Newbies often need guidance on the norms of the space they have come into. Hopefully, they will learn.

Trump said something hateful? That’s news?

There are literally over a dozen people on Lemmy. There may even be more than twice that. Don’t expect a single, cohesive view on anything. It’s rare enough for even a single person to have cohesive views. If you expect a single, cohesive view from a group of multiple people, that’s about as realistic as expecting your romantic relationships to work like ones in Disney movies. The person calling for the death penalty as a comment on one post is probably not the same one calling for care in handling a homeless man’s issues. This is a collection of individuals, not a collective hivemind.

The sentence in the middle of your comment is technically true, but the surrounding joviality of lol and stupid emojis is horrible.

Misread that for a moment as ‘feral judge.’ The idea of lost judges wandering the streets, ajudicating alleyway arguments, eating out of trash cans, loudly mating outside your window, and then being taken in by someone at the courthouse with a soothing manner and a bottle of scotch as a lure…

Don’cha know, adding Chuck Tingle books to the training data can only make the output more truth-aligned?

Try swapping servers. Mine works.

At this point, I don’t know how any vaguely sane person can want to be associated with the modern Republican party.

Ten years is awkwardly too recent to have emotional distance from the consequences and too late to be timely.

2038 news: so… we made the most accurate clock ever… but then we set it to the wrong time. Sorry, everybody.

The FDA has plenty of issues but saying ‘no, you can’t test things on humans without first testing them on non-human animals,’ isn’t for the sake of the companies. There are a lot of ‘potential cures’ for which we never want human trials, because rodent trials reveal how much cancer they cause rather than cure.

I hate it, but I’m not sure that’s true. A part of me always wonders how much of the Red Team’s anti-LGBT shouting happens because there was a subset of them who are dogmatically hateful of minorities of basically any type, which the Blue Team then used in smear tactics to generate negative partisanship because America is, in theory, supposed to be against discrimination against minorities, but by making the issue more prominent, the Blue Team may have forced the issue to polarize into something for the Red Team either to fully ignore, as they do with other inconveniently ugly elements of their support base, or turn into a central pillar, and they decided to centralize it, turning what was a quiet minority hate, bad but limited in scope, into almost industrial scale hatemongery powered by politically aligned media systems. It seems worryingly plausible that by creating a political codification of trans-ness, it took anti-trans hate from being caused by religious delusions and turned it into a way to ‘be a good American’ for a much larger audience. When you also consider how the Dems don’t really change much of anything when they do ‘stand against’ anything because they seem mostly to do it for the looks rather than real support, I have to wonder if turning trans people into a rallying flag will just lead to more trans people being attacked, legally and illegally.

You can look at a pair of meshed gears and understand it just as readily as you can understand a single transformation by running the math on paper with a pencil, but I don’t think anyone will ever be able to comprehend the fullness of any useful-scale model for the same reason they would never comprehend a clockwork with the same number of gears as an LLM has transformers or indices. It’s a non-intuitable space with too much complexity which cannot be simplified without oversimplifying.

One activity occurs in a hazily understood chemical system with near completely unobservable states in interplay with activities and systems which have effects on the main system that are barely recognized, much less fully understood. The other is a constructed, completely defined system with near total observability of states affected by probabilities based on inputs defined by human written, completely known tokenization systems.

Will they next speculate about the similarity of ‘preferences’ between a robot from Japan and the nearest non-terrestrial intelligent species?

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‘But they won’t catch ME. I’m smart. The fire will burn all the evidence of my crime. I totally won’t post about it later on social media.’ - the arsonist

People who commit crimes and make wild bets are not usually known for their impressive executive function.

Any commentary on the appearance of a politician is just distraction. Unless one of those tattoos is something like a swastika, don’t engage in this BS.

That brain shaped hole in his head. Someone at the guardian graphics department is having some fun.

‘And look where that got us.’

It’s hard to get buy-in from most people when your solution looks like the problem you’re trying to solve. It creates uncertainty. Add in the media’s approach to science, and you get fear. It’s hard enough getting science funding when people aren’t afraid of it. Toss on the modern anti-intellectual movement and now you’ve got a controversy, a system of doubt. And controversy is good for business. Controversy gets clicks, which sells ads, so the controversy will never be allowed to die. You can’t let there be a final answer to an argument that gets you paid for as long as it continues, now can you?

He takes over 10 minutes to get to the start of making a point, so that’s not great, but there have been people with ideas for terraforming earth before. It’s one of those things people are very frightened of because that’s kind of a thing in sci-fi. It might work, but people are still mostly looking at climate change as something that is in the future. It won’t get funding until it’s too late.