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raspberriesareyummy ,

Also, the winners will interprete who gets to be the axis and who gets to be the allies in history books...

raspberriesareyummy ,

I am also sick to the core about this aspect of humanity. I feel that we as a species are just about developed enough to understand how a better world would look like, and how people should act, what's "the right thing to do" - and very much not developed enough to overcome our egoism and narcissism to make it happen, so we do the wrong thing despite knowing better far too often.

raspberriesareyummy ,

For most of history you would be better off if you could kill the next village over.

That is an incredibly stupid take. For most of history, the planet was so vast that people had plenty of room to hunt / farm / whatever.
And no, killing other humans is not in our DNA, the only people who feel like that are those with brain damage / development defects.

raspberriesareyummy ,

With the obligatory "fuck everyone who disregards open source licenses", I am still slightly amused at this raising eyebrows while nearly no one is complaining about MS using github to train their copilot LLM, which will help circumvent licenses & copyrights by the bazillion.

raspberriesareyummy ,

“Why does no one say murder is bad unless China is murdering”

I can not fathom how you absolutely nailed the essence of my comment, yet misunderstood it (and - arguably - your own example) so fundamentally.

Let me try to help, once:

"Why do most people not complain about murder when Microsoft is doing it, but when China is doing it, the very justified outrage can be heard?"

raspberriesareyummy ,

As I am a big proponent of open source, there is nothing wrong even with copying code - the point is that you should not be allowed to claim something as your own idea and definitely not to claim copyright on code that was "inspired" by someone else's work. The easiest solution would be to forbid patents on software (and patents altogether) completely. The only purpose that FOSS licenses have is to prevent corporations from monetizing the work under the license.

raspberriesareyummy ,

again, I don't have a problem with copying code - but I as a developer know whether I took enough of someone else's algorithm so that I should mention the original authorship :)
My only problem with circumventing licenses is when people put more restrictive licenses on plagiarized code.

And - I guess - in conclusion, if someone makes a license too free, so that putting a restrictive (commercial) license or patent on plagiarized / derived work, that is also something I don't want to see.

raspberriesareyummy ,

My trivial (non legal ;) answer is: If you are working for a corporation that is looking to patent something / make something closed license: the moment you ever looked at a single line of my code relevant to what you are doing, you are forbidden from releasing under any more restrictive license.
If you are a private person working on open source? Then you be the judge whether you copied enough of my code that you believe it is more than just "inspired by".

raspberriesareyummy ,

And of course there was a short period of time where a sound card wasn’t required, but would actually improve performance by offloading audio processing to your sound card if you had one

we are at this point in history, but for graphics cards :)

raspberriesareyummy ,

I seem to recall the integrated sound wasn't used either, when I had my sound card in - the audio connectors were going directly into the sound card.

raspberriesareyummy ,

oh - my apologies, I forgot that on-board graphics have a dedicated chipset. Also, no idea whether on-board sound would have used CPU power back in the late days of soundcards, as the comment I responded to was claiming... might have been a sound chip for that, too..

raspberriesareyummy ,

If the AI boom is a dud,

Whaddya mean, "if"? Emperor wears no clothes...

raspberriesareyummy ,

AI did boom, but people don’t realize the peak happened a year ago.

A simple control algorithm "if temperature > LIMIT turnOffHeater" is AI, albeit an incredibly limited one.

LLMs are not AI. Please don't parrot marketing bullshit.

The former has an intrinsic understanding about a relationship based in reality, the latter has nothing of the likes.

raspberriesareyummy ,

That is indeed exactly my point. LLMs are just a language-tailored expression of deep-learning, which can be incredibly useful, but should never be confused for any kind of intelligence (i.e. logical conclusions).

I appreciate that you see my point and admit that it makes some sense :)

Example where I think pattern recognition by deep learning can be extremely useful:

  • recheck medical imaging data of patients that have already been screened by a doctor, to flag some data for a re-check by a second doctor. This could improve chances of e.g. early cancer detection for patients, without a real risk of a false detection, because again, a real doctor will look at the flagged results in detail before even alarming a patient to a potential diagnosis
  • pre-filter large amounts of data for potential matches -> e.g. exoplanet search by certain patterns (planet hunters lets humans do this as crowdsourcing)

But what I am afraid is happening for people who do not see why a very simple algorithm is already AI, but consider LLMs AI, is that they mentally decide to call AI what seems "AGI" / "human-like". They mistake the patterns of LLMs for a conscious being and that is incredibly dangerous in terms of trusting the answers given by LLMs.

