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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it would be correct to say that the civilians have nothing to do with the war. As far as I’m aware, the IDF’s intended target is all Palestinians, civilians included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical artificial intelligence ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be worth editing your post to specify that you’re talking about LLMs. There’s no indication that this is your intent without reading your responses in the comment section.

  Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…

  Private, anonymous, and uncensored. Those are easy. There’s plenty of pre-trained LLMs out there that you can download and use however you like.

  Not training with your data, not possible as far as I’m aware. LLMs rely on the availability of a huge quantity and diversity of data. There isn’t enough of that available that also come with consent of the creator for this usage.

  Open source isn’t well defined for machine learning models. Lots of models have their code and weights available, so if that qualifies for you, that’s also easy to find. Huggingface hosts most of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can have static HTML websites, but that basically limits you to sharing static information (which, by the way, still have “bugs” in the form of typos). There’s already lots of great resources for that. Wikipedia, personal blogs, books (physical and electronic). That’s not usually what we’re on the internet for though. We’re here for interactivity. We want to connect with other people (e.g. Lemmy), and we want tools to help us with various problems we have (e.g. any portable software that just needs a browser to run). Avoiding JS would hinder that goal. If you just want to read, go to your local library, take out a book, and start reading. Or get an e-reader and download some e-books.

  You also point out the problem of online privacy. While JS does empower the tracking, it also does way more than that. The solution shouldn’t be to throw out the baby with the bath water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I get a movement right, I keep repeating it over and over until it’s committed to memory. You’re saying I could’ve stopped at the first success? Why did no one tell me earlier?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do ambulances do with patients cars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure you can have medical emergencies unrelated to driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steady⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold my piss jug, I’m… uh… I feel like something’s missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, as is the case for any word play. You need to know the languages involved to understand them. What I don’t understand is why they think this is a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the joke is about the Finnish language having funny homonyms.

  I don’t understand what you’re trying to say by giving me an example of a joke in Finnish.

  It’s not usual to make such jokes with words that are actual cognates.

  Part of what makes jokes funny is the unexpected nature of it, and the first interpretation you typically think of is the literal translation. It would just sound like someone legitimately trying to communicate while mixing up their languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you should be recommending specific instances rather than just generally recommending the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We make these kinds of jokes with every language pairing. But you’re in an English language community. Of course you’re going to be seeing English jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the article body doesn’t actually say that anyone is immune. In fact, it lists out how to properly market to this segment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that eats too much protein, definitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically the equivalent of dogs sniffing each other’s butts if you think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not proud of myself. But I do it all the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me with a book and my phone 😆

  I don’t think it worked though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What people do in that case is look at pictures of people with various hairstyles online, trying to find one where they feel like “this looks good, I want to try that one”

  I don’t know what problems OP is facing, but in my case, this is basically what the hairdresser recommended that I do and also what I tried doing. Except it didn’t help because nothing was appealing to me (I’m rather change adverse). I really needed to maintain a particular style for a while to get used to it before I could decide if I liked it or not. After a while, I couldn’t tell if I disliked it because it was grown out too much or if I just didn’t like that cut, or if it was some other reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of a tautological answer. Of course it’s as often as I want, but what do I want? I had that question when I started making my own decisions on my hair. I was never fully happy with how things looked and haven’t figured out how to style it the way I like. What part of it was I unhappy with? I couldn’t tell. Would more frequent hair cuts help? Or less frequent so it spends more time in that slightly grown out state and I have more consistent hair to work with? And so many other questions.

  If you know that most people get their hair cut after X weeks, then that gives you a starting point to experiment with instead of going into it completely blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to stop yourself from smiling? Getting a fresh haircut and seeing it take shape sounds like a very good reason to smile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this still on the ace spectrum or what?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like demisexual, which is a subset of asexuality.

  Everyone else is already covering the topic of the usefulness of labels, so I’m not going to bother getting into that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are utterly insane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if they didn’t consider the limitations

  They did, and planned for it to the best of their abilities given the available resources. Being disabled doesn’t mean you stop trying to be a functional human being. The illogical thing to do is to sit at home and do nothing because you’re not 100% certain that things will go well. Because as you said,

  Nothing is 100% efficient [or certain or guaranteed]

  So should we not strive to make things as predictable as possible?

  Everyone deserves empathy. All sentient beings, including this hypothetical man.

  Again, all people deserve empathy

  And yet, your ideal scenarios, you keep favouring one person/group at the expense of another. I don’t know if empathy is the word you actually mean to use. You can empathize with everyone while still favouring specific people, but your examples suggest that you’re using “empathy” to mean the actions you take (or don’t take) to help someone rather than the emotional state. In that case, it’s is indeed a binary either/or. In your examples, what you do to help one person will negatively affect others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are utterly insane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In these examples, the ideal scenarios described aren’t any more logical or empathetic than the real scenario. All you’re saying is that particular people are more deserving of empathy than the people who are affected by their actions.

  • Example 1: People smell awful after smoking. Everyone else in the train sitting in the vicinity will have to deal with the smell for the duration of their ride. The more often this happens, the less likely people will be willing to take mass transit, leading to lots of other negative downstream effects for everyone on the planet. Do all these other people not also deserve empathy?
  • Example 2: Timeliness has real effects on people’s lives. What if there’s a disabled man waiting on this bus at a later stop? They planned their errand so that it’s within their ability to handle given their disability, but a late bus means that the timing no longer aligns and it’ll significantly extend the duration past what they can safely handle. Would this man not also deserve empathy? Poor timeliness for mass transit would also discourage people from using them.
  • Example 3: If the man smoking in example 1 is deserving of empathy with regards to his addictions, why not this passenger?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are fossil fuels vegan?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty much all made of plant matter, but that’s irrelevant. What makes it vegan or not is whether you cause harm to the fauna by using it and creating demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandatory self-reflection hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Notion does that too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What benefit would there be to federation? You can already download all of Wikipedia, and you can host your own wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s this error recovery business you speak of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.