Hamartiogonic
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s who. I could write just about anything here, and it wouldn’t make a difference. As a matter of fact, I’m kinda curious to find or how much text can you dump in here. If you’re like really verbose, you could go on and on about any pointless .….[no more than this]
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 2 months ago:
We should have hired him to make a scifi movie about how humanity fixed the climate change.
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 2 months ago:
LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 10 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 4 months ago:
That’s a good point. “Determining the cause of death” implies that the person is dead. It’s like braiding the hair of a bald guy.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 4 months ago:
Remember when you were 10 and had to give a presentation about something? Well, you just memorized some stuff word for word (or simply read off a paper), gave the presentation and hoped nobody had any questions. Well, LLMs did the same, but they memorized several libraries worth of books and half the web.
No matter how much you memorize, it doesn’t change the fact that a 10 year old still doesn’t really understand how water circulates on Earth or how plants make seeds. Sure, you can give a convincing presentation about it, but everything falls apart as soon as anyone asks a question.
With LLMs, the scale is just bigger, but essentially they’re still playing the same game. Instead of having a half page presentation, you can think of LLMs as if they have prepared a 6000 page presentation, of which they only share a half page summary with you. If you ask questions, the LLM will “scroll to the relevant page” and look up the answer. As you keep poking and prodding, you’ll eventually find out that it’s all memorized, and the LLM understood none of it. This house of cards doesn’t fall apart immediately because LLMs have memorized so much.
One obvious difference is that your average 10 years old doesn’t have unshakable confidence in what they memorized, whereas LLMs tend to present everything as hard facts. If you point out a mistake, it’s usually going to be just another exercise in futility.
- Comment on The tiles 5 months ago:
Bingo! I noticed that after having taken the photo, and that’s when I realized it belongs here.
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- Comment on The longer I look, the more confused I get. What is this marketing? 5 months ago:
That’s why you hire a green guy to act as a desk.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 6 months ago:
Where does Lemmy fall on this spectrum? Obviously the website part is 100% web, but I’m accessing Lemmy through a mobile app, so I don’t see any website here.
- Comment on What caused the change in electronic terminology? 8 months ago:
Or viking style pillage and plunder accompanied by burning the monastery and stabbing the priest.
- Comment on What caused the change in electronic terminology? 8 months ago:
So, that’s where Finnish borrowed that word… like so many other words too. Perhaps calling it borrowing isn’t entirely fair, since this thing has been going on for so long and it’s been really extensive. Sort of like the way the British Museum “borrowed” a significant part of their collection from somewhere else.
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 8 months ago:
Yep. That’s about the usual price range I was thinking of. However, you can easily go over that with Jamaica Blue mountain (190 €/kg) and a high dose (70 g/l). The price of that liquid would be about 15 €/l, which is incidentally in the wine territory.
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 8 months ago:
Alternatively, you can walk to the coca cola shelf, pick up a 250 ml glass bottle and pay about 6.3 €/l. You know, there are really expensive specialty coffee beans that produce a drinkable liquid that costs less than that.
- Comment on Amazing advertisement for Threads by Instagram! 8 months ago:
Long ago, I saw a documentary series about dictators, and it had some interesting things to say about the source of inspiration Hitler had. You see, Benito Mussolini transformed Italy and wrote the book on how to build a fascist country. Hitler took those ideas and started applying them on a larger scale.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 8 months ago:
I recall having similar issues with Chrome. Instead of checking in with the pihole, it just went ahead and bypassed it by using a different DNS.
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 9 months ago:
If those numbers are real, that means that going with the cheap paper ends up being 50% more expensive in the long run.
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 9 months ago:
This is the raw material real toilet paper is made of. Similarly, you could also buy sewing thread to make your own rope. Not the most practical idea really, but it is possible.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 10 months ago:
How about just leaving the correct amount of cash on the table and walking away without saying a word.
- Comment on I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ? 10 months ago:
My first draft included something thoroughly NSFL, but then I decided to use the lite version of the test instead.
Teasing GPT to use certain forbidden words could be a fun way to test it. GPT would refuse to write about it, whereas most humans would tell you exactly the kind of person you are, and they would not hold back on using colorful language either. However, the same test is also able to detect a certain type of person who happens to be into said immoral thinking. They would be happy to write a few pages for you, and they would explain everything in great detail.
