CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death to the spiders⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What have the spiders done to you though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a prefix that isn’t specific to gender (I don’t know of a particular use in sexuality though that doesn’t mean there isn’t one), but in other uses that I know of, it isn’t used by itself as a descriptor of an aspect of a person’s identity, but as part of some other word. It basically means the opposite of trans (as a prefix, so not just “cisgender means someone that isn’t transgender”, but anywhere that the prefix trans- could be used, for example, when talking about spacecraft visiting the moon, the space farther away from earth than the moon is is sometimes referred to as translunar space, and conversely, the space between the earth and the moon can be called cislunar space). In general, if one is talking about people, especially if it’s just used by itself with nothing else attached, it just refers to everyone other than transgender people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  after years and many billions of dollars of technological development, we have finally invented a machine that can be scammed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day keeps the doctors away!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a common trope that worms like to live in apples, between that and blocking doctors, maybe rfk is secretly a giant weird looking apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We technically wouldnt have to in the sense that its not physically impossible for us to “stumble into it” while trying to mimic the basic brain architecture that we do know, but yes, this is one of the reasons I tend to be a bit skeptical of AI claims, we’re trying to mimic something without even knowing how the thing we’re trying to mimic works very well. Clearly we havent had zero success just given that we can make something that can talk well enough to sometimes fool people into thinking its a human, but we also clearly havent gotten all the way there. If the tech we’ve built will work with enough scaling or tweaking, or if we need something fundamentally different, I dont know.

  My guess, though it is just a guess, is that we’ve probably got something that could serve as a component of some future agi system but that there’s probably more to it we havent figured out that we need to add to get there beyond just making the thing bigger and feeding it more data. Humans do learn from experience after all, and I would imagine the total data input of all one’s senses constantly working adds up to a lot, but we also clearly dont need to be fed all the information to be found on the internet just to learn how to think and talk, the fact these AI models need so much training data makes me suspect that either we’re missing something fundamental and trying to compensate with more training, or else we’ve devised a way to doing this that is really inefficient compared to however our brains do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you define it in a “artificial person/as smart as a human/can do anything a human can do” sort of way like I usually see, then yes, we know that it is possible, because if it were impossible for a system with human-equivalent capabilities to exist, than humans couldn’t exist, and well, we clearly do. That being said, that doesn’t mean that all we need to do to make one is to just feed more and more data into our existing AI tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did truth not exist before photography?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A genderino sounds more like something you’d find in particle physics than biology anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it so hard to tell kids the truth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no I saw it, but what else on that list is someone gonna put the stuff on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it so hard to tell kids the truth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont partake in the weed, is there a particular reason one would be putting whipped cream on edibles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a trilobite and an ammonite in there, did those guys even leave any evolved descendants before they went extinct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy meme. One of the first lemmy-specific ones that I know of. Someone made an post on an asklemmy community asking for advice on how to avoid shitting for three days, and somehow the “lemmy three day challenge” became a widespread meme on the lemmy network for awhile. Then after that it was memes about beans, and briefly ones about beef stroganoff for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny coincidence, to mention shitholes on a lemmy post that says we only have “3 days”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom Scott has a pretty entertaining trivia podcast, he doesn’t appear to be insane?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t the tops edible too? I wonder how the little shriveled bean thing on the end became internationally popular but the juicy looking fruit on top isn’t. Like, every cashew harvested has to have the fruity part too, what do they all get used for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s gotten a handful of interviews (maybe a dozen, which over that time period doesn’t seem like very many to me but I don’t have enough job hunting experience to say). Ive generally asked him about them the day of, he’s usually thought they’ve gone well (the places that have actually interviewed him have usually been fast food type places, and have usually asked him more about availability than much else from what he’s told me), and often they’ve told him some variation of “we should give you a call with our decision within a week”, after which all but one has never actually done so. I’ve not tried giving him a mock interview (I’ve been lucky enough to get hired by the first place to interview me both times I’ve been job hunting myself, so I have very little notion of what exactly to ask to simulate such a thing), most of my assistance to him has either been trying to find places he hasn’t applied yet, helping him make his resume, and relaying advice from an aunt of mine with a lot more general life experience. I’ve also tried recommending him to my workplace’s HR a couple times when they’ve had entry level positions open but he’s never heard anything from applications there either. As far as seasonal work goes, I don’t know if he’s applied to any tourist stuff or not, I’ve not seen very many such jobs listed when I’ve looked around job postings but I might not be looking in the right place. He has tried applying for temporary landscaping positions a few times without any luck though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hiring signs for don’t necessarily mean much. I have a friend looking for such “basic” sort of a job, or anything really, that I’ve been trying to help out. Two years later and we’re both still trying to find more places around for him to apply to. I know the guy well enough to know that he’s not like being a jerk to the occasional interviewer he gets or anything like that, and while he doesn’t have much he doesn’t have zero work history either, so with all the places “now hiring” you’d think statistically at least one of them would have worked out by now, but most won’t even give the courtesy of a “no”. I suspect those signs are more there to have a constant pool of applicants in case they should need to quickly replace an existing employee (or reassure overworked ones that they’re “looking” for someone) than any actual intent to hire more staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permian Park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would want to see an “ediacaran biota” park, though that one would have to be more like a public aquarium than a park I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, just a fan, or like a combo microwave and convection oven? Because the latter is something I sometimes wonder if would be a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE FEAST IS NEVER FINISHED LADS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spore pear spotted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Art.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue it depends a lot on exactly how the AI is used. Just putting in a text prompt and accepting the output with minimal or no edits doesn’t seem much different from essentially commissioning the computer to make something for you, but I’ve also seen some people use some of the AI tools for modifying images (like the ones that “expand” them by generating stuff the AI thinks fits around the edge, or that let one add something into a selected area or fill an area in based on what’s around it) a great many times over to shift an image towards a desired result in a way that at least from timelapse looked like it would require some time and familiarity with the tools. A bit like how asking someone to take a photo for you doesn’t make you an artist, but selecting a bunch of photos you didn’t take and using them to make a collage or something arguably might.

