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permo-w
1y ago
1. almost certainly yes 2. completely irrelevant. GP said that LLMs share nothing in common with brains. responding probabilistically to text is something in common with brains. even if we don't want to get into the nuts and bolts of h
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permo-w
1y ago
you're suggesting that the internet makes well-spread rumours less likely?
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permo-w
1y ago
and yet here you are producing a string of text probabilistically related to the text I inputted into your brain
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permo-w
1y ago
these quotes do not change lack of truth in the original statement there are far more similarities between a brain and an LLM than containing nodes
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permo-w
1y ago
this so obviously not true that I can't fathom why you would say it
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permo-w
1y ago
it wasn't a failure, but I do see what you're saying
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permo-w
1y ago
that's not really what bathos is though. bathos is an attempt at pathos that turns into something else less meaningful through cliche or lack of believability or other
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permo-w
1y ago
"we'd be in the same timezone" certainly does not imply that he's not currently in that timezone
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1y ago
never mind the fact that half these captchas are just excuses for orgs to sneakily extract some reinforcement learning data from you. last time I tried to sign into my microsoft account it made me do 6 captchas. SIX. not six like I failed 1
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1y ago
so what you could opt-out? your info was/is still in any phonebook from before you opted out. any well-prepared organisation, which these modern data-collection firms are, would have no problem whatsoever keeping every edition of the p
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1y ago
nonetheless, pre-opting, your information was there, so anyone with a phonebook from before you made that decision would have your information. if an organisation had an interest in invading people's privacy it would not be complex to
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1y ago
not so long ago practically everyone's name and phone number was available publicly for free in any phone box
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1y ago
do you use the concept in any useful way?
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1y ago
my pedantry made me write this, and this is by no means a criticism of the overall art of the article, but of the examples given in the first animation, "Batman" does not need 4 jumps to "inspect" (e.g. Batman -> dete
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1y ago
the irony with AI sceptics is that their opinions usually sound like they've been stolen from someone else
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permo-w
1y ago
if they work the same way as now, then they'd be less accurate, using two different tokens for the same meaning
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permo-w
1y ago
perhaps I'm thinking like an engineer, but the people I'm referring to are thinking like priests. I don't know who in this debate is playing the role of scientist, but it surely isn't the people parroting irrelevant mock
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1y ago
I think the overarching theme that I glean from LLM critics is some kind of visceral emotional reaction, disgust even, with the idea of them, leading to all these proxy arguments and side quests in order to try and denigrate the idea of the
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permo-w
1y ago
you may well be right about all of this, and who knows what damage the security establishment is causing right now in their efforts to "protect us", but nonetheless, I think it's incredibly unfair to blame the BBC for doing t
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1y ago
also, if you have a social "thing" like tennis or climbing or drugs or whatever thing you like that tends to have an active and welcoming social community that you're willing to engage with, then the social issue can be dampe
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1y ago
it's generally pretty terribly optimised, but after a huge amount of fiddling and waiting I did get it running on debian on a true piece of shit of a laptop at one point
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permo-w
1y ago
if you've got a (half-decent) laptop, then just get Android Studio and give it a go
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permo-w
1y ago
what a surprise you once again have nothing more to say than "nuh huh, your stoopid". you have no confidence in your own position
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1y ago
my friend I responded to your initial point by pointing out that even if this really is what you care about, what you're describing is clearly an issue with the current enforcement strategy , not the thing itself. quite clearly direc
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1y ago
of course I pay the license fee my friend let's leave this here, because you know full well how disingenuous you're being, you're just talking nonsense to see what reaction you get
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permo-w
1y ago
if you knew anything about the history or content of the book you would not be saying this
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permo-w
1y ago
this is just bad programming, it has nothing to do with leading zeroes
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1y ago
honestly though, on second thoughts, a subscription model would just completely hollow out the BBC. if they're struggling for funding now, god knows what it'll be like if 80% of homes didn't have a license. they'd have t
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my friend you're insulting my literacy after referring to a possession of mine with "you're", while making yet another attempt to emotionally trigger a sidetrack instead of just saying what you really think about the c
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1y ago
the issue is that Gary Lineker does a spectacularly good job, and the unknown talent they've been bringing through are by and large unwatchable. it's a moot point now because he's gone, and whatever, I'm glad the psychod
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