daannii
@daannii@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 1 day ago:
Yeah I had a dental implant I paid almost 3k for, with insurance, about 10 years ago. It recently came loose. I don’t have dental insurance, only medical.
I had to pay 2k to have it removed.
5k for a temporary tooth.
Welp.
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 1 day ago:
Idk I think it was just some archeologist. I have a DVD of the series becoming human. You can’t find it online anymore. I’ll have to give it a fresh watch and see if it’s from it.
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 3 days ago:
Idk I watched some documentary about human history. one thing I recall was that they talked about how people used to die a lot from dental issues. They had old like 5000 year old skulls and was pointing out how some teenager likely died from a bad molar due to the damage on the jaw.
They thing I remember mostly is that they said that modern dentistry had done more to extend human life span than general modern medicine. Because of teeth being so close to the brain, blood infections and abscesses could potentially get through the sinuses and kill people.
Wish I could remember the source material better.
It’s possible it was from the PBS series “becoming human”.
That’s my best guess. But yeah. Dental stuff. Dangerous.
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 4 days ago:
The South Park season 28 episode 1 made fun of it . It’s definitely a ghoulish look.
- Comment on This is inssein 4 days ago:
No one saw it coming. If only someone, anyone, could have told us this would happen!?!?
- Comment on This is inssein 6 days ago:
Maybe endorsement a felon who has bankrupted 8 companies and helping to put him in charge of a country’s economic system was a bad play.
Who could have guessed?
I mean. Cause you know. Unions. Way worse.
Can’t be having workers petition for their own value.
Nope.Best to have a president who will help eliminate unions. Even if that means the company disappears.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 1 week ago:
Okay so similar. Apartment complex. Beep was coming from somewhere outside. Me and a few other tenants could never figure it out. Walked around parking lot.
Sounded like it was elevated .but maybe the sound was just bouncing around between buildings.
Yeah it would beep like once every 30 min.
Insane in the summer when you wanted to have the window open. - Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
Dad had to replace the clutch before I had mastered the subtle art of doing two things at the same time in a car.
Also I’m dyslexic and get my right and left mixed up easily . So you can imagine trying to navigate two feet on 3 pedals didn’t go well.
I did eventually learn a manual.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
Very vague memories of the berlin wall being torn down as presented by mtv. I was like 6.
I remember it all over tv. All these alternative punk kids.
And I was so confused why there was a big ass wall covered in graffiti in the middle of the city and also why it was an issue.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 1 week ago:
I do honestly feel bad for the kids. Which is worse. Dying of measles, polio, tetanus, ? Or the TB?
These kids are screwed.
- Comment on rich 1 week ago:
“My main goal is to blow up and then act like I don’t know nobody”.
I can’t recall the author of such an astute remark.
I do recall making my own version in relation to going to the local county fair.
“My main goal is to get a funnel cake and not share it with nobody”.
Cause people always be like "let me have a bite. ". No. It’s mine. Fuck off. Go stand in line for 15 min in direct sunlight.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 1 week ago:
The cycle of ignorance will fix itself.
Drink raw milk !
- Comment on New small business owner had a great idea to have word of mouth build his business. 1 week ago:
If it’s plump. It’s ready.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Pretty sure fake cheese is made with vegetable oil, no?
Also the other day I bought a small block of kraft brand Colby cheese. A little treat for myself.
I always buy whichever brand is on sale. I’m not a cheese snob or anything.
Anywho. I got it out to eat it.
It’s super soft. Like. … well like fake cheese. Just like their kraft singles.
Floppy oily yellow cheese.
I got swindled. It says it’s Colby. But it’s not ! It’s the fake cheese !
Not happy. Won’t ever buy it ever again.
They just started doing this. It was real cheese not that long ago. I suspect it’s been “cut,” with fake cheese.
Like it’s not 100% fake cheese. But like 60% fake cheese.
I checked packaging to make sure I just didn’t buy the wrong stuff. Nope. It definitely says Colby cheese.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
A box meal. Like a cake mix. It comes with parts of the meal, the pasta and the sauce, and you add the meat and milk, water, butter. Whatever else it calls for. These are cheap. And don’t take very long to make.
They are mostly eaten by poor people and kids. They have very little nutritional value and are high in carbs, sugar, and salt.
The high carbs and protein (if you are rich enough to add meat) make the food very filling though. Some people call this type of food “comfort food”. It definitely will make your stomach feel full and content.
But it’s not good food for you.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Also related to Emotional lability. Sometimes this can be a response to high stress of prolonged stress.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
I ate a lot of hamber helper growing up. Often with weird meat we would get from food pantries. Like bison. Emu. And my dad would hunt deer some times or a relative would so we would eat it with ground venison. Which apparently is considered gourmet meat but I really do not like it. It always tastes like blood to me.
Anyway, when I was lucky enough to get it with ground beef, I recall actually loving it.
As an adult I haven’t really eaten it so I went and bought a box a while back.
I think the cheeseburger king.
Jesus. It’s so gross and bland. Like salted cardboard. It also only had like 3/4 of a cup of fried noodles in it.
I remember a box of it feeding all 3 of us kids easily. With leftovers. There is very little yield after it cooks now. Shrink-flation.
Now I will say the box casseroles that Aldi sells are decent.
