dxdydz

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[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 38 points 2 months ago (8 children)

LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.

Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.

Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

More telling is the spatula twists between the handle and the flat bit.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think everyone understood that the original commenter meant nauseous/nauseated instead of noxious. The corrector was being an annoying pedant, so I was pointing that out by correcting their “incorrect” word.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Do you mean nauseated?

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, spoken like somebody who has never actually tried to speak English in Germany. As a shameful monoglot, I have had occasion to test the limits of English understanding in a variety of countries, and Germany has pretty low rates of English speakers in my personal experience. The Netherlands on the other hand…

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 months ago

I think you should read more carefully in the future, but this time I’ll explain it to you: The OP used the word relative. The reply went into a discussion about how the word subjective has a narrow meaning in philosophy that isn’t the same as the common usage. The OP was not discussing subjectivity in the sense of the reply, nor did it use the word subjective.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago

Hear me out: A cool shop or company should donate some pittance of every purchase to a good trans focused non profit and then have the signage “Make every transaction a trans action”

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I guess. Maybe they misread the OP. I agree that it was interesting, though completely irrelevant to the statement in the OP.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Nobody used the word subjective. What are you on about?

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

I hope so too, though the leadup to ww2 doesn’t give me a lot of hope, since domestic fascism remained popular in allied countries up until fighting the axis

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it’s easier said than done. They clamped down on immigration a few years back (because they were letting in a bunch of people while also not doing anything about the housing market and got understandable blowback).

Also I’ll point out that Canada is only one (goose) step behind the USA, and may not stay safe. There are a lot of fascists and bigots here too.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Any major housing crash will probably affect your ability to purchase a home. The real solution is laws limiting property investment combined with building new, dense housing in areas that already have services.

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