  Honestly I suspect that once this whole AI bubble dies down, there will be a shift in generative AI from just trying to make it create art entirely on it’s own towards finding ways for humans to make art out of whatever becomes of the tech, partly because artists are nothing if not creative, and partly because in addition to just knowing the muscle memory and physical mechanics of making art, an artist is also going to have a sense of what does and doesn’t look good that develops as they learn, and can try to shape an idea to fit, while the machine might just give you whatever it calculates fits the prompt even if following the prompt won’t look very good without some tweaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh yes...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really ought to cause my work has me getting up super early in the morning, but rarely does my brain actually let me fall asleep till like 11

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the reasoning is something like this: these companies employ such call center employees for a reason, either they legally have to for one reason or another or they’ve determined that in some way, it is more profitable to have the capacity for people to call them than not. If the call centers are swamped, then they still cost the company money, but their benefit to the company is reduced, because the “real” calls can’t get through in a timely fashion. As such, it’s in the company’s interest to avoid having people spam them, and if the policy those people want changed won’t really cost the company anything to change, then just doing that might be the most profitable option for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a little funny how many conservatives out there will hate on furries and then unironically make memes calling themselves “lions” or “wolves”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See their point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I don’t think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unions would be useful even then, and if american history over the past decades is any indication, strong unions might be necessary to keep those laws too, lest capital use it’s influence to erode them without an organized force to counter it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would the universe being a black hole invalidate religion, any more than, for example, the universe being really big already does? Don’t most religions focus more on some entity or entities they think made or govern the universe more than what physical processes are “used” to do that, or what the ultimate shape of the universe is? Even when a contradiction is found, it’s easy enough for a religion to just say “well, that was metaphorical”, or “just the limited understanding given by (insert deity here) to our ancestors” or something along those lines to make it fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.