TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s a problem in the marketing and common usage of LLMs. That’s exactly it though, LLM companies, and people are describing LLMs as a way to do research.

  IE you could say these criticisms come in things like wikipedia too. IE anyone can write what they want, but what does wikipedia require? right every single claim has to be cited. So if you go to wikipedia find misinformation, you click on the number and see it.

  If you ask chatgpt What diseases should I be concerned about in africa, it lists you a few. You can then… google it, find the wikipedia page, and look for what’s there. It’s a tool without a purpose at that point. because it literally doesn’t save you any steps. It doesn’t guide you to the source to check it’s facts, when it tells you them it may or may not be making up the sources. At which point, it has no factual use, or use in even directing to the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No one is surprised when the dog gets worms after eating poop it found in the yard. Why are we shocked that an AI that doesn’t know fact from fiction treats everything the same?

  I think that’s the problem though, I think the poop in the yard is a better example. Key is the researchers put that information in speculation. That’s like if Anderson Cooper made up a fake news story, and posted it in an anonymous tweet to analyze how far it would spread, and then fox news picks it up and runs with the story all day.

  That’s the key problem, people are trusting LLMs to do their research for them, when LLMs just gather all the information they can get their hands on mindlessly.

  That’s the key problem, If they send a misinformative article, to a place for untested, unproven random speculation with a very low bar for who can submit… they can determine that LLMs are looking there. Key thing to note is, it’s not their fake disease that’s the threat. It’s that if it found their fake article, then LLMs probably also scooped up a ton of other misinformed or dubious things.

  Lets look at it this way, say it was a cake, but we threw it in the garbage, 2 weeks later we find the same cake… at jims bakery, same ID, same distinct marker we put on it.

  What does that tell us, it tells us that Jims bakery is clearly sometimes, dumpster diving and putting things up that clearly are dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forest guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, that would actually be the funniest possible concept if it actually turned out to be true. We discover the whole wild kingdom is like pulling a toy story on us. All animals are sentient, Our dogs actually speak perfect english.

  It’s much like HHGTTG said about dolphins.

  “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of a rough one, but I’d say it’s passed the point of concern. IE I tend to view it in life stages. 25-46 is IMO a lot less creepy than say, 20 dating 30. In spite of the gap being halved. Graduating college is a big step, getting started in a career.

  Once you are in a career path, life doesn’t really change all that much. age differences don’t matter so much anymore provided both are past all the big shifts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big corps do this the reverse way.

  First off for the most part, high prices isn’t where big corps are screwing us usually. Least not on luxury goods. Mainly low wages is the real killer, our shit is stupidly cheap. Prices that are only possible via exploitative labor and high environmental destruction. So even the premise is flawed.

  But then the bigger thing, even if you could say sell something below amazon’s price… and keep up with inventory and shipping to keep doing it. Amazon can, and will bring their price down… temporarally, only as long as you are still selling the product. They have bots watching everything… and they will undercut you. For them it’s not a big deal, they are in basically every other industry, so while you are still paying for hosting, some bare minimum staff needed to get and sell your product, amazon can just undercut you, make sure you have no customers and starve you out, and the second the bots see you are no longer selling… they jump their prices up to where they are profitable again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffee ☕⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not looking for how to meth. But is not a moonshiners still about as dangerous as a meth house exploding? What the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the presence of, non law abiding humans, is also a factor when talking illegally manufactured alchohol as well. But yeah the additional toxins etc… is a much bigger factor in meth rather than alchohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainly because they’ve done better at it than the big tech forums have. Bottom line social media is in absurdly hard category for anyone to break into once someone else has a grip. Not sure if you remember google’s huge flop when they tried to step in facebooks terf with google plus (Which I do have to say, from a design and functionality level, was a decade ahead of facebook, but google’s attempt to shove it down everyone’s throats, was horrendous).

  Bottom line, if you don’t care about who’s running it, the best social media platform, is the one that everyone’s already using. The existing company has to REALLY fsck it up big time to actually lose that advantage, and the competition has to, at least appear to be a trustworthy company. MS, Google, Facebook etc… would not have a good trust factor if they were to try to make a reddit like website, and reddit’s just not done enough to scare off the common users to leave a power vaccume that will draw an audience bigger than say what we have here on lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True… humans wear adorable hats all the time, yet I’ve never seen a report of a fossilized human found wearing an adorable hat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More accurately they didn’t all, ALWAYS wear adorable hats. It very well could be the norm, just not when treking through the tar pits… or just coincidentally the .00001% that actually fosilized in ways to give analysis of soft materials happened to have left their hats at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say because half of america’s goals involve not understanding other cultures and believing whatever nonsense the corporate overlords want to say about them.

