OctopusNemeses
@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
The internet is never not a shitshow when it comes to women.
Except when it comes to a country like India or Japan. Then it’s all like nodding and agreement that men are creeps who need to be restrained.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 6 days ago:
You start from “China bad” and the work backwards to fit your narrative. It’s almost pointless having discussion online on anything about China.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
These are creative writing exercises on reddit. It’s gotten a million times worse since LLMs.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon questions 1 week ago:
Centauri Carbon has a flaw with the USB cable that connects to the print head breaking due to constant mechanical wear.
I don’t have one these but this is the issue I found when searching about it. I don’t know how serious it is but if you search it’s a main topic of this model.
- Comment on "Ok, Millenial..." 🙄 1 week ago:
Boomers and Gen-X were the architects of the early digital era. Gen-X gets lumped in with Boomers because kids are dogshit at telling age. Older == Boomer to them. Boomers are the villain so we shall not give them credit for anything. That’s forbidden.
Millennials were too young to be able to make their mark on the digital world. Millennials largely architected the social media era platforms. This will never be in conversation because Millennials can do no wrong.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
They’re not reading but looking for keywords. People with low literacy do that.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 2 weeks ago:
The men’s team immediately turned a massive win into a massive embarrassment.
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 2 weeks ago:
The end social media maybe. It’s fundamentally broken anyways. They can keep breaking it worse for all I care.
We’re not meant to be ruled by algorithms. It was a stupid idea to listen to antisocial neckbeards selling the world on how they could master sociology with graph theory. The same geniuses who deride soft sciences as not real science.
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 2 weeks ago:
You’ve demonstrated exactly how the system works. Statistically a few players will be lucky and become very rich. They’ll be looked at as “built different”. All the other poor players will try to emulate them as if they can beat the system by achieving some virtue like working hard enough or having innate skill rather than realize the system is mathematically impossible to beat.
- Comment on AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much what people already know by now. Algorithms find optimal ways to manipulate you.
The two ingredients are data and a way to measure the thing you’re trying to optimize. Machine learning is used to find optimal ways to keep people engaged in internet platforms. In other words they’re like designer drugs.
Worse than designer drugs. They’re continuously self optimizing because they keep measuring the results and making adjustments so the result stays optimal. As long as they have a continuous feed of recent data, the algorithm evolves to find the optimal solution.
That’s why recklessly giving away your personal data is dangerous. Let’s say the system notices you’ve been spending 1 microsecond less time engaged in screen time. The system will adjust to make sure they’ve reclaimed that 1 microsecond of your day.
It will show you things that tend to keep you engaged. How does it know that? Because you give it the data it needs to measure what keeps you online more. That data is based on every interaction with your phone or computer which is logged.
It’s worse than substance abuse because you never develop a tolerance. If you do then the algorithm has already adapted to find the next thing that keeps you engaged in the most optimal way.
It’s not just engagement. It’s whatever target you want to optimize for. As long as you have the two ingredients. Data and metrics.
That’s why data is called the new oil. Or was it gold rush? I can’t remember. It’s been called this since the early 2000s maybe.
LLM AI isn’t so scary when you know that they’ve been using “AI” against us for a very long time already.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 3 weeks ago:
This kind of work now pays hundreds per hour. They verify credentials of course.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked at Discord since December after getting into an argument. So perfect timing I guess.
The platform is ass anyways. Monetized features everywhere.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 4 weeks ago:
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It’s crazy how success that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
There doesn’t need to be a replacement for everything. How much does the world need to revolve around a random person’s hot-take in 140 characters or as many seconds. These are artificial walls.
- 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 month 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 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Bogeymen are imaginary. Political troll farms are real.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Chip wars. Probably has something to do with the US telling the Dutch to seize control of Nexperia.