Zos_Kia

Zos_Kia, 5 hours ago

Sadly,I doubt there’s many countries that would enforce that ban

Zos_Kia, 14 hours ago

Because magic has in common verbiage typically been used to describe phenomena we don’t know the mechanism behind

I would argue that this is what makes it particularly useful. Magic provide a language to describe those phenomena that don’t have a mechanistic explanation yet. That in turn allows people to explore those phenomena in a structured way. That structure may be wrong or arbitrary but it is still better than going in blind.

Zos_Kia, 17 hours ago

Love that the article header is a picture of a Pentium II. That’s cold as ice 💀

Zos_Kia, 16 hours ago

My favorite is the Beetlejuice bit in Community

Zos_Kia, 9 hours ago

Haha what are the odds! On the odd chance that you haven’t already, you should definitely watch arrested development it is full of background jokes like that. MDMA optional but probably works too

Zos_Kia, 1 day ago

While I definitely agree with your general sentiment, how do you contend with the 66% of voters who think Israel is justified in this war, and the nearly 40% who think the way it is waged is acceptable? Wouldn’t the electoral risk be even more dire if you alienate them?

I’m not asking that rhetorically, I think it’s a genuinely hard problem.

Zos_Kia, 1 day ago

You’re right, i didn’t have the breakdown by party and didn’t realize the size of the difference. I would have thought that establishment democrats would be more strongly in favour. Wholly agree with your comment then.

(i don’t have the link right now but if i remember to look for it on my phone i’ll edit it here later. It was from a run of the mill polling institute, i don’t remember which)

Zos_Kia, 2 days ago

I don’t understand that argument. We invented a term to describe a certain technology. But you’re arguing that this term should not be used to describe such technology, as it should be reserved for another mythical tech that may or may not exist some time in the future. What exactly is your point here?

Zos_Kia, 2 days ago

I don’t mean to throw shade but that explanation makes me understand even less. Yes, it is a generic term used to describe a whole array of technologies - is that a bad thing now ? I understand that some people might misunderstand if they don’t know much about the subject but isn’t that true of all technical terms ?

Zos_Kia, 1 day ago

Do you have information that any AI company is currently money ? AFAIK all foundational models are still bleeding money and are subsidized by VC money. There is even the distinct possibility that these companies may never be profitable at the current pricing.

Zos_Kia, 1 day ago

That’s even richer. So the term AI should be reserved for the future tech that may or may not come to exist, even though that mythical technology already has a perfectly suitable name (AGI) ? That sounds… useful ! But also very interesting, and intellectually stimulating ! After all, who doesn’t love those little semantics games ?

AI is a technical term that has been used by researchers and product developers for 50 years, with a fairly consistent definition. I know it hurts because it contradicts your pedestrian opinion on how Big Words should be used, but that’s just the way it is. We’re not at a point yet where humanity recognizes your legitimacy to decide how words are used.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

And that’s why Josh is a dick and we need to banish him

Zos_Kia, 2 days ago

You see that a lot in the guitar community. Anything new or that doesn’t fit a traditional, pre-existing mold is dismissed as inferior. Anything non-traditional and obviously skillful tends to draw hate from those same people.

I don’t see what could be qualified as non traditional in their music. It was run of the mill speed/power metal that was pretty common since the early 90s, or even the 80s if you stretch the definition a bit. Even from a technical standpoint they were fucking good but nothing ground breaking.

I always felt that the hate against them came from the fact that they became mainstream popular thanks to guitar hero while they were not particularly notable among their peers in the metal scene.

Zos_Kia, 1 day ago

Oh OK that’s something i was completely unaware of.

So you’re telling me those supposed guitar fans had completely missed the whole guitar hero phase of the 80s, to the point that Dragonforce appeared “non-traditional” to them in the early 00s ? That’s funny and they sound like a fun community.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

I’ve been getting back into anarchy Minecraft as an old buddy of mine is kinda resurrecting a base I used to be active at.

The scene is mostly dead, on our main server it’s 2 to 4 players on average which is crazy to me. It used to be from 50 to 100 most evenings.

Now I’ve got a 2 million blocks trip to make, even auto walking on the nether roof that’s gonna take some time. But it’s also an occasion to revisit some historic milestones along the way! I was able to get my hands on one signed book a friend had given me some time before passing away so it’s also kind of an emotional journey.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

Don’t mean to victim blame but i don’t understand why you would use ChatGPT for hard problems like optimization. And i say this as a heavy ChatGPT/Copilot user.

From my observation, the angle of LLMs on code is linked to the linguistic / syntactic aspects, not to the technical effects of it.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

Agreed and i have the exact same approach. It’s like having a colleague next to you who’s not very good but who’s super patient and always willing to help. It’s like having a rubber duck on Adderall who has read all the documentation that exists.

It seems people are in such a hurry to reject this technology that they fall into the age old trap of forming completely unrealistic expectations then being disappointed when they don’t pan out.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

I don’t think that’s asking too much of it.

Apparently it was :D i mean the confines of the tool are very limited, despite what the Devin.ai cult would like to believe.

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

Honestly i started at a new job 2 weeks ago and i’ve been breezing through subjects (notably thanks to ChatGPT) at an alarming rate. I’m happy, the boss is happy, OpenAI get their 20 bucks a month. It’s fascinating to read all the posts from people who claim it cannot generate any good code - sounds like a skill issue to me.

Zos_Kia, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

The exact lyrics are :

Jaaaacques Chirahac

Jacques Chirahac

Jacques Chirac, Jacques Chirac (Jacques Chirac?)

Zos_Kia, 6 days ago

Such a lazy take. Obviously you don’t have any experience with the early internet occult scene. Why, then, would you give an opinion on something you know nothing about?

Zos_Kia, 6 days ago

666 One Boss

Icq numbers that go HARD

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

You seem to know the subject. Who exactly are you referring to ? Are there some practices in particular that have caught your attention ? Some specific communities maybe ?

Zos_Kia, 4 days ago

Sounds like your view on the subject is mostly informed by Hollywood. A bit irrational if you ask me, and certainly very dogmatic.

If for some reason you decide to check out a fact-based approach on the subject i can recommend a few Youtube channels that are free, hosted by accredited scholars, and offer in-depth, well researched, long form content on the history of spiritual movements. It is so fucking interesting man. It’s like the B-Sides of the history of ideas, and has a lot more impact on the Age of Science than you realize.

Zos_Kia, 9 days ago

Yeah I found this kind of reductionist talk pushes people to overlook the emerging properties of the system, which is where the meat of the topic is. It’s like looking at a living cell and saying “yeah well this is just chemistry”.