Norgur

@Norgur@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate needs you to find the difference between those images

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by real events⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or with that parody on those voices Last Week Tonight does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save thousands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 6k? That's a steal! As in "they are blatantly stealing money from you"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NovelAI is one of the uses of such an AI that actually makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it does not "check itself". You mixed up "completely random guesses" and stochastically calculated guesses... ChatGPT has.an obscenely large corpus of training data that was further refined by a blatant disregard for copyright and tons and tons of exploited workers in low wage countries, right?

  So imagine the topic "setup Wordpress". ChatGPT has just about every article indexed that's on the internet about this. Word for word. So it's able to assign a number to each word and calculate the probability of each word following every other word it scanned. Since WordPress follows a very clear pattern as to how it's set up, those probabilities will be very clear cut.
  The details the user entered can be stitched in because ChatGPT can very easily detect variables given the huge amount of data. Imagine a CREATE USER MySQL command. ChatGPTs sources will be almost identical up until it comes to the username which suddenly leads to a drop on certainty regarding the next Word. So there's your variable. Now stitch in the word the user typed after the word "User" and bobs your uncle.

  ChatGPT can "write programs" because programming (just as human language) follows clear patterns that become pretty distinct if the amount of data you analyze becomes large enough.

  ChatGPT does not check anything it spurts out. It just generates a word and calculates which word is most likely to follow that one.

  It only knows which sources of it's training data it should xluse because those were sorted and categorized by humans slaving away in Africa and Asia, doing all the categories by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not reductive. It's absolutely how those LLMs work. The fact that it's good at guessing as long as your inputs follow a pattern only underlines that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is, though. The easiest one being that a sentient creature will react differently to it's outside world, most importantly in an unpredictable manner. Think about a fish reacting to it's surroundings and then picture a cat. One will very likely do the same thing given the same circumstances. The other won't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's one of those questions that's all too often used for some cheap attempt at a trap. The question is what sort of proof is acceptable in which line of science. You can't prove sentience in the absolute way physics can prove things. That's just natural for scientific disciplines like psychology. Furthermore y you'd first have to define what constitutes sentience/sapience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's almost as if the LLMs that got hyped to the moon and back are just word calculators doing stochastic calculations one word at a time... Oh wait...

  No, seriously: all they are good for is making things sound fancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all: please let us separate this. What one believes isn't science. Science does not care for your (or a mollusc's) feelings. It cars about what's the provable truth (except when the science is psychology or behavioral biology, then it cares very much about your or the mollusc's feelings). So if it can't be proven, science will ignore it.

  Secondly: there is something you need to take into account herey and that is cognitive abilities. It doesn't matter how the behavioral response of an animal is, if said animal lacks the horsepower to interpret those feelings. Do you feel bad for a computer when it encounters an error? Of course not. Why would you? It lacks the cognitive ability to suffer from that error. Same goes for animals. Dies it feel compelled to be in a group? Maybe. But does that mean that inside the animal's head it goes "oh, finally a group, I'm so safe now. I was really hurting being alone and all" or is there just a little mechanism that goes "Func_Search_Group exited with status code 0"?
  We don't know. All we know is that both exist. Dish forming swarms show more of the latter, while dogs display more of the first. if there is no psychological response to any given feeling, we can't attribute emotions to it. Furthermore, all of this is only applicable if we assume that the way our mind works is the only way. Some animals might have a psyche that's so far removed from ours that our metrics just don't apply. We don't know.

  Of course there are tons of animal behaviors we wrongly Attribute to instinct or reflex when they are actually emotionally driven. Yet we don't know what those are, so we cannot just run around and play pretend because it makes us feel cozy.

  We humans are actually a good example of that. At birth, we are just a bundle of cobbled together reflexes that get replaced by cognitive ability over time.
  I'm holding my three weeks old toddler in my arms right now and since he is actually a human,. observing his behavior is relatable to menand easy to interpret since he's hard wired to communicate everything bad by crying immediately.

  Yet, there is tons of behavior he shows that's actually reflexes and his brain will not start the same reaction as a more developed human brain would.
  Take shock as an example. He is literally impossible to upset by shock. If he feels like he's falling or something else catches him by surprise, he'll react by the so-called Moro reflex and try to grasp anything in his reach. It's the same reflex we see in chimp babies. It's meant to make the baby cling to it's carrier's fur. Yet, he himself doesn't react at all. He looks midly irritated at best, if he doesn't just continue sleeping and that's all. His brain does not process this shock emotionally like we would, yet his body goes into full blown panic mode, desperately grasping around. No suffering, no anxiety, nothing in terms of emotions at all (and believe me, a baby will not hide those. He cries if his intestines are starting to digest the milk he just devoured)

  If this kind of disconnect between behavior and psyche is common in humans, it is likely to be common in other species as well, especially when those species lack the ridiculous large and energy hungry brain humans have decided was a good idea?

