Rhaedas

Shift away from consumerism and go back to a more local economy. Yes, that’s going to be very bad for the western world’s way of life. I forfeit my extra points because there’s no way to change without some disruption.

Food sources don’t provide water unless there is water to grow them, and if the water is contaminated that will just end up in the food.

Great idea. Along with that we should sink some money into the digital infrastructure to make sure as much of the country is connected at the best possible level. Wait…we did that in, what, the 90s? Gave a lot of money to the companies of the time and…shit, where’d that money go?

Exhibit A would be the comparison of how we label LLM successes at how “smart” it is, yet it’s not so smart when it fails badly. Totally expected with a pattern matching algorithm, but surprising for something that might have a process underneath that is considering its output in some way.

And when I say pattern matching I’m not downplaying the complexity in the black box like many do. This is far more than just autocomplete. But it is probability at the core still, and not anything pondering the subject.

I think our brains are more than that. Probably? There is absolutely pattern matching going on, that’s how we associate things or learn stuff, or anthropomorphize objects. There’s some hard wired pattern preferences in there. But where do new thoughts come from? Is it just like some older scifi thought, emergence due to enough complexity, or is there something else? I’m sure current LLMs aren’t comprehending what they spit out simply from what we see from them, both good and bad results. Clearly it’s not the same level of human thought, and I don’t have to remotely understand the brain to realize that.

That is what AI scientists have been pursuing the entire time (well, before they got sucked up by capitalistic goals).

“And that’s a very strong preventative.”

Cite expert sources that say… oh, you’re an expert? Okay, guess that’s good enough.

An LLM isn’t imagining anything, it’s sorting through the enormous collection of “imaginations” put out by humans to find the best match for “your” imagination. And the power used is in the training, not in each generation. Lastly, the training results in much more than just that one image you can’t stop thinking about, and you’d find the best ones if you could prompt better with your little brain.

I’m curious whose feelings I hurt. The anti-AI crowd? Certainly they’d agree with my point of LLMs not thinking. Users of LLMs? I hope most of you understand how the tool works. Maybe it’s the meme crowd who just wanted everyone to chuckle and not think about it too much.

All I can say is the wisdom from George Carlin: “It’s a Big Club, and you aren’t in it.” None of these people, Republicans or not, aren’t either. They just haven’t realized it, and may never.

Older people, or those who don’t have access or aren’t familiar to technology. Maybe even other situations I don’t know about. Why wouldn’t we offer help and a way to access that help to anyone? I don’t care how they voted or who they are. I wish they’d come around to thinking differently, but they’re still people.

They would have included the profits of the wealthy, but they couldn’t match the scale.

I’m still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it’s not that easy to determine some video origins.

I’m not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.

Modernizing communication makes perfect sense, but it should be an addition to improve flow of information, not a replacement that leaves some people behind for whatever reason. Most people would move to such a system willingly, freeing up resources for the older methods to work for those who need it. This sounds like a move to “accidentally” filter out certain demographics.

Flag code is an advisory for proper handling of the flag. That’s it. Flag code was never meant to supersede the Constitution.

That he would use executive orders to push such totalitarian things isn’t surprising, but it shouldn’t get far before it’s challenged by the Supreme Court.

Unless the Court has been bought. Let’s see how this plays out. Weird way to stimulate the economy by getting people to buy flags (made in China) to burn in protest.

“I’M THE KING! I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!”

“Any man who must say ‘I am king’ is no true king.”

Plus, we don’t have kings here. At some point enough people are going to remember that.

Make sure the pound checks for a microchip and is a no-kill. The fact that he’s friendly and healthy suggests he has a home somewhere.

They literally went “why having testing, when production gives us more data?”

It’s not an equal comparison because there isn’t a single Lemmy. And I say that from a non-Lemmy account (Mbin), furthering the point. Most people from the Reddit migration probably came here because of the decentralization factor. Think of Lemmy and the rest as subreddits but without the domination of the main site. The best any community (subreddit) can do is defederate other groups (prevent their content from being seen in their own instance) that they see as problematic, but that’s all that’s needed.

Imagine the Fediverse structure, but there was a single controller that any instance had to go through to filter external content, and had to obey when told to filter external content. It’s a new Reddit. The freedom for anyone to set up instances with whatever content or filtering they want makes it totally different. But to the point asked, that’s why you can’t talk about Lemmy in a singular manner, it’s not one thing. And that’s good.

But maybe not AI. AI goes off training of real photos and would have variation in the surfaces, while someone doing this in Blender would be lazy and use the same texturing for all.

It’s a simplistic calculation, but it does seem that often doing the right thing ends up cheaper in the long run. It just doesn’t benefit certain groups, so it’s not an option. If a million a day was applied to not just pay for sheltering, but to find solutions there wouldn’t be a problem to throw authoritative measures at, or use as a reason to tighten security and control. They don’t want to fix the problem, it works for them.

You are absolutely right. It was Test Drive I was thinking about.