Devial

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But the daily mail said it, it must be correct if the daily mail said it, they’re such a reputable and neutral news organisation, they would never just make up wildly misleading, fear mongering click bait headlines.

  Honestly, how anyone who can string more than two thoughts together would ever think the DM is a reputable source for a claim is a mystery to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is the target audience for that ? Who the fuck even neds instructions to verify a damn email address, much less a whole ass youtube video ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that you’re complaining about gaslighting whilst literally gaslighting me about my intentions. Just stop. I’m going to block you now anyway, for your own good more than mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every reply you make like this literally just further reinforces and strengthens my point.

  You’re not mentally suited for social media. Just stop, your mental health will thank me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just kinda proves my point, tbh. See previous reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude. Touch fucking grass and delete your account. Clearly you don’t have the mental fortitude to deal with social media without having some kind of break down.

  This isn’t an insult, this is genuine advice. Getting this upset over the reception of a meme you posted is neither normal nor healthy.

  I get this irrationally upset when I do badly at online competitive games. And that’s why I decided to stop playing them completely years ago. Maybe you should make a similar decision about posting on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve directly answered every single comment you made. You’re literally just making shit up now. You’re clearly arguing in bad faith, and I’m not going to engage with you anymore.

  Come back when you’ve learned to argue at a level above a C- high school student.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ~~How the fuck can you people sleep at night while treating others like this?~

  Dude. You’re reacting like someone murdered your mother to people down voting your meme, that’s not normal. Go touch grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You posted a link to a Wikipedia paragraph that doesn’t mention the arguments you made and just called a “contemporary source”. I can’t take you seriously anymore, you’re arguing on the level of aC- high school student.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You were arguing just as vehemently about this, with just as much certainty, before that comment, which weirdly just happened to appear when you ran out of arguements.

  Just a weird, coincidence I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No it doesn’t. They’re explicitly NOT enforcing the patent, they have no incentive to defend it based on the patent being valid. They could just as easily sign a contract with the original inventor, promising to challenge attempts at repatenting the idea. The only reason validity of the patent would make a difference to their motivation, is if they plan on eventualyl enfocing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes there is. Anyone can contest a patent based on prior art existing. The university would have identical legal power to contest the new patent, on basis of the existing disclaimed patent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That logic applies identically to an existing patent. For the issues you mention, there is no distinction between the patent being filed at the PTO and still valid, or being filled at the PTO and disclaimed. In terms of the enforcibility, and patentability of a ““new”” inventions with prior art, there is no legal distinction whatsoever between the prior art being a disclaimed and valid patent, so I don’t think that’s a valid reason to not disclaim it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I break my arm, and am in incredible pain, I need to first pop by my GP to get a referral, or pay 100€ if I go straight to A&E ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of them been so indoctrinated into mistrusting authorities and instutions, that they basically disbelieve anything they say on principle.

  And al the evidence, all the scientists telling them they’re wrong just ends up reinforcing their belief in some giant conspiracy.

  It’s sadly been shown in more than one study that changing the mind of conspiracy theorists with reason, argumens or evidence is basically impossible. It’s almost a self preservation instict against cognitive dissonance. They were so sure they were right, and now so one is telling them they’re not. That feels shit, and it feels shit to accept you were wrong about something you so fervently insisted was true. So their brains basically go into self defense mode, and just reject anything that threatens the shaky fundamentals of their entire belief system. The best thing you can attmept to do is to distract them. Get them to talk and think about other things. When they mention the conspiracy, don’t engage, don’t argue how they’re wrong, they’ll just dig their heels in deeper, just change the topic to something else. Force them to spend less time in their delusions. Eventually, if you’re lucky, they might gain enough distance to the topic, and stop caring about it enough that they’re ready to start accepting how batshit insane those conspiracies are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote Hbomberguy:

  “The anti vaccine movement had next to no evidence [27] years ago, and they have even less today”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is enormously ironic, since I literally never claimed you said anything except for what you did: Namely, that synthetic data is enough to train models.

  Everything else in my comment is quite explicitly my own thoughts on the matter, and why I disagree with that statment, so in actual fact, you’re the one making up shit I never said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, that is a fair point I hadn’t previosuly considered. Though disclaiming a patent doesn’t loose you all legal recourse.