  Is it actually the scientist neglecting the mind of an animal or is it you wishing for a mind to be where there is none? The answer is somewhere in the middle.

  Oh and the cat example: that's a result of the very mistake you made: people have somehow collectively decided that cats lack any social behavior and thus anything they do that looks like socializing must be something else, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Cats absolutely do socialize just with less to no empathy for their friends. That's why we can only call true what's observable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't know about them, but I'm not arrogant enough to believe I'm not very, very much included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven't we had some ruling of that sort on the past where Valve basically went "fuck it,you may be allowed to sell it, but we ain't implementing anything you could do that with"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The pwnage is unending. Imagine being a baby made by a man and a woman! Embarrassing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic gesture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And the person who decided to serve those pillow pasta without Parmesan!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic gesture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Combat food waste!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to title this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd call it "perfection"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to title this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped doing it. Was too difficult to get up. God I'm old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And I appreciate you. You are awesome! Just in case no one told you today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could have sworn that this was her armpit from the back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That'd be humor that's artificially enhanced to look like wet humor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was referring to the physical drive. An external hard drive takes up almost the same amount of space a BluRay cover does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got her!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got her!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I watch a movie for the experience of the movie. I won't rewatch it over and over and over. Given that one Bluray case is as big as a harddrive these days, it will just block space in my house after that. If I've seen the movie, the experience is in my head and that's what counts at the end of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides, the "work of art" you are holding in your hand is not the movie itself, is it? Yes, technically you can "touch the movie" and smear your grimy fingers all over the back of the disc, but that's not what collectors are referring to methinks. They are referring to a cheapo printout of a coverar inside an equally as cheapo disc case. It's not "holding art in your hands" if your subscription-locked HP printer can ooze the exact same thing on a piece of paper...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it surprise you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What'll It Be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My 16 day old son has shown me how weirdly babies tun into old men when you sit them up and their head sinks towards the shoulders. This young fellow there is another example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Palestinians didn't take hostages. They mostly tried to survive under an oppressive Terror Regime while the government that claims to own the land did nothing but feed on their misery for political gains. They are victims.

  Hamas established said terror Regime and then unleashed their hatred on innocents inside and outside of their domain.

  We need to clearly separate those two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two possible definitions. One is the judicial one many have brought up already:

  Hamas just kidnapped random people
  Israel took prisoners and charged them with criminal offenses

  Another is the geopolitical one:

  Israel is a state, so it takes official prisoners. Even if those.were wrongly convicted or innocent people,.they'd still be prisoners of war
  Hamas is not a state, it's a gaggle of shitheads. Shitheads can't take prisoners as they have no jurisdiction. So their captives are hostages.

  The last one would be the motive:

  Hamas holds those people with the motive to trade them off to Israel for some gain or otherwise use them as bargaining chip. Israel has taken those people with the opposite goal: Imprison them/punish them for their crimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "ISP rep" here (from Germany though):
  It's a common fallacy that people assume they know more than my colleagues and me. People usually assume that because they know stuff about tech in general and can distinguish a RJ45 from an RJ11. Thing is, that's not the issues you are dealing with. People who tell me that they know better than me anyway tend to ignore that they have never even thought about the inner workings of a landline or mobile network. So your knowledge might not be applicable at all. How many times have I heard from tech savvy people that "this literally can be just some button you don't push because incompetence".

  Why would I argue with you for an hour if that were the case, eh? And Even if that were true and the employee has no clue what you're on about, the employee will know what works and what doesn't within their IT. They may not know why, but that doesn't matter in the end, does it? It doesn't matter if that rep knows a Lan port from a serial port, only thing that matters is that they know "doing this will lead to an error"

  Besides, people tend to heavily confirmation-bias the shit out of every interaction with us. How many times I had people who "worked in it and thus know a thing or two" and then went on to ask stuff on one IQ level of "earth is flat", then misinterpreted my... Hesistant reaction as incompetence and felt confirmation... A customer asked me once to open a port on our infrastructure for him because he "worked in IT and knew that we can do that" and since he could not have done anything wrong on bus end, the port HAS to be closed on our end"...`