Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 day ago:
I’m not gen-z nor against porn broadly speaking but I’m in the 5% of people who develop addiction/compulsion to it and it completely destroyed my sex drive to the point that I’d rather watch porn than have sex. Personally I don’t mind but it makes having a romantic relationship quite difficult and it has now cost me two of them.
10 days clean now. Wish me luck.
- Comment on What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. 4 days ago:
No, mut you can see if the answer makes sense and then fact check it using Google if you need to.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 4 days ago:
Every 3 to 4 months I’d say. This is despite the fact that it’s free because both my mom and sister are hairdressers.
- Comment on What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. 4 days ago:
You can ask it much more complex questions than you can google and you can ask follow-up questions too.
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 1 week ago:
No. It describes a person whose much more obsessed about it.
- Comment on Why is insulting people for their state (Florida) ok, but not gender or race? 1 week ago:
I don’t think insulting people for any reason is okay. We’re just blind to it when it’s directed at people we too don’t like. We’re hypocrites.
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 1 week ago:
Thriving is subjective but every single 30+ I know is able to financially support themselves in the common sense of the word so I’d say a quite high number. Probably around 80 to 90% if not higher.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 1 week ago:
It’s good to keep in mind that not showing emotions doesn’t mean not feeling them. Men don’t generally act that way with each other because there’s a real and always-present danger of actual violence. Disagreements usually either get solved, or we just bury those feelings until someone pushes us over the edge - and then we punch them in the face.
That’s not an option when you’re a man working with women. You can’t let things escalate because they can take it further than you can. He might be boiling inside, but there’s no outlet for it. We just deal with it and we’re usually quite good at that since we’ve been doing it all our lives.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 week ago:
It’s normal. Worn out clutch has different and more noticeable symptoms.
- Comment on Anon plays the lottery 2 weeks ago:
There are countless ways I feel different from the people around me, but spending habits is a big one. I never had the urge to start buying things when I got money. I’ve just always saved it. Even as a kid, I had a chest with a lock on it where I kept all my savings. I was always the one people borrowed money from and paid back with interest.
Now as an adult, I find it even easier not to go on a spending spree when I get a large lump sum of money from somewhere, because getting more money doesn’t really enable me to buy something I couldn’t have bought before. Even when I do treat myself to something, it’s usually BIFL quality, so once I have it, I never need to buy it again.
I guess it’s worth noting that always being alone with no one to spend the money with helps too.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 2 weeks ago:
Looking at my ChatGPT “random questions” tab and the things I’ve asked from it, much of it are the kind of things you probably couldn’t look up on encyclopedia.
For example:
“Is a slight drop in the engine rpm when shifting from neutral to 1st gear while holding down the clutch pedal a sign of worn out clutch”?
Or:
“What’s the difference between Mirka’s red and yellow sandpaper?”
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 weeks ago:
I’m not from UK.
- Comment on Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn 2 weeks ago:
So how does this work exactly?
“Pay up or we tell everyone that you watch porn”
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 weeks ago:
Glad you brought up US politics here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see how working in the trades is supposed to close the door for intellectualism or then we just mean different things with that word. Just because person rather works with their hands than deals with office politics and stares at a monitor for 8 hours a day doesn’t mean they’re stupid. Your future job prospects also look much better if you’re a plumber rather than computer scientist.
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 weeks ago:
I have gerbils. Some of them love it and some couldn’t care less. For one it took over 6 months of watching her sister and just sitting in it to figure out how it works. Once she did, there was no end to it.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 weeks ago:
I prevent my customers from leaving a ban review by trying to do a good job. I’d never sign a form like that, it’s a huge red flag and I doubt it’s even enforceable.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on what job it’s replacing. LLMs are so-called narrow intelligence. They’re built to generate natural-sounding language, so if that’s what the job requires, then even an imperfect LLM might be fit for it. But if the job demands logic, reasoning, and grounding in facts, then it’s the wrong tool. If it were an imperfect AGI that can also talk, maybe - but it’s not.
My unpopular opinion is that LLMs are actually too good. We just wanted something that talks, but by training it on tons of correct information, they also end up answering questions correctly as a by-product. That’s neat, but it happens “by accident” - not because they actually know anything.
It’s kind of like a humanoid robot that looks too much like a person - we struggle to tell the difference. We forget what it really is because of what it seems.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 weeks ago:
This works both ways: you can also always claim it’s a deepfake even if it isn’t.
If the government is after you they don’t need excuses so I doubt gen-AI changes anything in that regard.
- Comment on Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean they don’t give you a choice? You always have the choice not to use it. DDG gives me AI summaries and I never read them. WhatsApp has an LLM button I’ve never pressed. Twitter has Grok, never tried it. Android probably has Gemini somewhere, and I don’t even know how to access it. As for Proton’s LLM, I hadn’t even heard of it despite paying for their email for a decade. I just don’t see how something existing as a feature in a service I already use somehow mandates me to engage with it.
If someone is so deeply anti-LLM that they want to avoid all this on principle, I don’t necessarily have an issue with that. But personally, I genuinely struggle to grasp the logic behind it. People seem to have a strong emotional response to LLMs - your reply makes that pretty clear - and that’s the part that really boggles my mind.
- Comment on Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears 4 weeks ago:
If you don’t like LLMs then why can’t you just not use them? Why do you have to start avoiding everything LLM like the plague?
- Comment on UK | Stop children using VPNs to dodge age checks on porn sites, commissioner demands 4 weeks ago:
Cheeky Proton VPN ad midway through the article.
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 4 weeks ago:
because the future occupant of the data center has not been named.
It’s not thay “no one knows” but that information simply haven’t been disclosed.
- Comment on Refrigerators have DRM on them, To force you to buy $50 water filters or it won't dispense water 5 weeks ago:
Luckily I get my water from the tap.
- Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been told that this man can’t be trusted so I guess it’s not a bubble then.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Almost every single post from you mentions that you’re a single mom to a 13 year old and you ask about things like co-sleeping, wether it’s okay to wear bikinis in front of your son and his friends, how to teach them about bodily changes during puberty and now you’re a stripper as well.
I’ve been seeing you around here for a while now and there’s seems to be a theme here.
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 5 weeks ago:
Which AI company has taken this approach exactly? Whose this “they” you’re refering to?
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 5 weeks ago:
I think the title should be “What if LLMs doesn’t get much better than this?” because that’s effectively what the article is talking about. I see no reason to expect that our AI systems wouldn’t keep improving even if LLMs don’t.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 5 weeks ago:
I disagree with the premise, but I’d wager that people who say “suffering is good” are probably talking about things like lifting heavy at the gym or working long hours - not spitting blood in a ditch.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 month ago:
It’s like any other tool; it requires an user who knows how to use it and what the limitations are. It’s not as competent as Sam Altman wants you to believe but it’s not as incompetent as the haters wants you to believe either.
