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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple urged to axe AI feature after creating false headline claiming that Lugi shot himself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The marketing department seems to have highly inflated expectations, so I think this is mostly a marketing thing. They are painting a picture of something that doesn’t exist yet. The same thing happened with Siri and Google Assistant when they were released. People expected these tools to be capable of doing the kinds of things that modern LLMs are now beginning to approach, so the amount of disappointment was pretty brutal.

  But is it a solution looking for a problem? If you need to generate pictures for a horror themed book, image AIs can get the job done properly. You don’t even need to request mutated abominations, because the AI gravitates towards those anyway. If you need to write a pointless self help book that meets the page count without conveying any actual information, LLMs are the way to go.

  These are all pretty niche examples, but people should understand that all of the AIs we have today are narrow AIs. The scope is about as narrow as the tip of a torx screwdriver. Try it on a different screw and you’ll see what I mean. Use it as a hammer, and you’ll gain full understanding of the nature of this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some psychologists also use D&D for therapy purposes. It allows the patient to experience a variety of situations, explore their feelings, practice new skills etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots actually.

  Playing house (if you’re 4), larping (if you’re older), table top games, D&D, pretend play etc. Basically all sorts is children’s playing and having fun in the backyard should also qualify even though the structure can be very loose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, at at least they were able to catch something, rather than nothing. Now terrorists know that you can’t just walk through with an RPG on your shoulder. However, with rates like that, you could probably sneak through just about anything through as long as you try to hide it even a little bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But you could test the system by trying to violate the rules and documenting the catch rate. Surely, they are already doing it to measure its effectiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, in many other countries, education is government funded and free to all citizens. Having an education public is seen as an asset, not a liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Rumors: Cheaper iPhone 17 Air is Coming This 2025, and Also a Foldable iPhone For 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many features seem to come like 5-7 years late. Somewhere around 2016 Apple had finally added so many of the basic features to the iPhone that I could actually start considering it a realistic alternative to Android phones. Before that, there were always several serious deal breakers. Nowadays, things are actually surprisingly tolerable. It took like forever to get there, but now the phone actually does all the basic things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fight fire with fire. Figure out which topic he doesn’t care about, and start talking about it all the time. Like, literally all the time you see him.

  Could be a new hobby like flying a kite or an obscure interest like the history green colors used in the textile industry. Ideally, you would pick something you can imagine yourself being passionate about. Look up some videos on how autistic people talk about their favorite topic, and you’ll get the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you need to summarize notifications? Usually each notification is just a short sentence, so there’s hardly anything you can do to shorten them further. Summarizing websites is far more useful though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That can’t be healthy in the long run. I wonder if it makes Americans snap and go totally postal. Or maybe people just burn out and decide to jump in the nearest river.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounded very American. Is this a US specific problem?

  why can’t you work through lunch?

  Seriously, there’s something wrong with your boss or perhaps even the whole company. If you need to get stuff done during your lunch hour, you just go ahead and do it. Why should your boss care as long as you do your job during the other hours of the week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the devs were debating whether it’s possible for a simulated sentient intelligence to figure out it’s in a simulation. What if there was a bet, and the only way to prove other dev wrong was to actually build the simulation and let it run its course. I mean, it’s just a quick little experiment about a single universe in 3D space with linear time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought of that. Thanks for the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. Sneaky move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting banned doesn’t really have the same impact. In both cases, you can still register with a new email, but on Lemmy, you can also choose a different instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A similar setup can also be seen in the ownership of apartments buildings. You can have a limited liability company that manages major renovations and other expenses that concern the building as a whole. The idea is that you own shares in that company, which gives you the right to live in a specific apartment. In practice, you can still treat the inside as if you owned everything, although technically everything is still owned cooperatively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you buy stocks, you’re essentially just hoping to find something who is willing to pay more for the same thing. If you own property and rent it out, you’re providing a service to someone who needs it. In the latter case, you’re creating value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no problem with landlords.

  Those who own apartments are also taking some big risks I’m not comfortable with. When something requires maintenance, it’s usually something very expensive.

  This means that either the landlord has to have like 50 k€ ready for emergencies or be willing to borrow money from a bank and pay back with interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out, I have an old dumb FullHD TV that should be ideal for this experiment. So, if I watch a YT video on 1080p, I should be able to see compression artefacts that are invisible when using a higher resolution. How is that supposed to work anyway, given that the browser knows the output resolution? Will it just download a higher resolution video, drop every other pixel, and display the rest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t noticed anything. Would you do me a disservice and explain what I’m missing in my blissful ignorance. Make me see something that can never be unseen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the assassin is identified, there will be conspiracy theories and rumors. Now that I think of it, the part with murder and death are completely optional. There will always be conspiracies, as long as the person in question is famous enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The human mind seems to have some sort of built-in tribalism. Throughout history, humans have gravitated towards favoring the in-group and discriminating the out-group. The difference between those groups could be skin color, language, religion, family name or anything. Could be literally anything, no matter how trivial or silly. There have been some interesting studies about this.

  See also: minimal group paradigm, in-group bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really thought you weren’t American, because of the way you see the situation. I’m looking at that dumpster fire from the outside, and can’t help but think about many of the same questions you seem to have. Sounds like you might have grown up in a multicultural environment, where modern hate media and polarization sounds completely alien to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: rule of cool.

  That seems to be the answer to pretty much all the weird stuff you see in MCU movies. If it’s cool, they’ll throw it on the screen. If not, there’s a pretty good chance it gets cut before release.

  The original comic books may have evaluated various decisions in the same light, but it really depends. Some comics were highly whimsical, where anything goes, while others were more serious and dark. I haven’t read the original hulk comics, so I can’t really tell if it was meant to be harmless fun where nothing is taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider setting up a content blocker in your browser. This way, all elements that match a specific keyword, get removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scoripon in Cyberpunk 2077 had a very similar idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that is very spicy! I can’t wait for the lawsuit that brings up this argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to promote a community you create without stepping on toes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone uses a factorial without realizing it, you can point them to the unexpected factorial community.

  That’s what I do a few times a year. Not exactly an aggressive marketing campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon will find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Seems like a really freaky situation. Must be something with the training data. My guess is, this LLM was trained with all the creepy hostility found on Twitter.