AnarchoEngineer
@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I made a post poking fun at how bad a Pro-AI image was, and naturally people crashed out at the sight of AI 6 days ago:
If it was @dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works who commented the cat for a non-AI image, they’ve admitted they were just commenting it randomly on purpose as bait
- Comment on Fuck yeah 1 week ago:
Fuck that; my vernacular is diverse as fuck. Furthermore, even if some fucking rando uses the word “fuck” all the fucking time, they can likely still describe pretty much any-fucking-thing they damn well wish in an effective way.
The entire fucking point of language in the fucking first place is communication. Can you understand me when I say “fuck off” or “fuck that” or any other phrase that involves the word? Yes. So this riposte is just as fucking effective as if I’d omitted the word “fuck” in the fucking first place.
However, foregoing the word “fuck” in fabricating this fine fucking reply would not be as much fucking fun, and would have fucked up the emphasis of its delivery as the entire fucking purpose of this fucking frivolous reply is to hit home how fucking foolish it is to presume someone’s vocabulary is lacking simply due to using the word “fuck” frequently as fuck.
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- Comment on 0/10 game 1 week ago:
The lime represents a branching path you can take in a game.
There are points in a game that are impossible to return to after leaving the area or like killing a certain boss enemy.
When there are cool/special items hidden in those areas, if you leave and can’t come back you might miss the item and never get to use it unless you restart and play the game all over again just to get the chance to pick it up again.
Things get much worse when there are multiple items or even boss fights like this in the same game, where doing things ouf of order can lock you out of full questlines (like in Elden Ring where reaching Altus Plateau before getting as far as possible through everyone’s questlines will make half of them unable to be completed for no reason whatsoever)
- Comment on They tasted great but destroyed my teeth 1 week ago:
- Comment on This map shows where oil and gas is found. Is there no oil and gas under the rockie mountains (circled red) or they just haven't found any because it's too difficult to drill through the mountains? 2 weeks ago:
Unless those mountains were under water or covered in a tropical area a very long time ago, they likely wouldn’t have any oil in them because there’d be dead life forms in the sediment to get turned into oil.
Utah (seen on your map beneath Idaho) has both the rocky mountains and oil because 50million years ago it was covered by lake uinta.
- Comment on Why is suicide considered selfish? If your like 80 or something and rely on your family for care. Would it not be a burden off of them? 3 weeks ago:
“He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it” -Frank Herbert
I don’t think suicide should be considered selfish regardless of age or physical ailment. We are all built differently. It is entirely possible someone could have a life I think is great but they find it absolutely hellish.
While I think there should be buffers in place like mandatory counseling to prevent rash actions and treatable psychological issues, the idea that anyone contemplating suicide is just mentally ill or “doesn’t understand how it will affect others” is incredibly niave even if it seems to be the common sentiment.
Would you tell a person to stay in an unhealthy relationship because it might make their partner(s) sad? No. Is it selfish to leave a job that destroys your mental health because your coworkers might miss you? No.
People’s lives belong to them. Not their friends or family or the government. Them alone.
- Comment on Any help , bros ? 3 weeks ago:
Iirc these things are “locked” by magnetic elements so just run a strong magnet around the gray part and listen for anything moving around. Might need multiple magnets at once
- Comment on good to know what can kill you in each state 3 weeks ago:
There has only ever been one fatal mountain lion attack in the entire history of Utah
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 4 weeks ago:
I thought I was being pretty clear but I’ll spell it out: If some system reacts to a situation it “experiences” it at some rudimentary level. Hence the idea that simple game AI’s like pac man ghosts count for the first incomplete definition of sentience.
You’re right that this requires you to believe that a system is actually reacting to something instead of everything just being a figment of your imagination, but you said you already make that assumption so what’s the issue?
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 4 weeks ago:
Absolute minimum for Sentience: capable of experiencing sensation/situation and deciding how to respond tto it.
This is arguably satisfied for any AI at or above the level of if-statements. Like even the ghosts in pacman meet this requirement. So that’s a bad definition lets step it up.
If you want to push the requirement up a single step you simply add: “capable of learning/unlearning responses to situations through experience (trial and error)” and voila all the “if statement” codes fail… as do all LLMs. In fact, any network model trained via gradient descent fails this definition.
Surprisingly (or not) some Reinforcement Learning nets don’t fail this definition though. But I’m not sure I’d call a spiking network that can classify MNIST images via STDP learning as “sentient.”
So, maybe we should push it a step farther and specifically say: “sentience is when something is capable of experiencing pain” And now all current “AI” fail.
Most general “Pain” meaning the unwanted interruption and disruption of other thought processes (network functions) by a specific stimulus which demands/steals the net’s attention/action/focus.
In order to pass this a network would have to not just learn and plan “in real time” so to speak, but also be capable of having those goal directed thoughts be interrupted/superseded by more salient stimuli.
Almost all (If not all) biological things with a central nervous system pass this. All current AI models fail.
This is where we could draw the line for “minimum sentience requirements” but even this is still rudimentary compared to what people typically mean when they say “sentience.”
Regardless, this is well beyond the capabilities of current AI. In fact, I’m reasonably certain that beating the ARC-AGI-3 contest (which can’t even be well attempted so far) with an actual learning-while-running model wouldn’t mean that net is capable of passing this definition of sentience. So this isn’t just beyond where AI is now but also beyond the major next milestone current AI has failed to reach.
