mashbooq

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not trained in formal computer science, so I’m unable to evaluate the quality of this paper’s argument, but there’s a preprint out that claims to prove that current computing architectures will never be able to advance to AGI, and that rather than accelerating, improvements are only going to slow down due to the exponential increase in resources necessary for any incremental advancements (because it’s an NP-hard problem). That doesn’t prove LLMs are end of the line, but it does suggest that additional improvements are likely to be marginal.

  Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s said bye to DVDs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  without compromising on visual fidelity

  But it does compromise. Netflix has the worst banding issues in low-light scenes of any of the streaming services I’ve tried. It’s hard not to notice and it’s very annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the neutral answer. It’s objectively and demonstrably correct.

• In the show *South Park*, Stan/Kyle roughly represent the ideals the writers see themselves as striving for, while Cartman is who they subconsciously want to be
  Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨13⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bad bot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love is blind⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a point of clarification, historically russians force huge amounts of Slavic men into war because russians don’t value human life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.ml⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, Stalin, renowned promoter of human rights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.ml⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What about people ignoring the possibility of a comet hitting the earth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “We’re trying to have those conversations with Elon to establish what the sensors would need to do,” Baglino added. “And they were really difficult conversations, because he kept coming back to the fact that people have just two eyes and they can drive the car.”

  But people have human brains, unlike Teslas or their CEO. Conversely, goldfish have two eyes, yet cannot drive a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale (which is open source) can host an entry point for a home VPN for you. Better security would be to host it yourself, which they also have instructions on how to set up, but even having them host is a security upgrade from using standard cloud cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d need to pay for an external server and domain name, but that’s generally cheaper than paying cloud subscriptions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Best way would be to set up a VPN that lets you connect to your home network remotely, and set up cameras that are only connected to your LAN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop using cloud-connected cameras!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason dehumanizing someone is evil is, among other things, because it makes it easier for non-psychopathic people to kill them. If you’re ok with killing people even without dehumanizing them, that suggests very troubling things about you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech workers have no right to be angry. Unionize or shut up. (Excluding all the supportive tech workers, including those in the comments.) Source: am a tech worker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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