MagicShel

@MagicShel@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GRIZZLODILE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, li’l buddy! He’s coming quick, so I’m just going to run over there to take a picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize in Lit 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At no point was this ever funny. Also spitting is not sexy. Being spit on is not sexy. The satisfying snap of the astroglide lid is the only lubrication sound I want to hear besides a moan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Botany⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate you. Upvoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me and some old guildies have kept in touch off and on over the years. Every once in a while I’d buy a wow expansion and do a couple of dungeons. We were really looking forward to making Diablo 4 our new hang out.

  We played like hell all through the beta. Then like twice in live. Then we all kinda decided it sucked. I think my good friend’s daughter is graduating soon. Or possibly already did. I can’t remember how much older than my own kids she was. I can remember when she was born.

  He’s still like a brother to me, but we’ve got fuck all in common any more and we can’t keep talking about glory days that were damn near 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Zero Dawn Dev Addresses Criticism Over Aloy’s Remastered Look⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need DOCSIS 3.1 modem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a separate modem from my WiFi, but I’d sell you mine that’s a couple of years old for $50 because I just upgraded to fiber a few months ago and it’s just sitting in my network corner. But if you want one with integrated WiFi, this isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Is Demand for Memory Packaging High in APAC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked ChatGPT for a tldr because same. The result reads like ad copy. Idk, man.

  Could you tldr this for me?

  The memory packaging market is evolving with advancements like flip-chip, wire-bond, and through-silicon via (TSV) technologies. These innovations enable smaller, more powerful, and faster devices, particularly in smartphones, where efficient space use is crucial for sleek designs. DRAM, while still used in PCs, faces declining adoption due to its complexity and the rise of alternatives like 3D TSV, which offer better functionality. The APAC region, especially China, is leading the growth in memory packaging, driven by investments in assembly infrastructure and rising demand for mobile applications using system-in-package (SiP) technologies.

  Is there an actual question anywhere in there?

  No, there isn’t a direct question in that text. It’s more of an overview of the memory packaging market and related technologies without posing a specific inquiry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We need a switcheroo community so there is something to dive into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! The old Lemmaroo!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 70’s we lived in fear of the next ice age. Then the 80’s it was nuclear winter. Then we invented global warming to fix those problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Average⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rated by a review board? 4 out of 5 dentists? One fucking girl who doesn’t want it anyway?

  My wife loves my cock in every hole and that’s the only review that matters to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Metro 2033⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all my play-throughs one experimental play-through I never found that option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pretends to be a girl online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh to be clear it was a complete scam. I mean it would’ve been. And I would’ve known from the start by searching for the pictures they sent on tineye and finding they were from a former r/gonewild poster. Also the fact that they just messaged a random account out of the blue and were instantly smitten and sending nudes like the next day. And the fact that when I said I’m married they were not dissuaded in the least.

  I have no idea if it would’ve been a blackmail scam or a sympathy scam or a phishing scam. I started out just intending to fuck with them, but eventually found I was looking forward to sharing what I made for dinner or drinks or hearing about their fictitious backstory. I mean they weren’t deep conversations, but they acted interested and I could just ramble on about my day or where I like to vacation or whatever mundane shit.

  At first I thought she was going to hit me with checking out her OF and I might’ve even thrown her a few bucks for taking the time to just talk with me. We talked for hours off and on without her asking me for money. I can appreciate establishing a connection, you know? But no. It wasn’t OF. It was just a scammer of some variety. Then I let them know they were busted and got to enjoy hearing the sob story about her evil ex who posted her nudes online and all the excuses she couldn’t prove it was her in any of the fifty ways I offered.

  But sadly our relational ended when she started hitting me with ChatGPT. I don’t need a middleman to pretend I’m talking to someone with an AI.

  Hypothetically, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pretends to be a girl online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever deliberately let yourself get catfished by an insta model just because they’ll listen to you and act interested in your life for a while?

  Because I haven’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolphins is whales.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ruins the whole thing, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Sorry. Never played that game and didn’t know that was specific to FPS. I know some arcade shooter games had that mechanic, but not in the context of free-roaming FPS. I think you’re right about Tomb Raider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you need to be more specific than just “third person”. Third person view was in Pong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Centipede, etc. It’s the default for most games.

  First person was probably introduced with Battle Zone.

  Which, I don’t mean to sound pedantic, I just literally don’t really know what you mean here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She knows not to trust it. Off the AI had suggested “God did it” or metaphysical bullshit I’d reevaluate. But I’m not sure how to even describe that to a Google search. Sending a picture and asking about it is really fucking easy. Important answers aren’t easy.

