chemical_cutthroat

@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets scammed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all are getting full tracks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon teaches you about their culture⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My culture is super unique because it’s built on classism and religious wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And people have been launching products without thought to the ramifications since the dawn of time. I don’t think that will change, either. What we need to do is educate ourselves better when it comes to identifying potential fraud. Taking anything at face value, regardless of it’s source, is dumb. If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth verifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t a fault in the LLM, though, that is a fault in the general make-up of human skepticism, or lack their of. We didn’t invent the word ‘Propaganda’ without having a sentence to use it in. Those that don’t practice skepticism, critical thinking, and even mild reasoning are the ones that will get led astray. That didn’t just start happening when LLMs came around, it’s been here since we first started talking to each other. It’s only more visible now because everything is more visible now. The world is much more connected than it ever has been, and that grows with every literal day. All these fucking idiots that don’t double check what they are being told are the problem, regardless of if it came from an LLM or a human, because I guarantee you they are being led astray by both. They don’t trust the machine because it’s a machine, they trust what they are told because they are lazy. That isn’t the LLMs fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, the parents didn’t place the cake on an actual plate. They placed the cake on a napkin which can be very questionable anyway as there is no solid foundation for the cake. The child chose to ignore the napkin and treat the cake as food.

  I really don’t understand why people think that LLMs are GOFAI. They aren’t making the hard choices. They aren’t giving novel solutions to the energy crisis. They aren’t solving the trolley problem. They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return. No one is surprised when the dog gets worms after eating poop it found in the yard. Why are we shocked that an AI that doesn’t know fact from fiction treats everything the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m failing to see how this is different from making up a fact and then spreading it to news outlets. If you are the authority, and you say something is true, you don’t get to point and laugh when people believe your lies. That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine. It only regurgitates what’s been said. It isn’t going to suddenly start doing science on it’s own to determine if what you’ve said is true or not. That isn’t it’s job. It’s job is to tell you what color the sky is based on what you told it the color of the sky was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, just to make it clear here, this is an Opinion piece.

  The core argument that the author makes is that NASA has played too much into politics and is forgetting the science.

  However, the evidence that the author presents is that when NASA Administrator Jared Issacman was asked about climate change, he said:

  for NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.

  And I get it, that can be a very damning thing to read if you take it at face value and out of context. Here is the actual context from the article in question:

  When there is a market beyond just NASA for a service, you should strongly look in that direction, because every dollar we spend building bespoke Earth observation, or even at this point space weather satellites, is a dollar that comes away from, like, a planetary science mission, your next Dragonfly, which no one else is going to do. There are no mass-produced assembly lines of satellites for Titan right now, but there sure are for Earth observation. I mean, not just SpaceX, right, Planet, Black Sky, and others.

  Second, I would just say, you know, earth sciences has strong bipartisan support. … Because it matters to agriculture and floods and wildfires, real humanitarian issues. So we’re not getting out of that business.

  For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.

  You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead the world is going to end, and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax. How is that useful to anyone right now?

  What [NASA] should do is fund the data that benefits all humankind, and you put it out there and let people draw their conclusions.

  And that doesn’t quite fit the narrative that the author has built in their own world as well as the book they are selling, and probably has nothing to do with the fact that she quit the agency a few weeks ago and is now searching for independent funding, and so publishing NASA attack articles in every science magazine and periodical she can find… So, you know, believe whatever you want, but look for all the facts before trusting the Opinion articles of the NYT, or anyone really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not the ichor of long forgotten gods I promise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like, hey, this stuff burns and we don’t have to wring out a whale to get it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember seeing videos of people licking ice cream and putting the lid back on. I’m so glad I never ran into one of them in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German man says american are savages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be nice living in a world where population dynamics and physics don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German man says american are savages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Berlin is larger (892km^2 vs 783km^2) and less population dense (6 million vs 20 million in the matro areas). So… Kinda comparing apples to oranges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blows his dad's mind⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got nipples, Greg, can you milk me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something trickle down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda wish this was a reward for the early purchasers. Buy the EA release and you get free DLC at launch that gives you the option to use placeholder art or new art. Hades II had some great placeholder art and it’s all gone now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They just made two of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No u 🫵⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what everyone else is saying, I’ll say that relying solely on your own perception is a pretty weak scientific measurement. That’s like trying to tell me a banana isn’t radioactive because it doesn’t taste like it. If you use any form of measurement to check the curvature of the earth, then you see that it is round. Using your eyes is the absolute worst way to base fact.

  Also, this wasn’t targeted at you. I’m not calling you dumb or anything, just making the argument. I know you are presenting the devil’s advocate stance in good faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That e-mail you register when you are 13⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it’s not real. I can’t remember what I was using before gmail. I was too hip for hotmail, so it was likely some boutique bullshit that sold itself to a marketing firm for their URL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That e-mail you register when you are 13⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a chronodarkprophet@something.com still out there getting spam email from every site I could put my email into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Suburbs to Cosmic Horror: The Legacy of EarthBound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah, I’ll read it when I get off work. One of my top 5 games of all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Director Kash Patel partying with the US Men's Olympic Hockey team.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, that’s probably the DTs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon punches a Nazi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that other kid was a punk bitch who needs to get his ass kicked to learn his place in life. Someone messed up raising him, and they raised a cunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the DLC and “Deluxe” editions… The price of a AAA game is well over $100 now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the stoat note.

  …I’m sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically yes. Likely they still use Transport Layer Security that will encrypt the messages in transit, but that encryption is controlled by the company, and not the end user. What that means is that your messages are safe from randos in the cafe on the same wifi as you, but if the company wanted to, they could read them. It also means that if messages are subpoenaed then they can hand over the unencrypted messages to the authorities.

  I tried looking at their documentation to see what was going on under the hood, but there were a lot of connection errors and dead ends. They seem to be open source, though, so if you are so inclined you can comb through their code to see what kind of encryption they use.

  Personally, I’d stay away. It doesn’t seem like something that I could put my trust in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Deep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: Scotland new capital of Humanity!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  frfr on god

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨17 years*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not so much the users as the mods. I haven’t met one I liked. Tend to sniff their own farts a little too deeply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨17 years*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I blocked the blahaj.zone instance just to get it crossposted into a barely relevant community.

  …sigh. Here I go blocking again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choose to imagine atlas happy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty bad for a renewable, though. Most of the time you only get one at a time, and that one doesn’t provide much…

  You know what, I was all on board with making this joke when I started writing, but the more I typed, the less I wanted to continue. So, yeah, I’m sure you can see where it was going. I’m done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s hoping they have more than three blocks of city streets to race on…