Lvxferre [he/him]

It’s a mix of relaxing, warming up, thinking about life. I rarely do it nowadays though.

Well said.

I’ve seen this sort of argument. It boils down to three things:

1. Argument from dubious premise: “you’ll inevitably lose your privacy.”
2. Fallacy of appeal to nature: “since you’ll lose your privacy, losing privacy is good.”
3. Missing the bloody point. It’s like saying that the solution for expensive house maintenance is to become homeless.

Anyway, answering your question: once I dug really deep into the hollow Earth conspiracy “theory”. I never took it seriously, I looked for that because it’s crazy and ridiculous. And it was fun to see quacks proposing that there’s a sun inside Earth, sentient life, and that they’ll eventually get rid of us outers.

Mewgenics is actually going to be released? I thought it was vaporware!

…I’m actually glad. I was quite interested on the game when announced back then. The video makes me feel that it’s completely different from what I expected, but still fun. (I like this sort of X-COM-like game.)

Automation in general is fun. Cue to Cracktorio Factorio.

And if the balance is just right it allows players to both experience the manual part and ditch it when it gets old.

Yes, it is expensive. But most of that cost is not because of simple applications, like in my example with grammar tables. It’s because those models have been scaled up to a bazillion parameters and “trained” with a gorillabyte of scrapped data, in the hopes they’ll magically reach sentience and stop telling you to put glue on pizza. It’s because of meaning (semantics and pragmatics), not grammar.

Also, natural languages don’t really have nonsensical rules; sure, sometimes you see some weird stuff (like Italian genderbending plurals, or English question formation), but even those are procedural: “if X, do Y”. LLMs are actually rather good at regenerating those procedural rules based on examples from the data.

But I wish it had some broader use, that would justify its cost.

I with that they cut down the costs based on the current uses. Small models for specific applications, dirty cheap in both training and running costs.

(In both our cases, it’s about matching cost vs. use.)

I’d go further: you won’t reach AGI through LLM development. It’s like randomly throwing bricks on a construction site, no cement, and hoping that you’ll get a house.

I’m not even sure if AGI is cost-wise feasible with the current hardware, we’d probably need cheaper calculations per unit of energy.

Why not quanta? Don’t you believe in the power of the crystals? Quantum vibrations of the Universe from negative ions from the Himalayan salt lamps give you 153.7% better spiritual connection with the soul of the cosmic rays of the Unity!

…what makes me sadder about the generative models is that the underlying tech is genuinely interesting. For example, for languages with large presence online they get the grammar right, so stuff like “give me a [declension | conjugation] table for [noun | verb]” works great, and if it’s any application where accuracy isn’t a big deal (like “give me ideas for [thing]”) you’ll probably get some interesting output. But it certainly not give you reliable info about most stuff, unless directly copied from elsewhere.

It’s Mothers’ Day tomorrow, so I’ll probably spend my Sunday doing stuff while my mum and sis deservedly do nothing, and my BIL and nephew undeservedly do nothing either. *sigh*

The whole thing can be summed up as the following: they’re selling you a hammer and telling you to use it with screws. Once you hammer the screw, it trashes the wood really bad. Then they’re calling the wood trashing “hallucination”, and promising you better hammers that won’t do this. Except a hammer is not a tool to use with screws dammit, you should be using a screwdriver.

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates.

So he’s suggesting that the models are producing less accurate results… because they have higher rates of less accurate results? This is a tautological pseudo-explanation.

AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months

When are people going to accept the fact that large “language” models are not general intelligence?

ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust

Those models are useful, but only a fool trusts = is gullible towards their output.

OpenAI says the reasoning process isn’t to blame.

Just like my dog isn’t to blame for the holes in my garden. Because I don’t have a dog.

This is sounding more and more like model collapse - models perform worse when trained on the output of other models.

inb4 sealions asking what’s my definition of reasoning in 3…2…1…

I wish EU4 had more automation, the amount of micromanagement there was awful. And this sort of game is more interesting when you can focus on the big picture.

Sadly I don’t trust Hipsters’ Electronic Arts Paradox to do automation right. And by “right” I mean:

• Transparent. You could reasonably get why the game AI will / won’t take a certain decision, without spending hours in the wiki or fucking around the game files.
• Flexible. The best decision is often circumstantial, and playing styles are a thing.
• Powerful, but not overpowered. The AI’s decisions should be decent, but not the best - a player who takes the time to learn how stuff works should be rewarded. (Or even better, tweak the AI so it does the best.)

So far, none. Except I’ll be probably in the cooking duty Sunday - it’s mothers’ day, my nephew and BIL won’t do shit to help out, and I don’t want my mum or my sister to lift a finger then.

Since a lot of people are asking what happened, here’s some context.

Recently Nutomic requested more donations to Lemmy. This was cross-posted everywhere (like here, here, here, here, here). And, inevitably, people started calling out things like:

• The devs’ defence of authoritarian regimes;
• tankie here, tankie there;
• lemmy .ml extremely shitty moderation practices;
• Nutomic’s transphobic message; etc.

as reasons to not donate to the development.

That should be enough to get the meme OP shared.

I’d also like to encourage people who don’t want to contribute with Lemmy to do it for either PieFed or Sublinks. Both are independent from Lemmy, compete with it, but are still part of the Fediverse.

I hope you and your loved ones stay safe and well.

Ditto. Either to share something cool I believe she’ll like to see, or for practical info like “I won’t be at time for lunch, there’s stew in the freezer”.

Slices of sourdough, thinly coated with butter, “fried” on both sides until golden brown. I typically have them with homemade pâte, guava cheese, or some random jam. Or sometimes I spread olive oil and a pinch of salt while still in the skillet, it depends on my mood.

If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don’t remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing industry mafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.

And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.

I used to. But eventually I made peace with myself - no matter how much I fret over them, there are things I’ll never know or experience.

I probably need to thank Huxley for that, if not for Island I’d be probably stuck living in the past or the future. Or both at the same time.

My sleep cycle is currently a mess, but when it’s well-oiled I typically take a 20min nap after lunch every day.

My sister and me spent a day in São Paulo city, visiting our 80yo aunt. She’s in good health, and was extra happy to see us - and with the gift (a crochet purse, made by our mum).

Speaking on my mum, she has been coughing for a week or so, after she got a cold. Her cough is improving but I’m still worried about it, I told her to see a doc but she’s damn stubborn.

Kika and Siegfrieda (my cats) are keeping up with their annoying but cute routine, I guess: one has 3AM zoomies, another meows loudly and “shows” us every single problem she has, as if we were able to stop raining or the neighbour’s baby from crying.

It’s pinhão season! It’s pinhão season!

I’m eating my quota of pinhão this winter! I wish I could plant a Paraná pine home, but I don’t have enough space for that (those trees get huge). Because of that I’m making do with my future apple bonsai, pepper plants and stuff like this. When I get Rich® I’ll make sure to buy a small house with a big garden and plant a bunch of those.

Yesterday I prepared some baked rice with hot dogs, it was glorious. Specially the provolone and Parmesan crust. (I’m calling it baked “rice” but there was almost no rice there, in comparison with the vegs and sausages.)