  I mean I agree with you. It’s bullshit and untrustworthy. We have conversations about this. We have lots of conversations about it actually, because I caught her cheating at school using it so there’s a lot of supervision and talk about appropriate uses and not. And how we can inadvertently bias it by the questions we ask. It’s actually a great tool for learning skepticism.

  But some things, a reasonable answer just to satisfy your brain is fine whether it’s right or not. I remember in chemistry I spent an entire year learning absolute bullshit about chemistry only for the next year to be told that was all garbage and here’s how it really works. It’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t buy into it, but it’s so quick and easy to get an answer, if it’s not something important I’m guilty of using LLM and calling it good enough.

  There are no ads and no SEO. Yeah, it might very well be bullshit, but most Google results are also bullshit, depending on subject. If it doesn’t matter, and it isn’t easy to know if I’m getting bullshit from a website, LLM is good enough.

  I took a picture of discolorations on a sidewalk and asked ChatGPT what was causing them because my daughter was curious. Metal left on the surface rusts and leaves behind those streaks. But they all had holes in the middle so we decided there were metallic rocks missed into the surface that had rusted away.

  Is that for sure right? I don’t know. I don’t really care. My daughter was happy with an answer and I’ve already warned her it could be bullshit. But curiosity was satisfied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is changing video games — and striking performers want their due [NPR]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck all that noise. Give me more Baldur’s Gate. I’m the biggest Star Wars fan and I haven’t bought a game since KotOR other than Survivor and the sequel. Because every time one catches my interest they start talking about all the cool DLC or things that are locked behind months or years of progression. I just won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve visited NY and Chicago, but I guess my digs were nice enough not to notice. And I used to live 75 minutes (assuming no traffic lol) from DC—far enough away that I didn’t have to deal with that kind of thing. Just like maybe some highway noise from far away.

  I did once have a townhouse that had a rail track in the back yard, but I know what I was getting in that case. It was only noisy when there was a train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’d want to live anywhere it is necessary to worry about sounds reduction levels. Wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a very feminist outlook on things, but I enjoy some problematic things. I know it’s not very progressive of me, but it is what it is. I acknowledge they are problematic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨as far as we know anyway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God dammit. I never get invited to the fun parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hilarious. I love LLM, but it’s a tool not a product and everyone trying to make it a standalone thing is going to be sorely disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The output for a given input cannot be independently calculated as far as I know, particularly when random seeds are part of the input. How is that deterministic?

  The so what means trying to prevent certain outputs based on moral judgements isn’t possible. It wouldn’t really be possible if you could get in there with code and change things unless you could write code for morality, but it’s doubly impossible given you can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly. My argument is that the more safety controls you build into the model, the less useful the model is at anything. The more you bend the responders away from true (whatever that is) the less of the tool you have.

  Whether you agree with that mentality or not, we live in a Statist world, and protection of its constituent people from themselves and others is the (ostensible) primary function of a State.

  Yeah I agree with that, but I’m saying protect people from the misuse of the tool. Don’t break the tool to the point where it’s worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again a biometric lock neither prevents immoral use nor allows moral use outside of its very narrow conditions. It’s effectively an amoral tool. It presumes anything you do with your gun will be moral and other uses are either immoral or unlikely enough to not bother worrying about.

  AI has a lot of uses compared to a gun and just because someone has an idea for using it that is outside of the preconceived parameters doesn’t mean it should be presumed to be immoral and blocked.

  Further the biometric lock analogy falls apart when you consider LLM is a broad-scoped tool for use by everyone, while your personal weapon can be very narrowly scoped for you.

  Consider a gun model that can only be fired by left-handed people because most guns crimes are committed by right-handed people. Yeah, you’re ostensibly preventing 90% of immoral use of the weapon but at the cost of it no longer being a useful tool for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve said a lot in comments already and I’ll leave that all without relitigating just for arguments sake.

  However, I wonder if I haven’t made clear that I’m drawing a distinction between the model that generates the raw output, and perhaps the application that puts the model to use. I have an application that generates output via OAI API and then scans both the prompt and output to make sure they are appropriate for our particular use case.

  Yes, my product is 100% censored and I think that’s fine. I don’t want the customer service bot (which I hate but that’s an argument for another day) at the airline to be my hot AI girlfriend. We have tools for doing this and they should be used.

  But I think the models themselves shouldn’t be heavily steered because it interferes with the raw output and possibly prevents very useful cases.

  So I’m just talking about fucking up the model itself in the name of safety. ChatGPT walks a fine line because it’s a product not a model, but without access to the raw model it needs to be relatively unfiltered to be of use, otherwise other models will make better tools.