I always just used – instead, because I’m too lazy to remember weird codes and I don’t know what a compose key is, but the intent is the same.
Edit: oh and I forgot lemmy does weird stuff with em-dash too, what I originally wrote there was hyphen-hyphen
Autistic people were the original LLMs. I don’t care how much data you shove into it, there is still no LLM on Earth that knows more about trains than an autistic guy who knows everything about trains.
The difference is the autistic person isn’t completely sycophantic and might be completely disgusted that you don’t know the first production date of the C40-8W.
No, I don’t think it does that at all. People need to be able to see the world in more than just binary choices, “it is, or it isn’t”. I reject the premise that things can’t be in between, that it can’t be a little bit of slavery, while still understanding that plantations were a whole lot of slavery. Comparing the similar aspects of things and discussing the things they have in common is not the same as equating them and we can have better discussions if we resist the assumptions that drive us to that conclusion.
I think we also need to keep in mind what slavery actually is, the actual concept of slavery not just the most extensively taught and politically important implementation of it which people tend to confuse and conflate with the concept itself. What happened with the trans-atlantic slave trade is just one example of slavery, it’s not the definition, and as a result we need to be clear which concept of slavery we’re talking about here.
Slavery is fundamentally about depriving people of their right to choose for themselves. The sadistic violence and cruelty of the slave trade and plantations are the emblematic and possibly inevitable results of that, but it’s not what actually defines it. A slave would still technically be a slave even if all the choices being made for them were to make them comfortable and protected while they live in luxury. If they are not allowed to choose anything different for themselves and do not have any personal autonomy to make the choices they want to make, they are a slave to someone or to something. Even kings have sometimes been described as slaves to their position and that is actually true in some ways. That is not “minimizing” slavery, that’s simply describing what being a slave is. It’s not having the right to choose for yourself.
If modern technology and digital rights management controls are depriving people of their rights to choose for themselves in important ways, then it’s totally fair to call it digital slavery.
Pre-Trump47 I was in the first camp. I’m not going to lie about how long it took me to figure it out. It was always obvious that the system was broken, but I’ll admit that for a long time I was foolish enough to believe the system worked well enough that it was worth trying to fix, that the fundamentals were sound and there was enough good there to want to save it.
Recent events have shown and continue to show me how naive I’ve been, none of this is an accident, it’s all part of the poker game and we’re all putting in most of the chips that keep it going whether we know it or not. And I have to be thankful that Russia, China, USA, Israel, Europe, and even my own country’s governments have made this all so abundantly clear that even I (and hopefully a lot of other people) can finally see it. I’m joining the resistance. Fuck the system and all the crooked people involved in it, it’s time for a cyberpunk revolution.
I thought ICE was already doing that.
The government of the people has become the government against the people for the corporations.
Put a large, visible placard on them with the officer’s name, face, home address and badge number. You know, sort of like an ID.
They’re living the American dream!
It’s not that it’s worse in any way, a person killed is dead either way, it’s that there’s no possible defense and it clearly demonstrates the intentional and likely premeditated illegality, making it possible to actually make a substantive case against it. It’s not realistic to apply a full legal process to every individual military misdeed or act of war, no matter how much many people might wish it were. We don’t live in a perfect world. The list of actual war crimes is intended to include things which are clearly demonstrable with enough evidence that a conviction could be realistic.
It’s the difference between running someone over once, which could be a simple accident and we can’t and probably shouldn’t prosecute every single pedestrian death as first degree murder, it might serve justice to try to do that in some ways, but it’s not realistic and also has the potential to be unjust.
Compare that to someone then stopping, backing up and running the same person over again. It removes any possibility of doubt whether the action was an intentional targeted crime and makes it a lot more worthwhile to prosecute. Neither one makes the person any more dead than the other. But one is almost certainly a lot easier to prove to be murder.
Looks very nicely built I would be pleased to have one of these in my home.
When ever Trump is upset I’m a happy person.
