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- Comment on The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future 16 hours ago:
LLMs are necessarily non-deterministic,
There’s nothing about LLMs that force them to be non-deterministic. Given the same prompts and context, they will always output the same probability distribution. It’s then up to you what you decide to do with that distribution. If you decide to always choose the most likely output, then the entire thing will be deterministic. We just don’t do that because it’s less useful than stochastic output.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Housing mostly
- Comment on Truck go 💥🚚 3 days ago:
I would assume that for operating expensive vehicles like this, you get training on how to use them properly to avoid these kinds of issues. Flipped because they ignored protocol? Well, you already tried teaching them and it didn’t take. Try someone else. Did something unexpected come up to make this happen? Now that’s potentially valuable knowledge that you want to keep in your crew.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 1 week ago:
I don’t see how it prevents anyone from getting disappeared. All they have to do is not add them to the database.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 week ago:
I think what this is telling us is that OP hangs out in circles where no one knows what dementia is, so it seems like a complicated word for them.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 week ago:
The fewer syllables you use, the fewer words you can make. There are too many disorders out there to give them all simple names in an unambiguous way.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 1 week ago:
The only quality that LLMs really need is that the data is human-made.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 week ago:
Confusing-ass perspective. It looks like all the archers are standing with their left foot forward and holding the bow in their right hand.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I would guess it has something to do with the loss of third places.
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 1 week ago:
The more cheese, the better.
- Comment on Real Talk 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need a package at all. I just define a new command
\xxx{stuff}that changes the colour to red. It’s a one-liner. Copy and paste that into any new document. Changing the colour without a custom command is equally trivial, but this allows you to search for “xxx” to find anything you might’ve missed. - Comment on Tweet Dreams 2 weeks ago:
“I bet he’s thinking about boobies”
- Comment on What weight would you this to be at 4’11? 2 weeks ago:
Why does this matter? Are you happy with how you look? Are you happy with the state of your health? Those are the questions you should be asking.
- Comment on Well that didn't work out as planned 2 weeks ago:
Bad negotiator, implying that he got a bad deal on the bus? Implying that he owns the bus that he drives? Is this another US thing where employers require you to purchase the vehicle before you can work for them?
- Comment on Incident 3 weeks ago:
We’re just talking about doing a diaper change. I don’t know how you can call that “stacking a caregiver hard”.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 3 weeks ago:
Higher protein content than the cow milk variant!
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 3 weeks ago:
Raw, it’s a little spicy, similar to radishes. Boiled, it’s very sweet. It can take the place of carrots and turnips in soups.
The simplest preparation that’ll give you an idea of how the ingredients tastes on its own: cut into thin slices and boil in water with a bit of salt and msg (I personally like to use chicken stock).
The outer layer is very tough and fibrous, so make sure to get rid of that first. Depending on the quality of the bulb, you might also end up with one that’s fibrous throughout. Those are not pleasant to eat, and if you happen to get one of those, I assure you that it’s not a typical experience.
- Comment on Incident 3 weeks ago:
They’re spending that time doing diaper changes. They’re not attending to the other kids regardless.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 3 weeks ago:
What’s the logic behind having plans for taking down an evil version of yourself? Who watches for that to carry out the plan when the time comes? What’s the plan if that person becomes evil and now has the means to combat non-evil Batman? Does he have a plan for that too? Because if so, evil Batman will also have it.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see why they can’t be resold. As long as there’s a market for new AI hardware, there will continue to be a market for the older stuff. You don’t need the latest and greatest for development purposes, or things that scale horizontally.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 4 weeks ago:
I guess it wasn’t clear what I was responding to. I edited my comment with the quote.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 4 weeks ago:
Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you’re doing chicken and protein, it’s probably because it’s much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 4 weeks ago:
A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.
- Comment on Is it normal for young teenagers to snore ? 4 weeks ago:
If breathing pauses, esp. Followed by a fit, then it’s disorder (apnea).
Only if it happens frequently enough. Apparently, having this happen a few times a night is normal for healthy people.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
Except this isn’t how language works
Language serves to communicate. If most people who know nothing of the subject read your question and understand “X is true” from it, then that is what you’re communicating. Of course, I have no way of actually providing evidence for this besides anecdotes since I don’t have the means to actually run a study on it. But if you’ve had enough human interactions, you’ll have seen a lot of these types of questions where people will genuinely try to answer them as if they’re true, or point to such questions as evidence for something being true. You’ll also often see this for personal attacks (e.g. “Why are you such a doofus?”).
This is probably an area where LLMs can actually be useful since they hold a lot of information on something of an average of what most people think. Give it a sentence and ask how it might be interpreted by others.
People aren’t robots
Yes, and? Humans are meat bags. It costs a lot of energy for meat bags to think, and humans tend to be very energy efficient. If you can get away with doing less thinking, then most people will. This is something I’m constantly being made aware of because my particular brand of autism doesn’t allow me to take advantage of this efficiency, which is what makes it so debilitating.
If you have some familiarity with information theory, it might be more convincing to think about it through that lens and consider how certain interpretations / assumptions lead to higher efficiency.
you’re continuously asserting my claim is false
If I did, I did not mean to. I don’t interact with enough neurotypical people to say whether it’s true or not. I think you can just replace “since” with “if” in my previous comment to correct for this.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
It is not the same thing. When you ask why X is true, you’re not only asking the question. You’re also making the claim that X is true. Since the premise of the question is wrong, you’re making everyone do extra work to figure out why your question isn’t making sense to them and what question you actually need to have answered.
You can invite speculation without making false claims. You also haven’t contributed anything other than anecdotes despite having made that false claim.
- Comment on Great Advertise 4 weeks ago:
There’s nothing about this image that can tell you with certainty that it’s AI generated, but it’s an art style that has been popular with AI generated images recently, probably due to the simplicity, which makes it harder for it to make mistakes. The trend means that a lot of junk has been showing up with this style and people have a negative association with it now.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.
That would be valid if it was what you did. Except you didn’t. You assumed the hypothesis to be true and asked us why it’s true. You should instead be asking whether or not it’s true.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 5 weeks ago:
They still use those here. I don’t bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 5 weeks ago:
- Talking about sex: Perfectly healthy and is something every parent should do.
- Talking about sex toys and flashlights: Also perfectly normal.
- Requesting/offering help in purchasing a flashlight (e.g. take my credit card and buy something under my name or driving them to a sex shop): Normal
- Choosing the fleshlight for them and thus making the decision in exactly what kind of sensations they experience while masturbating: Out of bounds.