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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  photograph of a bird. wikipedia’s caption for this photo is “Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) in the Duisburg Zoo, Germany”

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bustards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is exiting consumer space because Self-Driving has hit the same fundamental limits as LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This post caused me to look up what changed: sadly they aren’t exiting the consumer space but rather are just ceasing to include lane-keeping in their basic package to instead require new customers who want it to pay a monthly subscription fee for what they amusingly call “Full Self Driving (Supervised)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  howard’s awkward canard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are not able to rationally argue why we shouldn’t be bigoted, I don’t know what to tell you.

  it’s not that people can’t, but spaces which have unlimited tolerance for sealions suggesting that it’s necessary to are likely to have less interesting discussions than spaces which do not 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t call it an anarchist space

  tell me you’ve never been in a non-internet anarchist space without telling me 😂

  (hint: offline anarchist bars do not tolerate nazis either)

  rules of anarchism

  😭

  (this is a bit, right?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ironic you state it like this, since we are an explicitly anarchist server ;)

  it’s not really ironic as i am well aware that you are and i appreciate you for that :)

  what i’m saying is that i’m glad that, despite obviously being a (fellow!) proponent of freedom of expression, you haven’t fallen victim to the childish line of thought which leads some people to let their spaces become nazi bars. so: thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  unmoderated internet spaces are quickly overrun with bigotry, csam, and spam.

  if, in the name of “free speech”, you only moderate the csam and spam, the space will be primarily occupied by people looking for a forum that welcomes bigotry.

  respect to dbzer0 for rm’ing bigotry and not letting childish anarchist free speech ideals cause lemmy.dbzer0.com to be a nazi bar 🥂

  see also:

  * en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar * techdirt.com/…/on-social-media-nazi-bars-tradeoff… * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

• Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English insteadapnews.com ↗
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• Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’www.theverge.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I say kill 'em all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is a youtube video purporting to show one actually working; they’ve been taking pre-orders since last summer but wikipedia editors say it’s unverifiable so they remove references to it from their “Mosquito laser” article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):

  screenshot of PDF of page 7: Introduction intimate thoughts; clear evidence that people were conversing with the computer as if it were a person who could be appropriately and usefully addressed in intimate terms. I knew of course that people form all sorts of emotional bonds to machines, for example, to mu- sical instruments, motorcycles, and cars. And I knew from long ex- perience that the strong emotional ties many programmers have to their computers are often formed after only short exposures to their machines. What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful de- lusional thinking in quite normal people. This insight led me to attach new importance to questions of the relationship between the individual and the computer, and hence to resolve to think about them, 3. Another widespread, and to me surprising, reaction to the ELIZA program was the spread of a belief that it demonstrated a general solution to the problem of computer understanding of natu- ral language. In my paper, I had tried to say that no general solution to that problem was possible, ie., that language is understood only in contextual frameworks, that even these can be shared by people to only a limited extent, and that consequently even people are not embodiments of any such general solution. But these conclusions were often ignored, In any case, ELIZA was such a small and simple step. Its contribution was, if any at all, only to vividly underline what many others had long ago discovered, namely, the importance of context to language understanding. The subsequent, much more elegant, and surely more important work of Winograd in computer comprehension of English is currently being misinterpreted just as ELIZA was. This reaction to ELIZA showed me more vividly than anything I had seen hitherto the enormously exaggerated attribu- tions an even well-educated audience is capable of making, even strives to make, to a technology it does not understand. Surely, I thought, decisions made by the general public about emergent tech- nologies depend much more on what that public attributes to such technologies than on what they actually are or can and cannot do. If, as appeared to be the case, the public’s attributions are wildly mis- conceived, then public decisions are bound to be misguided and

  a pdf of the whole book is available here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zionism is, and has always been since the modern movement started in the 19th century, intrinsically antisemitic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darwin was a real one.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this post is a screenshot of news.lettersofnote.com/…/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-…

  see also news.lettersofnote.com/…/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea…

  and www.darwinproject.ac.uk (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin’s letters)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t say that he’s hypocritical, say rather that he’s apolitical

• YSK: There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaustforward.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors.

  As one of the moderators of !memes@lemmy.ml i encourage OP to look at the sort of posts i make and tell me - do you really think i’m a “Chinese state actor”? You think all these posts i make in, eg, !hoch@lemmy.ml are part of a carefully-crafted cover, and I’m actually being paid by China to delete totally-not-racist posts depicting their president as a yellow cartoon bear? And for this service, to maintain my cover, they pay me to create things like this and this and this this and this and this (a small sample of my OC memes here)? Really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476 (1957), the Court sustained a conviction under a federal statute punishing the mailing of “obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy . . .” materials. The key to that holding was the Court’s rejection of the claim that obscene materials were protected by the First Amendment. Five Justices joined in the opinion stating:

  "All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion – have the full protection of the [First Amendment] guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. . . . This is the same judgment expressed by this Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U. S. 568, 315 U. S. 571-572: "

  ". . . There are certain well defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene. . . . It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality. . . ."

  [Emphasis by Court in Roth opinion.]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  time for this classic again:

  0 ✊

  1 👍

  2 ☝️

  3 👆

  4 🖕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't have to use gyroelongation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

• You don't have to use gyroelongationlemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution be like...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  later:

  4-panel comic from pbfcomics.com with whales and speech bubbles. first panel has a whale saying: “Gentleman… our waters are in great danger.” Second panel: “Perhaps we should follow the path of the devonian sea creatures, and adapt to walk on land”. Third panel: no text. Fourth panel: a different whale says: “Barry. Shut the fuck up… seriously.” 📎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐦‍⬛ Blackbird singing in the dead of night... (人´▽`*)♪⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i added some links in my crosspost of this in !emoji@lemmy.ml:

  • mefi.social/@HarryRutherford/109935858214218911
  • www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19307-crow-emoji.pdf
  • emojipedia.org/black-bird
• ‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily lifewww.irishtimes.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holla at me when there’s an AI clothes robot.

  It’s a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:

  NPR timelapse gif animation from 2015 of BRETT the “Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks” taking 10 minutes to fold a towel

  It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!

• "It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?"lemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops publishes their recommender algorithm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that the GitHub code isn’t the code that’s used

  really? given that the license is AGPL and they do have some external contributors, they shouldn’t be running an unpublished branch of the code!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  look at their responses in the .ml cross-post,

  that post is now deleted, but you can see their modlog here

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you miss that OP mentioned they’re blind?

  Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.

  (I don’t usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.) A meme with three rows and two columns. The first row has the heading ‘Two sexes’, above a picture of a white male-presenting person (labeled ‘male’) on the left, and two female-presenting people (labeled ‘political’) on the right. The second row has the heading ‘Two sexualities’, above a straight couple (labeled ‘straight’), and two same-sex couples (labeled ‘political’). The third row has the heading ‘Two races’ above a picture of the same white man (labeled ‘white’), and three non-white people (labeled ‘political’).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  see also: Conscription of people with disabilities. It’s ongoing in present-day Ukraine.