MagicShel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too dumb to try and trick you. It’s responding to being called out the way people tend to because that’s what it’s emulating. And yeah, that’s not great.

  All I can say is AI has wasted my time and saved me time. And in my case, more of the latter than the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  AI can be useful without being right about everything. But the user has to know enough to push back or just write it themselves when necessary. And in my experience the same is true when pairing with another developer, too.

  It’s a tool, not a solution. Though it’s valid to say the folks touting its miracle capabilities are full of shit. It is imperfect, but it’s not worthless. It’s not a con man, it’s just confidently wrong. I’ve worked with/for a lot of people like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of us have no use for quantum computers. That’s a government/research thing. I have no idea what the next disruptive technology will be. They are working hard on AGI, which has the potential to be genuinely disruptive and world changing, but LLMs are not the path to get there and I have no idea whether they are anywhere close to achieving it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course. It’s an analogy. It is like someone who means well. It generates text from the default perspective, which is white guy with a bunch of effort to make it more diverse with a similar end result. The responses might sound woke but take a closer look and you’ll find the underlying bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Has nothing to do with guilt-complex. Why would I feel guilty for being privileged? I feel fortunate, and obliged to remain aware of that.

  Treating AI like a “program,” however, is a pretty useless lead in to what you really posted to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think researchers are trying to make AI models more aware, but they are trained on a whole lot of human history, and that is going to be predominantly told from white male perspectives. Which means AI is going to act like that.

  Women and people of color, you should probably treat AI like it’s that white guy who means well and thinks he’s woke but lacks the self-awareness to see he is 100% part of the problem. (I say this as a white guy who is 100% part of the problem, just hopefully with more self-awareness.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% all natural hand-drawn comic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did like 4 different edits of that url and every time it started at 0. Just tested and it was right. Welp…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% all natural hand-drawn comic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently not on iOS because I tried exactly that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% all natural hand-drawn comic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d better watch what you say!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else are they hiding from us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t conceive of such a thing!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Biggest issue I’ve seen with technical analysis like this is that it’s more a measure of market sentiment, not fundamentals. You’re using the crowd as an indicator without any idea of whether the crowd knows anything you don’t or not.

  So it’s a little more meaningful than dowsing rods and tarot cards, but only barely. Market sentiment can change on a whim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I’d wonder any more about those developers than anyone else.

  Without getting into TMI I very much enjoy non consent fantasy to the point where I had a CNC relationship with my wife for the first five years. And two things I’ve learned about myself are: I’m not physically capable of even play rape, and that having the power was much more fun and exciting than exercising the power.

  So to me it feels perfectly normal to be aroused by fantasy rape but not at all by the manifestation of it. I’m sure it’s not mainstream or anything, and there are a lot of people out there, like Andrew Tate, who are exactly what they say they are.

  I think it’s fine to look into it and see which is the case, but I personally wouldn’t expect to find any girls in basements who aren’t there consensually based on the content of their games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is rolling out its big app redesign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.

  I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the important questions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about that story smells fishy.

  $1k / jar and brought in $100k… so that’s 100 jars total. Maybe a little extra in case of an accident during shipping. So why did she need to fart 50x per week? Shit, that would be $2.4 million per year of she could actually sell that.

  So the way I see it, she was farting in a jar 50x per week but only selling 2 of them… that’s not a business, that’s a fetish she managed to squeeze a whiff of money out of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What it would mean is that someone bought some stock at that price/share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. Not that I have anything better to offer. My wife thinks Biden would’ve won because too many people stayed home, refusing to vote for a black woman. I, frankly, think the election was about the economy. If you look back over the elections, they are almost always about how people are doing financially. If they are scared or hurting, they will vote for change. If they are happy, they vote for the incumbent. My honest opinion is that there wasn’t a scenario or candidate that would’ve changed Trump’s victory.

  What I am sure of is that in all of the states where Trump won (even Michigan), if every single person who withheld their vote due to Israel/Gaza had voted for Kamala, that wouldn’t have been enough by itself to change the outcome. Certainly, that issue had an effect, but it didn’t change the outcome by itself. We have to look beyond that.

  But, still, if you did withhold your vote thinking you were fighting for Gaza, yeah I think you deserve to have your nose rubbed in that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 100% for valid criticisms—I don’t even consider myself a Democrat and I have no compunctions about criticizing them when I think they are wrong. But I’m pretty sure that meme is directed at those who withheld their vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When every letter is a vowel, none of them are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 40% of all US PS5 and Xbox play time last month was spent on 10 live service games [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spent last month playing only Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky. And Disney+ but I’m assuming they mean game play time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, octopus, me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst people live forever. See: Kissinger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can look at the stats on how much of the model fits in vram. The lower the percentage the slower it goes although I imagine that’s not the only constraint. Some models probably are faster than others regardless, but I really have not done a lot of experimenting. Too slow on my card to really even compare output quality across models. Once I have 2k tokens in context, even a 7B model is a token every second or more. I have about the slowest card that llama even days you says use. I think there is one worse card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI isn’t the enemy, though, and we aren’t the ones being grifted—that would be companies who think they can make tons of money replacing people with AI. It’s a reasonable useful tool/fun toy/interesting curiosity in certain circumstances. And for an end user it doesn’t use any more power than a video game. But it’s a tool for craftsmen and folks who understand the limitations, not a replacement for workers. And it sure as hell isn’t a production feature. Anyone looking to make money baking AI into consumer products is an idiot and going to lose their hat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the monster model, though. But yes, I run AI locally (barely on my 1660). What I can run locally is pretty decent in limited ways, but I want to see the o1 competitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheaper AI isn’t the pop we want. We want companies to stop trying to use AI for every god damn thing it is terrible at. We don’t want cheaper AI that’s just going to be baked into more stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to go install it this morning to check it out, but I had to decline when I read the privacy policy. I might check it out on my desktop where I have a lot more tools to ensure my anonymity, but I’m not installing it on my phone. There is not one scrap of data you generate that they aren’t going to hoover up, combine with data they get from anyone who will sell it to them, and then turn around and resell it.

  I’m sure other apps are just as egregious, which is one reason I’ve been deliberately moving away from native apps to WPAs. Yes, everything you can possibly do on the internet is a travesty for privacy, but I’m not going to be on the leading edge of giving myself to be sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder “in furtherance of terrorism,” which may clarify things for platforms about whether to consider him as a single accused murderer or an alleged terrorist when it comes to content policy.

  Convict him of that shit first, otherwise you’re just allowing the government to dictate moderation policies. He’s only being charged with terrorism so the state can murder him. I’m not saying anti-terror policies are bad in general, but this is abuse of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like we’ve suddenly achieved lower denial rates or single-payer healthcare? Nothing so grand, but people are talking and both sides of the political spectrum have found a semblance of unity over this—which is probably the biggest thing they don’t want to see, is people taking their eyes off the culture war and noticing the class war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is about as likely as other conspiracy theories: not at all.

  We’re going to find out that he’s just a guy. Which is disheartening when we imagine someone coming along and saving us and setting right all the wrongs.

  But also he’s just a guy. I’m not saying killing is the way forward, but he inspires the belief that we can change the world ourselves. We don’t just live in a world controlled by the rich or shadowy conspiracies; we live in a world where we can have an impact.