  If someone else tries to repatent it, even if it gets approved, you can still file a challenge against the new patent with the PTO. You (or anyone else, really) would also have a virtually guaranteed court win, even if someone got the patent through and tried to enforce it. All you’d have to prove in court is that prior art of the invention exists, therefore the patent is invalid and unenforceable, granted or not, so it’s unlikely someone would even bother trying to enforce such a patent. A previous, diclaimed patent, of literally the identical technology being on record is pretty iron clad and unavoidable evidence that the patent isn’t original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most common fission reactions today release most of their energy in the form of neutrons. The only way to extract energy from neutrons is heat. But there are fission reactions which release a large portion of their energy in the form protons. And since protons are charged, their energy can be electromagnetically converted directly into electricity, with no need for intermediate process steps.

  There’s already at least one company building prototypes like this, Helion, using D+He3 fusion, rather than the more common D+T fusion in other reactortypes like Tokamaks.

  Real engineering has a video on Helion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the model collapse theory weren’t true, then why do LLMs need to scrape so much data from the internet for training ?

  According to you, they should be able to just generate synthetic training data purely with the previous model, and then use that to train the next generation.

  So why is there even a need for human input at all them ? Why are all LLM companies fighting tooth and nail against their data scraping being restricted, if real human data is in fact so unnecessary for model training.

  You can stop models from deteriorating without new data, and you can even train them with synthetic data, but that still requires the synthetic data to either be modelled, or filtered by humans to ensure its quality. If you just take a million random chatGPT outputs, with no human filtering whatsoever, and use that to restrain the chatGPT, and then repeat that over and over again, eventually the model will turn to shit. Each iteration some of the random tweaks chatGPT makes to their output are going to produce a bad output, which is now presented to the new training model as a target to achieve, so the model learns this bad output is less bad than it previously thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The line, imo, is: are you creating it yourself, and just using AI to help you make it faster/more convenient, or is AI the primary thing that is creating your content in the first place.

  Using AI for convenience is absolutely valid imo, I routinely use chatGPT to do things like debugging code I wrote, or rewriting data sets in different formats, instead of doing to by hand, or using it for more complex search and replace jobs, if I can’t be fucked to figure out a regex to cover it.

  For these kind of jobs, I think AI is a great tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If “everyone will be using AI”, AI will turn to shit.

  They can’t create originality, they’re only recycling and recontextualising existing information. But if you recycle and recontextualise the same information over and over again, it keeps degrading more and more.

  It’s ironic that the very people who advocate for AI everywhere, fail to realise just how dependent the quality of AI content is on having real, human generated content to input to train the model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re this bent on defending this mysoginstic and sexist crap, then you’re a sexist mysoginst not worth talking too. Enjoy being blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And the fathers are equally capable of saying no. And the men themselves are equally capable of not being cunts.

  There’s 3 people involved here, so of which are men, and this guy specifically singles out the the one woman, and blames here. That’s sexist and mysoginstic.

  “When women are bad, it’s their fault. When men are bad, it’s their mother’s fault” is an objectively sexist and shitty stance to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those men people have fathers too, and yet you specifically blame the mothers. That’s misogyny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realise that reproduction involves more than just the mother, right ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being so sexist that you even blame women for a group men of being cunts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s better than selling to a private person, still feels weird, since disclaiming a patent is absolutely possible, and has a 100% chance of leading to the desired outcome, vs whatever small chance there may be that the University starts taking profits on it. Or even just sees themselves forced to sell the patent, because of potential financial issues.

  Yeah, the risk is small, but eliminating it in it’s entirety would’ve been easily possible, so it just feels a bit weird he didn’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he wanted it to be freely available, why did he even sell the patent ? Just disclaim at the patent office. Selling is just asking the new holder to start enforcing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a 110/220 auto sensing plug

  There’s no real need for a plug to be able to sense what voltage it’s plugged into. That would be handled device side, not plug side. And for devices for which handling both 110 and 220 makes sense, well those pretty much universally already have a switch mode power supply that does so automatically, or at least a dip switch with which a user can manually select their grid voltage (check your phone or laptop charger, I can virtually guarantee it already supports both).

  And the issue with devices that don’t already do this, is generally that they are basic resistive or inductive loads (anything along the lines of heaters or motors), with little to nothing in the way of digital control electronics, which need to be designed for a specific input voltage in order to achieve a specific power output. Making these devices both 110V and 220V compatible would require either giving every single one of them a voltage transformer, or to include a 110V motor/heating coil, and a 220V one, that can be switched between. Both of which would massively increase the price of these devices.