Next Level (For Fun): Actual Sentience
The next step up would be the experience of suffering which is basically just the ability to recognize repeated/long-term/lasting pain; recognize that pain can/does disrupt thought processes; and experience the desire to remove/avoid the pain either due to it interrupting those desired thought processes. Again, this sentient system must still be capable of learning from mistakes which means capable of failing to fix the problem (end the suffering) and capable of realizing that it has failed. (If failure is also registered like pain, this gives rise to the possibility of creating a feedback loop of suffering / recognition of defeat/failure, congratulations you’ve created something capable of getting so frustrated by something it might be driven to invent things… or just driven to collapse into a manic/depressed non-functional mess… very relatable)
This, in my opinion, is a much more solid foundation for drawing the line of “this thing deserves at least some rights as a sentient thing.” Parrots and elephants and dolphins and dogs and cats etc. are likely at/above this level since they can experience frustration.
The next level up (for sentience specifically not cognitive function in general) would likely be the ability to predict/plan not just around the environment but around how the system knows it might react to possible scenarios and attempts to practice responding in a better way such that it will be easier when to respond better if/when those situations arise again/ever.
Any further levels would likely merge with consciousness requirements and other things like having a “theory of mind” or empathy. Further still might be the recognition of patterns in one’s own behavior that match those of others and give rise to the realization that one might have innate behaviors due to nature or nurture (specifications or experiences).
- Comment on Got to visit the Tyrell Corporation HQ last night. Place is huge. 1 month ago:
Assemble machines that are “more human than human” of course, what else?
- Comment on Anon likes Space Jam 1 month ago:
Yes and no, technically the gas was pressurized and let out for propulsion. Its just that after the gas is initially pushed into the thruster, we rip off electrons to make the gas into positive ions which can be further accelerated by an electromagnetic field potential before getting ejected.
You are getting thrust from the depressurization but also from the electromagnetic acceleration of the thruster. The point is that it is more thrust than you’d get from just gas expansion alone and it still would provide basically no delta v for such a massive object.
- Comment on Anon likes Space Jam 1 month ago:
It took the deep space 1 probe (which only weighed 373kg) 73.5 kilos of xenon through an ion engine to get a delta v of 4.1km/s.
So even if you turned the whole cargo bay into fully ionized plasma and somehow shot it out in a well directed beam, I seriously doubt it would cause any noticeable change in the trajectory of a million metric ton galaxy class starship
- Comment on The ultimate check 2 months ago:
Turns out I was wrong about modifications being needed since linux-xtensa has now been merged into mainline linux: Kernel Github Repo
- Comment on The ultimate check 2 months ago:
I know the ESP32-S3 can technically boot linux, however idk if it counts as “mainline” since I think the kernel does need to be modified slightly
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Beeper Funk because its the only one I can name lol
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
Elden Ring… Idk if i could force myself to eat a raw dragon heart but without dragon communion spells, I know I’ll die much more frequently
- Comment on Day 760 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about who I think. Yeah, that dude killed me a lot. And was just annoying.
The best (though slightly tedious) strategy I have is to go up to the balcony and stand with a pillar in between you and him. His attacks won’t break the pillar and you can then time it right to leave cover and shoot him several times before going back to hiding.
Also going to a place with lots of enemies to level up/craft mods is helpful, and do the janitor’s quests and explore as much as possible to gain more abilities / find more crafting materials.
Fighting is a lot easier when you can basically throw the entire room at an enemy over and over again.
- Comment on Wow remember these? 2 months ago:
Okay now that’s just cursed
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 months ago:
Hey now, do you really think all the eldritch monsters just stayed in the appalachians? No.
Thats why there are skinwalkers in the rockies; they’re just wendigo that heard there were taller mountains forming in the west and decided to migrate over.
/s
- Comment on I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling 2 months ago:
Iirc it’s Taiwan that makes NVIDIA chips, not china
- Comment on Groyper Def Noodles physically attacks an brown Christian after losing a debate 2 months ago:
Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fishin the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes.
Idk what a groyper is tho
- Comment on Languages 2 months ago:
I think you actually just described Danish.
Why pronounce a consonant when you just can swallow it and use a glottal stop instead?
- Comment on Pikachu 2 months ago:
a) I was talking about the specific situation OP described, not any abusive/bad relationship ever
b) If it was abusive that would likely have made it violent (psychological violence is violence)
c) “Voluntary” as in they could choose to leave without threat to their safety/wellbeing, not “oh boy I wholeheartedly desire this.”
- Comment on Pikachu 2 months ago:
You were voluntarily being oppressed and decided to stop volunteering for it
It’s not like immigrants can just “break up” with ICE
- Comment on Anon's gf is intense 3 months ago:
Fake: Anon has a gf? Anon can run 20mi?
Gay: Complaining about a relationship with a woman who both cared enough about him to learn and participate in his hobbies AND has now also become a literal fitness goddess?
On a serious note, if you are in a healthy relationship, you should feel comfortable telling your partner(s) when you aren’t interested in doing something they want you to do. Boundaries and communication are important
- Comment on It really ties the universe together 3 months ago:
This looks a lot like a sky shot of a dense city at night.
New cyberpunk world-building technique just dropped
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 3 months ago:
IRB training for grad research. It’s just so long and tedious. Also why the hell would I need to know the names of specific cases and not just the regulations/reasons?
“What journal article spurred on the 1974 act?”
Idk, but I highly doubt the name of a random article will be at all relevant to me conducting ethical research
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 3 months ago:
This’s anti-twink propaganda
