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LanternEverywhere ,

And on top of which, these are definitely noisy nuisances, and as a result people are gonna fuck with them, and it's inevitable that eventually it's gonna hurt someone, which'll cause a huge backlash and expensive lawsuits, etc etc etc.

The only situation i can see these being even potentially viable is in very rural areas, where delivery routes are expensive, people have lots of open land for it to safely reach the ground, and there aren't a lot of nearby neighbors to annoy

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

You're putting the cart before the horse. Tell us the specific situational problem that you're trying to solve. Like what ultimate end result are you trying to achieve.

That way we can help you achieve what you're actually trying to achieve

LanternEverywhere ,

It's amazing how very far ahead siri was at the beginning, and how extremely far behind it became. It's a massive miss for Tim Cook's Apple

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

The whole topic of drugs could easily be covered in 30 minutes. The only thing people under 18 need to know is this:

  1. There are a large variety of different recreational drugs, each of which make you feel a different way, and which come with their own set of different risks and benefits

  2. At some point when you're older it may be reasonable for you to try some particular drugs, but there are some drugs which are never safe for anyone at any age

  3. No drugs are safe for you to do yet. Your brain is still in a developing phase, and drugs that might be safe for you to do later will be very harmful to you at this age. Even though taking a drug might make you feel good in the very short term moment, it very likely could make your growing brain become depressed as soon as you come down from the drug, and this can become intense sadness that you feel for the rest of your life.

So for now just know that drugs is a complex topic that you can learn more about later when you're older, but for now the details don't matter because all drugs will be harmful to you right now while your brain is still growing

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

Facebook is the 3rd most visited website. Instagram (which is also owned by them) is the 4th most visited site. Oculus is and has been the best selling vr system by a lot. As much as we would like it not to be true, the reality is that facebook is extremely far from death rattling

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

LanternEverywhere ,

OnePlus makes some great phones in the mid to low price range. I don't know if they're rootable or whatever

LanternEverywhere ,

They hit a sweet spot of having basically everything. Like the n30 has pretty much everything you could want - sd card slot, super fast charger in the box, headphone jack, screen with no pwm, relatively low price, fast cpu, huge 8 gb amount of RAM so apps never need to refresh when you switch back to them, all the antenna bands for the fastest data speed and best reception coverage area, good software with almost no pre-installed bloatware, etc etc. It honestly is just about perfect!

LanternEverywhere ,

It's an android phone, and it does everything perfectly for everything i ever try to do with it

LanternEverywhere ,

Well i can tell you that the hardware is fantastic

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

LanternEverywhere ,

Can you very loosely tell me what that is so I don't have to google it?

Android Microphone Snooping (lemmy.world)

So I had a verbal conversation with a coworker yesterday and now I'm getting fed very specific ads. No possible way it's accidental. I have most of the microphone access to apps limited, I have Google assistant turned off and no VPA setup in my home. I use a Oneplus 9 pro, does anyone have recommendations on how to further root...

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

Friend googles topic from his home wifi. You visit friend's home for a couple of hours with your phone's wifi enabled. Even without signing in to his wifi your phone still logs that you were in range of his wifi for 2 hours. Now you'll get served ads for the topic that he googled about, because people who spend time together often have similar interests, or you may mention the advertised product to him if he ever talks to you about the topic.

LanternEverywhere ,

Yup, knock on wood, I've had lots of Seagate drives over the decades and I've never had any of them go bad. I've had two WD drives and they both failed

LanternEverywhere ,

I extremely doubt that hallucination is a limitation in final output. It may be an inevitable part of the process, but it's almost definitely a surmountable problem.

Just off the top of my head I can imagine using two separate LLMs for a final output, the first one generates an initial output, and the second one verifies whether what it says is accurate. The chance of two totally independent LLMs having the same hallucination is probably very low. And you can add as many additional separate LLMs for re-verification as you like. The chance of a hallucination making it through multiple LLM verifications probably gets close to zero.

While this would greatly multiply the resources required, it's just a simple example showing that hallucinations are not inevitable in final output

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

No, I've used LLMs to do exactly this, and it works. You prompt it with a statement and ask "is this true, yes or no?" It will reply with a yes or no, and it's almost always correct. Do this verification through multiple different LLMs and it would eliminate close to 100% of hallucinations.

EDIT

I just tested it multiple times in chatgpt4, and it got every true/false answer correct.

