communist

communist, 7 days ago

I use f2fs on ssd’s and ext4 on hdd’s

I don’t see the need for snapshots, I backup externally

communist, 1 month ago

It has been argued by many that cats have actually domesticated humans

communist, 1 month ago

This is actually extremely difficult to study

www.youtube.com/watch?v=idlq8zCrUkY

communist, 2 months ago

A fork wouldn’t help anything at all, the problem is that nobody is working on the patches not that the devs won’t accept them

communist, 2 months ago

How did you get swayfx on sericea?

that was one of my only blockers for switching.

communist, 4 months ago

Not at all, it was annoying for a few weeks when reddit imploded but since then I haven’t had any problems.

communist, 5 months ago

Weird considering they are on the side of the slaveowner…

communist, 5 months ago

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8QoRa8y_Q

communist, 5 months ago

It’s literally the worst distro, github.com/arindas/manjarno

Endeavoros is fundamentally better in every way, everything manjaro adds makes arch worse, and everything good they have comes from arch.

communist, 5 months ago

I brute forced my way through learning starcraft, it took literal years to get out of the bronze league, probably my most played game of all time. Can’t wait for immortal gates of pyre.

communist, 5 months ago

I use keyd for this.

communist, 6 months ago

Manjaro 100%

Everything they add to arch makes arch worse. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch.

communist, 6 months ago

For graphical installer - there are already plenty of these for arch that aren’t manjaro and don’t fuck up your system like manjaro does

As for package manager frontend… pamac is awful, just use octopi or any TUI.

There was no need to make a whole new distro for those two things, and those two things aren’t even well polished. They should’ve just made those tools for arch, and called it a day.

communist, 6 months ago

He said worst, not best.

communist, 6 months ago

Did she hate him or something?

communist, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Why are you so ready to believe they’re stochastic parrots when they’ve done so many novel behaviors?

Even primitive versions of this technology (and gpt is already primitive), remember move 37 of alphago? It was unprecedented, we’re far too willing to believe that nothing is happening in the world and there’s nothing to worry about, but there’s plenty of warning signs, laughing these things off as stochastic parrots is genuinely harmful to society. It’s also just blatant misinformation.

communist, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’m aware of all of those things.

An LLM doesn’t think. It takes input and runs it through statistical layers until it returns output. It doesn’t learn either: the input does not change the model. Models are tuned, tweaked and generally curated to get the best experience. All experiments with letting a model be exposed to the public and “learn” directly have gone horribly wrong.

That’s what thinking is, you’re a model that takes sensory input and converts it into muscle movement. You do realize you too are a neural network… neurons are literally what we’ve based this technology on.

The input not changing the model is irrelevant, and I never claimed that, I claimed that they aren’t stochastic parrots.

Alpha go isn’t an LLM: It’s a reinforcement learning model combined with a Monte Carlo search. It uses deep learning and is fundamentally a different method of machine learning.

Yes, it’s something EVEN more primitive than an LLM, is my point, and yet it still does novel things. This even more primitive than LLM AI is already NOT a stochastic parrot, why would language models be one?

LLMs are definitely dangerous: the danger is that people believe them too much. It’s that CEOs believe they can replace their writers, it’s that the general public can generate bullshit faster than ever. They have irradiated the online sphere just like the nukes of the 40s irradiated all steel.

…duh?

I don’t think you responded to my post in any meaningful way.

businessinsider.com/chatgpt-open-ai-balancing-tas…

This is not something you would see a stochastic parrot do, and I can point to many other articles displaying emergent properties not contained in their datasets. If it does things that are outside of its dataset, it’s not a stochastic parrot.

I read about this shit constantly, the notion that they’re stochastic parrots is reductionist nonsense.

You sound like you’re so used to people saying stupid shit about how it’s conscious that you expected me to believe that, and then argued with that belief. I don’t think they’re conscious, sentient, whatever, I think they’re not stochastic parrots and they have novel behaviors that aren’t necessarily in their datasets, or rather, can be inferred from parts of their datasets in order to make new things.

communist, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

You are vastly more complex than an LLM. There are hundreds of neural transmitters. 20 billion neocortical neurons and 7 thousand connections per neuron. A naive complexity of 2.8e16 combinations. Each thought tweaking those ~7000 connections as it passes from neuron to neuron.

Aware and irrelevant, if anything that helps my point.

The brains training that model are not that model. They are what does the thinking, the model is nothing more than a black box of statistical analysis that spits out stats in a human digestible format.

The brains training that model are thinking, in the exact same way that the AI is. You can pretend that isn’t thinking all you want, but what it’s doing is quite obviously reasoning in tokens.

It’s Stochastic: entirely based on statistical probabilities with no reasoning behind any of its outputs. It’s a parrot in that it can only construct that which has been fed to it as an output. It’s not “thinking in Estonian”: Estonian had been programmed into it either directly via Estonian language material being introduced or indirectly by Estonian patterns matching other similarly trained languages.

So are you. As we scale up, they quite obviously get better at reasoning, just like you said, we’re a much more complex version of this, it’s still bad at it, because it’s tiny. In your mind, how does thinking work, if not in the exact same way LLM’s do that?

Gpt4 still hallucinates all the time. It still fails to reason.

Sometimes it fails to reason, sometimes it hallucinates… so do you. Have you never accidentally said something false? Have you never failed to reason? Consider the following: the thoughts you actually share are a much smaller, filtered version of the thoughts that go on in your head, you’ve censored a massive portion of your thoughts, and you don’t share the bad ones, you’re the same, you just have a filter. You’re a much more complex, significantly more performant, significantly better version of an LLM that converts your sensations into muscle movements.

