You know what would be awesome is if there was a way to easily see new posts to a thread, like if the “New” button actually put New posts on top. Maybe lemmy truly is too janky for that but it’s a shame because I just start to ignore threads after a while.

I was going to say something about use value, but BTC doesn’t have any exchange value either lol

The fermi paradox is like flipping a coin one time and wondering why coins always come up heads

I do like how you shoved the stupid fermi paradox in there specifically to annoy me though!

ai can’t hurt us just unplug the computer bro

You’re implicitly accepting that eventually AI will be better than you once it gets “good enough”. May as well jump in ahead of the curve, right?

What gave you the impression? Most if not all of us here believe that it fundamentally can’t ever get good enough and that the only use case is spam and spamlike activities.

It’s interesting that language emerges from the math at, all, let alone how plausible the output is in most situations. That’s more than interesting.

It’s interesting, but it’s not language. It’s sequences of characters that plausibly look like language. You can’t use language without intent.

I like how even the “correct” response at the end has got this paragraph of absolute nonsense.

To minimize the number of trips, the robot should use a strategy that reduces the number of elevator rides. Since the elevator can carry the robot and up to 3 other items, the robot can take all 4 vegetables in one trip if it is allowed to carry all of them at once. However, if the robot can only carry 3 items in addition to itself, it would need to make at least two trips.

And I hate how even though I know perfectly well how it works I still asked myself what it was trying to say here. God I hate chatbots. I hate the mockery of meaning.

I don’t really agree with this. Artists can’t (and shouldn’t want to) entirely control interpretation, but they still have a responsibility. If your work is palatable to nazis or advertisers or whatever kind of parasite, you need to reflect on why and make it less so, or you’re complicit in my book. I say this as an artist who’s repeatedly moved on to new forms of expression as fashion catches up.

Yeah I thought this one looked very very made up and far too on the nose. I think it’s fine to label human-run spam/troll accounts as bots though.

Somewhat related I stumbled upon robots flirting with eachother the other day.

[W]hat is perhaps my most fundamental philosophical conviction is this: life is Good, human life especially so. The most natural things in the universe are death, decay, and emptiness. Growth, life, and creation are fragile anomalies. We belong to an eons-long heritage of those who have committed to building and maintaining life in the face of inevitable decay. Our duty is to do the same.

Putting aside the obvious elders of zionny subtext… I’m an unabashed humanist and this is one of the most childishly anthropocentric things I’ve ever read. Death and decay are human concepts you big dummy. Sucks for you that you apparently can’t imagine our universe outside of your silly meat-bound linear-time phenomenology, but do try to respect and enjoy reality instead of talking like a 1920s pulp protagonist.

Aw, Hanania’s a good egg, he liked my incredibly stupid case for surrogacy from a reactionary perspective with shit machine-generated illustrations

I’m assuming he does have OCD, but given the context I don’t know if I’m very confident about how much ironic distance there is to the name…

Tracingwoodgrains is a reference to one of the sillier plot points in Card’s Ender series, right? Not very flattering imo.

i love you tom seven

it’s a dirty political word that only intellectual terrorists use. not only is it beneath her to acknowledge social facts, she wants to make it clear she won’t be intimidated into considering it.

blaming your issues on a conspiracy is a great way to ensure your movement doesn’t become a cult!

Where is this from? Sorry if I missed the link in the big watermuddying wall of text.

Our sessions and guests spanned a wide range of topics: prediction markets and forecasting, of course; but also finance, technology, philosophy, AI, video games, politics, journalism and more.

haha

“Hallucination” implies LLMs can meaningfully perceive. They can’t, they’re not made that way and they have no reason to be.

binary tree invert

happy pride month