I agree with the overall concept, LLMs seem extremely useful, I’d say our direction for them is just idiotic. Local devices trained for what they are actually doing, without sending everything back so you can confidently train it on your styles of things etc… I see as a very practical idea. But of course the US’s super focused giant corporate controlled everything goes to a data center of some huge dangerous tech company is beyond ridiculous, and of course just the build out scale of investing literal trillions of dollars into it.
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You know, funny thing is time flipping around, I remember in the days of ratsinger, and my view on american catholics was that they were mostly good hearted people, doing the best they can to see humanity in a corrupt organization that’s rotting from the head.
Now it feels like the popes are largely good people, doing the best they can, while many of their followers have turned into the most vile worse side of humanity, and as they try to steer it, the more the following just turns on the pope and more towards the hateful monsters like the guy who killed the last pope.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Quick, someone release Chatbot 2000!English
9·2 days agoI don’t know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it’s crazy that 20 years later we’re “well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that”.
Well absolutely in the judeism base of it. Old testament was constantly “god prepared this perfect place just for you” “whoops looks like there’s already a thriving civilization of happy people there, they must be evil why else would they have taken the land I promised to you”.
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politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump on verge of major humiliation as Mark Carney set to snatch Nobel Peace PriceEnglish
331·3 days agoNo one is really focused on the Nobel prizes at this point
Not no one… I can name one person who’s far more concerned with that then something like “affordability”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"English
3·4 days agoconstitutions are meaningful because institutions can enforce them.
Throughout trumps term… that’s sounding less and less to be the case.
Maybe that’s the idea, they aren’t trying to raise the bar out of what we expect from this pinky swear. Maybe they want us to lower our expectations of a constitution to be “guidelines that we sometimes follow, when they don’t get too much in the way of what we want to do”.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox.English
348·4 days agoI could see that, but I think the key difference.
Adblocker is an active block of something from outside.
AI block is telling firefox not to use any of it’s own.
Kind of a do this, versus don’t.
“Do protect me from attackers.”
“Don’t attack me”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"English
4·4 days agoWe’ve also decided to add a “pinky promise” layer to this agreement.
You know what, considering that the world see’s AI on the same level of nukes. Maybe the iran war can be solved this way. Just give Iran a “morally binding” request to not build nukes. Declare that the new victory and end the iran war.
I think that’s about step 1… if the republicans were gone… more democrats would be challanged from the left. Either a real left wing party could be established. Or democrats would be able to consistantly be forced in the right direction. The biggest problem is the constant if we don’t 100% unify quickly we risk the facists taking over and creating messes that will take 10 years of good policy to reverse even if we get a perfect candidate in, is the giant problem.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump touts America.gov, but its government-sourced AI answers undercut many of his statementsEnglish
9·4 days agoThey do and don’t want the ideas and the misinformation. but they want it in a subtle enough way that it isn’t overtly obvious. Hence why musk had to roll mechahitler back.
“they like my ideas, they just have a problem with the word nazi”.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump touts America.gov, but its government-sourced AI answers undercut many of his statementsEnglish
14·4 days agoIt’s the same problem Elon Musk has, in short gen AI is too complicated, in order to have any actual value it has to have access to a good data set of facts. If you try to teach them to lie about certain topics, it just goes full mecha hitler.
Yeah, at least the kid is using a search engine and not chatgpt…
though obviously we don’t know enough information to see if he checked reliable sources rather than just taking the automatic gemini answer.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?English
2·6 days agoWhat’s the difference, my opinion, the definition of gender affirming care is.
Treatment to allow your external body to match the characteristics that you feel your body should be.
Which would include, boob jobs, hair transplants. hormones, anything to build up muscle, anything to fix erectile dysfunction etc…
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?English
5·6 days ago90% of instances should be fine, but, if in doubt while you are using this one, do a search for communities for the topics you care about, and either join the community that has the most of what you want, or check their linked/banned list to know which ones not to join.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Recent Solar Eclipses Over America Considered Biblical Warning Signs. Future Forecast Insights & PreparationEnglish
4·6 days agoSuch a waste of time though… look bottom line as long as there’s been people, they’ve been predicting the end times etc…
Hell it’s the strongest case that the authors originally had the intention of ceasar nero being the antichrist. (explaining why there’s a 616 and 666 translation, which map to 2 different spellings of the guys name),
But you can go back and find predictions for Reagan, and pretty much any other leader in history as the antichrist.
I do have to admit the trump one is the most impressive
I would say though, it’s probably more that the bible authors just wanted a comic book villain… and we elected one. Lex luthor would probably fit just as well if he were a real person.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?English
7·6 days agoThe super simplified version of it is.
some instances block other instances. Either due to political differences or because too many spammers are in one etc… Bottom line, if it’s not linked or blocked, you won’t be able to see posts to them, and people on those instances won’t see posts you make from your own, (creates kind of a shadow ban, where you think you are posting, but no one over there can see it).
you can see if you go to
https://thelemmy.club/instances
you can see a list of instances they’ve linked with, and blocked.
compare that to say beehaw
You’ll see there’s a big difference in what they do and don’t federate with. Which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
If you have a community or 2 that you really care about, it’s worth checking to make sure their instance you want to post to and read the posts of, is friendly with the one you don’t
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?English
1·6 days agoah got it, kind of never really dug that much in, just see it mentioned as extremist, so admitted getting some flipped going off of vague info
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?English
13·6 days agoPretty much it’s like an e-mail service overall. obviously for the “MOST” part you can join any instance and it will let you view content on almost any other instance.
Like say beehaw I believe defederates from instances that don’t have verification steps at the start.
instances like, lemmygrad, hexbear etc… are considered tankie, so a handful of places defederate them. and I believe a few like that tend to lean right and get defederated by most.
Edit: fixed misassumption on what hexbear was,
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The difference between drugs and medicine is the lab coat. The difference between malware and a personal AI agent is the brand.English
91·6 days agoThe real difference is proper regulation… of which, drugs, malware and personal AI agents all aren’t.
Medicine for the most part, is regulated and comes with steep penalties for abuse, misuse etc…





But… the sea shells! I don’t know how trump can sleep at night after seeing that picture.