mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 3 days ago:
I feel kinda bad for anyone ADHD sat behind you, because there’s one data structures class where I don’t remember a damn thing except the dude in front of me 1CC-ing Einhander.
- Comment on Fictional 3 days ago:
And the location of this “Shire” is most improbable!
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 1 week ago:
“Less than dead, they never were.”
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
I mean… I’ve had a lot of genuine interactions with real people which I would not rate highly.
A sort of reddit holodeck would be obviously desirable, sometimes, but any concerns about solipsism or narcissism come far behind the expectation you’d want to run that shit locally. What is the value of disappearing into your own little world if you don’t even control it?
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 1 week ago:
“All” being the key word, and obviously wrong.
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 1 week ago:
‘Surely this won’t affect what I like,’ said people with no pattern recognition.
- Comment on OpenAI be like 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, statistical modeling about published works allows weird new shit. We must ban this entire class of software because we all care so deeply about copyright.
- Comment on OpenAI be like 2 weeks ago:
Do such models exist? Yes. Are they the big-boy models anyone’s really using? Ehhh not really.
There are in-use models that are “here’s a thing do whatever good luck,” which is at least as open-source as any MIT project. (Permissive licenses being “here is the code, have a nice life.”) Very few models are properly reproducible, because even when their training data includes DVDs you probably own, it also includes a ton of random internet pages that maybe don’t exist anymore. The push for ever-larger models, trained on as much stuff as possible, makes the use of “open source” regrettable or even deceptive choice. But quite a few are unrestricted for whatever weird shit you want to get up to.
- Comment on OpenAI be like 2 weeks ago:
Apparently Hunyuan just released some big-ass video model, and it’s air-quotes “open source” with a bunch of finger-wag restrictions. One of them is ‘you may not train your thing on our thing.’
Yeah I’m sure the companies that shrug off copyright concerns for Disney movies give a shit about Tencent’s pre-laundered intellectual property.
- Comment on Anon plays DOOM 2 weeks ago:
There’s a whole megawad for rocketing imps. It makes your brain do the happy juice.
- Comment on Sexy Spooktober 3 weeks ago:
A shirt marked “1woman,standing,naked” would probably get some laughs, this year.
- Comment on Girls 3 weeks ago:
Should’ve namedropped Lovelace.
- Comment on Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive 3 weeks ago:
What, the guy with a green card they tried to deport by throwing darts at a map?
You don’t fucking say.
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 3 weeks ago:
Surely it just means, that’s what they tested with. The minimum specs sound like they oldest machine they bothered to lay hands on.
Listed specs are not what’s worrisome about this project.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 3 weeks ago:
As covered in the documentary Wax, Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees.
- Comment on Pax Dei, the medieval EVE Online-esque MMO, gets its 1.0 release next month 4 weeks ago:
In WHAT FUCKING MANNER does this on-foot low-tech whack-people-with-sticks game resemble a sci-fi starship combat game?
The inability to describe any game except in reference to other games is infuriating enough, without forgetting to make the goddamn comparison!
- Comment on Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser 4 weeks ago:
That is a terrible name.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 weeks ago:
The razor is: did you, the player, receive new content? Or did you get charged for permission?
Horse armor is fine. That’s how low the bar is. That’s how bad this abuse is. All microtransactions are “on-disc DLC,” where you’ve already been given the thing, inside the game you already paid for, but fuck you, pay us again. And again and again and again.
It’s the difference between Warhammer’s little plastic men being obscenely expensive, and Games Workshop expecting five actual dollars after every match to replace their imaginary bullets.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 weeks ago:
Fuck them kids. This entire business model is an abuse against people with credit cards.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
“Remember when /b/ was good?”
*“/b/ was never good.”
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
The war’s been over since blue team and green team started releasing near-identical machines, for nearly the same price, at basically the same time. There are no consoles anymore. It’s all just computers. Some computers have shitty locked-down app stores.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk could be placed on US currency under new House GOP proposal 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on oh cool 5 weeks ago:
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
Insisting that someone could figure it out does not mean anyone has.
Twenty gigabytes of linear algebra is a whole fucking lot of stuff going on. Creating it by letting the computer train is orders of magnitude easier than picking it apart to say how it works. Sure - you can track individual instructions, all umpteen billion of them. Sure - you can describe broad sections of observed behavior. But if any programmer today tried recreating that functionality, from scratch, they would fail.
Absolutely nobody has looked at an LLM, gone ‘ah-ha, so that’s it,’ and banged out neat little C alternative. Lack of demand cannot be why.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
Knowing it exists doesn’t mean you’ll ever find it.
Meanwhile: we can come pretty close, immediately, using data alone. Listing all the math a program performs doesn’t mean you know what it’s doing. Decompiling human-authored programs is hard enough. Putting words to the algorithms wrenched out by backpropagation is a research project unto itself.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
… yes? This has been known since the beginning. Is it news because someone finally convinced Sam Altman?
Neural networks are universal estimators. “The estimate is wrong sometimes!*” is… what estimates are. The chatbot is not an oracle. It’s still bizarrely flexible, for a next-word-guesser, and it’s right often enough for these fuckups to become a problem.
What bugs me are the people going ‘see, it’s not reasoning.’ As if reasoning means you’re never wrong. Humans never misremember, or confidently espouse total nonsense. And we definitely understand brain chemistry and neural networks well enough to say none of these bajillion recurrent operations constitute the process of thinking.
Consciousness can only be explained in terms of unconscious events. Nothing else would be an explanation. So there is some sequence of operations which constitutes a thought. Computer science lets people do math with marbles, or in trinary, or on paper, so it doesn’t matter how exactly that work gets done.
Though it’s probably not happening here. LLMs are the wrong approach.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
My guy, Microsoft Encarta 97 doesn’t have senses either, and its recollection of the capital of Austria is neither coincidence nor hallucination.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 5 weeks ago:
While technically correct, there is a steep hand-wave gradient between “just” and “near-impossible.” Neural networks can presumably turn an accelerometer into a damn good position tracker. You can try filtering and double-integrating that data, using human code. Many humans have. Most wind up disappointed. None of our clever theories compete with beating the machine until it makes better guesses.
It’s like, ‘as soon as humans can photosynthesize, the food industry is cooked.’
If we knew what neural networks were doing, we wouldn’t need them.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 5 weeks ago:
Somebody wanted Decino’s sprog. Pumpkin Junior even got to play on stream this year.
Lots of kids played Doom II at far too early an age, but seven months is pushing it.
