DrJenkem

DrJenkem , 13 days ago

I'm sure they do, likely have their own internal security team as well as contract security work out. The purpose of hiring hackers isn't to make the company unhackable, it's to make it harder, more time consuming and costly to hack the company.

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

Doesn't FOSS refer to software this is both free and open source? Not a union of free software and open source software? My understanding is that if a piece of software is not both open and free then it is not FOSS.

EDIT:

From the wiki page:

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge. The public availability of the source code is, therefore, a necessary but not sufficient condition. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

DrJenkem , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You maybe replied before seeing my edit, but I actually quoted that article in the edit.

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

I see, so what is the difference between the two?

I've been thinking of OSS and source available as interchangeable. But now it kind of seems to me that free software is interchangeable with open source software. Is it just a matter of branding?

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

The Dispossessed had been in my backlog for a while now. I really need to get to it.

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

Yes, when someone is rude on the Internet this is communism. The more rude they are, the more communistic it is.

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

Very communism of you sir.

DrJenkem , 1 month ago

Yeah sort of. I think those types of disorders get rewarded in many cases. It's exceptionally profitable to exploit labor, mislead the public, and plunder the planet. When you have a conscience and empathy, that's a lot harder to do, especially if you already enjoy a certain level of financial security.

DrJenkem , 2 months ago

Better article: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24120352/israel-lavender-artificial-intelligence-gaza-ai

DrJenkem , 2 months ago

That scan only scans your hard drive once an hour.

To check rss feeds for new podcast episodes, you need to go to the settings of each podcast and schedule it to scan the podcast feed.

DrJenkem , 4 months ago

Crows are based.

DrJenkem , 4 months ago

They're kind of right. LLMs are not general intelligence and there's not much evidence to suggest that LLMs will lead to general intelligence. A lot of the hype around AI is manufactured by VCs and companies that stand to make a lot of money off of the AI branding/hype.

DrJenkem , 4 months ago

I mean of you have two boxes, one of which is actually intelligent and the other is "just" a very advanced parrot - it doesn't matter, given they produce the same output.

You're making a huge assumption; that an advanced parrot produces the same output as something with general intelligence. And I reject that assumption. Something with general intelligence can produce something novel. An advanced parrot can only repeat things it's already heard.

DrJenkem , 4 months ago

Depends on what you mean by general intelligence. I've seen a lot of people confuse Artificial General Intelligence and AI more broadly. Even something as simple as the K-nearest neighbor algorithm is artificial intelligence, as this is a much broader topic than AGI.

Well, I mean the ability to solve problems we don't already have the solution to. Can it cure cancer? Can it solve the p vs np problem?

And by the way, wikipedia tags that second definition as dubious as that is the definition put fourth by OpenAI, who again, has a financial incentive to make us believe LLMs will lead to AGI.

Not only has it not been proven whether LLMs will lead to AGI, it hasn't even been proven that AGIs are possible.

If some task can be represented through text, an LLM can, in theory, be trained to perform it either through fine-tuning or few-shot learning.

No it can't. If the task requires the LLM to solve a problem that hasn't been solved before, it will fail.

I can't pass the bar exam like GPT-4 did

Exams often are bad measures of intelligence. They typically measure your ability to consume, retain, and recall facts. LLMs are very good at that.

Ask an LLM to solve a problem without a known solution and it will fail.

We can interact with physical objects in ways that GPT-4 can't, but it is catching up. Plus Stephen Hawking couldn't move the same way that most people can either and we certainly wouldn't say that he didn't have general intelligence.

The ability to interact with physical objects is very clearly not a good test for general intelligence and I never claimed otherwise.

DrJenkem , 4 months ago

People who aren't programmers, haven't studied computer science, and don't understand LLMs are much more impressed by LLMs.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

What if I want no taxes for the lower class lower taxes for the middle class and small business but much higher taxes on the upper class and large corporations

Left.

a very strong military

Typically right, but plenty of examples of marxist-leninist states with strong militaries, such as the USSR or China. And on the less authoritarian side you have the YPG in rojava who was very effective at fighting the Islamic state.

but stronger corporate regulation with more teeth

This one's a little confusing, would probably need more clarification.

to fund public works and social services with the taxes we bring in

Left.

a free and equal society with no hierarchical systems or bigotry, freedom of speech and strong privacy laws with certain restrictions on speech (calls to violence, etc...), very strong unions, a near complete elimination of wall street, and a fair justice system that doesn't target minorities as prey?

Left-libertarian/anarchist.

Also, guns are fine for self defense in my opinion.

At least in America, the guns issue is typically viewed as a left vs. right issue, but there's plenty of folks on the far left that are in favor of guns (socialist rifle association, redneck revolt, John Brown gun club, etc).

Karl Marx even has an often cited quote on guns:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

Which side do I fall on?

Pretty much left. You're certainly left of the American Democrats. Pretty much the only thing stopping you from being a full on leftist is you don't seem to be opposed to capitalism itself. Therefore, I'd say most of your positions sound like they fall under social democracy.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

Yes, rich white men like Musk are very oppressed and getting very racismed.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

I clicked into the article wondering how they measured intelligence, and they polled people from Mensa. What a fucking joke.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

Does the bill need some amendments to clear up some ambiguity? Maybe, idk, I'm not Irish nor am I a legal expert; I know virtually nothing about the Irish legal system.

But based on the BBC article, it sounds like the intention of the bill is to get some hate crime laws on the books for Ireland, which they apparently have none so far.

I am very much in favor of punishing hate crimes/hate speech. Free Speech absolutism is braindead, and those who preach it are often hypocrites. Take Musk for example, self proclaimed free speech absolutist. Sure he allows people to hurl a variety of slurs on his platform but then goes and bans a bunch of left-wing accounts. Advocating for white supremacy is covered by free speech but advocating for socialism is not? That really ought to make you question if free speech is really Musk's goal.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

Slippery slope fallacy. Hate crime laws have been on the books in America since 1968 and I'm not aware of them leading to the end of free speech in America.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

Watch yourself, don't want to fall down that slippery slope.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

Sounds not unlike America. We've had hate crime laws since 1968, I don't know why everyone's acting like it's the end of the world.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

The bill covers both hate speech and hate crimes. Which aspects of the bill do you take issue with? I personally don't think it should be legal to incite violence against people of a protected class. I didn't realize that was such a hot take.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago

True, but another commonly cited exception is that it's illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater where there is no fire. My assumption is the rationale being, if your speech is likely to present a danger to people it shouldn't be legal.

But you're correct, America is pretty tolerant of hate speech, and it does lead to some pretty negative consequences imo.

Probably a better comparison would be countries like Canada or Germany.

EDIT:

I do applaud you for taking the time to research it rather than getting caught up in the sensationalism of a Twitter post like so many others replying to me.

DrJenkem , 8 months ago

No, games require labor to develop.

DrJenkem , 8 months ago

Within the confines of capitalism I would probably agree. But under socialism, production happens independently of capital accumulation.

DrJenkem , 11 months ago

Should have removed his url, otherwise it's perfect.