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Iconoclast

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  • Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds

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  • they imply that anti-depressants aren’t useful

    The title says they're just as effective as excercise. The only way to intrepret this as saying medication isn't useful is if you think excercise isn't useful either.

  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

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  • General intelligence refers to human level intelligence where it's not only limited to one task like playing chess or generating language. General intelligence exists - just not artificial one.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • I've yet to figure out a good way to carry a bit driver with me but if I had one I'd use it a ton. Just like I do flashlight now.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • Radiator bleed-screw tool on my keyring.

    I'm a plumber by training.

  • How can I best go about building and growing a Lemmy community

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  • Just create it, and if there's demand, people will show up. There are a few communities meant for advertising new ones, but simply posting there yourself will also make it appear in the "All" feed for people browsing that.

    There's only so much you can do to grow it. Lemmy is still a pretty small platform with a limited audience, and I'm getting the sense that cage fighting isn't exactly close to most people's hearts around here.

  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

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  • Saying that it’s good at one thing and bad at others.

    But that's exactly the difference between narrow AI and a generally intelligent one. A narrow AI can be "superhuman" at one specific task - like generating natural-sounding language - but that doesn't automatically carry over to other tasks.

    People give LLMs endless shit for getting things wrong, but they should actually get credit for how often they get it right too. That's a pure side effect of their training - not something they were ever designed to do.

    It's like cruise control that's also kinda decent at driving in general. You might be okay letting it take the wheel as long as you keep supervising - but never forget it's still just cruise control, not a full autopilot.

  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

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  • It's a Large Language Model designed to generate natural-sounding language based on statistical probabilities and patterns - not knowledge or understanding. It doesn't "lie" and it doesn't have the capability to explain itself. It just talks.

    That speech being coherent is by design; the accuracy of the content is not.

    This isn't the model failing. It's just being used for something it was never intended for.

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • I love this.

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • I too hear all the sounds much more clearly now. Some of them sound quite expensive.

  • Two men

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  • I see. I don't watch anime but that term made me thing of someone tall, fit and slender.

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • One day around 7 years ago I turned off the radio in my truck and I never turned it back on. I just sit in silence and I honestly prefer it that way.

    Edit: to elaborate a little: I consider it almost like a meditative practice. I drive virtually every day, so this way I can quite easily force what I consider to be a healthy near-daily habit.

    I do the same thing with my phone whenever I'm queuing.

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • I was in a relationship from 18 to 34. Now, for the first time in my entire adult life, I'm single instead of jumping straight into the next one.

    No doubt there are things I miss about being in a relationship - and I still probably lean toward that being the ideal setup - but relationships have downsides too, just like being single has upsides.

    I'm not sure what the final tally of that equation looks like, but every now and then I catch myself wondering whether I even need to be in a relationship at all. I spent most of my childhood practicing playing alone, and I got pretty damn good at it.

  • Two men

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  • Is anime build the same as twink?

  • I don't like mob justice

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  • I sometimes get the sense that mob justice is less about actual justice and more about the rush of being part of the mob and finding some meaning in belonging to it.

    It's really not that different from piling onto someone for voicing a wrong opinion online - it's just further down the same spectrum.

    Nobody wants to be the one getting piled on, but man, it's great to be in the pile with the rest of "my team." Not to mention being the one who sparks the pile in the first place. That'll make you feel powerful and validated like nothing else.

  • Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction

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  • What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?

  • Ukraine makes fastest battlefield gain in 2.5 years

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  • Starlink doesn't work in Russia or in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. It does, however, work near the front lines - exactly where Ukrainians need it most. That's why Russia has been able to use those terminals there, as well as on drones flying behind Ukrainian lines.

    What changed now is that it got disabled across all of Ukraine - but Ukrainians are whitelisted and can register their terminals to get them working again. Russians can't. They also disabled Starlink for anything moving faster than 70 km/h, since Shahed drones can't fly that slow.

    Wasn’t he trying to take that away from Ukraine at some point?

    You're probably refering to this incident: Did Elon Musk Turn Off Starlink Access in Crimea To Disrupt Ukrainian Attack?

    No, he didn't turn it off - it was never enabled in the first place so that Russians can't use it.

  • Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI

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  • You couldn't really warn future civilizations about the dangers of a true Artificial General Intelligence - because there probably wouldn't be any future civilizations.

    And even that assumes the problem magically solves itself once humans disappear, which it wouldn't. A real AGI would be perfectly capable of continuing to exist without us around.

  • Party like it's 1996

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  • Can we play Age of Empires after this?

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • I'll start paying for YT before I ever start watching ads. I won't as long as I don't have to, but the second they finally figure this out, I'm subscribing.

    It's well worth the money considering how much I use it and for how long I've used it for free. It's honestly one of the few streaming services actually worth paying for.