DrJenkem

DrJenkem , 3 days ago to Privacy in Truly independent web browser

Shaming people for not sharing your groupthink ideology is such a strange way to spend your limited time on this earth.

He said with no sense of irony.

DrJenkem , 3 days ago to Privacy in Truly independent web browser

Look, the dev is a reactionary. He lists that the browser is unstable and intended for devs. So IF I were to use it, that would mean reporting issues and/or fixing issues myself. I'm not interested in working with a reactionary. So I will not be using this browser. You're welcome to use the browser if you want. At this time, I'm not interested.

DrJenkem , 3 days ago to Privacy in Truly independent web browser

And it's my view that we are free to dunk on people with bad views.

DrJenkem , 15 days ago to Privacy in Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops

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 to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

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 (edited 1 month ago) to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

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

DrJenkem , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

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 to Lefty Memes in Another World is Possible

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

DrJenkem , 1 month ago to Privacy in Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal?

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 to Privacy in Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system

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

DrJenkem , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in [solved] Audiobookshelf not fetching latest podcast episodes

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 to Memes in Comrade Goat

Crows are based.

DrJenkem , 5 months ago to Memes in In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness.

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 to Memes in In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness.

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 , 5 months ago to Memes in In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness.

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.