Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on The A in AGI stands for Ads 1 week ago:
This is technology community.
- Comment on The A in AGI stands for Ads 1 week ago:
Right, so Advertisement General Intelligence. The name however still suggests it’s generally intelligent (GI) and since it’s not of biological origin that makes it artificial (A) too in which case Advertisement General Intelligence is by definition an Artificial General Intelligence.
- Comment on The A in AGI stands for Ads 1 week ago:
No it doesn’t.
- Comment on Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie 3 weeks ago:
I hate how it’s advertised
Wher are you guys seeing ads for AI? I’ve literally seen zero ever unless we start redefining news articles as ads which still wouldn’t make any sense as 99% of them that I come across are critical of AI rather than praising it.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 4 weeks ago:
It’s honestly been way bigger of a struggle to get pirated games to work on Windows compared to Steam games on Linux. Many of them work straight out of the box with zero tweaks.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 4 weeks ago:
My PC has been running Linux for around 3 years already but my next laptop will probably still be a Mac. Mostly because Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve don’t support Linux (I think) and I also kind of want to reward Apple for coming to their senses and bringing back the better keyboard along with SD card reader and HDMI slot. I also just have had extremely positive experience with my current laptop which is my first Mac ever.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
What the fuck is your problem? How can this place be so full of insufferable pricks.
“This guy doesn’t want to talk politics in a thread about two satellites nearly colliding - must be okay with fascists then.”
Stellar logic. Absolutely brilliant.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
You guys are more obsessed with Elon than his most devout fanboys. Turning every tech thread into personality drama while calling others ignorant for wanting to stay on topic is peak irony. If that counts as burying my head in the sand, guilty as charged - and happily so.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
No, I’m simply calling you out for injecting your personal politics in a discussion about near-collision of two satellites. Please keep that to political communities and let the rest of us have a moment of peace from all that. This is a technology community.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
The discussion is about satellite orbit lifespans.
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 1 month ago:
It’s like a constant attack from all sides. No wonder people grow tired of fighting and just check out.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
An what does this have to do with the topic at hand?
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
Satellites are obviously needed for satellite internet.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 month ago:
LEO is not a permanent orbit. There’s atmospheric drag. I believe Starlink satellites deorbit in 5 to 10 years. Oldest ones are already falling back to earth (burning in the atmosphere)
- Comment on [Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them? 1 month ago:
“AI” covers a lot more than LLMs and much of it is quite useful. Figured out protein folding for example.
Even in this narrow case of LLMs, it’s still correctly pointing out flaws in wikipedia articles.
- Comment on [Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them? 1 month ago:
…said Lemmy user reflexively upon seeing mention of AI in the title.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 2 months ago:
And thus it’s newsworthy when they do something stupid which then skews your perception of how safe and reliable they actually are. Deaths caused by self-driving vehicles are extremely rare.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 2 months ago:
If there were a news article for every time a human driver did something extremely dumb behind the wheel, like there is for when an AI driver does, you’d never see those articles about self-driving cars - the feed would be completely flooded with stories about the stupid things human drivers do.
- Comment on Research shows 4K or 8K screens offer no distinguishable benefit over similarly sized 2K screen in average living room 2 months ago:
My 15 year old FullHD 48" LED TV is about 4 meters away from my couch and when watching a 1080p movie I can’t possibly imagine how a sharper image would add anything to the experience.
- Comment on NVIDIA’s New AI’s Movements Are So Real It’s Uncanny 3 months ago:
Isn’t that bit of an oxymoron? Uncanny implies something doesn’t look natural.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 3 months ago:
I think the user bears some responsibility here too. Consuming an unfiltered social media feed isn’t ideal, in my opinion. Mindlessly scrolling through whatever TikTok’s algorithm serves you is exactly how people get sucked into rabbit holes where they can no longer even tell what’s real and what’s fake.
The same goes for platforms like Lemmy - the difference is that instead of algorithms, your feed is handpicked by people with agendas, sprinkled with a few bots. We’re all gullible. We like to think we’re not, but we are. We believe what we want to be true and seek out what confirms what we already think. Unless you actively go out of your way to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and expose yourself to alternative views then noise and confirmation bias is what you’ll mostly get.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 3 months ago:
You’re right that an LLM doesn’t care how it’s treated - it’s not conscious. But that’s not really the point. The way people treat things that seem human still says something about them, not the thing. If someone goes out of their way to be cruel to a chatbot that’s just trying to be helpful, it’s not the bot that’s being tested - it’s the person’s capacity for empathy and restraint.
It’s the same instinct behind how we treat animals, or even how kids treat toys - being kind to something that can’t fight back is part of what keeps us human. And historically, the “it’s not really human, so it doesn’t matter” argument has been used to justify a lot of awful behavior.
So no, the AI doesn’t care. But maybe it still matters that we do.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 3 months ago:
Being ethical in real life doesn’t always give you the best outcome either - doesn’t mean you still shouldn’t be so.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 months ago:
That’s okay. I can use one of the 20 cables I have already laying around.
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 3 months ago:
I never really changed the way I use it. I just post pictures and watch pictures. I’ve never viewed stories or tried any of those other features. It’s the pictures I’m there for.
- Comment on UK | Stop children using VPNs to dodge age checks on porn sites, commissioner demands 5 months ago:
Cheeky Proton VPN ad midway through the article.
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 5 months ago:
because the future occupant of the data center has not been named.
It’s not thay “no one knows” but that information simply haven’t been disclosed.
- Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 5 months ago:
I’ve been told that this man can’t be trusted so I guess it’s not a bubble then.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Which AI company has taken this approach exactly? Whose this “they” you’re refering to?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I think the title should be “What if LLMs doesn’t get much better than this?” because that’s effectively what the article is talking about. I see no reason to expect that our AI systems wouldn’t keep improving even if LLMs don’t.