• @ssm
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    2 days ago

    Hello, I have downvoted your post!

    Reasons include:

    • stupid fucking clickbait title
    • sharing information that was otherwise already obvious to everyone for the past 2 years
    • quoting elon musk they’re actually denigrating elon and I can’t read lol
    • @Ilandar@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 days ago

      The title is not mine and the paper the article is responding to was published last month, not two years ago as you claim. The only mention of Musk in the entire article is in this one sentence:

      Unlike self-serving warnings from Open AI CEO Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity, Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future.

    • TehPers
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      103 days ago

      Not sure if you’re aware so I’ll mention it anyway, but as far as I know, downvotes in Beehaw communities don’t federate to Beehaw (as in aren’t applied here - you might see them on your instance though, not really sure). That being said, your comment does, so you’ve made a “pseudo-downvote” anyway.

      • Norah - She/They
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        92 days ago

        The mechanism for how it works is that as a remote instance sends in it’s downvote count, Beehaw immediately drops the message without modifying the database. Part of this exchange is an expected response of the total updated downvotes. However, Beehaw sends back “0” and the remote instance knows it can’t be zero, so it treats it’s local count with higher validity.

        Essentially, this all ends up meaning that what ssm will see is the total of all downvotes from users on their own instance, and nothing else. This might be just their own downvote, especially being on a smaller instance. But I’ve seen lemmy.world users be confused about it bc the count they see is say, -5. Have been told my instance obviously has them enabled 😅

        Remote instances don’t communicate their vote tally’s with each other for a third instance’s post.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          32 days ago

          “Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”

          The full quote is “UNLIKE self-serving warnings from Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”. In other words, they’re actively denigrating Musk and Altman, and you’ve taken the quote entirely out of context, in direct opposite to the original meaning.