TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Girl power 2 days ago:
Scientress*
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
You know that’s not the LLM’s ‘source’ right? It’s still output. Do you mean the training data? Is that what you mean by CoPilot should be open source? If CoPilot has learned from something GPL then everything else it outputs, or perhaps specifically its training data - should be GPL?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s not the source, that’s still output. You don’t seem to understand how LLMs work and yet have taken a bizarre stance on it anyway.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
How exactly do you expect to see the “source” of a language model?
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Hey does anyone want to buy a t-shirt from me with this guy’s worst comments printed on it?
- Comment on Anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Do good people fuck Bob?
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Why do people believe this shit? Like the Internet was around. You can go see me arguing with people calling my Nokia NGage a taco and me defending having to hold it weird if I get to play Tomb Raider on my phone, on forums, right now. Oh and the kids all hold their phones that way now and yes it looks stupid but they just remastered Tomb Raider for mobile so who cares.
- Comment on Irish dock workers striking to prevent the export of food to Britain during a period of food insecurity in Ireland, 1920 3 weeks ago:
We were also in the middle of the Irish War of Independence, that feels like important context.
- Comment on 'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable 3 weeks ago:
Because the British people that vote, vote primarily for parties that are seeking to destroy the NHS, because they’ve been trained to believe it exists entirely to employ and treat Them. The Others. Their Kind. You know The Ones.
- Comment on Anon manages the impossible 4 weeks ago:
Given that each year 30,000 or 8% of US military women experience abuse and your first reaction to this person working as a professional killer with you was “she’s cute”, it sounds like her ploy worked perfectly.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
… I don’t see how you can genuinely have understood that to be a point I was making. That’s the opposite of what I was saying. I even gave an example of how you might be forced to drive a car. Because you are in fact forced to live in society. But you are here on Lemmy so you must understand that you are not forced to use Gmail? So either you’re being disingenuous or you’re not actually reading all of what I’m posting. Given how you completely ignored the majority of my other post and went straight to “oH sO iF wE dO iT fOr 20 yEaRs”, I’m going with the latter.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
I’m almost certainly older than you, but I’m still interested to hear how deliberately answering Captchas incorrectly saves time over answering them correctly.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
The 20 years thing was my bafflement as to why people felt the need to explain what Captchas are. Not a justification for their existence. When I ask “why” I think I’m pretty clearly not asking to have how Captchas work explained to me.
Putting that aside, can you explain to me how asking you to identify a traffic light is “at the expense of literally everyone”?
Someone was saying “they’ll train smart cars! And sell it to us as a subscription!” which I think is the same route you’re going down. But… how is that at the expense of everyone? And would not training smart cars benefit anyone? Is someone else going to do it? Is there a FOSS smart car I can contribue to? And is that FOSS going to prevent bad actors from training it to misbehave?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
You’re not doing work for free. That’s a really weird way to look at it. You’re doing it to gain access to a service, an entirely optional one. It’s somewhat believable when people say oh, yes I have a car but I have to have a car, I’d like not to. But nobody is required to use GMail to live.
And yes, feel free to be an AI pessimist. You could quite well be right. It seems bizarre to me however to make an effort to sabotage this one specific AI training (which might stop cars from running us down) so that you can log into something which will also be used to train AI (to sell you shit). And then posting your opinion about it here, where it will be used to train an AI.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
Yes?
Sorry I’m not sure “why?” is a difficult question. People keep explaining that is happening as if this hasn’t been happening in various forms for 20 years.
If its “I don’t want to contribute to machine learning”, I’ve got exciting news for you about every post you are making on this site where every comment is publicly accessible and consumable.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
Is it going to put a lot of… traffic light recognisers out of work?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
Profile people as… traffic lights?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
Is that a reason not to do it?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
That’s what he’s doing. Not why he’s doing it?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
Temperature is basically how creative you want the AI to be. The lower the temperature, the more predictable (and repeatable) the response.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 5 weeks ago:
Of course there are gender differences. Even the “most woke” of people will acknowledge this as for, for example, gender identity to work there needs to be something to identify with (or to not identify with I suppose).
But we aren’t speaking about differences in general, we’re talking about one specific trait - ‘strength of character’ - which is not one that is feminine or masculine. A man can show strength of character by standing for their beliefs in a fight or by raising their child against societal odds or by dealing with a traumatic situation in a way that ensures better outcomes than otherwise. But so can a woman? A woman does not become manly despite showing strength of character. One’s gender and presentation and aesthetic doesn’t influence their strength of character. I mean, we’ve all seen Legally Blonde right?
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 1 month ago:
I’m assuming that it’s different
…why?
- Comment on Waiting in a queue to see a Web site 1 month ago:
It seems to have just been a really weird way to implement an “under maintenance” page, as the site was planned to be offline this morning.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
“Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe.”
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 1 month ago:
Hi! It’s because your camera can see infrared, but has to show it to you in colours you can see.
- Comment on A smile might be good 1 month ago:
Kudos to you for not recognising Facebook
Since they have the same surname I’m choosing to believe that’s his wife.
- Comment on fossils 1 month ago:
This is still not something we can answer with certainty. For a couple of years there, paleontology thought that psittacosaurus had feathers on its tail - and as a ceratopsian, on the complete other side of the dinosaur ‘tree’, that would suggest the base form for dinosaurs must have feathers and any that didn’t have them lost them at some point in their lineage (and thus could potentially regain them if the DNA was deactivated rather than lost). Now the feathers are disputed again, as “something else” - spines of some sort unrelated to feathers.
No doubt lots of dinosaurs were scaly, but I don’t think anyone would say with certainty that feathers were limited to late theropods.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 1 month ago:
Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?
I mean that one’s easy, they wanted to break the Good Friday Agreement and put up a border in Ireland. Didn’t work out for them but they managed to break it anyway by going into government with the Tories.
- Comment on CFCs 2 months ago:
The issue wasn’t using the dates. The issue was the computer believing it was now on those dates.
I’m going to assume you aren’t old enough to remember, but the “only two digits to represent the year” issue predates computers. Lots of paper forms just gave two digits. And a lot of early computer work was just digitising paper forms.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
Notice how the tweet doesn’t say “American people”. Accuracy is everything.