Opinionhaver
@Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.
I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 9 hours ago:
Who are they?
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/trump/i”))Put that into your ablocker custom rules.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Nazis were and are a political group. Opposing them is political.
- Comment on [deleted] 18 hours ago:
I have quite extensive content filter list that hides every post containing popular terms related to US politics. Often that means hiding two thirds of my front page. However, what remains is still all politics.
Why is it like this? I have no idea. Maybe they’re trying to keep this place as unattractive for new users as possible.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 day ago:
I don’t think it would’ve cost anything. They charge only for very few specific things.
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- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 1 day ago:
The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t refer to a single technology or a specific capability, but rather to a category of systems designed to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence. That includes everything from pattern recognition, language understanding, and problem-solving to more specific applications like recommendation engines or image generation.
When people say something “isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a very narrow or futuristic definition - usually something like human-level general intelligence or conscious reasoning. But that’s not how the term has been used in computer science or industry. A chess-playing algorithm, a spam filter, and a large language model can all fall under the AI umbrella. The boundaries of AI shift over time: what once seemed like cutting-edge intelligence often becomes mundane as we get used to it.
So rather than being a misleading or purely marketing term, AI is just a broad label we’ve used for decades to describe machines that do things we associate with intelligent behavior. The key is to be specific about which kind of AI we’re talking about - like “machine learning,” “neural networks,” or “generative models” - rather than assuming there’s one single thing that AI is or isn’t.
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 2 days ago:
It almost certainly already has replaced several.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 days ago:
Now that I think of it, having a dude silently juggling in the corner during the service would actually be kind of wholesome in some weird way.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 days ago:
Seems about the kind of activity people tend to do in parks.
Unless you’re causing harm to other people, what someone might think is rarely a good reason to not do something you genuinely want to.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 6 days ago:
What I’m saying is that I don’t criticize others for something I do myself - that would be hypocritical.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 6 days ago:
I totally have unique passwords for all my hundreds of accounts around the internet.
- Comment on Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again 1 week ago:
The benefit of driving 15 year old cars is that stupid trends like touch screen controls go out of fashion 10 years before I even start considering buying a vehicle from that time period.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I can definitely feel this applying to me. The more financially independent I become the more I’m also checking out and focusing on just my own life.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It goes both ways. Women on average want a man who earns more than them and men on average want to be the one earning more.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
The thing about propaganda that’s often overlooked is the fact that it isn’t just about controlling what people think - it’s about controlling what people think other people think.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
It’s the emergency dispatcher who picks up when I dial 911, not the police - but yeah, they don’t laugh when you report unlawful intrusion and theft, and neither do the police. So I’d say they’re pretty good in that regard.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
You can debate that in court. But if you steal a bucket of my dirt, the police will come, take it from you, and give it back to me. I’d call that ownership.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Do you own the dirt under your feet?
The house around me, and the dirt under it, yes.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Toupee fallacy. Just because you can recognize some of the propaganda, it doesn’t mean you can recognize all of it. You’re not aware of what flies under the radar while still influencing you.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 1 week ago:
I’d say that 4chan is among the main reasons for many of my “weird” kinks and femboys absolutely are among those. Seems to align with my assumed political leanings too.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 1 week ago:
Depends what he means by that. Are some right-wingers fetishizing femboys? Yeah. Can we generalize this to apply to all right-wingers as people have tendency to do with this sort of things? No. Turns out that people are individuals and they have different preferences. Shocker.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about my highly curated feed. Otherwise it would be an avalanche of US politics and bad news.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 2 weeks ago:
are failing to appreciate what it is.
A firehose of US politics and bad news?
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
A statement can be simplified down to the point that it borderlines on misinformation while still being factually correct. Another examples would be saying “photography is just pointing a camera and pressing a button” or “internet is just a bunch of computers talking to each other.” It would be completely reasonable for someone to take issue with these statements.
You are arguing very specifically that we cant know llm’s dont hae similar features (world model) to human brains because “both are black boxes”
At no point have I made such claim.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t claimed it does reasoning.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
“The human mind is very much a black box just the same way as LLMs are” is a factually correct statement. You can’t look into a human brain for an exact explanation of why an individual did something any more than you can look into the inner workings of an LLM to explain why it said A rather than B. Claiming that my motive is to equate LLMs and human brains is not something I said - it’s something you imagined.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Ability to make decisions doesn’t imply sentience either.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Nobody here has claimed that brains and LLM’s work the same way.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Nothing I’ve said implies sentience or consciousness. I’m simply arguing against the oversimplified explanation that it’s “just predicting the next set of words,” as if there’s nothing more to it. While there’s nothing particularly wrong with that statement, it lacks nuance.
