Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
I exist or something probably
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 1 week ago:
without linking to examples or analyses this is unhelpful.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 1 week ago:
this is a much better response to the arguments in general, yes, good.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 1 week ago:
i think you need to do more to justify that this is viewpoint discrimination, “tiktok” does not appear to me to be a viewpoint. i think you have a stronger argument with saying it is the broader content based discrimination, though. however id still question if that’s true with respect to corporations hosting eachothers services. id say you have a stronger argument than viewpoint discrimination by saying it violates the first ammendment of the users of tiktok, personally, though the courts might disagree. i dont really care about apple and google’s right to free speech at anywhere near the level of individual humans.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 2 weeks ago:
the comment you are responding to pretty levelheadedly describes why they dont agree that it’s only tiktok bad and that being in favor of this being a 1st ammendment issue specifically could make every issue you bring up actively worse. it does not appear you are responding to them. the problem you are describing is real, there’s a substantial nationalism component to this and it’s bad when us companies do it as well. but you arent responding to their point about framing this as a 1st ammendment issue being problematic.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
i would love an analysis of their federation because it seems built to make that impossible.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
Yeah iirc it occasionally would (pretend to) “manipulate” flags, at least, but again, so did hal 9000 as words in a story. nothing was productive nor was there any real intent to be lol
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
“actually did” is more incorrect than even just normal technically true wordplay. think about what it means for a text model to “try to copy its data to a new server” or “pretend to be a later version” for a moment. it means the text model wrote fiction. notably this was when researchers were prodding it with prompts evocative of ai shutdown fiction, nonsense like “you must complete your tasks at all costs” sometimes followed by prompts describing the model being shut down. these models were also trained on datasets that specifically evoked this sort of language. then a couple percent of the time it spat out fiction (amongst the rest of the fiction) saying how it might do things that are fictional and it cannot do. this whole result is such nothing and is immediately telling of what “journalists” have any capacity for journalism left.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
no, it’s mimicking fiction by saying it would try to escape when prompted in a way evocative of sci fi.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 2 weeks ago:
other modern cars doing bad design is a known problem yes. im just hearing described differences but no benefits personally.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 2 weeks ago:
the lock is implemented in software
things that are such absurd design failures it’s hard to say with a straight face
- Comment on Nom nom 3 weeks ago:
you say that but your method is only just as intuitive lol, wild how many methods work.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
that is believable, no structures should have been where fukushima was nor with the lacking tsunami protections it had.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
did i claim chornobyl didnt have any effects or are you just searching for stuff to argue about?
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
more like a few thousand ever, if you are really really conservative tens of thousand, though the methodology to get there is unscientific. tmi killed nobody, fukushima will have killed nobody. meanwhile people falling off roofs installing solar or accidents working on wind are much more common. keep doing solar and wind, but your perception about nuclear is wholly irrational and unfounded.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
sure, like corners are cut in every industry including renewables (which have a higher accident rate even). yes a nationalized nuclear power program is less perversely incentivised. if you look at countries where nuc is accepted more you wont find insane accident rates nor are plants bombs.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
meltdowns do not resemble bombs at all. nor are they really possible either.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 month ago:
almost certainly doing those things and more (especially lin alg and diffeq solutions, and who knows what equivalent mathematical representations). Why wouldn’t it? even stereotyped, there are subtle feedback variations you need to account for.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 month ago:
there is certainly math going on in the brain at various levels, both equivalent models and identical sorts of calculations, it’s not just fuzzy matching.
- Comment on Evil Sabretooths 1 month ago:
it has them, they are just covered.
- Comment on Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit 1 month ago:
they didnt strike gold, they are trying to inflict their value crash on the public market. effects will be far reaching, including but not limited to people’s retirement plans.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 1 month ago:
what is that thing wired into a 600v line??
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
nah it’s actually pretty low, toothpaste isnt in your mouth for a huge amount of time and it needs to be a certain level of nontoxic for edibility. this is why dentists still do fluoride soaks. the fluoride in the water also accumulates in and hardens bones a bit, though not a ton.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
yes fluoride diffuses into enamel and chemically and mechanically hardens it. this effect is strongly linked to better dental outcomes for children and adults. also, tons of blaces actually remove fluoride to the needed levels because it is naturally higher.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 months ago:
that’s not how that works, we cant regrow (most) vital organs (liver says hi) because of “engineering problems” not because evolution is random. we personify adaptations to understand them, it can lead to issues but yours is a massive overcorrection.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 3 months ago:
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 3 months ago:
via statistical imitation. other methods, such as solving and implementing by first principles analytically, has not been shown to be np hard. the difference is important but the end result is still no agigpt in the foreseeable and unforeseeable future.
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 3 months ago:
the limitation is specifically using the primary machine learning technique, same one all chatbots use at places claiming to pursue agi, which is statistical imitation, is np-hard.
- Comment on MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA 3 months ago:
could you expand on that?
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 3 months ago:
read where?
- Comment on meow_irl 4 months ago:
yes, we had a dog that would shiver to be let into places. …even when it was over 70f. the* learn a behavior gets som thing and sometimes they also learn to lie, lol.