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- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 day 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." 1 day 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.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 days ago:
They could just run the whole dataset through sentiment analysis and delete the parts that get categorized as negative, hostile or messed up.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Twitter is another possibility. The LLM could learned how to write like a bubbling barrel of radioactive toxic waste, and then just applied those lessons in longer format.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Stuff like this should help with that. If the AI can evaluate the response before spitting it out, that could improve the quality a lot.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Oh, there it is. I just clicked the first link, they didn’t like my privacy settings, so I just said nope and turned around. Didn’t even notice the link to the actual chat.
Anyway, that creepy response really came out of nowhere. Or did it?
What if the training data really does contain hostile and messed up stuff like this? Probably does, because these LLMs have eaten everything the internet has to offer, which isn’t exactly a healthy diet for a developing neural network.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Would be really interesting to know what kind of conversation preceded that line. What does it take to push an LLM off the edge like that.
- Comment on Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it 4 days ago:
It would make sense to include matching images in the search results and other engagement driven recommendations. There are quite a few screenshots too, so if the search can only handle text, it’s going to completely miss a pretty large category.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
That’s the coldest time. Things people say about layers should be taken seriously.
If it’s windy, you’ll need to protect your face too, so bring a balaclava with you. Get one of those that have two holes for eyes. You know, bank robbery style.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
Extra mittens and gloves. If you’re working otdoors, you’ll appreciate keeping your hands warm.
When I worked in circumstances like that, I used super large mittens, and they were worth it. You should pick up mittens that have a leather outer shell, removable soft inner mittens and enough space for you to also use extra gloves inside. In cold weather (-25 °C), I used all three layers. When it was warmer (-10 °C), I just used the outer two layers.
When the temperature begins to approach zero, sunshine can melt some of the snow during the day, which will make your mittens wet and your life miserable. For situations like that, you should make sure the outer layer of your leather mittens can deal with water. If that’s not an option, you should bring some spare mittens with you. When the mittens and gloves get wet, you need to try to dry them during breaks. After work, hang them to dry in a warm place, so that they will be ready for the next day.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 1 week ago:
I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.
Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 1 week ago:
Can we slap on some augmented reality, IoT, big data and sprinkle some quantum encryption on top? After that, it should check all the boxes.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 1 week ago:
You could summarize the whole transparency thing into just one word: trust. As long as people trust that everything is fine, the society can continue to function. When people loose trust, everything falls apart.
If you can convince millions of people that the voting system works and is fair, you can have a democratic society. If not, you might want to look into alternatives such as totalitarian dictatorship, monarchy or even post apocalyptic absolute chaos.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
It’s evidence of me swiping too fast and not reading the text three times before sending.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
The torrent of lies and absurd statements should keep the rest of the world entrained. For most Americans, it’s probably going to be horrifying, tragic and embarrassing.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
Turns out, if you kick out all the polish nurses and restaurant workers, you suddenly don’t have enough staff in those places. Who would have thought.
Other than that, everything worked out perfectly. Oh, but then there’s also the Northern Ireland border. Well other than those two issues…
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
If NATO fades into oblivion, that would be a great opportunity for European countries to make a news defense organization where a single country like Hungary or Turkey can’t play their political games.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
The rise of the NSDAP has been studied quite a bit. Also, the psychological aspects are really interesting. Basically normal people can make all of this possible as long as the conditions are just right.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 2 weeks ago:
TV has proven that people are willing to tolerate an amazing amount of ads too. I wonder if you could crank up the ads to posts ratio to something like 90% and still have enough users.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 2 weeks ago:
Things need to be really bad at Reddit before most people would consider leaving. On the other hand, Lemmy would need to be amazingly good to produce the same effect. Neither of these have happened yet, so only few people migrated.
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for taking the time to write this.
Posts like this prove to me that Lemmy is ready to replace Reddit. Probably not completely true for everyone, and every topic, but we’re getting there.
- Comment on How did Third World countries handle the Covid Pandemic? 3 weeks ago:
Having looked at this table, it would seem that western countries are at the top of the list when sorted by deaths per million.
However, I don’t think the poor countries even had the resources to collect realistic statistics nor the will to report them honestly. I would only use this table for comparing similar pairs of countries against each other. Comparing wealthy contents with poor ones doesn’t appear to make much sense.