I like the orzo cheese broccoli one and the hamber one , which I cook with peppers. It has a strong cilantro flavor.
But the Hamber Helper brand ones are just so gross. I don’t know if the flavor has changed or maybe they were always that bad.
I swear so much food I thought was good as a kid literally just tastes like salted cardboard. Tostitos “pizzas”. Pizza rolls, McDonald’s food.
I’m pretty sure they have stopped putting seasoning on a lot of food to cut costs.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Yeah but the TVs are like $300. And one week of groceries is like $300.
It’s not really fair to say people waste their money on tvs
- Comment on ChatGPT Atlas can automate Lemmy shitposting 2 weeks ago:
Idk if this information can help us. But. I’m a cognitive researcher. Although linguistics is not my area I do a little bit about linguistics and human errors. Humans use language in constantly evolving creative ways. Difficult for LLMs.
There are also specific types of errors that humans make that are kind of unique to us.These types of errors can be indicators of a real human. Because humans make them somewhat randomly. More likely to make them based on how tired they are and from “priming”. Which neither of those can exist in a language model.
Ok, so what “errors” am I talking about ? (By errors I mean language that deviates from grammar rules).
LLM models are largely trained on books and essays. Not on dialogue.
Writing like how we talk is harder for LLMs to interpret. They aren’t terrible at it when what we say is simple commands. But once it deviates from that, the LLM just pulls out keywords and does the best it can. Making errors.
“So, what you think is that it’s really the others ? Like, I don’t know what you mean”.
-How a person may talk that others can understand, based on context of conversation , but that makes zero sense isolated. It’s Very difficult for LLMs to understand that type of sentence.
This includes slang, invented creative use of words, and with common verbal grammar errors.
For instance. I might say in real life “that pizza was fire”. You know what I mean. LLM model might think I meant the pizza was cooked in a fire oven or burnt.
If I use an emoji for the pizza or fire, The LLM struggles even more to define an appropriate response/interpretation
LLMs don’t actually interpret anything. So I do not mean that in the literal sense. I’m still talking about pattern matching. Just to clarify.
Anyway.Slang and sayings change very fast. Humans can keep up with them. LLMs struggle because they change meaning quickly and go out of style as fast as they come in.
Another human error is when we use a word that “looks” similar to the correct word but is not semantically related.
it’s not a similar meaning word. It actually makes no sense. But it “looks” like the correct word.
For example. Someone might be describing a “platonic” relationship and use the word “planting”.
These words both start with “pl”, are about the same length, And the g in planting has a “c” shape within it.
If you see text with these type of errors it’s likely a human.
Another common human error is editing errors.
For instance you might have noticed sometimes the 2nd or even 3rd word in my sentences have uppercase. This is due to me editing the text to add a better start to the sentence after I already wrote it.
And I can’t be bothered to remove the incorrect capital letter.
This is something a human would do. And it’s location would make sense to other humans. Because we understand intuitively how language can be reduced. A LLM does not. Because we rarely reduce language in books, essays, or even in typing. But we do , do it a lot in natural verbal conversations.
Anyway. I worried putting this out would potentially be used against us. But I also don’t think LLMs can side step these issues. If they try to add errors, it’s going to result in incoherent garble. Because humans errors are not statistically systematic. Though they do follow systematic cognitive errors that can be predicted if you understand how priming works. But not at a level that a LLM could do.
More so they can be backwards predicted. Not forward predicted.
I can recognize the error and make some likely predictions what caused it. But I can not predict an error that has not occured yet based on possible causes because the possible causes are virtually un measurable and can’t be identified.
Hope that’s not too confusing. Wow this is getting long.
If anyone who reads this has any questions, or thoughts on the topic, please comment.
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 weeks ago:
I started seeing this type of lingo at least 5 years ago. I still don’t understand it.
I did notice it came from young British people. Dunno if that’s still the case. Maybe it’s spread to the U.S.
(I had younger British friends send me screenshots of chats for a laugh and i had no idea what the convo was or why it was funny).
- Comment on Altered World Event 2 weeks ago:
Ah. I see why I was getting some misinformation about who was who
- Comment on Altered World Event 2 weeks ago:
I can’t recall what the interlude was. Reminder ?
- Comment on May or may not be based on some comments I've read 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty good guess.
- Comment on well designed you say 2 weeks ago:
I thought he wanted a swastika but figured he’d rotate it and remove the fins and we wouldn’t notice.
- Comment on May or may not be based on some comments I've read 2 weeks ago:
I guess it’s 'blind" not “bund”. And it’s a color blind vision test. But I’m still not sure I get it either.
I mean. In what way is it supposed to be funny or ?
- Comment on Just in time 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t think that’s going to be the future.
It’s going to look more like those space images of Venus.
- Comment on Altered World Event 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Dr darling is the same actor as Alan wake. Not just same voice but same guy. It’s crazy how different he looks and sounds as Dr darling.
- Comment on Altered World Event 4 weeks ago:
You are in for a real treat when you get to the astray maze.
No spoilers but.
Be ready for something . Wear headphones during it, if you can.
- Comment on Altered World Event 4 weeks ago:
Love the lost room. Also the scp universe ties in nicely to it and remedy universe.
- Comment on Hot ghoul on ghoul action 5 weeks ago:
I think he looks like that guy from the Langoliers. Image
