naevaTheRat
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
The algorithm assigns weights to nodes in a neural network. These weights are derived by statistical association of tokens in the training data after they have been cleaned.
That is so enormously far from how we think humans learn (you don’t teach a kid to understand theory of mind by plopping them in front of the Gutenberg project and saying good luck, and yet they learn to explain theory of mind problems all the same) that it is just comically farcial to assume something similar is happening underneath.
It is very interesting that llms are able to appear to be conversational but claiming they have some sort of mind with an understanding of maths is as ridiculous as suggesting a chess bot understands physics because it never moved two pieces into the same physical space.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
I’m a curmudgeonly physics nerd, it’s very strange being on the side of a debate going “No now come on, that’s way too reductive”
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
You’re arguing against a position I didn’t put forward. Also
Seems like a pointless distinction, you were told it so you believe it to be the case? Why can’t we say the LLM outputs what it believes is the correct answer? You’re both just making some statement based on your prior experiences which may or may not be true
This is what excessive reduction does to a mfer. That is just such a hysterically absurd take.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
Yep. You’re smarter than everyone who found it insightful.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
By grabthar’s hammer, what a put down!
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 1 day ago:
Yeah this is the exact criticism. They recombine language pieces without really doing language. The end result looks like language, but it lacks any of the important characteristics of language such as meaning and intention.
If I say “Two plus two is four” I am communicating my belief about mathematics.
If an llm emits “two plus two is four” it is outputting a stochastically selected series of tokens linked by probabilities derived from training data. If the statement is true or false then that is accidental.
Hence, stochastic parrot.
- Comment on Unpopular opinion 5 days ago:
- Comment on Unpopular opinion 5 days ago:
I have legit lost sleep over the first quote from “they thought they were free” listed here:
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
Yeah but you understand the difference between the state and the people who lived there right? Like Jewish settlers came from Europe, to the place Palestinian people were and had been living in.
They have a connection to the state of Palestinian (inasmuch as it exists given differing degrees of recognition) by way of having moral rights to continue living on the land they live on regardless of what some lines on a map call it.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. It’s almost into not even wrong territory. I think you should contact a philosophy department and ask them why they haven’t considered this.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
Eh, mostly I’m just pointing out how stupid this is to anyone with half a brain in their head.
We have animal rights legislation and morals for reasons, and nobody who like protests whaling gets criticised for not growing fake whale meat. You might disagree on where the line should be but it’s just outing yourself as someone with underdeveloped theory of mind if you don’t understand why people might feel strongly about it being further down the tree of life.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
I consider myself a flexitarian, I adopt puppies, give them a good life till they’re about 2 years old, then humanely slaughter them and eat them. The stuff I don’t eat I backfeed to the next round of puppies.
I am so with this post, what I do is so much more sustainable and humane than anything that happens on a farm. Extremists harrassing me should fund lab grown meat instead. Really this is more ethical than eating beans because of crop deaths.
- Comment on He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I am not a Buddhist but I’ve always found something rings true in the reflections on impermanence. When we bond with someone we accept the pain of loss, and when we feel it most people seem to describe relief once able to “let go” an accept it being over.
It seems to me that encouraging clinging and reminiscening stunts you a bit and only really provides temporary relief of the loss while drawing out the time it takes to process it.
Idk though, maybe I’ll have the misfortune to feel differently some day. It’s hard to judge someone hanging out with their spouse watching death creep closer each day. I have approximately zero idea what my opinions would be in the face of that.
- Comment on He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies 2 weeks ago:
My wife is fortunately still alive so maybe that colours my view. However when I’ve lost other people the blessed anaesthesia of forgetting has been essential in being able to function.
From the short quote it seems like she maybe has a healthy-ish attitude but idk… I feel like this would be a shallow simulacrum that prolongs grief.
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
no
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
No, just people who interact in bad faith why spouting right wing talking points 😘
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
Sigh, right wing trolls are all the damn same.
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
🙄 There are positions between radical freedom and behaviourism.
If I break your legs you can’t choose to walk, whether or not you have a self causing free will.
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
ahhhhhhhhhh you’re so obtuse.
The ability and desire for people to make certain choices, whether or not you think those choices are deterministic, is fucking determined before you even properly exist.
you cannot play a 4 if don’t have one in hand no matter how much you might wish to. Accepting that is not coming down for or against determinism. Are you thick?
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
What determines what choices you want to make? What determines your ability to exercise agency? what determines your values?
You’re looking at people who sit around a table, get dealt a hand of cards, have randomly assigned levels of skill and then after everyone has played their hands you’re trying to argue luck wasn’t what determined how people scored…
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
But 7 children doesn’t influence your geographical location, the quality of your education, your skin colour, the quality of your parents’ education, your familial wealth, your health, the stability of your home life, your gender, your health, the job opportunities upon attaining your majority etc etc etc. It is negligible and largely downstream of the good luck required to be well off and does nothing to undermine wealth being all luck.
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
Do we agree that choices are not free? That the set of choices available to someone is determined by precededing moments, a chain of which extends back well beyond anything a person could be held not merely responsible for but indeed capable of having any influence over at all?
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
Are you being bad faith or genuinely confused here?
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
Sure whatever if you become a parasite but very, very, few people ever realistically get the choice to do so. Like long before you even have to decide between embracing evil and getting shares/property/whatever you need food, clothes, shelter, and medicine. It’s completely luck.
If you get that chance early, or if you are an heir or whatever to fortune kids are easy. If not kids are hard.
Having children is in no way related to the luckness of it.
- Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' 3 weeks ago:
… How is income related to the number of children?
Do you get paid for being unfuckable?
- Comment on More stellar reporting from the abc on 1,4 butanediol smuggling. 4 weeks ago:
describing a drug (well a prodrug in this case) as a date rape drug is pointless fearmongering. Uncritically repeating the cop without discussing why this is happening is just distributing propaganda from an institution that justifies a large part of its budget by creating these problems.
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- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 4 weeks ago:
Good to see we still have bipartisan support for European colonial genocide after all these years!
Really warms my heart knowing that despite all the division these days parasitic rich fucks can still bond over ignoring the rights of people to the land they live on.
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully people don’t need a college degree in literature to understand basic subtext.
I think it’s about learning that it’s worth doing more than anything else.
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 4 weeks ago:
you get that this wouldn’t work as a critique if it was obvious you could make different choices right? Then it wouldn’t make the player complicit. If you’re not complicit it’s just a game saying “military shooters could be different” which is a nothing statement.
Like how games with a “get the information (evil)” and “get the information (good)” button aren’t offering real moral choices. Or how deus ex would lose all impact if the “here’s a gun, go kill these people” starting mission tempting you with a rocket launcher popped up a “you might change sides in the future” warning.
By involving you, leading you just like any other military shooter for a bit then cutting you loose is what creates the critique. You compare notes after playing and someone points out something and you go “huh, why didn’t I try that?”. It’s not condemning you for not trying that, it’s asking you if you’re happy with a genre which trains you to never to try it.