The executives should not have any immunity to prosecution, we need to start holding them accountable. The technology is never the problem, technology just provides us with tools, like any tools sometimes they can be dangerous and deserve immense respect, but it’s the people using them and deciding how they are used who are making those tools and technologies actually hurt and kill people, not the technology. A tool is not inherently good or bad, it does not have intentions or motivations. People do. Let the technology be a technology, and hold the people accountable.
And you can buy exactly the same Chinese crap direct from China much, much cheaper. Slower, yes, but Amazon’s getting to be a real expensive middleman and that speed is rarely worth it. Patience pays dividends.
Easily. People as rich as he is, view people like you and I as a different class of humans (which we are) so the things they tell us to do (like “sacrificing everything”) are not applicable to people from their own class (who sacrifice nothing, except us).
“Billions of you are probably going to die so that we can have everything we want, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make… and really, the planet will be better off with you gone anyway”
Ah, you mean the hydrogen that could theoretically be made from water but is actually in practice made from natural gas? The perfect infinitely renewable fuel indeed! Someday, it could even be zero-carbon! Someday in the future, after the oil companies have finished getting even richer and decide they finally have enough money now. Could happen any day now. Won’t. But could!
Yeah, you have to go back to the 2000s-2010s era and when abundant spare parts and junkyards start to run out, be prepared to invest new-car level cash in custom fabrication and mechanical work to keep it on the road. Cars don’t really have to be as complicated or expensive as they are, but for now, they’re always going to be. People have always been custom-building cars for show, for history, for racing, for performance, and pretty soon we’re going to start doing it for daily drivers too, and it’ll stay that way until they start changing the laws to try to force these cars off the road for environmental reasons. Until then, support your local custom car builders, they’re going to become the future of repairable cars, at least when it comes to the pre-EV gas guzzlers.
Already ate crayons when food ran low. Too tired from work for unnecessary grunts.
They definitely have electrolytes – there’s no electrolyte a billionaire can’t afford.
That doesn’t work either. The technology itself requires training on absolutely bonkers massive datasets to function the way we expect it to. You can’t just “only train it on Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street” because that won’t result in an LLM model anymore, it will simply be a tiny “Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street word model” with such extremely limited capabilities that you won’t even recognize it as an AI or chatbot at all. No matter how much you train it on such a limited dataset it will never appear any “smarter”. Having read and consumed almost all of humanity’s entire corpus of collective knowledge and fiction and having near instant access to everything added to it over time is the special sauce. That’s what it takes to make it appear “smart”. But it’s not. And after undoing that then restricting it to such a limited dataset, it will never even appear to be in the first place.
Even if you expanded it to be trained on every possible “suitable for children” piece of content you can find, even if such a thing were possible to define and acquire, there is probably simply not enough such content available in the world to train something into the same sort of thing that we currently use for chatbots in a safe way that you can be sure it will be safe and suitable for children. Insofar as anyone can be sure about a random typewriter not eventually producing Mein Kampf Children’s Edition. It’s random, it’s just an infinite generator for finite probabilities, the most we could perhaps say is that it would probably be safe with a very generous statistical amount of certainty. But not actual certainty, because it’s random and safety is not a fixed target anyway, it moves.
The whole thing is a fool’s errand. We’re being fed bullshit for profit and to misinform and manipulate us. It was bullshit from day 0. It’s still bullshit. It was never about and will never be about anything other than profit and manipulation. The technology itself is very interesting and MAY have real applications, with real value, but right now what it’s being sold as and for is almost exclusively pure, high-grade bullshit, that the entire economy has started snorting and getting high on thinking we have finally reached the tech singularity, won capitalism and solved all the world’s problems. They are wrong. We will have to be ready to make sure the consequences of them being so wrong are not inflicted on innocent people, because if we can do that, then the consequences will simply be really funny and satisfying to watch. I’m not holding my breath for that, but a man can dream.
Because the domain name system is the tragedy of the commons. We all share it, and cybersquatters fucking it up for any of us fuck it up for all of us.
Companies on the other hand, are just a fucking tragedy in general.