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BlemboTheThird

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  • Georgia mother says she is being forced to keep brain-dead pregnant daughter alive under abortion ban law

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  • How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?

    At a guess, they'll stop tracking the data?

  • People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I join in then I'm the crazy one

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  • Same with people who blast music in public. There's a bike/pedestrian trail near me I use a lot and people are constantly riding or running while blasting the worst music imaginable to everyone nearby. Maybe someday I'll build up the courage to tell them to shut the fuck up... or at least teach them what headphones are. Maybe I could buy a bunch of cheap ones and just chuck them at the heads of anyone who apparently needs them.

  • Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say

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  • I guess we're all too busy watching number go up to actually manage anything. For them it's their stock prices, for me it's my seed ratio!

  • US President Trump claims India, Pakistan have fought over Kashmir for 1,500 years

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  • Next week: Trump claims to be an Eldritch being that coalesced out of Jesus's anger while up on the cross over 2000 years ago

  • rule

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  • Gonna have to double check the next phone I buy has a screen first

  • Top US officials pull out of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in London

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  • Go big or go home. "Russia starts using nukes and us government blames ukrainians for it"

  • Chocobo

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  • At the point where we're making lab-grown dinosaur meat, I suspect the cool factor is way more important than silly things like efficiency. T-Rex meat all the way babyyy

  • Nervous

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  • It's a hard truth, but sometimes adding catgirls to a joke makes it funnier somehow...

    see what'd i say? at LEAST 4 people couldnt handle the truth

  • National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

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  • Literally none. DEI straight up means treating everyone the same. They're working on giving it some fucked up negative connotations the same way they have with "woke" and "critical race theory," but if you look at the history and reality of where those words come from and what they mean, it becomes clear they're playing with language, trying to avoid looking racist to the general public while still implementing racist policy.

  • National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

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  • If by "this," you mean the reference towards Tubman, then you're wrong. Talking about the accomplishments of anyone who isn't a straight white Christian man IS promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion! DEI is a good thing! Opposing it is explicitly racist!

  • doesn't bode well

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  • Ehh. The broad strokes had the potential to be interesting, but the presentation and details are awful. Actually watching the prequels is such a chore, with 75% of the time spent thinking "why," 24% "ooh pretty" (though a lot of the CGI hasn't aged well), and maybe 1% is an actual "hmm yes interesting."

    Palpatine and populism had a chance to be interesting, but it's mostly done completely off screen, with lots of assumptions needing to be made by a viewer who needs to already have an understanding that this is the future Emperor. The closest we ever get to seeing the true corruption of the Senate is Palpatine's speech denouncing the Jedi, and even that winds up being carried hard solely by Palpatine's actor.

    They completely ignore the moral, logistical, and spiritual questions raised by usage of a clone army. Coverage in EU and Disney doesn't count in a discussion of the prequels, but even there it's rarely explored. You'd think the whole point of clones vs robots would be to raise interesting questions by way of contrasting the two, but no, it's just so you don't have to feel bad watching the armies blow each other up.

    Anakin and Padme. Good God.

    There's so much more but honestly I don't want to write more of an essay. Apologies for the YouTube link, but this is a video I really like about what made the Jedi so special in the originals. I think most of the problems in the prequels parallel their mishandling of the Jedi--a superficial understanding that Thing Is Cool, but then missing the point thanks to a formulaic, blunt, needs-to-be-marketable approach to making the movies.

    I dunno, they're more bearable than the sequels. I can even enjoy watching them; I grew up on them and can put on the nostalgia goggles to get through them, but under any examination they completely fall apart.

  • Huge crowds gather in 'Hands Off' rallies nationwide in protest of Trump administration

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  • Because as everyone knows, political change only happens spontaneously, without any organization in the lead up, and people are famously fired up by sitting around at home until we all get the magic signal to go cut politicians' heads off

  • Intel Unison allowed Android and iOS to connect to Windows, now it's shutting down

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  • I did not but I'll give you an upvote anyway

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  • Not sure which of the cabinet said it first, but for anyone wondering--this isn't satire. The "which 24 hours" is a real line Trump supporters are regurgitating.

