mirshafie
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- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Why watch the night sky when you can watch these new exciting ads on your phone?
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
I think you’re right. It’s a bit of a dance with the devil as far as your own abilities are concerned. If we could have exoskeletons that would make us 40x stronger, would our bodies atrophy in the same way, and would we accept it?
And yet, I wouldn’t argue against the objective utility of an exoskeleton.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
Well, I think to most of us, language is extremely closely tied to our actual thoughts. So verbal expression is at the very least part of the thinking process.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just not faced with the abuses of LLMs the way you are? I don’t regularly experience people who clearly skipped the effort and just let an LLM do the thinking for them. (It happens, and it’s problematic, but at in my experience it’s rare.) And it’s possible that it’s just because my bubble haven’t caught up yet.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
I find it really difficult to engage with this because it’s so obviously motivated by fear. And to be clear, there’s a lot to be afraid of with LLMs and generative AI, because the avenues for abuse are vast. However, the utility is also immense, and I really do find it an incredibly curiosity that to so many Lemmy users generative AI is just bad, as though it can’t really do anything properly.
We live in an age where China spits out cute propaganda cartoons about the Iran war almost in real time, at a much faster pace than South Park in its prime, and you can’t be a little bit amazed? Where the fuck is your sense of wonder, man?
And I get it, mediocre people use AI to do dumb shit and it’s infuriating, and evil corporations use it to compile kill lists, and if we let it take away our ability to write creatively, to compose new music, to write new code, then we atrophy perhaps the most important part of ourselves and we’ll live in a poorer world as a result. But that’s an us problem in the end, not a tech problem. If we want to avoid a future like that, we’ll have to accept the fact that LLMs are here to stay.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
I do not agree with this at all. Some of the smartest people I know have severe dyslexia. And those are not just extremes, all of us exist on a spectrum where we have strengths and weaknesses, and not all of us can be literary geniuses.
The fact that capitalism promotes mediocre bootlickers to positions of power has nothing to do with LLMs as a technology. Of course it will be exploited by these exact same people - all the more reason why we shouldn’t give them a monopoly on what’s genuinely a transformative technology.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
This is a bit alarmist I think. It’s about how you use it. If your prompt is “please write a funny story about a bunny” you’ll get slop. If you write a full-ass Wikipedia article and ask it to simplify and punctuate long passages for increased legibility you can get valuable feedback.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 weeks ago:
I imagine all neighborhoods have some local association that fills this function. It’s just that the USA cosplays as libertarians while being authotitarians.
I hate to drag in Iran into this, but that’s a country where property is respected. You owned a piece of land in the 60s that you never developed, then the revolution came and you fled to LA? Well your plot of land is still sitting there, untouched, in the middle of Tehran, now worth tens of millions of dollars.
As a homeowner in Iran, you own a cone with its tip in the Earth’s core and its base emanating to the edge of the universe. The same applies if ypu own an apartment. You have a veto, changes can only happen by consensus.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 weeks ago:
Hittade svensken
- Comment on Get on my level 1 month ago:
I prefer SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS because what can be more accurate and objective??
- Comment on Get on my level 1 month ago:
If most of your dates you’re looking at are within a 90 day span, DD.MM.YYYY gives you the important information first, and you can often omit the YYYY entirely.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 1 month ago:
The point is you can remember it because you were there for the news cycle. Imagine a kid telling you all about what covid lockdowns were like in 20 years. That’s what they mean.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 month ago:
This is spot on, and pretty much how it went down everywhere, not just the UK. Just to clarify: it’s workers, not capital, who create wealth. The staggering rise in inequality, pricing people out of cities and the housing market is having a significant negative effect on productivity which is why Europe is falling behind.
This means lost time where we have not been producing anywhere near our potential, and by consequence also not honing our skills to produce anything in the future. We can’t just win this time back by political change now, it’s lost forever, and young people who should have been at the forefront of developing the economy and making families will never win this back.
We need to be way more angry than we are, and every day that we don’t fix this we’re letting it get worse.
- Comment on But bro please 1 month ago:
They use the same rationale for international security. If everybody gas nuclear bombs, then nobody needs them. It’s insane doomsday evangelism dressed up as a debate club argument.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think you’re hitting on something important. This is probably also why people living under dictatorships sometimes approve of their dictator. The devil you know.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 1 month ago:
I mean I think the bigger issue here is that he sent a Tesla to space when he could have become the Jesus of our times, and saved hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty and despair.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 months ago:
I hear a lot about IWW. All hype?
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 months ago:
Holy shit, even overriding a presidential veto for that shit. Imagine if Congress had balls like that today.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 2 months ago:
Power is owned by Capital. Capital is owned by Violence.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 months ago:
This sounds like a wildcat strike to me. Not perhaps the most effective means to an end, but important when there’s no other outlet. A good outcome may be establishing better unions. The mere threat of a strike should have capital shaking in their boots.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 months ago:
exceptions for public safety
Like nurses, firefighters… but that’s exactly fucking why you have multi-industry unions. So when nurses need a raise, engineers can strike on their behalf.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 2 months ago:
I should have clarified. Israel used drones smuggled in by agents, and remote-controlled using the internet, to disable air defenses and infrastructure in the first stage of their attack.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 2 months ago:
What the shit is up with the forced tracking cookies on this site?
The aim is to prevent as many images and news as possible from reaching the public, which is why the Iranian government is blocking communication network.
No. The aim is to prevent cyber attacks and coordinated sabotage by drone warfare, like Israel used in June in the first hours of their attack, and like the US did when they kidnapped Maduro.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 months ago:
Well this is Lemmy, not reddit. We’re all tankies here.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 months ago:
You’re absolutely right. Trump is a lightning rod for rage, but most of what the US is doing is bipartisan. It’s a huge problem that so many people harbor false hope for the controlled opposition.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 months ago:
I want a fucking Huawei P70. The 10x camera on that thing can practically take stabilized macro photos from a 5 m distance. But Ursula says Orange Man will spank her if she allows competition to Apple and Google.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 months ago:
I’m in Sweden. War is almost unthinkable. I have prepared my basement with shelf-stable food and fuel that could feed my apartment complex for a month. If something happens, it’s for my neighbors, not just for my family.
But a month is nothing.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 months ago:
I mined a bit too. Got almost 2 bitcoin in 2 weeks. Figured it was a pyramid scheme, went back to running folding@home.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 months ago:
There’s also a thing called dual sim. Which is standard in the Asian market and used to be common in Europe.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
I prefer GOG over Steam for the simple reason that I’m not forced to use a launcher if I don’t want to.
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 3 months ago:
I think it’s more than that. The way the game criticizes legal institutions, religion and the union is clearly informed by a revolutionary perspective. I don’t think Disco Elysium is subtle or coy about its politics, it just doesn’t pretend like achieving its goals will be easy.