FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on As its moth season again 2 days ago:
So if you mix the cake uranium and the glitter, and then sprinkle it on the corrupted moth…
Would you get mutant rainbow glitter moths that glow in the dark? (cuz that’s how it all works, right? :P )
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
Ignorance is a clack of knowledge.
Stupidity is a choice to not learn.
Some one who is ignorant, can cure that by learning. Some one who is stupid never will.
- Comment on Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is? 4 days ago:
Very.
It’s also possible for people anywhere else, too. Not everyone is obsessed with sports.
- Comment on My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 5 days ago:
The destroyer sent in exodus to slaughter Egyptian firstborn was definitely not benevolent.
- Comment on How can AI act without initial human input? Does this show AI can have freewill or am I deceived? 6 days ago:
What is the difference between thoughts stollen and thoughts consumed? Is the philosophy I read not just information stored in a meaty hard-drive? Ai doesn’t comprehend information, it just regurgitates it in a manor that looks understandable. I also contain information I don’t understand but can tell you on demand in a way that looks understandable.
When you encounter new information- new ideas, or art, or just have a new experience- you process that information in the context of your prior understanding; the thoughts you have are definitely yours, and not “stolen.” in the same sense as generative AI spewing out artwork.
Some people say the same thing about Andy Wharhol, though. So we still need to have that argument out.
There’s a lot of statements about AI just being “this” but frequently I see “this” and wonder why it’s any different than when humans do it? “Ai doesn’t make art because art takes soul and feeling” but what does that say about corperate logos, clip art, or the millionth furry porn OC an artist must make to pay the bills? Those also have no soul or feeling.
We don’t even know if we’re not also “this”. We’re definitely conscious, we’re aware. I’d probably put generative AI and LLMs on the same level of awareness as a tree. Trees don’t seem to have anything resembling a brain or nervous system, but manage to adapt in subtle ways to their changing environments (Growing towards lightsources, taking in or giving up nutrients into the soil. they even have “community” in the sense that the mycellium spreads those nutrients around to other trees that need it…)
I don’t like AI either, but I want to understand the philosophical implications of these arguments.
It’s not that I don’t particularly like AI, per se. it’s what the techbros are using it for that piss me off. I would say that AI rights need to be established now so that we don’t cause the fucking AI Apocalypse. (because some incel is going to turn a sentient AI into it’s fuckdoll. or worse.)(not to mention coming after everyone’s jobs. slightly nsfw, but here’s the latest “WTF, Techbros?”
- Comment on How can AI act without initial human input? Does this show AI can have freewill or am I deceived? 1 week ago:
Not really. LLMs are chatbots predicated on taking an information set, and determining that given a prompt of “how do I make a PB&J” It’s going to go through its’ database, Find the most common responses to that string, and may be strings related to it, and give you a synthesis of the most statistically relevant answers.
It has no understanding of what it’s regurgitating.
This is a dumb-as-rocks algorithm with a huge database of stolen material regurgitating the most common associations from that material based on your prompt. The algorithm is pretty clever, don’t get me wrong (and it sort does this multiple-pass thing) But it’s not particularly impressive narrow artificial intelligence.
LLMs are pretty amazing and they can do some things very well, and reasonably fit under the category of AI,
I never said they weren’t “AI”… I said they barely rate the term, They’re right up there with the algorithms in your phone that eventually learn that no, you did not mean “ducky” you meant “fucky”. Eliza is also an AI, but you wouldn’t look back at it.
The reason we’re stuck in that loop is because we don’t know. So we’re looking at examples and being like ‘not yet’, then something new comes around and ‘not yet.’ for that, too.
AGI is an entirely different monster; and the troublesome thing about it is… we don’t even know if we have free will. Determinism is something we’re actively looking at, and the only good answer is “we don’t know”. we don’t even know how to quantify consciousness- which, from evidence, arises out of complexity, but we don’t really understand how that works. (see octopus and cuddlefish intelligence. It’s totally different than ours.)
- Comment on How can AI act without initial human input? Does this show AI can have freewill or am I deceived? 1 week ago:
“people” also think their AI girlfriends love and really really care for them.