Why do I think they subconsciously imply (self-)awareness / conscience? Because to not consider as (very limited) AI a control mechanism like a simple room thermostat, is viewing it as "too simple" to be AI - which means that a person with such a view makes a qualitative distinction between control laws and "AI", where a quantitative distinction between "simple AI" and "advanced AI" would be appropriate.

And such a qualitative distinction that elevates a complex word guessing machine to "intelligence", that can only be made by people who actually believe there's understanding behind those word predictions.

That's my take on this.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Oh, so this is why she makes these loud muauw sounds even an hour after eating her full ;)
(No, she actually wants to play then)

raspberriesareyummy ,

May I suggest you spend time with your cat & not online?
All the best!

raspberriesareyummy , (edited )

N00b. True pros accomplish O((n^2)!)

raspberriesareyummy ,

The Last Door (1 & 2)

Darkside Detective

Thank me later.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Beat me to it. Great read :)

raspberriesareyummy ,

Let’s say both then. Both the US and China are surveillance states, and that makes them both bad.

/signed

But also: all five-eyes states, and then a couple more. With western European countries trying hard to compete in the "who can fuck their citizens the mostest the bestest"

raspberriesareyummy ,

This. I made sure to never set foot in a newer Boeing since those grounded models were ungrounded.

raspberriesareyummy OP , (edited )

I didn't want to make this a link post, but some examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=berfPBaL0zg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ArklhPZHI

or a whole compilation for Uganda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maSKEobnryc

raspberriesareyummy ,

But sometimes the tail wags the dog

raspberriesareyummy ,

That argument was only ever made by dumb fucks or evil fucks. The article reports about an actual occurrence of one of the problems of such technology that we (people who care about privacy) have warned about from the beginning.

raspberriesareyummy ,

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of Steve Wozniak / Steve Jobs split personality thing going on. Maybe one or the other person involved were serious about the "don't be evil" thing. But the others were not.

raspberriesareyummy ,

That exclamation point in the comment you replied to should be your hint that it's sarcasm.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Not the person I was replying to but okay... what has that got to do with the sarcasm of the comment I was referring to?

raspberriesareyummy ,

Repeat after me: This. present. hype. is. not. A.I.
By parroting the marketing bullshit, it doesn't become less false. Large Language Models are just glorified pattern matching and everyone who calls them AI is a dumb fuck.

raspberriesareyummy ,

True. But it makes the 30% extra carbon emissions even worse: Ruining our climate for something that isn't even AI. Not that ruining it for anything should be on the table.

raspberriesareyummy ,

It’s called AI even if it isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s unfortunately how language works.

Only for people for whom words don't have meanings. There is nothing "intelligent" about pattern matching. As I said - only dumbfucks call it "A.I." and we shouldn't regurgitate the verbal diarrhea of marketing idiots.

raspberriesareyummy ,

this here - fuck that BS. Also, the Linux Desktop app discontinued since 2022 (still works, for now, on my debian)

raspberriesareyummy ,

*and Exchange Servers

raspberriesareyummy ,

checks out - Offixe XP (2003ish) was the peak of MS Office, afterwards it became shittier than used toilet paper.

raspberriesareyummy ,

At least it means Linux users will finally get Microsoft office

Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with LibreOffice if it's all the same to you.

raspberriesareyummy ,

I should get my emigration plans ready, I hate the German boomer racism and how it infected the younger population.
Fuck racists, no matter how they label themselves.

raspberriesareyummy ,

At least I am all good with living in other countries - done 4 1/2 years in one and 1 year in another and only came back for work contractual reasons. That changed - and it's good to know the option is not just hypothetical :)

raspberriesareyummy ,

Not everything that's not a dictatorship is a democracy. You're using a strawman to argue your point.

