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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.

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We've got LLMs now that can do that. Sorry, you've been replaced. Please gather your things into this box and cheer up.

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I'd be very interested in those results too, though I'd want everyone to bear in mind the possibility that the brain could have many different "masculine" and "feminine" attributes that could be present in all sorts of mixtures when you range afield from whatever statistical clusterings there might be. I wouldn't want to see a situation where a transgender person is denied care because an AI "read" them as cisgender.

In another comment in this thread I mentioned how men and women have different average heights, that would be a good analogy. There are short men and tall women, so you shouldn't rely on just that.

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Took me way too long to realize that headline was from The Onion.

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Okay, here's a whole bunch I can think of off the top of my head.

  • Opposition to DEI initiatives, feminism, affirmative action, immigration, etc., are rooted in racism/sexism. Even dislike for certain movies is rooted in racism/sexism.
  • People are being stolen from and/or their privacy is being violated when companies use public data about them to train AI, target ads, etc. People get really mad about this.
  • On a similar note, AI art "has no soul" and AI artists aren't "real artists."
  • Hamas and/or Israel are evil. Pick whatever position you want on this conflict, there's a flood of propaganda pushing it and reasoned discussion that goes against it is hard.
  • Everything Elon Musk does is somehow evil or idiotic.
  • Cryptocurrency is a scam. AI is a scam. <insert some other new technology> is a scam.
  • Religion is bad.
  • All cops are bastards.
  • Unions are good and corporations are bad. Heck, the "capitalism is bad" message in this comic is itself propaganda.
  • Cancelling major NASA initiatives like Artemis or Mars Sample Return (or James Webb, Space Shuttle, etc. historically) would be a disaster for space exploration and science, despite their wildly spiralling costs.

Okay, that last one is perhaps getting down into the weeds of one of the more particular communities I find myself in. :)

Of course, there are other communities out there that I'm not commonly in that I expect have the opposite "everyone agrees" views on a lot of these things - DEI is part of some "gay agenda" conspiracy to groom children, Elon Musk is an infallible messiah, cops are the thin blue line protecting us from criminals, unions are destructive to the economy and cause unemployment, and so on and so forth. Propaganda is highly specific to its target audience, as this comic suggests.

The fundamental problem is just that in any significant group or community there are always hot-button issues that "everyone agrees" about, and attempting to question or discuss them with any nuance gets shouted down.

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Yeah. The "having PTSD" part isn't what should be punished, it's the "and yet still carrying a gun while putting yourself in a position to have your PTSD triggered like this" part that's egregious.

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

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Since it's a common mistake when discussing cryptocurrency energy use, I should point out that it's really only Bitcoin specifically that uses significant amounts of electricity these days. Most other cryptocurrencies have switched to proof of stake systems, which uses negligible energy.

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Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me" Dumb fucks.

This exchange was from 2004, when Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his college dorm. Facebook has never pretended to be anything other than what it is, people keep giving it their information, and then they make a surprised-Pikachu face and complain when Facebook does exactly what they've always done with it. What Facebook said they would do in the TOS that they agreed to.

Dumb fucks.

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What if the basketball fell out on its own?

Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

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The question "Why has the world gone to shit in the past 5 to 10 years" has routinely been asked every five to ten years throughout history. It's largely due to the perceptual biases of the human mind.

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Ah, Republicans. Well known to be super concerned about spending too much on the military.

My hope is that the funding goes through, and then the Republicans immediately vote Johnson out of his leadership role so we can have another wonderful round of Republican autophagy as they fight over who next to put on the throne.

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I don't know, banning Trump from real estate for just a year or two doesn't seem like much.

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That's still enough to tank an IPO.

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Fortunately you can drive off a cubical Dracula with three words: "work from home."

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Everyone's been dumping on Meta for integrating ActivityPub support, but I wonder if perhaps that's what's precipitating smaller projects like Flipboard and Discourse to be making similar announcements more. Here's hoping it's the start of an avalanche.

Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. (lemmy.world)

We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the...

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Those words concisely describe what it's doing. What words would you use instead?

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I don't know, I like reminding everyone that he was a police officer when this sort of thing comes up.

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It's possible for both sides of a conflict to suck.

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And those superpowers wouldn't have joined the UN if it didn't have those limiters, which would have resulted in a neutered UN that way too.

I think people in general have unrealistic expectations of the UN. It's not useless, I think it's a good thing to have around, but they're not going to come in and save the day when stuff like this happens.

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That's not how the burden of proof goes. The article is making a claim. It's on the article's authors to prove it.

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His voice wasn't stolen, it's still right where he left it.

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told employees that those who do not want to return to the office at least three days a week should consider finding employment elsewhere. According to a recording obtained by Insider, Jassy stated “It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” adding that if employees cannot commit to the new...

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Notably, Jassy said employees are free to leave if they do not want to comply with the hybrid work requirement.

This sort of statement always makes me raise an eyebrow. There are very few situations where employees are not "free to leave" and most of them are not good.

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And half the comments in this thread are from queermunist, who's all for the "just let Russia have what it wants and everything will be great" side.

The flood of Rexiters did a lot to smother the tankie presence on the Lemmyverse, but it's clearly still a strong undercurrent.

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I've been pretty down on modern Star Trek, but Lower Decks really shines out because IMO it's being made by people who clearly love Star Trek.

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It's possible that Musk is good at some things and not good at others, but his success at those things he's good at have caused him to think he's good at everything.

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How can there be a "main sub" for a concept like piracy? Just seize a ship and raise the jolly roger.

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