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by smoldesu 3y ago
Or you introduce an authoritative third party that mediates their interactions. This feels like it wouldn't be a problem if so many high-ranking employees didn't feel so radically different about the same technology.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It's become increasingly clear that they're two different concepts so we need two different names. Here's a suggestion; stop calling LLMs "AI". Yes, I know; the shareholders will hate it. But then, you'r
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Fair enough. I just flat-out disagree; nothing I've seen suggests that software "could be" sentient. The burden of proof is yours, if you want to state that software has the potential for sentience.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Live A Live, Super Mario RPG and Seiken Densetsu are also solid contenders. It really depends on what you wanted out of an RPG at the time - pretty much all of SquareSoft's output on SNES was magnificent. For my money, FFVI is the best
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm a NixOS user, and having seen ideologically-charged members (on both sides of the aisle) maliciously edit package manifests, I'm glad these dick-swingers get kicked to the curb. There isn't room for your politics when des
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by smoldesu 3y ago
This is one of the most rhetoric-charged articles I've ever read. I'm almost in disbelief that any journalist outlet would publish pull-quotes like this: > Indeed, since the orgy of violence visited upon Israel by Hamas on Octo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That should set a precedent for Apple in the US, but it has no bearing on Europe's verdict.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It also encodes opinions, fantasy, bad-faith arguments and lies without discrimination. Given that LLMs aren't trained to separate their sources, I think it's fair to say today's AI focuses more on language than the integrity
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Mother 3 is totally worth playing too, for those who never got around to it. I played the English fan-translation a few years ago and it really floored me how well it developed the themes of Earthbound. It feels equal parts dire and slaps
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Makes sense to me. If E2EE got banned, I could go download Free and Open Source applications from the internet that circumvent that ban. That's how it works on all of my computers right now, if Apple still demands override controls af
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I didn't write that comment :P My point was less related to the cause-and-effect, and more focused on the undeniable need for user control. Apple is the reason why the Digital Market Act exists - go read it, you'll very quickly re
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If giving the user more power over software installation hurts Apple, then I guess I am wishing them harm. If Apple's approach was without harm though, they wouldn't have been targeted by European regulators with the DMA in the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, now it will be the only market in Europe. Apple is welcome to leave if they disagree.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
For one, it would return us to the status-quo where the user decides what to install on the hardware they own. That seems pretty important to me, even if you hate Europe or Apple.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> They should have just built something good. This, but with Apple. Whether or not Google whined about it, iMessage was never going to last. It was never a matter of if iMessage would be forced to reconcile itself with the interoperabl
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I can imagine a pretty great commercial where Craig Federighi throws an iPhone like a football, and a tracking shot zooms in to show it swiveling around to correct it's orientation mid-flight.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Fair enough. I'm a born pragmatist, so I hear that sort of wishcasting and fear the worst in people. I'm still open to a technological miracle saving us all, but I wouldn't count on it happening in anyone's lifetime.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I'm simply saying that we don't know enough about sentience to turn such statements of belief into statements of fact We do! We can look at rocks and very clearly define them as non-sentient. If you disagree with that, you ar
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Why not both? A tech miracle is a roll of the dice, and if we fuck up (which is a serious possibility), then it's over. No rerolls, no mulligan, no Player 2 "Switch to Luigi" mode. It's over. So foremost, we should seek
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Now that's a better question! My verdict is no, but I could see where people might disagree. This is a much harder hypothetical, though. Assuming you get everything right, you'd have a pretty powerful simulation at-hand. I think w
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by smoldesu 3y ago
A few responses in kind: > Isn't everything math? Math is what we use to describe and model the nature of our reality. Most things are measurable, yea. LLMs in particular rely on math to understand language. Outside of a probabilist
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> it's clear we're talking about "internal life", meaning experience, feelings, thoughts, etc. So do you have any evidence of that existing, then? Because so far, it sounds like speculation. LLMs do not feel or thin
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by smoldesu 3y ago
An LLM is math. It outputs text. Those things aren't alive, and both the software and hardware used to facilitate it is artificial. Once you get that out of the way, sure, I guess it could be "alive" per the same loose defini
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It will only work once you plug it into the Blockchain.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'd bet my mortal soul that you cannot "Manhattan project" humanity back into perfect harmony with nature in 100 years. The first Manhattan project made sure of that. Every time, greed and fear will outpace benevolent innovat
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You could try adopting a less hyperbolic attitude. The job market is garbage right now, you wouldn't get a call back if you had Barack Obama and 50 cabaret dancers on the line. Employers are being stingy, waiting out the recession and
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, the big difference between ChatGPT and Google is that one of them is profitable. ChatGPT does not make money, and Bing's usage of GPT-4 is almost certainly not covered by ad revenue (even at-cost). Even from a technical perspecti
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Rust can be great for GUI programming, when it works. Suggesting it as an alternative to Swift for a Mac-only app is so profoundly stupid that I have to assume it's astroturfing. You're not going to get anything out of GUI program
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Do these webcams ship with USB class-compliant video? I considered the original Opal but immediately 'noped' out when seeing the companion app.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You probably want to host that sort of content yourself. If your only backup is on Google's server, you have to prepare for a reality where they get rid of it.

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