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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This didn’t need to be a video, lol~
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.
Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats’ failure to build a coalition within its own party.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Literally all of the third party voters could have voted a straight Democrat ticket and it wouldn’t have affected a single swing state. Third-party voting was down by about 60% versus 2020.
- Comment on AI's $1.3 trillion future increasingly hinges on Taiwan 2 weeks ago:
an AI market that’s projected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2032.
I wish there was a way to short an entire industry., I could get rich on betting against techbro hype.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 3 weeks ago:
“Despite”
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 3 weeks ago:
You forgot to put caveats on all the things you claim LLMs can do, but only one of them doesn’t need them.
Also, I see your failure to support your assertions with evidence.
Why would you think that LLMs can do sentiment analysis when they have no concept of context or euphemism and are wholly incapable of distinguishing sarcasm from genuine sentiment?
Why would you think that their translations are of any use given the above?
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
Then what’s the LLM for?
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
LLMs arent “bad” (ignoring, of course, the massive content theft necessary to train them), but they are being wildly misused.
“Analysis” is precisely one of those misuses. Grand Theft Autocomplete can’t even count, ask it how many 'e’s are in “elephant” and you’ll get an answer anywhere from 1 to 3.
This is because they do not read or understand, they produce strings of tokens based on a statistical likelihood of what comes next. If prompted for an analysis they’ll output something that looks like an analysis, but to determine whether it is accurate or not a human has to do the work.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I think you are confused about the delineation between local and federal governments.
I am not, I simply don’t believe the delineation is relevant since taxpayers fund both the state and federal budgets.
Also, this feels like you are too capitalism-pilled
This is me being “reasonable” and working within the constraints of the system. If we aren’t going to have free universal college et al then we can at least trade some of the bloated military budget for a public works program.
People would seriously read through them for 1 day, and then they’d be like, “clear”, “clear”, “clear” without looking at half of them.
Sounds to me like a 50% improvement over zero human eyes.
It’s not like you’re gonna find and fund another group to review the first group’s work, after all.
Why not? We could hire three teams to do it simultaneously in every state in the country and the cost would still be a tiny fraction of how much was wasted on the F-35 program.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
LLMs neither understand nor analyze text. They are statistical models of the text they were trained on. A map of language.
And, like any map, they should not be confused for the territory they represent.
If you admit that they have issues with facts, why would you assume that the randomly generated facts their “analysis” produces must be accurate?
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
So, what? They’re going to pay a human to OK the output and the whole lot of them never even gets seen?
Say 12 minutes per covenant, that’s 1 million work hours that humans could get paid for. Pay them $50 an hour and it’s $50 million. That’s nothing, less than 36 hours worth of the $12.5 Billion in weapons shipments we’ve sent to Israel in the last year. We could pay for projects like this with the rounding errors on the budget for blowing up foreign kids, and the people we pay to do it could afford to put their kids through college.
Instead, we get a project to train a robotic bigotry filter for real estate legalese and 50 more cruise missiles from the savings.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
The use of LLMs instead of someone that can actually understand context.
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 4 weeks ago:
The latter is correct.
English has a fixed adjective order:
Determiner Quantity Opinion Size Age Shape Color Origin/Material Qualifier
“Versatile” is an opinion and “modular” is a qualifier.
“The single, versatile, large, new, round, blue, local, modular thingamawidget.”
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
Given the error rate of LLMs, it seems more like they wasted $258 and a week that could have been spent on a human review.
- Comment on Boeing union workers Win tentative contract with 35 percent wage increase. 4 weeks ago:
It’s inflation plus 2%, nothing spectacular but still a solid win for the union.
- Comment on Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age - The Blockchain Socialist 4 weeks ago:
Worse, it’s in the channel’s name.
- Comment on Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age - The Blockchain Socialist 4 weeks ago:
Immediate downvote for crypto BS
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Also, they spelled it wrong. The logo clearly says “Darkochaser”
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Generative “AI” is not “AI”, it’s a overlarge statistical model of written language. It cannot make NPC dialogue more lively because it has no concept of “liveliness” or “boredom”. A 10-minute conversation is impossible, anything more than a few words and the models very rapidly lose consistency. You can see this for yourself by playing one of the many “AI Dungeon” attempts at using large language models to run a text adventure.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Generative AI is a statistical model, not something that can understand what makes a good plot…
- Comment on Thoughts 2 months ago:
- Comment on Let's skip this one 3 months ago:
Can’t blame them for keeping Earth under quarantine, just imagine the nonsense they’d have to clean up if humans escaped containment. XD
- Comment on Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 3 months ago:
The 3-letter surveillance agent from the UK:
- Comment on Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 3 months ago:
Have they fired that cop yet?
- Comment on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer 3 months ago:
Also, won’t these cables point directly back to the ground troops?
Not necessarily. The drone can be deployed on a different vector and change course toward the target so that its fiber line would point elsewhere. The operator can also pull the fiber back in after the drone is destroyed or the line is cut.
- Comment on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer 3 months ago:
Because the fiber spools out of the drone and curves back towards the operator on the ground at an angle that depends on the weight of the fiber and the tension applied by the drone. Given a lightweight fiber and a low tension to avoid breaking it, then if the drone was 1km directly overhead then the closest point where the fiber reaches ground level would be several hundred meters away.
- Comment on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer 3 months ago:
If you’re close enough to see and/or reach the fiber, then the suicide drone it’s attached to is already close enough to bomb you.
- Comment on Kitsune Tails, the colorful platformer inspired by Super Mario 3, is out now 3 months ago:
XD
Yeah! I dunno why I’ll get a notification that my post wasn’t uploaded because of a timeout, only to find out later that it actually did. XD
- Comment on Kitsune Tails, the colorful platformer inspired by Super Mario 3, is out now 3 months ago:
The first known example of furry art is The Löwenmensch figurine, also called the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, a ~38,000 year old ivory figurine of a lion-headed man:
- Comment on Destiny creators Bungie lay off 220 people and form new studio within Sony to stave off financial ruin 3 months ago:
Oh, I just took that as a given since I gave up on live service games when Warframe introduced an utter timewaster of a rival system.
