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Buddahriffic

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  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Lol I thought your link was "here's a rocket designed by an LLM" rather than one designed by the non-LLM AI.

    LLMs are a local minimum that tech bros are stuck trying to optimize to a generally useful point because its language abilities are able to fool so many (just like how a real person talking with confidence can fool so many).

    This obsession with LLMs is making me question general human intelligence more lol. It's looking more and more like we are just dumb apes but get lucky and every now and then a smart ape is born and teaches the other dumb apes how to bring their stupidity to whole new levels.

  • No lowball bids

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  • That might literally be their origin. Like the movie props that became well known as the TIE fighter shape, not their in universe origin.

  • Simple analogy

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  • Anyone wanna take the bet that this guy secretly hopes it does, using himself as one example and that it means another common friend of an openly gay friend that OP is crushing on is also secretly in the closet?

    It just feels like there's some layers of denial involved in this question for them to even wonder it.

  • This is really serious, something this essetial can't be AI Vulnerable, save OSS

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  • Yeah, it's good enough that it even had me fooled, despite all my "it just correlates words" comments. It was getting to the desired result, so I was starting to think that the framework around the agentic coding AIs was able to give it enough useful context to make the correlations useful, even if it wasn't really thinking.

    But it's really just a bunch of duct tape slapped over cracks in a leaky tank they want to put more water in. While it's impressive how far it has come, the fundamental issues will always be there because it's still accurate to call LLMs massive text predictors.

    The people who believe LLMs have achieved AGI are either just lying to try to prolong the bubble in the hopes of actually getting it to the singularity before it pops or are revealing their own lack of expertise because they either haven't noticed the fundamental issues or think they are minor things that can be solved because any instance can be patched.

    But a) they can only be patched by people who know the correction (so the patches won't happen in the bleeding edge until humans solve the problem they wanted AI to solve), and b) it will require an infinite number of these patches even to just cover all permutations of everything we do know.

  • TIL Ronald Reagan was deeply influnced by SciFi when implementing policy. He reportedly initiated cybersecurity changes within the DoD after watching the movie WarGames and asking if it was plausible.

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  • He probably just wanted to get away from all the fighting.

  • This is really serious, something this essetial can't be AI Vulnerable, save OSS

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  • Here's an example I ran into, since work wants us to use AI to produce work stuff, whatever, they get to deal with the result.

    But I had asked it to add some debug code to verify that a process was working by saving the in memory result of that process to a file, so I could ensure the next step was even possible to do based on the output of the first step (because the second step was failing). Get the file output and it looks fine, other than missing some whitespace, but that's ok.

    And then while debugging, it says the issue is the data for step 1 isn't being passed to the function the calls if all. Wait, how can this be, the file looks fine? Oh when it added the debug code, it added a new code path that just calls the step 1 code (properly). Which does work for verifying step 1 on its own but not for verifying the actual code path.

    The code for this task is full of examples like that, almost as if it is intelligent but it's using the genie model of being helpful where it tries to technically follow directions while subverting expectations anywhere it isn't specified.

    Thinking about my overall task, I'm not sure using AI has saved time. It produces code that looks more like final code, but adds a lot of subtle unexpected issues on the way.

  • Is spreading.

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  • I've written a microkernel for an embedded device before and enjoy that kind of thing. I haven't had to use any of my kernel experience in the year or so I've been on linux.

    My linux install (Fedora) took a while because I was reading up on a bunch of the options instead of just taking the defaults. Ended up mostly just using the defaults and the ones I did change, I kinda regret because the snapshots that I wanted to save disk space by avoiding would probably come in handy if I break something and don't know how to fix it.

  • How to reassure your wife 101

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  • Not all ovens have that. Pretty sure mine doesn't, though my induction hot plate does. And tbh it's kinda annoying because the timer finishing doesn't always mean it's done cooking, it might just mean time to add the next batch of ingredients or flip whatever is baking. But I've got two other timers on other devices within reach, so I just pick the most convenient one for the current objective (or just look at the time and try to remember on my own).

  • ICE kills blind man by dropping him off 5 miles from his house after being forced to release him

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  • And the blindness gets in the way of a lot of physical communication, though cultural differences could make even that difficult impossible to understand even if both parties can see fine.

    And I wouldn't blame anyone for being nervous about what the uncommunicative person on their porch with a curtain rod might intend.

    If there was an advice post that just asked what to do about a random stranger on a woman's porch that was holding a curtain rod and wasn't communicating, I'd bet "call the police" would be the most common response. It's so easy to judge the best actions when you know the extra context the article provided.

  • Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show

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  • Going for less known names can also help, as they are trying to build/maintain a reputation in addition to sales.

    IKEA is an interesting brand because it spans from incredibly cheap to nice quality, and personally, I find the cheapness is more in the material selection than the design. Like the furniture I got from them at my last place all survived the move to my current place, even the one I got frustrated with and stopped caring if it made it when taking it apart, it still stands solid today. They are one of the few that has decent value, though their prices can get pretty high at the high end.

  • No evidence behind RFK Jr’s claim keto diet can cure schizophrenia, experts say

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  • Yeah, I think at this point I do get the placebo effect first, pretty much immediately after taking the vitamin b-complex, as it works faster than I'd expect my body to really access those nutrients (though it is water soluable, so maybe it does start getting absorbed immediately), and I have had times where it feels like just the B is going to do the trick but then the tiredness returns a few mins later and I add the magnesium.

