OctopusNemeses

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before the tech industry set its sights on AI, “hallucination” was simply called error rate.

  It’s the rate at which the model incorrectly labelled outputs. But of course the tech industry being what it is needs to come up with alternative words that spin doctor bad things to not bad things. So what the field of AI for decades had been calling error rate, everyone now calls “hallucinations”. Error has far worse optics than hallucination. Nobody would be buying this LLM garbage if every article posted about it included paragraphs about how its full of errors.

  That’s the thing people need to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also factors like modern TV format and audiences. The shorter one story arc seasons don’t allow any room to maneuver. Bottle episodes got an undeserved bad reputation from the segment of viewers who want a linear sprint to the conclusion. It’s like a boring generic first person shooter with only a straight line from start to finish. No exploration. Writers aren’t allowed to write.

  They give the audiences what they they think the audiences might want. That is the safe, easy to write 6-10 episode plot. Sometimes the audiences like it. Sometimes the don’t. Either way they’ve strayed from actual writing anymore. Bottle episodes add dimension to characters. Multi-path seasons add depth and breadth to the entire ensemble.

  A side effect of modern TV format is more focus on action. When they don’t have room to maneuver then they substitute with brief action. A bit of plot. More quick action. Advance the single main plot again. Maybe a little B-plot. Repeat until episode 6 to 10. That segment of viewers are so tunnel-visioned on squeezing everything out of less than a dozen episodes. They’re scared of one going to waste on bottle episodes or “filler”.

  Writers don’t have any room to explore several different plots. Some spanned entire seasons or even multiple seasons. Some were just one episode. There is no room for it in modern television. Whereas before instead of pointless actual filler of action sequence, they could have started a whole other plot that lead to several more episodes later in the season.

  If Chief O’Brien happened in modern TV and for modern audiences, he would not be the O’Brien who suffers. He would be a stereotypical snarky engineer who reads off the scripted technojargon. They’ll give him a likeable character quirk that is relatable to the young STEM crowd and then maybe kill him off randomly, ostensibly to make him a worthy character because he died. That’s as much depth as we’d get. A one dimensional character that people like superficially.

  The disdain for bottle episodes might be one of the worst things to happen to the medium. That’s not to overshadow the other issue that TV shows do not have the level complexity they used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want the cool shit from Star Trek’s imaginary future or not?

  You lost me there. Conflating a fictional future utopia with the product your trying to sell is cheap trick.

  Anyone who uses this bad faith tactic loses all credibility. Post read and disregarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People get offended whenever I’ve said that even random app developers are part of the problem. They can’t or won’t see that what we have arrived at is a Kafkesque world. It has been death by millions of papercuts. The collective rush to make an “app for everything” was in net effect building a global surveillance dragnet. It was inevitable the aggregate of data would turned into an authoritarian system of oppression.

  All you wanted to do was make a 99 cents a sale for your basic phone app. You stuffed it with copy-paste analytics APIs that collect data from users. You insisted that these random data brokers would be 100% super honest. Good job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be one thing for a corporation to misuse the term open source as they’ve been doing lately. It’s pretty bad for one of the biggest and oldest tech news sites to be doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really anymore for me. A few times this past year they snuck in the return shipping cost at about $10-$15 USD. The page showed the cost refunded then added back. I don’t know but it fooled me.

  With this hardware shortage insanity, I won’t be surprised if they get more aggressive with return shipping fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the most human spaces left on the internet

  Journalism once again demonstrating they are about 10-15 years behind on the times. Did they forget reddit completely broke back in 2016 when the_donald left the place in a permanent troll state.

  I’m not going to read the article on account of time right now but I’m guessing it’s written as if reddit was invented yesterday and the prior 20 years of reddit history is didn’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.

  The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.

  In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That’s why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It’s why “disruptive” (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.

  It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don’t even know. They’re completely entranced by it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bogeymen are imaginary. Political troll farms are real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone else noticed the recent resurgence of mechanical turk jobs? It’s all AI training work. Before the work was doing tasks directly. Now they have people training tailored AI models.

  In other words the tech bros have found get another way to shoehorn themselves in as a middle man. Instead of having workers do the work itself. Now the work is delegated to AI. Which is trained to do the task by humans.

  At first it said the LLM era was the end of mechanical turk work. It’s going in a circle back to mechanical turks again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a world that exists outside of your bubble. It’s real. No matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know the difference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of slop they feed you guac.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People can do the math on that themselves. Let’s say $1000 into SP500 fund in 2010. Invest $300 per month. The markets have been returning on average about 8% per year. Next do the NASDAQ. That has been an incredible investment over the past 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read the article? This isn’t about a research paper that talks about theoretical lab experiments. Sodium batteries are in real world application right now. Mainly in China and South America.

