NeilBrü

Sorry, I got a little butt-hurt, being Indian myself. I always hated the “East/West” prefix about my people and the First Nation folks.

“They’re not Indians! They’re a completely different group of people! They and we don’t need a cardinal direction!”

I’ve been spouting this shit since grade-school, but I think it’s safe to say that people here on Lemmy get it, for the most part.

East Indians, not First Nations.

To be clear, you are asking me to list the crimes of the Shi-ah Islamist regime in Iran since their revolution in the '70s?

If so, I can try, but I must work first. I can compile it after the day is finished.

As plainly I can put it:

The nation-states of Iran and Israel have a “right to exist”, inasmuch as they actually serve the interests of the people they claim to govern within internationally recognized territorial borders.

The regimes that hold power in those nation-states must be tried for crimes against humanity and executed as war-criminals.

They will reap what they’ve sown in this messianic decades-long tit-for-tat, and I will drink to their demise, assuming they don’t drag the world into nuclear armageddon.

We fundamentally see geopolitical culpability in that region completely differently.

You: Zionists are worse than Islamists.

Me: They’re equally horrific, and I hope they both die.

We’re at an impasse.

I disagree completely.

The crimes of both abovementioned parties against other countries and their own people have been thoroughly documented ad nauseum throughout contemporary history. It’s a pity their isn’t an actual hell for either “party of god” to burn in as they create living hells in their respective countries and region.

I propose that it’s morally sound to oppose both because, in my view, the Islamists and the Zionists are both child rapists, if we use your analogy. In context, the Islamists haven’t raped as many children yesterday, but they’ve done the deed before with just as much gusto.

Ultimately, I would hope they strangle each other to death. To quote a dying Mercutio from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, “A plague o’ both your houses!”

Christian American values. There are plenty of us who have never and will not ever drink the Kool-Aid.

I think the more morally sound position is to not support either of them (Zionists and Islamists).

“A plague o’ both your houses!”

Fundamentally, the brain still receives “bite-size-chocolate” dopamine hits from Lemmy by receiving positive affirmations from upvotes, cortisol from downvotes, and lends to dark behavior patterns like any forum. Adrenaline dumps when engaged in “online arguments”.

The nature of both anonymous or personally identifiable online forums’ neurochemical stimulation of our over-sized and over-active (but evolutionarily necessary for our ancestors’ survival) amygdala fosters social media addiction.

People like Lemmy for many reasons. Some of them are good. However, let’s not pretend that it’s “all of the good with none of the bad.” It’s healthy to be skeptical of Lemmy instances too. Screen time is the enemy.

realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug

Lemmy included.

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with your clarification.

My career path, as I stated in a different comment in regards to neural networks, is focused on generative DNNs for CAD applications and parametric 3D modeling. Before that, I began as a researcher in cancerous tissue classification and object detection in medical diagnostic imaging.

Thus, large language models are well out of my area of expertise in terms of the architecture of their models.

However, fundamentally it boils down to the fact that the specific large language model used was designed to predict text and not necessarily solve problems/play games to “win”/“survive”.

(I admit that I’m just parroting what you stated and maybe rehashing what I stated even before that, but I like repeating and refining in simple terms to practice explaining to laymen and, dare I say, clients. It helps me feel as if I don’t come off too pompously when talking about this subject to others; forgive my tedium.)

Dude, I said the same thing after I read that reply! 😂

Absolutely interested. Thank you for your time to share that.

My career path in neural networks began as a researcher for cancerous tissue object detection in medical diagnostic imaging. Now it is switched to generative models for CAD (architecture, product design, game assets, etc.). I don’t really mess about with fine-tuning LLMs.

However, I do self-host my own LLMs as code assistants. Thus, I’m only tangentially involved with the current LLM craze.

But it does interest me, nonetheless!

I’m impressed, if that’s true! In general, an LLM’s training cost vs. an LSTM, RNN, or some other more appropriate DNN algorithm suitable for the ruleset is laughably high.

It’s a quote from the novel, 1984.

WHYYYYYYYYUUHHHHH

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

George Orwell, 1984

An LLM is a poor computational/predictive paradigm for playing chess.

Mullvad DNS has been great also.

I need it for Rhino + Grasshopper (well, I guess I could run it on a Mac, but I’d lose GPU acceleration).

Everything else is Kubuntu LTS for me, though I am enjoying Garuda Linux on an old laptop.

They’re worth learning to understand the universe and the history of how that knowledge was derived and/or discovered.

If it helps you get a job, all the better, but they’re worth learning for their own sake.