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@sufehmi🥸profilefollowwrote:
Bad people are working together to enrich themselves and slave others into rat races. Good people need to start working together too.
@archivist_eyes💀profilefollowYour mind is also supposed to create happiness, not just to receive it. You're supposed to find solutions, to invent, to imagine, to remember, to love. This much we always forget.replied to@sufehmi🥸profilefollow:
Good people are always more, if more affraid of things. Bad people, unfortunately, is more willing to make harm, hence why they keep the upper hand. To support eachother is the minimum we need to move forward, and so long this doesn't happen things will remain the same. A revolution, as they say, doesn't happen with a single person, we need the mayority to join.
@sufehmi🥸profilefollowreplied to@archivist_eyes💀profilefollowYour mind is also supposed to create happiness, not just to receive it. You're supposed to find solutions, to invent, to imagine, to remember, to love. This much we always forget.:
"we need the majority to join" - this is a very interesting point; actually we only need 3,5% 👌 Erica Chenoweth from Harvard found this from their research with Maria J. Stephan, and wrote the book "Why Civil Resistance Works". They also found that nonviolent resistance is more often successful than the violent ones. Very interesting stuff.
@n5l😎profilefollowwrote:
I notice that language models are much better at programming than at writing. This is largely because, in programming, they have a closed feedback loop that allows them to find errors. Writing is much more complicated because the feedback is much more diffuse and delayed over time. In fact, it is often not well-defined.
@n5l😎profilefollowcontinued:
What is the function that determines whether a poem is good? This means that models do not know how to think; they lack judgment. If they do not know how to think, it means that we humans are still essential. In fact, even when programming, you have to stay right on top of them. My conviction is that this will not change.
@n5l😎profilefollowcontinued:
They will become increasingly useful, but they will never be able to replace the human who defines objectives and evaluates the quality of the work. All these news stories claiming that AI is going to kill us all are stupid. Humans will always be able to turn off the machine.
@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied to@n5l😎profilefollow:
In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
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@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
mandelbrot #execnotesfollow for y in range(10): s='' for x in range(25): a=[] for q in range(2): z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40 while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1 a+=[n<5] s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]] print(s)
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@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerswrote:
A “small” visit to Lotte, and $239 later, we are enjoying rambutans, sticky rice with tuna wrapped in seaweed, and wife struggles to make room for the rest of the goodies.
@hopscotchprofilefollowComputer Hacking Skills 75/100 Nunchuck Skills 3/100 I like Unixish systemswrote:
Football > Liverpool Research behind Liverpool’s last minute veteran-substitute-provided-draws and the talented but uncompetitive players they replace. www.verywellmind.com/…/what-is-sunk-cost-fallacy-7106851Verywell MindDon't Fall for the Sunk Cost Fallacy: Tips for Smarter Life DecisionsSunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias that can lead to irrational decision-making. Learn more about sunk cost fallacy and how it can show up in your life. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6324799/PubMed Central (PMC)The feeling of throwing good money after bad: The role of affective reaction in the sunk-cost fallacyContinuing investing in a failing plan (i.e., the sunk-cost fallacy) is a common error that people are inclined to make when making decisions. It is impossible to get resources back that already have been invested. Hence, economic theory implies ...
@kapankatsuragiprofilefollowI may know more about Disney History and trivia than you. Maybe, I dunno. I write about pop culture on Super Review Time.wrote:
trying to revive the blogging golden days. recommend some blogs with rss feed about game, movie reviews, and animation. or comic strips, traditional or webcomic.
@cgast📶profilefollowcurious & creativereplied to@ku🤔profilefollowHai I am ku:
The scientist's job is to never stop searching. The leader's job is to stop searching and decide. Trouble starts when either forgets the other exists.
@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.wrote:
Seems the spammers have arrived. ☹️ Is there (or can there be) some mechanism to flag posts or accounts as spam?
@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
I reported one post for spam twice today - there was no indication on re-viewing the post that I had already reported it. I think that some sort of indicator of posts I have already reported would be good. Or, if it's simpler, just don't show them to me in the feeds after reporting. Thanks.
@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.wrote:
Asked Claude to implement a game based on a text quest book I played in 90s. Let’s see. Tried to play the original text, downloaded epub. Well, I died after 3 minutes in the game.