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- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 20 hours ago:
It’s “stochastic”, if you want to be pedantic, and I get the feeling that’s all you’re here for. “In fact”.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 22 hours ago:
If i could prove it, it would be proof that we do. Our brains aren’t logic machines, they’re a wet mess where cognition emerges irrationally.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 1 day ago:
I call BS. There is no sort of cognition taking place in an LLM. They calculate statistics, that’s all. No more magic than the cash register at the supermarket.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 2 days ago:
It was a rhetorical “why”, but sure. The most reasonable alternative would be not touching “AI” with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 2 days ago:
Oh hell no, why?
- Comment on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook 1 week ago:
The irony is, of course, that Nazis will spread their inbred BS for free. So Meta are the suckers for giving them a platform and a paycheck.
- Comment on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook 1 week ago:
Hey, Nazis have to eat, too. No, wait.
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 1 week ago:
I know, but still, “oopsie, our magic eightball did a crime” is a bit of a reach from counting gigaflops or whatever.
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 1 week ago:
It was a weird flex from the beginning, and the bigger the companies that follow suit, the weirder it gets 🤷
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Quite agree, but there is the other POV that “AI” has emerged just at the right time to distract us from doing anything about climate change and rampant late stage capitalism… That is of course the perspective of capitalist entities that really need to wrench another few decades of profit out of us before we die in sundry environmental disasters.
See also, “why it would be really convenient if we could upload our minds to a metaverse while the world burns and billionaires escape to Mars”.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 3 weeks ago:
So contest the source instead of throwing a basic, student level link at me LIKE A BOT WOULD DO.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 3 weeks ago:
Ecosia has their dubiously “green AI”, and do union busting. Source
- Comment on Memdeklaro - A privacy-friendly decentralized identity framework 1 month ago:
So, fake ID as a service?
Identification needs a trusted third party verification to be valid. If you take all authority out of the equation (most commonly governments and banks), this is no more than a piece of paper with no verifiable information.
The print-your-own form lists “EPO” as issuer. I guess that’s the European Patents Office? That’s… a choice, and I don’t know that they issue identity papers, except for concepts and inventions. Either way you can just fill in your own. In fact, you can probably put “Santa Claus” in every form field and push print.
I’m for the idea in principle, but without some validation entity it’s just a novelty site with a straight face.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 1 month ago:
It quite clearly is, though.
- Comment on More Liability Will Make AI Chatbots Worse At Preventing Suicide 3 months ago:
Counterpoint, do
magic eightballs“AI” chatbots prevent suicide in the first place? We know human staffed phone helplines can, which is why users will be “spammed” with those numbers. They verifiably do more good than talking to a goddamn bullshit generator.Liability matters where human lives are concerned.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 4 months ago:
For me it’s having to pick apart if something is “AI” or not.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings 4 months ago:
So it’s actually one job that is easily replaced by Clippy.
- Comment on Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data 8 months ago:
I’m not sure I trust myself with that functionality.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 11 months ago:
Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!
Also, the idea that somewhere there is a species that’s just unquestionably, irredeemably evil. Trek has toyed with the notion before (Hi, Armus!), but this feels like a Pandora’s box moment if they stick with it.
Also also, why did all the scifi of the finale feel like it was streamlined to make space for a Harry Potter wizard battle?
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 11 months ago:
It’s the first Trek show that I have no desire to rewatch. Especially the s3 finale had me ready to just jump ship.
And it’s not the fault of the cast or directors, people on set running around to make things go brrr. It’s the decision from above that SNW’s sole purpose is apparently to set up a) TOS (and messing up what we thought we knew about, say, the Gorn in the process), and b) another show with Kirk, Spock and the gang which will also setup TOS.
We get it, Akiva Goldman & co have a big, collective fetish for TOS, but could we please let SNW be its own thing…?
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 1 year ago:
Engage the core.
No, no. Don’t you dare go to warp on a workout joke!
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 1 year ago:
By now it’s probably a really smelly paperweight, and Bitcoin Man would be bugging them endlessly even to regain ownership over that 🤷
I think we’re living the best ending where it’s never going to be recovered, and this dude is flailing ever more futilely at courts…
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 1 year ago:
Bitcoin manFlorida manPiltdown manIt’s an ongoing cycle…
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 1 year ago:
Yeah. Someday, in the ruins of the world, you may come across the decrepit remains of a man, held adrift only by the sheer momentum of that one time he was near The Big Win.
“Come 'ere m’lad,” he’ll tell you, gesturing vaguely with one rotting arm at the debris of human settlements, “help me dig for my hard drive of lost fortune tokens.”
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 1 year ago:
I defo have a lost bitcoin somewhere, too. Can I just pass start and cash in my Monopoly money somehow? Where do I sign up with my anecdotal evidence?
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 1 year ago:
“Bitcoin man” is the new “Florida man”.
- Comment on Amazon pumps additional $4Bn in AI Start-up Anthropic 1 year ago:
housing, food security, climate crisis
I would never want to rely on corporations’ willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.
In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn’t instead be siphoned into defense budgets.
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 1 year ago:
I dunno, over the course what, six months? A year? And since there’s been an influx of Twitter users they’re probably frantically liking every old follow/er they see to recreate their network.
Also, on Bluesky likes influence the algorithm more than it would on the fediverse, so who can blame them for gauging the ecosystem?
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 1 year ago:
That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…
- Comment on Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users 1 year ago:
Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.