kfet

kfet, 6 months ago

Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization, which just executed a bunch of civilians on a music fest. There is no grey area and no room for interpretation.

kfet, 6 months ago

This is the guy who went on record claiming that it is somehow NATO’s fault for Putin’s Russia invading Ukraine. Do not trust him with anything related to politics, he is out of his mind.

kfet, 6 months ago

Maybe the released few were treated well. Very few out of hundreds. Hamas have not deserved an ounce of trust, don’t give it to them for free.

kfet, 7 months ago

this

kfet, 7 months ago

Al Jazeera has lost all credibility over their reporting the last couple of weeks. They actually express support for Hamas after the music fest massacre, and lately they were quick to publish falsehoods (proven as such by their own videos!) about the hospital tragedy. I used to follow them, hoping for unbiased view. No more, won’t be missed.

kfet, 7 months ago

“Citogenesis” I chuckled:) XKCD is great

Oh and here’s the wiki article on the subject! With a link to the comic no less:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting

kfet, 7 months ago

No need for yet another propaganda source in my feeds, blocked.

kfet, 7 months ago

Do it!

kfet, 7 months ago

I had fun watching it, want more :)

kfet, 7 months ago

Good! Saying “I will not condemn Palestinian resistance” at this specific time is a quite literal endorsement of Hamas. It’s the only “resistance” and it is 100% based on slaughter of innocents (both Israeli and Palestinians).

A really horrible stance to take, with the very much expected consequences.

kfet, 7 months ago

Hamas people literally shot-up a music fest, murdering a whole lot of civilians, kidnaping even more. Where would you draw the line before calling them terrorists?

kfet, 7 months ago

by shooting-up a music fest? really?

kfet, 7 months ago

Aiming to and harming civilians is not “fighting back”. It is plain lowly cowardly disgusting terrorism. Fuck Hamas.

kfet, 7 months ago

No, it doesn’t, that is not at all what the court has said, it’s just a clickbait title.

What they said is that a 1982 Canadian law about suing foreign states cannot be used retroactively for a 1960s case. Much less dramatic, I know.

kfet, 7 months ago

Quoting the article: “…Although WIRED could initially replicate the troubling Bing result, it now appears to have been resolved…”.

Most of the web-search-capable bots I use (fastgpt, bing chat, poe web-search) correctly refuse to quote the published LLM-hallucinated info. It can still be reproduced on perplexity ai.

This seems to be much less of an issue than recent publications make it out to be, mostly because all the companies behind those bots are aware and actively addressing it, I guess.

kfet, 7 months ago

I’ve been reading on an iPad mini for years, dark mode, and I have no complaints, never had any sleeping issues. For me the e-ink reader really shines at the beach, irreplaceable there.

kfet, 8 months ago

Here’s an AI bot’s summary:

Cory Doctorow gave a talk about the concept of “ensh*ttification” - how internet platforms start out good, then abuse users to benefit businesses, then abuse businesses to benefit themselves, until they die.

He argues today’s big tech firms like Facebook and Google have undergone ensh*ttification, withdrawing value from users and business partners to benefit shareholders.

Doctorow says ensh*ttification happens due to lack of competition, companies’ ability to “twiddle the knobs” with no transparency, and laws that criminalize modifying platforms.

He proposes halting consolidation, limiting companies’ twiddling abilities, and restoring the right to modify platforms through “adversarial interoperability.”

This will help shift control of technology from giant companies to small ones, co-ops, nonprofits and user communities.

Tactics include blocking mergers, mandating open APIs, government procurement rules favoring interoperability, and rolling back laws against modifying platforms.

The goal is a “new good internet” that succeeds the old open internet and avoids the pitfalls of today’s walled gardens. Doctorow urges spreading these ideas to seize opportunities in future crises.

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Link to the bot prompt and completion: poe.com/s/9ttdGxEMHMSCkLnSTGiz

kfet, 8 months ago

That’s a logical fallacy. Given A is B it does not follow that B is A.

edit: it would make sense if it was phrased as “A is equivalent to B”. Saying “A is B” in a scientific context has a very specific meaning. Makes me wonder how trustworthy the paper itself is.

kfet, 8 months ago

Looks like the findings are specifically about out-of-context learning, i.e. fine-tuning on facts like “Tom Cruise’s mother was Mary Lee Pfeiffer” is not enough to be able to answer a questions like “Who are the children of Mary Lee Pfeiffer?”, without any prompt engineering/tuning.

However, if you have in the context something like “Who was Tom Cruise’s mother?”, then the LLM has no problem answering correctly “Who are the children of Mary Lee Pfeiffer?”, listing all the children, including Tom Cruise.

Note that it would be confusing even to a human to ask “Who is the son of Mary Lee Pfeiffer?”, which is what they test on, since the lady had more than one son. That was the point of my comment, it’s just a misleading question.

But that’s not the issue in general that the researchers have unearthed, as I assumed based on the “A is B” summary, so yeah, it’s just a poor choice of wording.

kfet, 8 months ago

Some trans support rallies in BC tomorrow:

bcfed.ca/statement/no-space-for-trans-hate

kfet, 8 months ago

Working as intended then.

kfet, 9 months ago

Not funny :/