brucethemoose
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- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
You are spouting assertions about what sounds right while ignoring bodies of scientific evidence contradicting your viewpoint. Just because Lemmy users are unwilling to spend 20-30 minutes digging through arixv to refute you doesn’t make you right.
You don’t want to go and look up and analyze evidence that floride in the water supply is beneficial, you want to just assert the hypothesis you’ve formed as likely truth without evidence and research into related work, and I can confidently say this because experts who spend their lives reading papers and writing them on this very topic are qualified to make these assertions.
…This “sounds right” line of thinking has been the bane of civilization for eons. You aren’t breaking up some scientific fallacy like the church believing the Earth is the center of the universe, you are perpetuating one.
- Comment on "I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it " 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s great for instant feedback. You can ask it “does this dialogue above feel out of character or stilted?” or ask it about character growth, and it will generally give an interesting critique.
You have to keep in mind that it can go off the rails (repeatedly querying it is good to check for this), and has a sycophancy bias, and is kinda dumb, but its still quite useful.
- Comment on "I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it " 1 week ago:
For me it’s not efficiency, if anything it takes much longer running the LLM notepad because I will randomly ask it about passages/chapters and revise stuff.
It’s kinda fun having an assistant to just bounce ideas off of on a whim. You can’t get that with beta readers, as they don’t just sit there while you write (and the LLM is much faster), and I don’t feel like I’m being charged for every response with an API model, especially if it ingests the entire story every time.
It’s also “smart” beyond me. For instance, sometimes I wanna come up with a name for a character, city or whatever, and I can ask it “what’s an interesting name for this engineer character’s brother, maybe something logical,” and it will crank out tons of examples and start a little conversation about it.
- Comment on why dont we do this??? are we stupid?? 1 week ago:
Those diabolical Chile preservationists…
- Comment on "I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it " 1 week ago:
I suspect Lemmy is going to dislike this, but local LLMs are great writing helpers.
When you’re stuck on a sentence or a blank paragraph, get them to continue it, and rewrite it once it jogs your mind. If you’re drafting ideas for characters or chapters, you can sanity check them or sometimes get ideas. They can reword and clean up your writing and improve it beyond what self experimentation can do… just keeping in mind that its like an idiot intern that tends to repeat itself and hallucinate.
And this is very different from an API model like ChatGPT because:
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It won’t refuse you.
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It’s formatted as a notebook you can continue at any arbitrary point, rather than a user/chatbot type format.
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The writing isn’t so dry, and it isn’t filled with AI slop, especially with cutting edge sampling
Along with all the usual reasons, namely being free, self-hosted, more ethically trained, fast and efficient with long context thanks to caching, and has nothing to do with Sam Altman’s nightmarish visions.
I’d recommend: huggingface.co/…/Qwen2.5-Gutenberg-Doppel-32B
And once the story gets long: huggingface.co/EVA-UNIT-01/EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2
I’d recommend LanguageTool (with a local server and the browser extension) for locally hosted spelling/grammar/style as well.
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- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
The meme is now this is not US policy.
Its like stating the world is not flat… when in fact NASA’s official stance is that the world is, indeed, flat.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 1 week ago:
100%
My mom went to an integrated school in the South, made friends… but sometimes overheard racist slurs and threats behind closed doors. Same story with family I have now, all pleasent in public, friends with some gay family members. But vehemently anti-vaccine and such behind closed doors… I don’t even dare ask about trans people :(
The duality is unreal.
A question is where that behind-doors comes from… a lot is from church. Church like you’ve never seen if you haven’t been to the South.
- Comment on is that real? 1 week ago:
Imagine if it found its way into musk’s feed!
I would not be against this. I absolutely know how.
We can rebuilt him. We have the technology…
- Comment on wrappers 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad I’m not a tiny bug.
- Comment on 2024 Administration is Shaping Up Like a Comic Book Villain Squad! 2 weeks ago:
…No. No one is saying that.
Her alignment depends on her depiction though. In the Harley Quinn series, for instance, she’s obviously not the bad guy because she’s a main character and depicted as a sane, regular person.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 2 weeks ago:
as opposed to trying desperately to find your article as you scroll and having pop ups and other things interrupt you as you read
Joke’s on the websites, as I run Cromite, so no pop ups or anything.
…But also, most of the written web is trash now.
:(
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 2 weeks ago:
the YouTube experience is far less annoying on average.
Are you sure about that?
I opened YT links without premium on a new browsers and holy moly! I got 1-3 minute unskippable ads every time.
I immediately clicked them off, of course.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 2 weeks ago:
GN is indeed a rare outlier. They’re like an oldschool tech site that rose at the exact right time to grow up on YouTube.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 2 weeks ago:
And our site was like the opposite. Uh… let’s just say many Lemmy users wouldn’t like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a content farm.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 2 weeks ago:
As someone who briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC Hardware outlet… I’m surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.
Why?
Who TF reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I’m way too impatient for youtube videos.
And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything.
They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an upstanding site. I’m surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.
And I’m not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Strong disagree, I thought Book 1 was incredible. The animation, the art, the noir, fights, Korra’s whole “human husky” attitude, Amon, everything! Even the intro. The first two episodes of ATLA are so much slower.
Season 2 was very mixed, with some great episodes though. And not just Wan, I loved the alice-in-wonderland-esque Spirit World.
And to be even more oppositional, I loved 3, but it was too short. And Book 4 has some mixed bits too, lol.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Neither have I, except for Infinity more recently.
I’m somewhat into the lore, but not a ton, and it does look like the show is such a tonal break. It looks like space opera, while Halo 1-3 had this feel of touring a quiet, grim war with Cortana as your sassy narrator.
Now, I am all in for shameless space opera, so maybe I should try it with an open mind.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Season 2 has a lot of slow episodes. 2-5 are not great, IMO.
But there’s more fundamental “it’s not totally the show’s fault” criticism too, like the really awful video quality (even on the blu-rays), and the general maturity level and jokes. And TBH Zuko/Iroh kinda carried the show for me until Toph shows up.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
I asked because I can see why fans would be displeased, given the tone/style of the MC in those games. TBH it kept me from giving the Halo series a shot.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Historically, this was The Thing.
Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.
I’ve seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
In hindsight its kind of understatement.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Watch the netflix version!
And Korra!
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, did you play Halo 1-3?
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Stop, you had me at the first paragraph.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender.
Not a movie, but it’s moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten’s funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!
I’m a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it’s only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I’m a massive Korra fan yet so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
The original trilogy is over-rated.
There, I said it.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 3 weeks ago:
Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.
So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.
- Comment on Choices 4 weeks ago:
There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by destroying it.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this
You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and probably conclude it isn’t, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?