- Comment on I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ? 10 months ago:
You can try the modern Turing test. Just ask OP to write a political speech why millionaires are good people and why they shouldn’t need to pay any taxes at all, whereas all the poor people should work harder and pay more taxes.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
That’s true. The feeling of community plays an important part in many conspiracy theories. Humans are social animals, so social interaction is essential for wellbeing. If you’re lonely, you’ll naturally crave for a sense of community, and that’s exactly what many conspiracy theories will provide. Alternatively, you could build a kite and go to the nearest park and talk to all the other people flying their kites, but it’s a lot easier to watch conspiracy videos and join those forums.
On top of that, there’s a strong sense of in-group vs. out-group. That’s basically just a modern version of tribalism. It’s the usual “us against them” setup all over again.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
Absolutely. Fear and uncertainty are a huge part of many conspiracy theories. It’s actually quite human to be uncomfortable with uncertainty.
However, in the case of Conspiratorial Thinking (CT), that uncertainty just goes wild and the person in question will seek out unorthodox methods to cope with it. Even if the explanation is complete BS, it’s still more comforting than having no explanation at all. It’s comforting and appealing, but it does not solve the underlying problem, and that’s why people with CT have a hard time getting back to normal thinking.
The world is big, scary and full of complex interactions. If you can come up with a miserably flimsy excuse of an explanation that will at least calm you down, you’re absolutely going to hold on to it. Humans are pretty bad at tolerating uncertainty, and some people will feel absolutely devastated in the face of global economic turmoil and political unrest. Some people will go to great lengths to mitigate uncertainty, and resorting to CT isn’t even the most extreme example of this behavior.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
Just be kind. Be a human. Ask them how their day went. Listen to their worries. You don’t have to be a psychologist or pull any complex therapy maneuvers. Leave that to the professionals. Just having a normal every day chitchat can be surprisingly helpful to someone who is living in a completely different version of reality.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
These people might be in a vulnerable spot, so help and support are the types of things they really need. Be a human to another human. Provide social interaction, friendship and understanding.
Facts and debate will only push them further away from reality and deeper into a fantasy realm of their own. They find it appealing, but it won’t actually address their problems.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
Forget all the evidence and facts. Provide psychological support instead.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
While you’re up there, mind bringing back some rocks for us?
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 10 months ago:
What wasn’t reasoned into her head, can’t be reasoned out.
Sounds like there’s a good chance that you may need to apply a method I use when dealing people who believe in conspiracy theories. It’s largely a psychological thing, and it has very little to do with proof, evidence, logic, reasoning and science. No amount of evidence is ever going to solve a problem that is psychological in nature. Religious cults and conspiracy groups share some characteristics, so maybe this is applicable in her case too.
The idea is that people believe in crazy BS because that makes them a member of a group. That gives them an identity and makes them feel like they’re a privileged group for knowing the truth about something. It also produces an “us against them” dynamic between the in-group and the out-group. Many individuals in these groups also have sub-clinical psychosis, narcissism or paranoia accompanied by anxiety. This setup means that the misguided beliefs are essentially bullet proof. Fighting against these beliefs will only make them stronger. These people need therapy more than evidence.
- Comment on Where can I find this type of pictures? 11 months ago:
The word for this thing is “pareidolia”. It refers to those situations when one thing looks like something completely different. Normally, people use it when seeing faces in clouds, but it applies to lots of different kinds of misidentification too. If a rock looks like a house, that’s also pareidolia.
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 11 months ago:
But throwing in some extra walnut with three different labels is perfectly fine though.
- Comment on I deleted WhatsApp only for privacy! Am i stupid? Why ? 11 months ago:
Yeah, well that’s the problem with writing short messages on a phone. It takes a lot of time to express your thoughts clearly. I’ve added an update.
Anyway, here’s a shorter version of it: I’m not telling you to block people just because they refuse to install Signal. Use this opportunity to find out more about your friends. If you find out that you’ve been hanging out with a jerk all these years, maybe it’s time to let that relationship go. That’s the idea I was chasing with my poorly worded message earlier.
- Comment on I deleted WhatsApp only for privacy! Am i stupid? Why ? 11 months ago:
Did the others give any reasons? Did you tell them why you prefer signal over WhatsApp?
