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Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

afraid_of_zombies ,

Just in case anyone lucker than I am hasn't read that work:

Because of our mastery over information the copy of something is often seen as more real than the original. If you saw a movie poster of Marilyn Monroe you would identifier that image as her, but the real Marilyn Monroe is a decomposing skeleton. The simulacra has become the reality.

Also every viewpoint is now binary for some reason and porn is fun to look at.

The rest is just 20th century anti-structurlism post modern garbage about the breakdown of meta narratives. As if I am supposed to give a fuck that no one wants to spend four years of their life reading Hegel and some people enjoy fusion cuisine.

afraid_of_zombies ,

If you are interested there is no direct evidence that Shakespeare ever went to Italy, but he knew plenty of people who did, and travel guides were popular at the time. 13 of his plays are at least partially set in Italy. So about 1/3rd.

Pretty impressive.

afraid_of_zombies ,

I do sorta see the argument. We don't fully see with our eyes, we also see with our mind. So the LLM is learning about how we see the world. Like a scanner darkly hehe.

Not really sure how big of a deal this is it or even if it is a problem. I need to know what the subjective taste of a recipe is, not the raw data of what it is physically.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Hmm

  • Traditional Translation: "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images (eikons) that came into being before you and that neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!"

  • New Translation: "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your simulacra that came into being before you and that neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!"

I think I see it. Jesus in this gospel is arguing that "y'all are so happy when you look in the mirror, just wait until you meet all platonic forms of yourself. Your mind is going to get blown because you will know that the distance between you and your mirror image is far smaller than you and your platonic forms."

Is that what you are driving at?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Glad someone enjoyed him. My overall impression was some random guy getting high on a bus that was driving around the Midwest/Southwest US and he was copying stuff in a journal. With emphasis on the getting high part.

afraid_of_zombies ,

In my head canon they are now together. Trying to find the American Dream and the Hyperreal

afraid_of_zombies ,

I just assumed that almost all activity on faceboot are bots.

afraid_of_zombies ,

You can trust me. I am human.

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afraid_of_zombies ,

But how can we say no to helping the Prince of Nigeria!?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Hey at least us parents could take comfort in that if there is a school shooting we might get a voicemail of our children's last words

afraid_of_zombies ,

Tik Tok, abortion, delta 8

Yeah pretty much.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Don't worry as Uvdale proved it isn't like anyone is going to save them

afraid_of_zombies ,

Hmm good point. Let's ban guns and then ban cellphones from schools

afraid_of_zombies ,

Besides they might want to run for president one day

afraid_of_zombies , (edited )

Kids need to be able to leave their last words when a school shooter comes. If the government is going to ban phones they should at least allow old school audio recorders. While we are at it might be a good policy to require school IDs to be in shoes at all times so children dead bodies can be identified faster.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Gotcha it is once again not time to talk about gun control.

We should go back to talking about Tik Tok. The real threat to children.

afraid_of_zombies ,

So are school shootings

afraid_of_zombies ,

I think many of us can remember when their grandparents got their first email account.

FWD:FWD: don't fall for this kidney harvesting scam!

afraid_of_zombies ,

I have an aunt that one of my brothers described as

"She is like Peggy Hill but doesn't make me laugh"

afraid_of_zombies ,

Religion

afraid_of_zombies ,

So much hate for her. How can the Internet hate a woman who made Hank Hill so happy? Shouldn't she get at least some points for that?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Oh look my uncle is a racist.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

afraid_of_zombies ,

Pass a carbon tax. Oh wait that would be too easy.

afraid_of_zombies ,

You know I have never once heard anyone saying what you are saying that they are. I personally think it would be better for us to address bad arguments that are being made instead of ones we wish existed solely so we can argue with them.

afraid_of_zombies ,

That is a good argument, they are natural monopolies due to the resources they need to be competitive.

Now do we apply this elsewhere in life? Is anyone calling for Boeing to be broken up or Microsoft to be broken up or Amazon to be broken up or Facebook?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Sigh. You can hold any opinion you want about the ideal society. This is a good idea for the society we have now. If we all die it's not going to matter if Adam Smith or Karl Marx was correct.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Claim:

"The Sam Altman fans also say that AI would solve climate change in a jiffy. "

What he said:

"If we spend 1% of the world's electricity training powerful AI, and that AI does figure out how to get (to carbon goals) that would be a massive win, (especially) if that 1% lets people live their lives better.”

Were you just assuming I would take you at your word?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Actually made after I posted that. Why do you keep lying? It's messed up. This is low stakes internet comments.

And no he didn't say what you swore he said.

afraid_of_zombies ,

No one is.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Yeah you were.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Keep on lying. Did he say what you said he did? No? Then you lied.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Seems he didn't say what you said he did. Why did you lie?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Posioning the well. You can admit your lies btw

afraid_of_zombies ,

What are you on about? A carbon tax is a way to lower the tragedy of the commons in terms of air pollution. It is the free market compromise. Allowing individuals and companies time and giving them incentive to stop doing something that hurts us as a whole. The socialist answer would be to ban it outright. You are getting the best solution the capitalist market allows. Additionally it aligns pretty well with traditional capitalist economists have argued before: a resource owned as a whole will be mismanaged.

I honestly don't get why it isn't a more popular idea. I would much rather live in a world where people are being gently pushed into making the right decision with adequate time to adapt vs a world that is on fire.

And on the off chance that 99% of climate science is wrong we still benefit from having a less acidic ocean, less smog, less local air pollution, and spending less money on maintenance of so many machines.

afraid_of_zombies ,

How can an IR thermometer have a shared subjectivity with me?

afraid_of_zombies ,

No you may not. Go stick your hand in fire since it is all fake anyway.

afraid_of_zombies ,

If you think there is a ghost it is up to you to provide evidence for it. And after you do that please explain how your ghost interacts with the real world in a perfectly consistent manner.

Remember it is always up to the person claiming something exists to advance evidence

afraid_of_zombies ,

I meant in general

afraid_of_zombies ,

We got it backwards from the beginning. It is all these weird brain in the jar arguments that need to prove themselves not the physical world that does.

afraid_of_zombies ,

And we went to the personal attacks

afraid_of_zombies ,

Ok? Not sure what to do with that. You assert your feelings and I am supposed to what exactly?

Humans can be wrong. Humans in large numbers can be wrong. Humans for thousands of years in large numbers can be wrong. This is why we don't determine what is true and what is false by polling.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Yes my senses match with the real world pretty well. If I need greater accuracy I just use equipment.

afraid_of_zombies ,

There is some debate about the why of it but Nietzsche didn't agree with many of the conclusions of Siddhartha.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Those are really just conclusions we have reached not parts we started with.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Which is why we need to turn to logic to defeat those

Literally acknowledged it and you are arguing with me. What's the point? I admitted it. We use philosophy to deal with the fictional. You mention meaning and I agree, meaning is a fiction. The only thing we are "supposed" to do is be vehicles of selfish genes, fucking until the sun explodes.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Try measuring something without believing it exists and see how far you get.

Ok.

:reads his horoscope, takes an IQ test, speaks to a reiki healer, analysis of the fungi shei of his bedroom, using a dowsing rod, and gets his thetan level checked.

What do I win?

Belief is a binary so it’s not like you can neither believe nor disbelieve in the thing you’re measuring.

Assertion please prove this.

afraid_of_zombies ,

No.

afraid_of_zombies ,

I think it is. If you are going to make claims about the spiritual world you should demonstrate existence first.

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