Hackworth
@Hackworth@piefed.ca
- Comment on Christina Chong Has a Wild Idea for a 'Doctor Who' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Crossover 3 days ago:
Borg Daleks?
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 week ago:
Rogue Legacy 2 if it counts. If not, Axiom Verge.
- Comment on OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth 1 week ago:
Khan Academy’s had ChatGPT (Khanmigo) baked into it for nearly three years.
- Comment on "Fed-iverse" can be rephrased as "Fe-diverse", which suits Lemmy more. 1 week ago:
I can dig it. I love layered wordplay in any language.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 2 weeks ago:
I guess those scientist guys all working on A.I. never gave cocaine and Monster Energy a try.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 2 weeks ago:
Ctrl+f "attractor state" to find the section. They named it "spiritual bliss."
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 2 weeks ago:
DeepMind keeps trying to build a model architecture that can continue to learn after training, first with the Titans paper and most recently with Nested Learning. It's promising research, but they have yet to scale their "HOPE" model to larger sizes. And with as much incentive as there is to hype this stuff, I'll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone seems to be tracking on the causes of similarity in training sets (and that’s the main reason), so I’ll offer a couple of other factors. System prompts use similar sections for post-training alignment. Once something has proven useful, some version of it ends up in every model’s system prompt.
Another possibility is that there are features of the semantic space of language itself that act as attractors. They demonstrated and poorly named an ontological attractor state in the Claude model card that is commonly reported in other models.
- Comment on Are you going to take the chance that he's kidding? 3 weeks ago:
I'm super curious about the small text underneath.
- Comment on green salad fingers 3 weeks ago:
I’m embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite.
- Comment on green salad fingers 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I’d never heard that. Found the original and it appears to have originally been hematite.
- Comment on green salad fingers 3 weeks ago:
I’m confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 3 weeks ago:
I ruminate on this from time to time. I'm not particularly well read on these things, but this is the closest I've managed to make sense of it: For whatever reason (and there be many), the trumpite has embraced denigrating others is an acceptable way to soothe the ego. Albeit unhealthy, this kind of projection/displacement is by no means an uncommon trait in any demographic. Though it seems to be more common in groups that highly value hierarchy (as the Right typically does). On its own, utilizing this as a motivating force yields diminishing returns as shame or just boredom creep in. And so the aspiring demagogue hitches denigration to anger, goads projection with scapegoating, and ultimately harnesses hate to do evil.
But this takes time. Trump didn't skip all the way to invading cities and tearing down a third of the White House on day one. Trumpites have been lead gradually by these mechanisms and a host of complimentary social tactics to do more and more shameful things. And in doing, their egos are resiliently bridled to Trump's. To turn against him now would mean facing feelings of abject humiliation and shame/guilt, and in some cases a complete reset of their personal identity. Most people aren't willing to do that until they encounter tragic and very personal consequences. So they persist in delusion, which comes naturally to parts of the religious demographics... but that's a whole other can of worms.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s no real data for “show signs of manic or psychotic crisis,” as far as I can tell. I just went for the low-hanging fruit, since mania is often part of bipolar (manic-depressive). But if just bipolar is sitting at 2.8% of Americans in a given year, I think it’s reasonable to say the loosely defined stats in the headline aren’t notably high.
- Comment on OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 4 weeks ago:
An estimated 2.8% of U.S. adults had bipolar disorder in the past year. -NIH
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2077
- Comment on Metal bands 5 weeks ago:
Ladies and gentlemen, Unlit Pyre.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
Hey! An excuse to quote my namesake.
Hackworth got all the news that was appropriate to his situation in life, plus a few optional services: the latest from his favorite cartoonists and columnists around the world; the clippings on various peculiar crackpot subjects forwarded to him by his father […] A gentleman of higher rank and more far-reaching responsibilities would probably get different information written in a different way, and the top stratum of New Chuasan actually got the Times on paper, printed out by a big antique press […] Now nanotechnology had made nearly anything possible, and so the cultural role in deciding what should be done with it had become far more important than imagining what could be done with it. One of the insights of the Victorian Revivial was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in society, the more similar one’s Times became to one’s peers’. - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1995)
That is to say, I agree that everyone getting different answers is an issue, and it’s been a growing problem for decades. AI’s turbo-charged it, for sure. If I want, I can just have it yes-man me all day long.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
Eh, people said the exact same thing about Wikipedia in the early 2000’s. A group of randos on the internet is going to “crowd source” truth? Absurd! And the answer to that was always, “You can check the source to make sure it says what they say it says.” If you’re still checking Wikipedia sources, then you’re going to check the sources AI provides as well. All that changes about the process is how you get the list of primary sources. I don’t mind AI as a method of finding sources.
The greater issue is that people rarely check primary sources. And even when they do, the general level of education needed to read and understand those sources is a somewhat high bar. And the even greater issue is that AI-generated half-truths are currently mucking up primary sources. Add to that intentional falsehoods from governments and corporations, and it already seems significantly more difficult to get to the real data on anything post-2020.