Further AGI “some day becoming like us” is completely different than “They’re like us now”. LLMs aren’t even AGI. they’re predictive engines that predict the text that comes next based on a huge repository of mostly-stolen content. They barely rate the term AI.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
It’s polite to warn the people responsible for saving your life that you’re gonna be a frequent flyer
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
RFKjr is not worm brained!
The brain worm died from starvation!
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 2 weeks ago:
*Hojack Borschtman has entered the chat
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 2 weeks ago:
You know that everyone’s likeness is usually protected under (us) state law. it’s technically called the right of publicity; so usually you can’t use that other person’s face either without their consent.
- Comment on I took this today in San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
Oh you’d think.
But I doubt that Dawkins is the only creep with ai girlfriend.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t tell me what to do.
Especially, don’t tell me what to do, without a functional alternative, and most certainly without giving me a good reason to do it.
And absolutely don’t tell me what to do without giving me a reason or functional alternative multiple times in low effort copy pasta comments.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
which is funny because that’s most established content on YT, whether you realize it or not.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
And why would that be?
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
[For people wanting the answer[(www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_7y0WUnW4)
for people who don't want to click the link
It’s B.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
riding skis!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
- some people have hste symbols tsttooed, which don’t hold much meaning IMO.
Uh. Yeah they do. Normally tattoos of that nature are used to signal being part of that group. Same as with gang tats.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 3 weeks ago:
A rude idiot!
- Comment on What is the sartorial function of that flap your zipper keeps getting caught in? 3 weeks ago:
Shrinkage is no joke!
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 4 weeks ago:
First, if the road floods, that would push drain clogging debris into the road, not away from it, and while many roads can operate a slight clog at the side, it becomes more problematic at the center.
Secondly, if it does clog, regardless if it was from a flood or just litter flowing into it with normal rain, some one has to go unclog it.
That someone would then either have to shut down both directions or be at risk of being hit from both directions.
Third, with the way roads are constructed, it would be a lot more expensive to design the sewers to either tolerate the loads (imagine a big heavy truck,) or burry it deep enough that the load is distributed around it anyways.
Fourth, maintenance. If something happens where you need to dig up your sewer, putting it to the side means you’re not also digging up the road. The reverse is also true.
Fifth, in freezing conditions, you don’t really want the water pooling in the center… you want it to the side, at least before it freeze back into ice.
- Comment on Why can’t we swap our minds today? 4 weeks ago:
the human brain has roughly 100 billion neurons.
These neurons have roughly 10-1000 trillion synaptic connections between them. Connections that are always shifting and changing.
the human brain isn’t a computer; you can’t just read them like you can a hard drive or memory stick… what we can do is read changes that represent certain kinds of thoughts like moving certain muscle groups or learning to move a mouse pointer; and that’s pretty much it. we have no way of ‘reading’ memories stored in those connections, not even on an individual basis; never mind at the scale and fault-tolerance that would be necessary to ensure that it was roughly the same person coming out the other end.
And then there’s the ethical implications.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Okay. Lots of reasons.
Another is it’s funny and fun and memorable.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
It helps in this situation, where the instructions are unclear and thinking through the process in a logical manner.
- Comment on Don't tempt me with a good time. 4 weeks ago:
Enough to make it sudsy? Probably about like for blowing bubbles?
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Fortunately, kids aren’t quite clever in that way.
- Comment on Don't tempt me with a good time. 4 weeks ago:
You can make reusable ice packs with some liquid dish soap, water, and a hand towel/big towel and some type of ziplock bag; though the vacuum seal food bags are much more reliable.
The dish soap allows it to remain pliable so it can be molded into you. And the custom sizes and shapes allow you to place it usefully- big flat ones on the spine is ooo-la-la. If you need to cool off in a hurry? Long ones under the arm pits, shins, fore arms and around thighs, too.
Easy change is a longer, some what wide shape that you can fold around your neck, kinda like a scarf.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry. But this comment made me think of this:
Anyway? We’re fucked and the game now is to mitigate and adapt.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
There’s a reason school teachers are now doing that exercise where they have kids list instructions on how to make a pb&j, and then following them exactly.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 4 weeks ago:
Yup. The only reason places still use them is to give yet another pretext for stopping people.
Same, for example, the little dinky plate lamp being out, or failing to signal for the proper distance (a few hundred feet, usually.)