My guess is that poor countries handled it badly, and these statistics don’t even begin to tell how bad it was. Then again, what can you expect when you don’t have many hospitals, nor the money for vaccinating everyone.
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Yes and no. Depending on what kind of differences you care about. Want to clarify a bit?
In both, you have communities and voting sorts the posts. However, the number of communities and voters is much lower in Lemmy. Reddit has ads, so I guess that counts as a pretty clear difference too.
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably going to be a rare collectible in about 50 years. Right now, it’s a high risk investment.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
Playing devil’s accountant here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is shareholder profits.
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Charge more
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Provide less service
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Profit
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- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
The first time I saw a mobile plan without any limits was somewhere around 2003-2004. Pretty soon after that, all the competitors started offering similar plans. So glad we got rid of those stupid limits.
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 4 weeks ago:
You would also need to find a suitable location. If the reservoir is really far away, you’ll be losing too much energy. Think of transmission losses, but for water in a pipe. The reservoir would need to be pretty high as well, so a flat desert won’t work for an application like this.
Ideally, you would have a solar farm in the desert and use the excess energy to pump salt water to the top of a small mountain that sits right next to the ocean. With this setup, you would have a stable source of energy, which you could send to the grid. When the reservoir is full and energy demand is low, you could dump the remaining energy into desalination.
You could also use some of that energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water. During peak demand hours you could used a fuel cell to make electricity from the hydrogen.
You’ll also get oxygen as a byproduct, which could be used for a bunch of different chemical processes to get some additional revenue.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 4 weeks ago:
When in doubt, see the emojipedia.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 4 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell, salt precipitation in the Dead Sea is a result of evaporation. Water can only hold so much salt in it. If there’s too much, the excess gets pushed out into the solid phase as salt crystals. It’s all about the solubility of each compound, which depends on all sorts of things such as temperature, pressure, pH, other ions, etc. As the conditions change, solubility changes, excess salts get precipitated and the solution finds a new equilibrium.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 4 weeks ago:
To some extent, these compounds will inevitably mix together. During the early stages of earth (hadean period), there was a time when it was raining all the time, which meant that all of the minerals on the surface were exposed to water. Naturally, some of those were water soluble, which changed the composition of the growing oceans at the time. Some minerals also underwent various other reactions, which caused them to crumble (weathering) which exposed even more reactive surface. In some cases, you ended up with cracks that allowed the rain water to penetrate deeper into to the crust and find its way to larger deposits of water soluble minerals, such as NaCl. The initial exposure to water only kickstarted the process, but later rain and rivers continued to deliver even more salt to the oceans, resulting in the current salinity over the course of billions of years.
In order to prevent the initial dissolution of salts, you would need to have a planet without oxygen in any form, so that there would not be any water. If your planet has oxygen and water, but no chlorine, you would still get various other salts such as sulfates, which would make the oceans salty. Either way, it would be a very exotic combination of elements, and might never actually happen.
If you’re ok with the initial dissolution of salts during the hadean era, but wish to prevent any later dissolution of salts, you could do that by evaporating all the water, just like Venus and Mars did. However, then you won’t have any oceans either, so that’s not ideal.
Another way would be to make the planet as cool as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, so that there would be hardly any liquid weather. This way, the midly salty oceans produced in the hadean period would be covered with a sheet of ice, preventing any further weathering and dissolution.
The dead sea mechanism is also an interesting alternative. Just replicate that mechanism at a massive scale, and you have relatively fresh water oceans and massive dead seas that just accumulate all of the salt from other bodies of water. Those surface salt deposits would need to be close to the equator so that the sun can evaporate all of the water that flows into them. Those deposits would also need to be lower than the rest of the terrain, and they would need to be connected to the surrounding oceans via rivers, which is a tall order IMO.
Over the course of billions of years, some of those salt deposits might get pushed into the fresh water oceans, which would mess up the whole thing. I think this setup is not stable for billions of years, but it could be possible for a certain period anyway. Maybe this could be a good place for a scifi story. Imagine a planet with massive fresh water oceans and several saturated salt pools near the equator.