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Sorry, in what way is that like this? Like, she put up flyers to advertise her porn after she got sued by the government for advertising porn?

Well you've clearly not found my other account.

Which, uh... Doesn't exist. Yeah.

The original comment in this thread was about how the article lists the capacity of this experimental disk in bits, and posited that bytes are the usual unit to use.

The next comment was about how networks are measured in bits.

So my replies since then have been about two points, first that bits are still inappropriate to use here even if networks use them, and second that networks use bits per second, which is a different unit than bits.

That's kind of like saying kilometers are measured in kilometers per hour, but a drag strip is a quarter mile

It's more like saying speed is measured in kilometers per hour rather than kilometers (point 2) while also saying that the country we're talking about measures distance in miles usually (point 1).

Storage are measured in bytes because data are stored in that form, with an individual bit being meaningless but a single byte often being significant. Network throughputs are measured in bits per second because the time-density of data is the significant thing there, not the total number of bytes transmitted.

There are 8 bits in a byte and there are 9 degrees Rankine in every 5 degrees Celsius, but if I told you the temperature for tomorrow in degrees Rankine, you would still think me weird for saying it that way and you might wonder what I was hiding.

There are almost always dozens of units we could use to describe something, but it's okay to call it out when someone says something unusually as the original headline did.

Duly noted.

Kids, that weird guy is going to educate you, so listen closely.

My secret trick is that once you are well coated in pillows, you bring in a blanket or two, bunch them all up, and use them as pillows.

I mean, you can make a smallish one as long as you don't live anywhere that gets too hot or cold.

OP takes their basketball very seriously. And with some... Esoteric House rules.

They're not even, they're measured in bits per second. That's like saying temperature is measured in calories.

I mean there's magnetic tape. It's not, like, usable. But it's also none too volatile if stored properly.

But you don't really "know" anything either. You just have a network of relations stored in the fatty juice inside your skull that gets excited just the right way when I ask it a question, and it wasn't set up that way by any "intelligence", the links were just randomly assembled based on weighted reactions to the training data (i.e. all the stimuli you've received over your life).

Thinking about how a thing works is, imo, the wrong way to think about if something is "intelligent" or "knows stuff". The mechanism is neat to learn about, but it's not what ultimately decides if you know something. It's much more useful to think about whether it can produce answers, especially given novel inquiries, which is where an LLM distinguishes itself from a book or even a typical search engine.

And again, I'm not trying to argue that an LLM is intelligent, just that whether it is or not won't be decided by talking about the mechanism of its "thinking"

Sounds like I'd get along with ya.