  I still have to laugh at when american’s went on chinese tiktok to work around the possible bans, and the chinese were all like “wait, you really do have to pay out the nose for an ambulance ride, I thought that was propoganda by our government” meanwhile a lot of american’s were learning half of the horrors of china were extremely overstated or manipulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically yes, look up additive vs subtractive colors… that’s why for a monitor you need RGB, but ink cartrages are Cyan Magenta and Yellow

  In short, colored light, and pigments work in opposite ways. Basically all visible light mixes together to make white light. a blue object, basically absorbs the red and green light, allowing only the blue to bounce back… so mixing more colors, means less light. until almost nothing gets out (hence black).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.miamiherald.com/news/…/article283847883.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly there’s a lot of intelectuals that were involved, Lawrence Krauss, Noem Chomsky, Steven Hawking just scratching the surface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is he was attempting to reach out to time travelers… or skeptically making fun of the idea with the time travelers party that no one showed up for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe chaos creates that smile… I think it’s a reference to the old troll face memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are locks and keys mass produced?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2 fronts I’d say.

  1. Yeah it makes it clear someone breaking in, was doing the effort to conciously get into something that he wasn’t permitted to rather than just, opened the wrong door.

  Also would point out, low knowledge low effort crooks, really 9/10 situations there’s an easier way to get in than the lock. Your house is far more likely to be broken in by someone smashing a window rather than picking a lock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As Mitch Hedberg would say

  They used to use it

  they still do.

  But they used to, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a bit of that, but also a bit of… unsubtle enshittification. I mean the obvious, AI features that nobody likes getting crammed into everything. Apples Intelligence making siri unable to do simple tasks it used to be able to do easily.

  A lot of people would be happy to pay premium price for things that do exactly what they want. But more and more software companies are reversing what they do… and even when they do what you want, you still have to be vigilant on them changing their minds and removing features, or adding subscription costs etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… isn’t there the theory that time travel just creates an alternate world. but all timelines exist… so there’s a second line where there’s 50 people that brought their year 3000 band, and their instant ALS cure pod, partied with Hawking then arrested trump for his crimes before he could run for president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One way to guarantee your paper blows people away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you can be right about the problem, where it will lead. but try and solve it an a completely wrong way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly when it came time to negotiations, they somehow realized actually calling yourself a Decepticon, was not a good name for inspiring trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would TRUE capitalism have any problems?

  Well only a TRUE Scottsman could tell you how TRUE capitalism works.

  But OK so in short the gist of theory in capitalism.

  Free market ideas - IE capitalism with no government oversite. If a company makes shitty products, someone else will make a less shitty product and all consumers will switch, or if a company starts dumping toxic waste into the drinking water, people would figure it out and stop buying that product… Parts of it are kind of a pipe dream because, some products are inherantly expensive to get started in. Lets face it, Facebook, Windows etc… aren’t dominant because their products are the best, pretty sure you could poll their userbase and find abysmal satisfaction among them. Yet even a giant as big as google, can’t accomplish the resources needed to compete in those markets… let alone a startup out of nowhere.

  Now regulations obviously that’s where crony vs regulated comes up in discussion.

  Obviously to me the big part is, safety matters. First off the bat, information, consumers can’t even make decisions if they don’t know. If you are putting poison in food, or calling something healthy when it’s loaded with crap, consumers have to know that.

  Environmental is a bigger problem. Obviously requiring you to shield and not leak toxins into the drinking water… is a big problem, and it creates a huge problem, as the companys selling gas, or manufacturing chemicals etc… that spend less on safety are at a huge advantage in pricing to the consumer, who can’t tell why the more ethical companies are so expensive, only that they are more expensive. But the more safety that’s required, the higher the bar to entry is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree on that… Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don’t see anything else that represents a way forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc… All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting… is.

  Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of… replicating massively over large distances very quickly… IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update… differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

  True on the gist that, a single corruption can’t hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can’t randomly damage the first 19 characters.

  I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alchemy is so hot right now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I guess the concept there though is, isn’t making things into gold pointless anyway. We can lab make diamonds too, the jewelry industry works to keep them as a distinct alternate product to protect their slave mined ones. Is the quantity used for electronics enough that it would make a difference in typical manufacturing?

  Actually kind of the ironic thing to me based on the time. Did gold have a practical use in the days of alchemy? I mean obviously mass producing gold, basically would have made it completely useless back then, it could make a small group of people very rich, provided they kept the method secret and were careful about how much they sold. It seems like the whole idea was flawed on it’s head even if they hadn’t based it on completely incorrect basis of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to vote?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  agreed that’s human nature at it’s core. Reddits tried for years to push the “Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don’t”. But yeah humans always will be humans, I don’t see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they don’t bother with just photos, I’m sure there’s some guy that’s replaced the one that died in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… now that we’ve got our series to finally get the love it deserves, spent 3+ years polishing and making the game the way the fans have all been clamoring for for years. We are now ready to mass produce, copy/paste the formula until we kill the franchise so spectacularly no one asks us to make another.