naevaTheRat

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It's baffling to me that nerds are more willing to entertain the notion that a stochastic text generator is sentient than something like a cow. One is some relatively simple mathematics at enormous scale, iterated. The other shares giant chunks of your wetware.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What are the odds of that working? You think I'd leave myself open to a simple brute force collision attack?

Also all sysadmins share a hive mind.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Having been a sysadmin you would be surprised at both the amount of times I had to explain why we couldn't just put an unprotected endpoint outside the firewall and also how much alcohol I drank to cope with the former.

It is like being builder to architects that think you can have a second story just floating in midair. I am baffled by how ignorant of the basics of infrastructure many developers are.

Obviously I don't expect a website dev to know the details of like iptables configs for load balancing with failover or whatever. Or even be terribly familiar with how to set up a production web server. I do expect people to know stuff like every computer on the internet is under constant attack from scripts. Or that taking advantage of peoples' trust and leaking their data is bad actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I often find that the tins come individually wrapped and have a plastic seal. They're also just like pointlessly small and wasteful metal containers that aren't reused. Idk it's the whole world really. Better than bagged for sure, just also frustrating.

Tea itself is often exploitative and I just want to fill up a 2 L jar with it :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah although a lot of it comes excessively packaged too.

I need to find a food coop that isn't overtaken by bougie morons with their activated biodynamic dolphin certified almonds and fulfils the original purpose of bulk bargaining by disempowered proles.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Almost all teabags contain plastic. They're heat sealed. Remember, if you're old enough, they used to be stapled closed?

Yep capitalism is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The chatbot doesn't know anything. It has no state like that, your text just gets appended to it's text.

It has been prompted to disengage from disagreement or something similar. By a human designer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you want to keep them ready then bake them off above 100 C for 2 hours or so then whack em in something airtight so they don't hydrate again.

You can actually buy silica gel beads with an indicator dye that goes from blue to purple when wet so you can tell at a glance if they're ready.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

you need to boil the water out of them before use btw

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Buddy if the Christian conception of an afterlife is real I'm either gonna be chillin in the shade of a tree after a hard day's work or whatever, or standing hand in hand around some multi sword mouthed geometric acid trip of a god saying "holy" on repeat in a trip that would put eating all the LSD in history to shame.

Either way who cares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I thought they was saying they didn't mean llms will aid science not that llms wasn't the topic. Ambiguous in reread.

AI isn't well defined which is what I was highlighting with mentions of computer vision etc, that falls into AI and it isn't really meaningfully different from other diagnostic tools. If people mean agi then they should say that, but it hasn't even been established it's likely possible let alone that we're close.

There are already many other intelligences on the planet and not many are very useful outside of niches. Even if we make a general intelligence it's entirely possible we won't be able to surpass fish level let alone human for example. and even then it's not clear that intelligence is the primary barrier in anything, which was what I was trying to point out in my science held back post.

There are so many ifs AGI is a Venus is cloudy -> dinosaurs discussion, you can project anything you like on it but it's all just fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This seems like splitting hairs agi doesn't exist so that can't be what they mean. AI applies to everything from pathing algorithms for library robots to computer vision and none of those seem to apply.

The context of this post is LLMs and their applications

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