FaceDeer

FaceDeer, 3 days ago

Maybe for people who have no clue how to work with an LLM. They don't have to be perfect to still be incredibly valuable, I make use of them all the time and hallucinations aren't a problem if you use the right tools for the job in the right way.

FaceDeer, 5 days ago

After he finishes bombing Rafah flat, of course. One must focus on priorities in a crisis.

FaceDeer, 5 days ago

Evidently most of the fandom needs to have it beaten over their heads a bit more blatantly than that.

Another thing that would have been helpful is if it was made clearer just how monstrous the Ewoks actually are. There wouldn't be as much shame to the Imperials for losing against them if people had only internalized a bit better that:

• Ewoks are strong enough that they can haul Redwood-sized logs up into the canopy to build deadfalls, using only crude vine ropes and muscles, and do it quietly enough that the nearby Imperial garrison didn't notice.
• They are stealthy enough that an ordinary hunting party can sneak up on an elite Rebel strike force (including a Jedi).
• That hunting party was hunting a 3-meter-tall boar-wolf, by the way. Ewoks hunt these routinely.
• Endor is full of predators like that, and despite that the Ewoks let their children wander the forest on their own. Upon being confronted with an armor-clad alien wielding a blaster weapon and riding a flying machine, one of those lone children thought to himself: "guess I'd better kill him." Leia helped, of course, but the Ewok couldn't have known she would.
• One of their literal gods, personified in the form of a physical avatar before them, ordered the Ewoks not to burn some people alive and devour their flesh. The Ewoks hesitated for half a second and then resumed piling the firewood with a jaunty song. Gods are spiffy and all, but don't get in between Ewoks and their cannibalism.

FaceDeer, 6 days ago

Gallium wants a word.

FaceDeer, 8 days ago

OP asked "how can I accomplish goal X?"

You responded "Goal X sucks, you should accomplish goal Y instead!"

That's not exactly useful.

FaceDeer, 10 days ago

Indeed, which is why I'm furious at the Internet Archive's leadership for merrily dancing out into a minefield completely unbidden.

FaceDeer, 11 days ago

A lack of understanding about how copyright and licensing works.

FaceDeer, 11 days ago

I know this is a popular thing to be angry about, but this time there was an actual fine. The consequences are being ratcheted up. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way, otherwise he risks the whole trial being thrown out in the end. Look at some of the other high-profile "this rich guy's guilty as sin but got off anyway" cases, they often boil down to some screw-up that doesn't disprove the overall case but still invalidates the trial. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby pop to mind.

FaceDeer, 11 days ago

Yes, but as I explained, the judge is proceeding by steps up the ladder of consequences. The next time Trump violates a gag order he can now say "I have demonstrated that fines are insufficient, and so I'm moving on to jail time."

FaceDeer, 12 days ago

There's already Conservapedia.

FaceDeer, 16 days ago

the trial judge improperly allowed women to testify about allegations against the ex-movie mogul that weren’t part of the case.

Well, yeah, that's a pretty major problem. If they're bringing in allegations that aren't part of the case how is the defendant supposed to defend himself against that?

Everyone getting angry about this as a miscarriage of justice, I agree, but direct that anger at the judge and prosecutors who screwed it up so badly. Echoes of Cosby getting off due to a prosecutor making a stupid deal, or OJ getting off because the police apparently tried to frame a guilty man.

FaceDeer, 20 days ago

Could we throw some folding chairs into the ring with them, at least?

FaceDeer, 28 days ago

I think a major factor was also that the police apparently tried to frame him. It's unfortunate that this resulted in the jury not believing the actual evidence, but the blame lies with the police for that.

FaceDeer, 28 days ago

Yeah, if only they'd just surrendered to Putin immediately he wouldn't have had to massacre so many of them in this way. He could have done it quietly and out of sight, where it wouldn't bother us.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

I wouldn't be surprised if someday when we've fully figured out how our own brains work we go "oh, is that all? I guess we just seem a lot more complicated than we actually are."

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

You realize that thunderstorms are unrelated to tsunamis?

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

Two weeks later he died of appendicitis.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

It sounds like things are going well for this guy and that is great and all, but how much would we honestly expect to hear if it wasn't going well?

Given how eager people are to pounce on negative news about anything Elon Musk-related, I expect we would be hearing way, way more about this if it wasn't going well. "Elon Musk's Neuralink Damages a Man's Brain!" and "Elon Musk's Neuralink Fails!" Headlines and such from every rooftop.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

I guess he was getting too close to finally agreeing that Ukraine needs some more support.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

None of this is AI-specific. Youtube wants you to label your videos if you use "altered or synthetic content" that could mislead people about real people or events. 99% of what Corridor Crew puts out would probably need to be labeled, for example, and they mostly use traditional digital effects.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

This really just shines a light on a more significant underlying problem with scientific publication in general, that being that there's just way too much of it. "Publish or perish" is resulting in enormous pressure to churn out papers whether they're good or not.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

Hang on, is it actually called the "Women of Distinction" award? The article body calls it the “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award”, which doesn't sound gender-specific. If there's nothing about the award that requires it specifically to be given to women, other than just being named after a woman and being given to one the first few times, what's the problem?

The article is laden with snarky comments and obviously biased opinions, and the article it links to as its source is paywalled, so it's not really clear what's going on here.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

I did this myself, unintentionally of course. I inherited a car but didn't have a driver's license, so the car stayed on the driveway for roughly a year until I got around to getting the license. I did do some minimal maintenance on it - every once in a while I'd go out and start the engine, I moved it slightly back and forth in the driveway to ensure that the wheels weren't always in the same position, and I trickle-charged the battery once or twice when it wouldn't start.

The car seemed to come out of the experience perfectly fine. I needed to change the battery about another year later, after I'd been driving it a while, but I'm sure that's just because the battery was super old to begin with.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

I think you may have missed a significant chunk of what I wrote. The prof told me that they couldn't know who was going to try to hurt others. Often the patients themselves didn't know whether they were going to hurt others.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It actually did, solve it, unironically. The concern was that Microsoft was going to de facto take over the HTML standard and make it so that you had to use Internet Explorer and proprietary Microsoft extensions if you wanted to browse the web, eliminating all competition.

Now, more than 20 years later, Internet Explorer is defunct. Microsoft's current browser is built on Chromium, an open source engine that was created by one of its competitors. If anything it's Google that's now the problematic one.