  You can buy sodium batteries from AliExpress. It’s been available for a while. I was thinking about ordering a few but I ended up spending my hobby budget elsewhere. There’s no economies of scale yet for sodium battery tech. You can get the battery but there is zero electronics available for it. Mainly you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules. That’s out of my pay grade. I’ve been waiting for Chinese engineers to mass produce such things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech bro libertarians have no limits. No boundaries. Nothing is off the table for them. All they care about is money and power.

  They know to get these things they have to start small. Say the right words that people want to hear. They say anything to make the sale. Their words mean nothing. They’re liars every day that ends in “y”. They gradually push boundaries until there are no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JLCPCB Locking Accounts, Mentions “Risky IP Addresses, Activities” | Hackaday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chip wars. Probably has something to do with the US telling the Dutch to seize control of Nexperia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the “boomer” discussion is veiled ageism and ignorance. The younger generations are setting themselves up to be “boomers” themselves. Inevitably they will be old themselves. They’re already willfully ignorant. They take joy in it even. Not a good track there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New media indeed coincides with revolutions. I disagree with your final assessment. We have yet to see how this turn of new media plays out.

  Good or bad is a relative. The frame of reference should be contemporary. Just because we ostensibly have technological luxuries not mean things are going well right now. Authoritarianism on another up cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The newer generation of tech users know only of a narrow subset of technology from big tech / ad tech. They know little of anything at all the grassroots era of technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a facet of internet culture that revolves around ridicule. I’m not sure but I think it stems from the streamer world. It’s like a modern form of celebrity gossip (read: harassment) that got commoditized into social media. So it’s not just gossiping about celebrities like in the past era of media.

  Harassment used to be driven by publishers. In this era of social media anyone and everyone is a content publisher. People trawl the internet for things they think can be made spectacle. Right down to a random internet comment 100 replies deep in a thread. If for whatever reason they think this person is to be made a fool of then they proceed to reply with such belligerence.

  They engage as if they are an outside observer. As if they’ve an audience like it’s Jerry Springer or something. As if they are the only human being. They don’t see others as human. Everyone else are caged animals for them taunt. To throw objects at through the cage bars or to tap on the glass. They think they are the main character.

  I think there’s some psychological effect where their parasocial relationship with their favorite streamers and the herd of loyal viewers gives them a false sense of power based on the crowd effect or something. They can’t see it from the perspective that they are a lone poster being deranged.

  I think the vote/like/share model gives them a false sense of power. When they see the uplikes number go up, they think they have a herd of supporters behind them. A simple little number on a screen emboldens them.

  Nobody seems to see anything out of the ordinary with this. Such is the nature of this era of internet and the hostility. It’s normalized. They don’t know of any way of being.

  You’re not a streamer with a herd of followers. You’re just a sole internet user. You have no crowd behind you. It’s like you think you do. It’s bizarre. From observers outside your perspective, you’re like an unstable person wandering the city streets. Pedestrians avoid you. They don’t want to aggravate you. You’re seen as someone possibly having a mental break. Or is it drugs or some kind of substance abuse.

  On the internet now it’s unavoidable. These crazies are out here. They’re aggravated. They jump down anyones throat. On much of social media it’s the only way they know how to be. Just belligerence against belligerence all the time. Nobody talks like a normal human being. It’s like they’re derealized. Dissociated.

  A basic fact that internet has no moderators anymore. They’re moderators in name only. The definition of the word is lost. To “moderate”. To preside over a discussion. Nobody does this anymore. The crazies are allowed to run amok. There’s some hints of actual moderation on Lemmy instances. The extremists have been grinding away at wearing this down though. In general this kind of thing is completely absent on social media anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently ban has a different meaning than it used to. I keep seeing dramatic posts about Who-Gives-Shit influencer getting banned from somewhere. The next day or two I see another post about how they’re back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the far right would stop using Lemmy that would be fantastic news. (inb4 hurr durr echo chamber!!!11!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now’s the time for Espressif to spin off their own ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some evil villain angle to this. Like the data is hosted outside of any country thus not subject to any laws or regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish we’d moderate trolls again on our internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The level of discourse in the US right now ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bart Simpson is making Gen-X and Millennials lazy. They will never amount to anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He got lucky once by being born at the right time in the right place of the right demographic to become a social media billionaire by simply creating what was going to be created regardless. Have any of these guys repeated that success?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the same person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come back to this post in 2030's⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don’t think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.