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LesserAbe

@ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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3d ago

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 3d ago
No, I know. I didn't see any possible market for a product like this, but you shared you're already doing what this product does, but manually. So I was wondering how much value you see here.

3d ago

FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case: MS NOW

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 3d ago

Don't know if it changed since you commented, but the article I read included a bunch more than that

3d ago

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 3d ago

Would you consider spending $600 plus $7/month for this? (Assuming it was actually secure not like this one)

4d ago

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 4d ago

What could they possibly tell me about my health by visually inspecting my shit? I see the website mentions detecting blood, but pretty sure I can do that too...

6d ago

Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 6d ago

I responded to your other comment, but yes, I think you could set up an llm agent with a camera and microphone and then continuously provide sensory input for it to respond to. (In the same way I'm continuously receiving input from my "camera" and "microphones" as long as I'm awake)

6d ago

Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 6d ago

I'm just a person interested in / reading about the subject so I could be mistaken about details, but:

When we train an LLM we're trying to mimic the way neurons work. Training is the really resource intensive part. Right now companies will train a model, then use it for 6-12 months or whatever before releasing a new version.

When you and I have a "conversation" with chatgpt, it's always with that base model, it's not actively learning from the conversation, in the sense that new neural pathways are being created. What's actually happening is a prompt that looks like this is submitted: "{{openai crafted preliminary prompt}} + "Abe: Hello I'm Abe".

Then it replies, and the next thing I type gets submitted like this: "{{openai crafted preliminary prompt}} + "Abe: Hello I'm Abe + {{agent response}} + "Abe: Good to meet you computer friend!"

And so on. Each time, you're only talking to that base level llm model, but feeding it the history of the conversation at the same time as your new prompt.

You're right to point out that now they've got the agents self-creating summaries of the conversation to allow them to "remember" more. But if we're trying to argue for consciousness in the way we think of it with animals, not even arguing for humans yet, then I think the ability to actively synthesize experiences into the self is a requirement.

A dog remembers when it found food in a certain place on its walk or if it got stabbed by a porcupine and will change its future behavior in response.

Again I'm not an expert, but I expect there's a way to incorporate this type of learning in nearish real time, but besides the technical work of figuring it out, doing so wouldn't be very cost effective compared to the way they're doing it now.

6d ago

Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 6d ago

Yeah, it seems like the major obstacles to saying an llm is conscious, at least in an animal sense, is 1) setting it up to continuously evaluate/generate responses even without a user prompt and 2) allowing that continuous analysis/response to be incorporated into the llm training.

The first one seems like it would be comparatively easy, get sufficient processing power and memory, then program it to evaluate and respond to all previous input once a second or whatever

The second one seems more challenging, as I understand it training an llm is very resource intensive. Right now when it "remembers" a conversation it's just because we prime it by feeding every previous interaction before the most recent query when we hit submit.

1w ago

Your Microwave

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 1w ago

I have no mouth and I must beam

1w ago

World map with countries real sizes

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 1w ago

Every day? But not at the scale where I need to view the whole globe

2w ago

Collabora Online Desktop Released

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

I wasn't aware of LibreOffice online. Interesting message about how you can use it but there's a built in disclaimer that appears when you try to have more than 20 users that says "this isn't good for that" https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

2w ago

We all know people like this who deal with the horror and yet never complain. They are heroes

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

2w ago

Ever vigilant

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

My dogs prefer lettuce, as long as it's crispy

2w ago

Do you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean?

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

For me I think it helps to think of error correction. When two computers are exchanging information it's not just one way, like one machine just sends a continuous stream to the other and then you're done. The information is broken up into pieces, and the receiving machine might say "I didn't receive these packets can you resend." And there are also things like checking a hash to make sure the copied file matches the original file.

How much more error correction do you think we should have in human conversation, when your idea of the "file transfer protocol" is different than the other participant? "I think you're saying X, is that correct?" Even if you think you completely understand, a lot of times the answer is "no, actually... blah blah."

You brought up the idea of neurodivergents providing more detail, which can be helpful. But even there, one person may have a different idea about which details are relevant, or what the intended goal of the conversation is.

Taking a step beyond that, I recognize that I am not a computer, and I'm prone to making errors. I may think I'm perfectly conveying all the necessary information, but experience has shown that's not always true. Whether or not the problem is on my end or the other person's, if I'm trying to accomplish a given objective, it's in my personal interest to take extra steps to ensure there's no misunderstanding.

2w ago

The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

That sounds exciting! Couple catty comments in here but I think you're doing good work.

2w ago

Illustrated song

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

Super interesting!

Song titles from back then are funny. "The little lost child"

Also got me thinking how these songs were like the megahits of their time and I couldn't hum a note or give the slightest description of the lyrics.

2w ago

Hundreds of protesters bought ice scrapers from Home Depot and immediately return them to freeze sales [Monrovia, CA]

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

Thanks for the link. At first I was thinking what does Home Depot have to contribute in stopping the raids, but the guy quoted in the story is on to something - they can take quick action and close the store when there's a protest. And while I don't think there's a benefit to closing the store when there's a raid, Home Depot could make any public statement at all about how the government is acting inappropriately. Individuals have performed impressive actions to resist this lawless administration, while large entities have consistently folded.

2w ago

Trapped in myself

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

There's half a dozen short stories I read in high school with crazy premises that I'm always being reminded of

2w ago

My Life Is a Lie: How a Broken Benchmark Broke America

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

I get you're saying that they adjust the 1963 cost for inflation. (vs tripling today's cost of food) I can't agree if that was enough in that time, because how would I know? But sure, let's say it was. It doesn't follow that adjusted for inflation it would be enough now.

As the author wrote, there seems to be significantly more inflation in other expenses than in food. Doing the math on what we think are reasonable expenses can show what a "real" poverty line is.

2w ago

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

I think we should have open borders. That said, not everyone does. Many more people have a problem with citizens being detained because the supposed focus of these raids is people in the country illegally (and supposedly people who are criminals).

Talking about how they're detaining citizens highlights that the actions are indiscriminate, and that really they want to target any brown people. It shows they don't care about the law. It's also telling people in a protected class, "hey, they can come for you too."

I don't need anymore evidence of that, but some people do. And when we stop calling it out it becomes de facto acceptable.

2w ago

You have the option to absolve all of Chair or all of Table for the rest of eternity from the fabric of reality. Which would be easier to live without?

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LesserAbe @lemmy.world 2w ago

I think chairs and tables are insufficiently different - people would end up using one as a substitute for the other. I think a more interesting question would be what if you were required to magically eliminate all perfectly level planes (tables, chairs, beds), or eliminate all slanted planes (ramps, screws, lazy boys)