  • Evergreen

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  • Yeah and that's because a huge chunk of the base doesn't care. Republicans fall in line because they care, even if they only care because of moronic fearmongering. Dems won't stoop to that low, so the only way to make people care is to offer a candidate that energizes people to do the bare minimum.

  • Evergreen

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  • No. They forgot. Or straight up didn't care. A "protest at the polls" would mean voting 3rd party at the bare minimum. Not showing up mean they don't care. To be fair there was some voter suppression going on, but that doesn't account for anywhere near the 80 mil who literally don't ever vote.

  • Is "AI and robots taking over" an actual possible outcome of the current race to produce "smart" LLMs ?

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  • I recently read a neat little book called "Rethinking Consciousness" by SA Graziano. It has nothing to do with AI, but is an attempt to describe the way our myriad neural systems come together to produce our experience, how that might differ between animals with various types of brains, and how our experience might change if some systems aren't present. It sounds obvious, but the simpler the brain, the simpler the experience. For example, organisms like frogs probably don't experience fear. Both frogs and humans have a set of survival instincts that help us detect movement, classify it as either threat or food or whatever, and immediately respond, but the emotional part of your brain that makes your stomach plummet just doesn't exist in them.

    Humans automatically respond to a perceived threat in the same way a frog does--in fact, according to the book, the structures in our brains that dictate our initial actions in those instinctive moments are remarkably similar. You know how your eyes will automatically shift to follow a movement you see in the corner of your vision? A frog responds in much the same way. It's not something you have to think about--often your eye will have darted over to the point of interest even before you realize you've noticed something. But your experience of that reaction is also much richer than it is possible for a frog's to be, because we have far more layers of systems that all interact to produce what we call consciousness. We have a much deeper level of thought that goes into deciding whether that movement was actually important to us.

    It's possible for us to continue to live even if we lose some parts of the brain--our personalities will change, our memory may get worse, or we may even lose things like our internal monologue, but we still manage to persist as conscious beings until our brains lose a large number of the overlying systems, or some very critical systems. Like the one that regulates breathing--though even that single function is somewhat shared between multiple systems, allowing you to breathe manually (have fun with that).

    All that to say the things we're currently calling AI just don't have that complexity. At best, these generative models could fill out a fraction of the layers that would be useful for a conscious mind. We have developed very powerful language processing systems, at least in terms of averaging out a vast quantity of data. Very powerful image processing. Audio processing. What we don't have--what, near as I can tell, we haven't made any meaningful progress on at all--is a system to coalesce all these processing systems into a whole. These systems always rely on a human to tell them what to process, for how long, and ultimately to check whether the result of a process is reasonable. Being able to process all of those types of input simultaneously, choosing which ones to focus on in the moment, and continuously choosing an appropriate response? Barely even a pipe dream. And even all of that would be distinct from a system to form anything like conscious thought.

    Right now, when marketing departments say "AI," what they're describing is like that automatic response to movement. Movement detected, eye focuses. Input goes in, output comes out. It's one small piece of the whole that's required when science fiction writers say "AI."

    TL;DR no, the current generative model race is just tech stock market hype. The absolute best it can hope for is to reproduce a small piece of the conscious mind. It might be able to approximate the processing we're capable of more quickly, but at a massively inflated energy expenditure, not to mention the research costs. And in the end it still needs a human double checking its work. We will need to develop a vast number of other increasingly complex systems before we even begin to approach a true AI.

  • Braincell stuck in buttmunch-mode

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  • Surely they're love bites and not particularly painful?

  • 'MAGA junkie' fired in DOGE cuts now regrets voting for Trump: 'I expected better'

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  • I've always known the average voter is a huge idiot with a tiny attention span, but articles like this really put into perspective how bad it is. How the fuck do you manage to forget the COVID pandemic? Did everyone really buy the "Chinese bioweapon" propaganda in order to avoid blaming Trump or something?

    Trump was awful before and already ballooned the debt once. How do you not expect it to happen again?