A democracy stops when there is a severe imbalance in influence on legislation between voters and lobbyists / corporations / or voters depending on income / colour of skin.

There's also a quasi oligarchy with freedom of speech, that's about where western Europe is at. In the US, by now, a large part of the population has been deprived of basic human rights, as shown in unpunished police brutality and murders, and vigilante killings of people for their beliefs, opinions or identity.

Neither still qualifies for democracy. We would have to unite about two thirds of the voters behind a new party to even hope to change anything that matters (hello climate change), and that's assuming that a hypothetical party that would actually act in the interest of restoring democratic mechanisms would be persecuted or otherwise hindered by authorities.

raspberriesareyummy ,

let’s ban all American social media.

That would be great. Where can I sign?

raspberriesareyummy ,

I am not very comfortable with "banning" websites - let's say outright dissolving some companies is probably the better approach, but also a double-edged sword.
However, there is sometimes a need to legally shut down some entities.

I believe that by now it should no longer be a subject of debate that social media has a very unhealthy influence on the public opinion, and that most humans do not have the intellectual capacity to critically reflect on the media they consume. That's already a problem with some TV programs, and it has gotten worse with social media monetizing anger. As a result we get people who vote for politicians who promise them nothing short of a dictatorship. That's incredibly dangerous, and therefore I would like to see all social media federated - centralized services give way too much power to individuals with shady motives.

raspberriesareyummy ,

It doesn't look like they are bothering with the "if you ever do that again" part...

raspberriesareyummy ,

While true for some songs, others grow on you or stay good for eternity. My favourite all-time song hasn't changed in 30 years:
Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Wonderful Life

raspberriesareyummy ,

In the past two decades there's been a bunch covers that I know of (or just learned of):

  • Ace of Base
  • Seeed
  • Zucchero (didn't even know about this one until now)
  • Katie Melua
  • Smith & Burrows (the one you heard on your coworker's radio?)
  • Imany (or did you hear this one?)

and then a bunch of electronic music mixes.

I love that song since the 80s; and for a long time - until the early 2000s I knew no covers - so I am very happy that there's a lot of tributes to Black with lots of different styles :)

raspberriesareyummy ,

I just heard it again my radio on my way home. I still don’t know why it’s so suddenly popular again right now and it’s puzzling me.

Which version, though? :) That sounds like you mean the original?

Anyway, it has stood the test of time, and I think that’s about the only way to actually find the greatest songs.

I suppose it's one way to judge them :) But yes, that's why my favourite has not changed for over 30 years - I don't get tired of it. Much like this one.

PS

I know, without autoplay it's not the same, but I didn't want to use a youtube-link - f*ck google ;)

raspberriesareyummy ,

(Even the piped link gave away the “WqXcQ” in the url)

well I was serious, I was basically saying "I never mind if someone rickrolls me, because I've been enjoying that song since I first heard it on Vinyl in the 80s" :) so it was a kind of "reverse rickroll" - in that I actually meant to link the song for being good :)

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

raspberriesareyummy ,

Eating meat is murder though. Just of a different species, and a normal thing in nature, hence not objectionable per se. But killing for meat is still taking a life of a living and feeling being.
If people choose to avoid that, and alternatives are available, that is great.
For those who wish to continue eating meat, it must be transparent where it came from to make an informed decision, and we would need regulation / legislation that forbidsalll those livestock factories that cause suffering for more profit.

raspberriesareyummy ,

No, sorry, eating meat is not the same as murder, it’s just nature.

You can acknowledge it's murder while accepting it's also a part of nature (at least in the original hunting context). Breeding defenseless livestock in captivity, in order to slaughter them for food, that's murdering a social creature.

I occasionally eat meat, but at least I am not lying to myself about what it means for the creature whose meat I eat.

If you tell yourself that animals have no capability to enjoy life, to be happy and play, and therefore have a right to live, then you need a reality check,

Eating any kind of animal is not wrong in terms of our nature and how our planet works, but if we have options without suffering from malnutrition (and by now we do), I applaud every person who chooses to go meat-free out of empathy.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Ah, the ongoing war against the Kurda in Syria. Not that that makes it any better :( I thought you meant inside Turkey.

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