It is not doing novel things: it’s doing exactly what it has always done in unexpected ways but that’s very different from intelligence and thinking. What’s tripping people up is they’ve never interacted with anything that had the width of knowledge readily available. The complexity of encoding the entire world makes a huge surface where anyone can interact with it and get reasonable responses. That doesn’t make it reasoning, just that it has a very detailed latent space which is very good at natural language queries.

You have not demonstrated the difference, you’ve demonstrated that they’re worse at it, and you even explained WHY, they’re much smaller. That is exactly how the neural network in the brain works, you just want to say that your brain is magical. Yes, it is worse at reasoning than humans, but as demonstrated in that link, it gets better and better with size, unless you believe that the instructions for stacking every single object exists online, you have to accept that while these models are tiny, they’re already beginning to reason in the exact same way you do.

communist, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

There is no consensus on this, some say they do, some say they don’t, i’ve read both sides extensively and have determined that it is obvious they are currently less intelligent than dogs, duh, what a shifted goalpost, dogs are highly intelligent, that is obvious, because their scale is nowhere near a dog brain. It is an open question if scaling solves this, but I think the potential with scaling is obvious due to two simple facts:

1. Human brains work using the same unit parts, the structure is more complex, and number of connections is much higher, but none the less we are neural networks.
2. Scaling has already been demonstrated to improve things.

You shouldn’t pretend a consensus has been reached based on those few articles, that is simply not the case. They also all pretend intelligence is magic and that we’ve reached a dead end, neither is true, one could say you don’t think, you predict muscle movements… You seem to not realize in order to predict text accurately you must reason. I’m fully aware they are advanced text predictors, but you are the same.

You should study neuroscience, you’ll find the purpose of a brain is to predict. “True AI” is just an endlessly shifting goalpost. It won’t be one until it is the size of a human brain, expecting a much smaller brain to outperform ours is silly.

communist, 6 months ago

Not in the long-run. This is absolutely a temporary issue due to the beta quality of lemmy.

communist, 7 months ago

I completely reject the notion that the mainstream success of the fediverse will be the death of the fediverse, what are your reasons for believing that?

Enshittification happens to monetized platforms because they tried to capture as many users as possible and then profit off of them, lemmy instances show no profit motive, and are volunteer run. There isn’t a route to enshittification with federation, because even if YOUR instance enshittifies, there’s still many others that will not, and due to federation, you won’t miss out on any content (as long as your instance doesn’t defed), so it won’t matter.

I also believe the issues you call out, aside from algorithmically driven content, will be solved eventually, as mod tools improve, there will be less of a need for defederation.

Even algorithmically driven content is partially solved by “hot” and “best” being improved, it’s just not personalized.

With the rate of lemmy development being as rapid as it is, these things will eventually be solved, but that takes a lot of time. Lemmy is still barely even beta.

communist, 7 months ago

Yeah, you can always make your own scrappy little website. But you’ll be an island few to no users will want to visit and support if you’re competing with the other players. That, or you catch on and grow to the point where you yourself become the villain.

that’s exactly what federation prevents… you can be a scrappy little website and federate, and then you don’t need a massive infrastructure that would cause enshittification later. If you enshittify, people will just leave to other parts of the fediverse, the model causes enshittification to just be the failure of your website.

This is different from the world wide web in that the content is not partitioned. I can get the same lemmy experience if I go elsewhere, and not lose out on content. If there’s a major new privacy concern on my instance, i’m going to say fuck them and leave, and I’ll lose nothing.

Also, “no profit motive”? Where critical masses of people gather, entrepeneurs surely follow. Someone will figure out a way to monetize hosting a Fediverse instance. Hell, Threads tried, sort of. That alone won’t immediately enshittify the whole Fediverse. But given enough time and growth, well, see above.

Except they’ll inevitably fail aside from the people who legitimately don’t care, and quite frankly, if they don’t care, who does? Just go to another instance if that happens, you’ll lose nothing, and it won’t even be a problem.

Federation makes the part of enshittification where you box in your users not work. The reason facebook could enshittify is because if you left facebook, you’d lose ALL of facebook. They trapped people. You can’t trap people like that on the fediverse. The first step fails inevitably, you’ll just make everyone on your instance hate you and they’ll leave for literally any other instance and it will die.

The fediverse doesn’t work well with profit motive because of that, the only real way to profit without causing anybody who knows anything about what you’re doing maliciously to leave is… what exactly?

When leaving has no cost, there’s no way to force people to stay if you do something shitty.

Even if you keep some users, meh, they won’t keep me, and i’ll lose nothing by switching.

communist, 7 months ago

Mao’s failures were issues of idiocy and incompetence, not wanting to exterminate groups of people he didn’t like based on their race. If mao was more competent he wouldn’t have been as fucking awful (though still quite bad). If Hitler was more competent we’d have even more victims of the Holocaust.

These aren’t comparable.

communist, 7 months ago

Depending on your distro you may have a very outdated version of kde wayland, the plasma 6 version is significantly better.

communist, 7 months ago

Basically the thing to do if you don’t know anything about this and don’t care to learn is to use wayland and if it’s broken in some way for you switch to x11.

X11 is ancient and garbage code but has matured so it tends to “just work”

wayland is much newer, much better code, but it has not matured so it doesn’t always “just work”