    My approach to supplements in general is an assumption that I generally get most of what I need from my diet (which is better these days than it used to be earlier in my adult life), but that I'm probably not meeting all the needs consistently, so I'll supplement it occasionally, either with a dose of multivitamin when I'm not feeling like anything is missing or with specific ones if I'm experiencing potential deficiency symptoms. I don't want to supplement into overload, which can be as bad or worse than deficiency.

    Also gotta watch out for the scam supplements, or ones suggested based on single properties without considering other consequences of them.

    Eg, a little while ago, I bought some bromelain on a whim after seeing a claim it could dissolve eye floaters. Before taking one, I realized I had acted too quickly in buying them and did more reading and found out that even if it can get past the blood brain barrier and into the eyes (which is dubious at best), there's nothing to stop it from dissolving other proteins inside the eyes, ones that aren't just minor annoyances (speaking about my own situation, I understand floaters can get much worse than just annoying), and end up hurting your vision.

  • all about the mindset

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  • Even if you could see the screen easily, a (good) desk and chair make a huge difference. Also, laptop + sand might turn me into Anakin.

  • Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show

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  • Yeah, it's more of a late stage capitalism "luxury" where the difference isn't so much in the quality as in the price because people conflate "price" with "quality" and "desireability".

    And I do understand it, at least to a degree. I try to do research on more expensive items or ones I'm looking for quality in, but it's kinda exhausting, and often a cycle of "I want thing, see it in store and remember I want it, look at options, no idea which (if any) are decent and which suck, start looking online, decide I don't want to do this right now, move on, forget to do research, repeat next time I'm at that store".

    The easy mode of doing that would be look at options, assume cheapest ones suck, most expensive is too much, get one of the ones a little cheaper. At which point, the seller just needs to set a higher price to get a sale on the crappy ones.

  • No evidence behind RFK Jr’s claim keto diet can cure schizophrenia, experts say

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  • I've suspected for a while now that a good chunk of common health issues might be caused by malnutrition. Like energy needs are being met and/or exceeded, but not necessarily the case for each nutrient.

    Like I've started to recognize when I'm protein deficient. I get a headache and general unwell feeling. I'll have an appetite for things with protein but it doesn't just feel like hunger.

    And personally, if I'm feeling depressed and unmotivated to do anything, even what's usually fun, I can resolve that with a vitamin b-complex supplement (usually I take vitamin D and K2 with it, so those could be playing a role), and if that doesn't have me feeling better (as in normal, not just "less depressed") within 15 minutes or so, I also take a magnesium supplement. This may or may not work for anyone else (it requires that your depression be caused by b and/or magnesium deficiency), but it has consistently worked for me since 2020, when it helped get over the exhaustion that might have been long covid.

    Micronutrients are essential for many different body functions and I think it's easy to miss some if you don't have a lot of variety in your regular diet, especially if you mostly eat processed stuff where the process could inadvertently remove or change the nutrients into something we can't absorb.

    I agree that one's biome can also play a big role, though I think nutrient intake (both what you consume and what you absorb) and gut biome health can end up in a vicious cycle because those microbes also need the right nutrients to stay healthy and can be exposed to substances that are fine for us but toxic to them. I haven't looked in a while, but this was my objection to all the studies that "showed" glyphosate was safe, as the ones I saw were mostly about how it doesn't react with any of our own bio-processes, but no information about whether that's the same for the bacteria we have a symbiotic relationship with.

  • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases

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  • Also all those glass parking lot comments.

  • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases

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  • Yeah, I thought it might be a different kind of AI, at least, until it fucking said "LLM".

    They don't assess risk, they correlate words. Even if they can be massaged to use a tool to assess risk in a more accurate way, they don't evaluate risk assessments and determine how that should affect strategy or tactics, they correlate words. They don't even do math that puts a value on human life to determine if an action is worth the cost, they just correlate fucking words. All based on given training data, so anything they can offer for real is already out there, and everything else is suspect because it's purely based on correlations of words.

    It's like reading the Art of War and thinking that means you're ready to be a general.

    But something AI might do is introduce uncertainty that might get used to try to excuse a nuclear strike a human wanted to do.

  • Just vibesinning

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  • I also just noticed the irony in covering their nakedness being a part of "original sin" but churches today lead the puritanical positions against general nudity and sexuality.

    Also funny in that bad fiction way that it was about disobeying some arbitrary rule and it's never explained or even really acknowledged that humans shouldn't have knowledge. Like it's such an obvious form of control, right in the first story, not to mention how many of the ten commandments were about establishing a hierarchy rather than any kind of morality.

    Like it's accepted history that Constantine was looking for a way to unite the far corners of Rome, since it was hard to motivate people to join legions to fight for people half a world away after they ran out of easy land to promise. So he just happened to find the "true religion" that he needed, that had a bible that was taken literally until it was so obviously incompatible with reality that it was now metaphors that could still describe reality if you back up and squint and assume dumb shit like "many cultures talk about floods, therefore they must be talking about noah's flood!"

    Which is kinda like saying, "Wait, people in your culture die, too? That's proof that we were all kicked out of paradise and lost our immortality!"

    Also ignoring how the old testament god acts more like an immature dictator throwing tantrums than a god, yet there's plenty of stories of people defying that god despite these apparent displays of miraculous power.

  • Don't forget to wash up!

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  • While I agree with your conclusion, stick your hands under the water palms up and see which way your thumbs point.

    Unless the picture depicts someone washing their hands and dick in a sink, though in that case it's the arms that are wrong.

  • NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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  • Yeah, she's just following orders.