LanternEverywhere ,

Give an example of a statement that you think couldn't be verified

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

That's not a problem at all, I already use prompts that allow the LLM to say they don't know an answer, and it does take that option when it's unable to find a correct answer. For instance I often phrase questions like this "Is it known whether or not red is a color in the rainbow?" And for questions where it doesn't know the answer it now will tell you it doesn't know.

And to your other point, the systems may not be capable of discerning their own hallucinations, but a totally separate LLM will be able to do so pretty easily.

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

There are already existing multiple different LLMs that are essentially completely different. In fact this is one of the major problems with LLMs, because when you add even a small amount of change into an LLM it turns out to radically alter the output it returns for huge amounts of seemingly unrelated topics.

For your other point, I never said bouncing their answers back and forth for verification was trivial, but it's definitely doable.

LanternEverywhere ,

That's a fun story, but isn't applicable to the topic here. That could very easily be verified as true or false by a secondary system. In fact you can just ask Wolfram Alpha. Ask it what are the odds that any two people share the same birthday. I just asked it that exact question and it replied 1/365

EDIT

in fact I just asked that exact same question to chatgpt4 and it also replied 1/365

LanternEverywhere ,

Are you using 4? Because it's much better than the earlier versions

LanternEverywhere ,

I just asked chatgpt4 that exact question copy and pasted, and here is its response:

There was no president of the United States in 3500 BC. The United States of America did not exist as a country until 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. ¹ The first president of the United States was George Washington, who took office in 1789. ² Before that, the territory that is now the United States was inhabited by various Native American tribes and colonized by European powers such as Spain, France, and Great Britain. ³¹: Declaration of Independence
²: List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
³: [History of the United States - Wikipedia].

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/27/2024
(1) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(2) List of presidents of the United States - Simple English Wikipedia, the .... https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(3) President of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States.
(4) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(5) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(6) List of U.S. Presidents in Chronological Order - HistoryNet. https://www.historynet.com/us-presidents/.
(7) Getty Images. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/seal-of-the-president-of-the-united-states-royalty-free-image/1084903580.

LanternEverywhere ,

On Android you do have that toggle

LanternEverywhere ,

I think this must be what's happening. 5G cell is equal or better than 4G cell in almost all ways. And if your phone is set to dynamically switch between 4g and 5g depending on what's best at any given moment then there's literally no downside, only upsides

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

But silica packets stop doing anything once they've absorbed moisture, and so aren't reusable once they've been exposed to normal air moisture. (Unless you've baked them to reactivate them). Is that not right? Because basically no one has a box full of re-baked silica packets hanging around ready for emergency usage.

LanternEverywhere ,

What do you use them for?

LanternEverywhere ,

But, dry from what? How often are your electronics encountering a meaningful amount of moisture?

Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 (www.gizchina.com)

While flagship smartphones boast impressive features, spending $1,000 is not a prerequisite for a satisfying Android experience nowadays. If you’re in need of a new smartphone and have a budget of approximately $200, there are numerous excellent options available. Surprisingly, some of the best Android phones under $200 come...

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

No, opposite on the hardware front. The cheap phones tend to be much more physically repairable, and 3rd parties make parts essentially forever.

LanternEverywhere ,

Presumably you could use it in a VM running Windows

Is Framework actually "good" for the industry?

Framework as in the laptop company, just for clarity. https://frame.work/. For those unaware, the idea is that these are laptops built with a high degree of modularity so that you can replace far more than a single stick of SODIMM with the goal of even upgrading your CPU and mainboard a few years down the line....

LanternEverywhere ,

I think autocorrect messed up the word enshitification

LanternEverywhere ,

I use a 12 year old laptop as my daily driver, and use it to do high res video editing. A decade old computer these days is still highly capable.

LanternEverywhere ,

Nope, MacBook Pro

LanternEverywhere ,

Apple vision will be a very good product ...in a few years, after it's much cheaper and more capable. But as of today, you can get an oculus quest which does a large percent of the same stuff for literally 10% of the price

LanternEverywhere , (edited )

Get a quest, you can stream your videos to a huge virtual screen for literally 10% of the price of an apple vision

LanternEverywhere ,

I don't get it

LanternEverywhere ,

Show me a cop who doesn't park their personal car illegally and I'll stop thinking ACAB. It's not that that's terrible, it's that it's a glaringly visible sign that you believe laws don't apply to you.

LanternEverywhere ,

Most of us don't want to have NO police, we want BETTER police.

LanternEverywhere ,

In front of every police precinct in every large city in america.

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