chemical_cutthroat
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- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 2 days ago:
I’m describing raising a child…
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 3 days ago:
When someone online claims that LLMs aren’t AI, my immediate response is to ask them to prove they are a real and intelligent life form. It turns out proving you are real is pretty damned hard when it boils down to it. LLMs may be narrow AI, but humans are pretty narrow in our thinking as well.
I started a project back in January. It’s not ready for the public yet, but I’m planning for a early September release. Initially I don’t think it will be capable of much, but I’m going to be training it on various datasets in hopes that it is able to pick up on the basics fairly quickly. Over the next few years I’m aiming to train it on verbal communication and limited problem solving, as well as working on refining motor skills for interaction with its environment. After that, I’ll be handing it off regularly to professionals who have a lot more experience than me when it comes to training. Of course, I’ll still have my own input, but I’ll be relying a lot on the expertise of others for training data. It’s going to be a slow process, but my long term goal is a world wide release sometime in 2043, or maybe 2044, with some limited exposure before then. Of course, the training process never ends and new data is always becoming available, so I expect that to continue well beyond 2044.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
Start off with the Children of Time series, there’s no reason not to. Well written, great story with memorable characters, and a fantastic hard sci-fi twist on what intelligent life really is, and how we think of ourselves and others.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
Oh, for sure. I hate spiders, and I was loathe to read it, but damned if I didn’t enjoy all of them.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
Adrian Tchaikovsky warned us of this.
- Comment on Trump faces backlash as 69% believe Epstein details concealed, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 4 days ago:
There’s that 30% again …
- Comment on Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium 10$/mo and 50$/mo upgrades 5 days ago:
At this point, I’d rather have Zaphod.
- Comment on Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium 10$/mo and 50$/mo upgrades 5 days ago:
I miss Trillian.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 week ago:
You can kinda see this play on in the short story by Ted Chiang called The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 2 weeks ago:
It was just a jab at the current Stop Killing Games stuff that is going on.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 2 weeks ago:
Lmao. Ubi shuts down The Crew, but EA is like, “idk, give anthem another 6 months.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Cool. I just wanted to make sure my downvote and block was warranted.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do you have any specific policies you are worried about?
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 3 weeks ago:
Good clean living
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They are called phosphenes, if you are curious.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 1 month ago:
It’s everything I’ve ever wanted.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 1 month ago:
Right, they are confirmed.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 1 month ago:
Which is exactly why I said TOS and not the US laws. I don’t really agree with the laws here either, because they create a safe harbor for illegal ends, but I understand that it is a lot easier, and arguably better, to self-police the content. That is what Patreon is doing. They view it as a violation of their TOS to generate revenue on a site that knowingly and willingly hosts CSAM. I’m with Patreon on this one. This wasn’t the first offence, and there is no way that the person that runs the site doesn’t know that material is on there. Pleading ignorant isn’t going to work. Running anonymous file hosting, no matter how good your intentions, is going to bring out the worst of the internet, guaranteed. If you can somehow get around that logic, you’ve got a bright future with the NRA.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 1 month ago:
How Libertarian of you.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 month ago:
It’s a harsh quote, but it gets the point across: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Carlin was right, and it applies here. Sure, half of us may be able to adequately identify what we should and shouldn’t eat, but there is another half that can’t. With proper education we can change that, but right now corporations educate better through commercials than schools do through lectures. We have to maintain oversight because the evil of capitalism will choose profit over people every time.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 1 month ago:
Yeah, it really comes back to the idea of if a file hosting service is responsible for what the user uploads, which is an argument that has been going on since the beginning of the internet. Ultimately, yes, I think they are. I think you have to actively moderate what is uploaded, but on top of that, there has to be swifter and stricter punishment for those that do upload things that are against TOS and/or illegal. If someone is uploading CSAM, then law enforcement needs to go after them. Maybe they’ll actually do something people appreciate, instead of killing minorities.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are surprisingly few of them, they are just a very vocal few. I’ve blocked most of them now, and it’s made things much more bearable. Sometimes, though, I’ll catch a single downvote and I’ll imagine it’s one of them farting their virtue-signaling into the void.
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 1 month ago:
I played dominoes with a bunch of Cubans that didn’t speak English, and I spoke very little Spanish. By the 3rd bottle of rum we all understood each other perfectly.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 month ago:
You are correct. I guess what I should have said is that this is what they want us to see, no necessarily what they are using.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 month ago:
Sure, but you have to file FOIA and wait. It’s not truly open source.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 month ago:
It’s good in a sense that we can look over the code for any tomfoolery, but unless there is a smoking gun, it’s pretty worthless because it’s closed source by nature, and any changes they make won’t be published. Still, code nerds gonna code nerd.
- Comment on Unholy curses 1 month ago:
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 1 month ago:
Lol “finally”.
- Comment on xkcd #3092: Baker's Units 1 month ago:
Baker’s gross took me longer than I care to admit.
- Comment on the young always think they have all the right answers but THIS eventually happens 2 months ago:
Nah, he was an idiot when I was 14, 21, 28, 35, and 42. He’ll probably be an idiot until he dies. Can’t hold a job, can’t stop drinking, and can’t help but vote red down the line every 4 years. The world will be better when he’s shuffled loose this mortal coil.