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I've been using Boost(s) since the APIcalypse since I mod a dead subreddit. A few hours ago the app stopped showing content and started showing errors. Is it just a me thing or is this more general?

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adherence to the rule is the 4th law of robotics
  • Oh, by "that space" I meant the space where that specific person hung out in, not AI research in general

    Though I have heard a fair share of idiotic takes from actual researchers as well

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    adherence to the rule is the 4th law of robotics
  • I have seen AI apologists talk about how "AI" is already sentient and we shouldn't restrict it because it's immoral.

    That straight up killed my desire to interact in that space the community with that person

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    That feeling when even Elon Musk thinks you're insufferable
  • I mean, sure. My comment was entirely tongue in cheek. I didn't like awards, especially those that are more than just a glorified emoji (such as those I mentioned)

    But, truth be told, the wealthy can just straight up buy discussions and opinions. User farms/bots aren't free, and neither was Twitter currently X. Nothing can hide from the cruel hand of capital. The fediverse isn't immune to this either: it's too small for anyone rich to buy out, but there's very little preventing them from just buying one of the larger instances. And even without that, it still privileges those with money - hosting isn't free.

    The most we can do is to stay vigilant, I suppose. Be aware of the inherent biases in the world and refuse to engage with systems that are too strongly captured - Twitter currently X, the zuck platform, Reddit soon (probably).

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    Rule of Theseus
  • Didn't a lot of traditions start this way? First they solved some problem, then they forgot the problem existed and continued to apply the solution

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    Everything is Statistics
  • Math is a language and as such it's less pure than sociology. The universe knows no numbers, it knows no addition not division.

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    Explain yourselves, comp sci.
  • Which is why you should:

    1. Preallocate the vector if you can guesstimate the size
    2. Use a vector library that won't reallocate the entire vector on every single addition (like Rust, whose Vec doubles in size every time it runs out of space)

    Memory is fairly cheap. Allocation time not so much.

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    A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • At first I wanted to dismiss your worry and just call her dumb, but you may be right. I'm still not entirely sold on that, I think she can just be out of her depth, but what you're saying would make for a very nice pivot to political grifting. What makes me skeptical of that is her old trans video, about sport. Though, now that I think about it, it used the exact same "both sides" and "insufficient data" arguments the new video abused.

    I actually also wanted to link a video about free will and a livestream react but I couldn't find a good one. Was that the one that made you quit?

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    Newegg AI rule
  • I just wanted to use the bot in good faith (me having more money is good) to understand how a process works (the process of me receiving money) :3

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    Just looking for resources
  • You can't apply computers to humans and expect good results. Period. Human made text is not easily parametrizable; much less someone's manner of speaking or bodily expressions.

    And human relationships as a whole, where at least two beings fundamentally incomprehensible to the machine interact, within a larger societal context that is equally incomprehensible? Acting like you can fit it into a neat model is peak computer science hubris.

    And, in the end, it would only reinforce the preexisting notions of what is "healthy" or how others are feeling. I'm not sure that it applies to autistics as well as it does to neurotypicals. And I'm not certain if it applies to them either.

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    Why is this community filled with neoliberals from lemmy.world ?
  • Even earlier, the original r/195 was left leaning.

    Examples from top of all time:
    Pro-socialist mockery of liberals
    Cop hatred
    Queerposting
    Transposting before it was cool
    Anti-capitalism

    There was a lot more of this. Though nowadays, especially after the disaster, r/196 has lost its leftist edge. There aren't as many posts about world events as there used to be. Or about the people.

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    Toxicology Rule
  • I didn't notice that it was the patient's friend's cocktail and got a solid dose of "what the fuck maple leaf country" before I noticed

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    The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent - Dhole Moments
  • I'll bite back >:3

    I don't think I know enough about anarchism to really dispute that. Though how much can the proletariat gain compared to the capitalists from AI? FOSS models are limited - I don't think most people have supercomputers required for the training in their basements.

    I will however question your denial of community. What definition of that word do you use? We're not in a worker - capitalist relationship all the time. See: us right now, right here. See: me with other students at my university. Class distinctions are irrelevant to that.
    Hell, Lemmy as a whole is a tech enthusiast community to an extent, though it being a lesser known specific form of social media introduces forces that make this community different in meaningful ways (e.g. it's not corporate - there are fewer corpowhores here, it requires more effort to get in - people here will be on average more interested in actually contributing something meaningful).
    On top of that, you mentioned FOSS models. Who were they built by? Corporations? Or a bunch of loosely associated volunteers who came together to work towards a shared goal? Is this not a community? (Those are actual questions btw, I couldn't be bothered to check)
    And with some form of a community comes some form of culture and morality.

    As for additional forces even in workplaces, did you know most tech workers are men?

    And as an aside, where have I said that it's the tech workers who are responsible for bad, unethical solutions? I'm pretty I explicitly claimed the opposite

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