you can invest then they’re probably not putting it all on Open AI.
The recent drop in AI stocks that was in the news a week or two back doesn’t even register on the value of my portfolio even though nearly all of the top companies on it are tech companies.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 3 days ago:
But the title had “AI” in it.
- Comment on There are definitely people learning a second language being accused of AI slop. 4 days ago:
Every single person on earth. There’s nothing more inherently human than caring about what others think.
I get what you mean though - I also try not to let other people’s judgment affect what I do, but I’d be lying to myself if I claimed it doesn’t, and especially if I claimed I don’t care.
- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 4 days ago:
LLMs, as the name suggests, are language models - not knowledge machines. Answering questions correctly isn’t what they’re designed to do. The fact that they get anything right isn’t because they “know” things, but because they’ve been trained on a lot of correct information. That’s why they come off as more intelligent than they really are. At the end of the day, they were built to generate natural-sounding language - and that’s all. Just because something can speak doesn’t mean it knows what it’s talking about.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 5 days ago:
This works both ways: you can also always claim it’s a deepfake even if it isn’t.
If the government is after you they don’t need excuses so I doubt gen-AI changes anything in that regard.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
I’m just trying to pick your brain and figure out what exactly is good about Lemmy in this case, but you seem reluctant to give me a cohesive answer.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
But what’s the good thing? Yeah Lemmy might not be doing it but I can do it, and Elon can, and Zuck, and Putin and your grandmom. Whatever you post on Lemmy is as public as it can get.
- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 6 days ago:
Few notes:
Factoid = Common misbelief often shared as a fact to the point that they had to tweak the meaning of the term because it became a factoid in itself.
There’s also no proven link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. At least not that I know of.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
Let this be a reminder to anyone with an account with over a thousand comments: time for a new one.
Facebook can figure out all of this about you just from what you like and what links you click. Now imagine what a fucking goldmine a few years of your post history is to a deep learning algorithm – let alone someone who’s been using the same Reddit account for two decades. I bet they know those people better than they know themselves.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
How exactly is it a good thing in this particular case? All this information is only more accessible on Lemmy.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
No, AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, and this isn’t about automation either. The demand for computer scientists just spiked during the pandemic when everyone was stuck at home on their computers - not so much once it ended.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
If you had spent the 30 seconds it took to write this comment to actually read the article you’d find out that AI is not even mentioned.
- Comment on Unnamed Finnish MP commits suicide in parliament 1 week ago:
- Comment on UK | Stop children using VPNs to dodge age checks on porn sites, commissioner demands 1 week ago:
Cheeky Proton VPN ad midway through the article.
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 1 week ago:
because the future occupant of the data center has not been named.
It’s not thay “no one knows” but that information simply haven’t been disclosed.
- Comment on Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle 1 week ago:
AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.
When people make claims about what “AI” is going to do in the future they’re talking about Artificial General Intelligence - not Large Language Models.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
Or more likely it was a shitty job that shouldn’t have been done by a human in the first place.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 1 week ago:
Because of climate change? That’s not even on the ballpark when it comes to the worst case scenario estimates of the excess deaths because of it. No wonder young people are so stressed out…
- Comment on I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler 1 week ago:
I didn’t actually mean to remove that piece. The bolts and nuts had rusted away, and it fell off while I was hammering the old exhaust loose. I had to cut the remaining bolt shafts from the DPF flange and drill new holes for through-bolts.
- Comment on I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler 1 week ago:
You usually don’t lose anything by at least trying to fix something that’s already broken. At worst it’ll just remain broken. Even if I don’t intend to repair it, I’ll still usually tend to disassemble it just to see what it looks like inside - and there’s often a part or two I can scavenge for the “DIY box” in case it comes in handy later. I also don’t worry too much about how pretty the fix is, as long as it works. Also, there’s instructions for almost everything online.
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- Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 1 week ago:
I’ve been told that this man can’t be trusted so I guess it’s not a bubble then.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
Sure, many are in families that push them to do it, but in the end it’s not like they’re not allowed not to by the religion
I never claimed otherwise. It’s the lived experience that matters, not the literal interpretation of the original text.
As I said elsewhere in the thread: The Quran and hadiths, while not always explicit, make multiple references to how women should dress. Different countries and religious sects interpret these rules differently, but it all boils down to the same thing: in these cultures, there are consequences for women who don’t follow the tradition.
My issue isn’t with covering your face or hair — it’s when the person isn’t truly free to choose. And I’d argue that, especially when it comes to the burka or niqab, that’s the case for a genuinely high percentage.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
We’ve been debating the degree to which women wear these willingly - not whether they should be banned in Finland.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Almost every single post from you mentions that you’re a single mom to a 13 year old and you ask about things like co-sleeping, wether it’s okay to wear bikinis in front of your son and his friends, how to teach them about bodily changes during puberty and now you’re a stripper as well.
I’ve been seeing you around here for a while now and there’s seems to be a theme here.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
Strawmanning, motte-and-bailey, whataboutism, moving the goalposts, ad hominem, false equivalence and dismissive sarcasm.
Was there a sale at the bad faith argumentation tactics store?
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
In Iran, women are required by law to wear the hijab. In Afghanistan, they’re required by the Taliban to wear a burka or at least a niqab. In Sudan, hijab was mandatory for women until 2019, and the same applies in Saudi Arabia and the Aceh province of Indonesia. But sure - go ahead and call me racist for even daring to suggest they’re doing it for any reason other than their own free choice.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
If you’re not willing to grant me that virtually every woman wearing a burka or niqab does so because she has to, not because she wants to, then we’re so far apart on this that there’s nothing to discuss.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
Everyone should be free to wear whatever they want - but that’s not what this is about. Nobody wears a burka or niqab because they genuinely want to.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
It is a big part of the issue, but as Lemmy clearly demonstrates, that issue doesn’t go away even when you remove the algorithm entirely.
I see it a lot like driving cars - no matter how much better and safer we make them, accidents will still happen as long as there’s an ape behind the wheel, and probably even after that. That’s not to say things can’t be improved - they definitely can - but I don’t think it can ever be “fixed,” because the problem isn’t it - it’s us. You can’t fix humans by tweaking the code on social media.
