AFKBRBChocolate

@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Man, I love the guy’s expression when he realizes he has zero excuse and was totally screwed.

AFKBRBChocolate,

My wife watches that judge - judge Simpson - regularly. He actually seems like a really good guy who wants to give people a chance, but he does not put up with shit at all. Any sort of blatant disregard for the law or disrespect for the court during the proceedings and the person is going to have a bad time.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I have never seen walls match the floors with a pattern before.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Oh! You’re right. I guess that’s the side of the tub that my brain tried to make the floor?

I’m okay now, move along…

AFKBRBChocolate,

I haven’t been, but isn’t there advertising? Most sites want traffic.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Not sure what I would have done in Biden’s spot. China has a long history of ignoring patents, doing industrial espionage, and government funding an industry to corner the market on it, shutting everyone else out. We need cheap EVs, but that cost is so high.

AFKBRBChocolate,

It’s a double win for him. Yes, he’s courting automakers and the oil and gas industry, so this gets him that, but a giant percentage of his base is simply against anything that liberals are for. Think of those idiots rolling coal. They’re literally making their cars as polluting as possible. What do they gain from it? The only thing it does, besides contributing to climate change, is upset liberals, and that’s the goal. Every one of those people will support this.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Far from my area of expertise, but my guess is because people can swallow lack of forward progress way better than they swallow going backwards. The current trade with China started back under Nixon, and Americans have gotten used to so many ultra cheap Chinese goods. I try to avoid products from China, and for some things it’s really hard, and it usually means paying double the price. If we cut off that trade or raised the tarrifs a lot, the price of so many things works skyrocket and people wouldn’t stand for it.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Rights aren’t, and shouldn’t be, all or nothing. Criminals, for instance, forfeit certain rights depending on the crime and the jurisdiction. Often they forfeit the right to freedom and end up in prison. In some places, for some crimes, they might even forfeit the right to life and get executed.

But the important things is we have a system for determining what those things are. If, as with your example, we said pedophiles have zero rights, that would mean that anyone would be free to kill them, to steal from them, to torture them, or whatever. That doesn’t seem like a good move for society, especially given the potential for abuse.

AFKBRBChocolate,

If what I’ve read is true, the saddest things about the Shrek movie is that they changed what Fiona was. What I read was that she originally was some other sort of monster, not another ogre - one that Shrek thought was physically unattractive at first. The whole message about a person’s insides being what’s important loses a lot of impact when Fiona is an attractive version of Shrek’s same race/species.

AFKBRBChocolate,

The people who were - and still are - clowning on Americans for their politics are a different group than the people currently voting far right. You’re not dunking on the people you think you are.

But that’s sort of the point they were making, isn’t it? Left-leaning Europeans giving Americans across the spectrum shit for right-leaning politics even though the majority in all cases is slim and vulnerable to reversal?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Also worth pointing out that only a slight majority of boomers are very conservative. If you look at the demographics of the last couple presidential elections, you’ll see that only slightly more boomers voted conservative than liberal, and only slightly more younger folks voted liberal than conservative.

There’s this impression that the distinction is much more significant than it actually is. As a liberal boomer, I’m a little sensitive about it.

AFKBRBChocolate,

This is exactly, literally true. The hard right folks in all branches of government are always throwing wrenches in the machine and then complaining that we have to get rid of the machine because it doesn’t work.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I feel like a bad thing that happened to us started when, through science, we started finding more and more things that contradicted the bible, at the same time as some evangelical sects were pushing for a more and more literal interpretation of the bible, and so their only argument was that science is evil/blasphemous/whatever. So more and more people on the right got comfortable just disregarding scientists, facts, and information-driven conclusions. Instead, they just pick whatever narrative they’re comfortable with and even a lot of people who disagree with it treat it like a legitimate belief.

We used to call those people nutjobs. Now we call them Fox news viewers.

AFKBRBChocolate,

If that’s correct, that’s a much more significant difference than in the US.

Does Europe have the same kind of post war baby boom generation that the US has?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Oh, completely agree, but for the first two thirds of the 20th century, most Christians, like most people generally, were very pro science and took the bible as a book of lessons. It’s only in the last several decades that such a huge percentage of Christians equate science as antithetical to Christianity.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Solid point. Still, the prevailing attitude in the 40s and 50s was that science made things better, with perhaps a detour related to nuclear bombs/energy.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Take me to the river?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Is that gravy or BBQ sauce?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Thank you! I really, really hate this trend of posting a screenshot of a headline or part of an article. Why not post a link to the actual article?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Was having a related conversation with an employee this morning (I manage a software engineering organization). He asked an LLM how to separate the parts of a date in Excel, and got a pretty good explanation of how do it with the text to columns wizard, and also how to use a formula to get each part. He was happy because he felt it would have taken him much longer to figure it out himself.

I was saying I thought that was a good use of an LLM - it’s going to give a tailored answer - but my worry is that people will do less scrubbing of an answer coming from an AI than one they saw on a forum. I said we should think of it like a tailored Google search.

For comparison, I googled “Excel formula separate parts of a date” and one of the top results was a forum discussion that had the exact solutions the LLM gave, using the same examples. On the one hand, to get it from the forum you had to wade through all the wrong answers and discussions. On the other hand, that discussion puts the answer given in the context of a bunch of others that are off the mark, and I think make people less likely to assume it’s correct.

In any case, it’s still just synthesizing from or regurgitating training data.

AFKBRBChocolate,

You might have missed where I said it explained both the text to columns wizard and a formula. He used the formula, which is what he was looking for. He’s a top notch software developer, he just doesn’t use Excel much.

But I agree with your broader point. I keep having to remind people that the “LM” part is for “language model.” It’s not figuring anything out, it’s distilling what an answer should look like. A great example is to ask one for a mathematical proof that isn’t commonly found online - maybe something novel. In all likelihood, it’s going to give you one, and it will probably look like the right kind of stuff, but it will also probably be wrong. It doesn’t know math (it doesn’t know anything), it just has a model of what a response should look like.

That being said, they’re pretty good for a number of things. One great example is lesson plans. From what I understand, most teachers now give an LLM the coursework and ask it to generate a lesson plan. Apparently they do an excellent job and save many hours of work. Anything that involves summarizing information is good, especially as that constrains the training data.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Because if 3 percent voted for him that would normally vote for someone else, it could make a big difference in a close election.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Yes, let’s move the government to the left by singling out the most progressive liberals in office and voting them out for not being liberal enough. Instead we’ll vote in far, far right conservatives. Good plan.

I’m suspecting OP is trying to get liberals not to vote.

AFKBRBChocolate,

He seemed like a classy guy. He made the decision to stop playing Bond because he said the leading ladies were young enough to be his granddaughter, and “it was disgusting.”

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • ethstaker
  • thenastyranch
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • khanakhh
  • rosin
  • mdbf
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • everett
  • cubers
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • Leos
  • InstantRegret
  • Durango
  • tester
  • osvaldo12
  • cisconetworking
  • tacticalgear
  • anitta
  • GTA5RPClips
  • modclub
  • normalnudes
  • provamag3
  • megavids
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •