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DarkThoughts

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Fediverse is worse than Reddit. Mod abuse, admin abuse, disinformation, and people simping for literal terrorists.

  • Intel's $249 Arc B580 is the GPU we've begged for since the pandemic | PCWorld

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  • As someone with a 6650 XT, which is a little slower than the 6700 or 4060, I doubt the increased vram, which is of course still nice, is enough to push it for 1440p. I struggle even in 1080p in some games, but I guess if you're okay with ~40 FPS then you could go that high.

    Unfortunately, if the 4060 is roughly the target here, that's still far below what I'm interested in, which is more the upper midrange stuff (and I'd love one with 16 GB vram at least).

    At least the price is much more attractive now.

  • Do You Ever Want To Use the Suction Tool That Dentists Have On Your Nose?

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  • Ohhhh, the title made it sound like their dentist puts some suction thing on their nose and I just couldn't understand what they meant.

  • Do You Ever Want To Use the Suction Tool That Dentists Have On Your Nose?

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  • I still don't really know what this is / OP is referencing.

  • Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated

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  • Wow, what the actual fuck? How did they go from being a well respected and reputable case manufacturer, to this?!

  • Can I see all the communities I'm banned from on Lemmy somewhere?

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  • they're presenting the idea that some people might be less confused and make different life choices if more people tolerated traditionally-gendered subjects (like clothing and makeup) from anyone without judgement

    The problem is that a gender & sexuality based on a spectrum makes it extremely hard to define things, which is something humans just naturally do and why we ended up with the binary way of it. But if we have a spectrum ranging from masculine to feminine, then we suddenly have not just trans people, but also those who may identify & look like the opposite gender, but don't want to fully transition (i.e. keep their birth sex). You basically have anything in between the two binary categories now, and that is consequently muddy on top of being new and foreign for most people and even often within trans communities. Doesn't help that research on those topics is also still fairly early and definitions can change rather quickly at times, making it hard to keep up with it.

  • What would be the most pleasant form of euthanasia?

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  • Doesn't matter when you're flying through paradise.

  • Assuming AI advance to the point that majority of the people accept them. What's stopping us from having our own AI personal representatives instead of voting another person in?

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  • Oh, so you don't want an AI government, but an AI voter. That's probably even worse to be honest.

    Won't that be ideal that would mean this LLM inherently knows your choices or belief, aside from the huge increase in processing needed.

    Only if it was trained on me and only me personally. But that would make me what we in German describe as "Gläserner Mensch", gläsern coming from Glas, as in being a transparent person, which is a metaphor used in privacy topics. I'd have to lay myself open to an immense amount of data hording, to create a robot that may or may not decide like I would decide. Aside from the terrible privacy violations & implications that this would entail for every single person, it would also just be a snapshot of current me. Humans change over time. Our experiences and our perception of the world around us forms and changes us, constantly, and with that our decision making.

    But coming back to the privacy issue... We already have huge problems on that front. Companies hoard massive amounts of user data, usually through very thin veiled consent through those little checkbox agreements, or they just do it illegal now when it comes to their LLMs where they tend to just scrape everything on the internet, regardless of consent or copyright infringements. I think the whole LLM topic is one that should go nowhere until we have a globally agreed framework of regulations on how we want to handle those and future technologies. If you make an LLM based on all the data on the internet, then such models should inherently be Free Open Source, including everything that they create. That'd be the only agreeable term in my book. Whether true AI in the future would even rely on data scraping is another topic though.

  • Assuming AI advance to the point that majority of the people accept them. What's stopping us from having our own AI personal representatives instead of voting another person in?

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  • Advances? First we have to actually invent it. Text LLMs are just word prediction and generative models generally are neither intelligent nor have much room to grow at this point. And aside from that, every model is only as good as the training data it was trained on. If you train a model on smut and romance novels, then you have your perfect little eRP model for kinky chats, if you train your model on various programming languages then you have a good coding assistant, if you train your model on Reddit then you have an insufferable racist edgelord who wants to see the world burn. Point being, models are flawed in every sense of the meaning. All their word predictions end up going back to what humans have written in the past. All their word predictions have an inherent randomness to them due to how LLMs work, making them unreliable in their output, which includes even the best and largest models with access to the largest databanks & indexes out there. But the again, the biggest flaw is that they are not actually AI. They have no thoughts on their own, they don't really evaluate things on various factors. They all just still follow their simple programming of mimicking language, without being aware of anything. If you want to have a computer like this run your politics then go right ahead, but you already have to ask yourself, what model do we use? Based on what data - since it is inherently biased? How often can we re-roll / regenerate an answer until we like its outcome? Who has oversight over it? Because ultimately it's that person who is the decision maker. Politicians, for all their flaws, are still intelligent human beings that can be reasoned with. A computer can't be really swayed, not in the classical sense. You can sway a chatbot easily, because they typically use your chat history as context for their own output. This is inherently flawed because it means that the existing chat history will sort of lead the future responses, but it's incredibly limited due to context size requiring such vast amounts of vram / ram and processing power. That's why current models are sort of at their limit, sans some optimizations. You can't just upscale them because their energy requirements grow exponentially faster than their actual text output.

    TLDR: "AI" is just overhyped corporate marketing of something that comes down to word prediction, fueled by sensationalist media scaremongering from people who don't understand how LLMs work. Using them for decision making would just give power to the shadowy person who oversees the model and its flawed bias of its training data.

  • Thinking about making my own lemmy client, but I could use some feedback

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  • mbin isn't Lemmy, it's just compatible with Lemmy.

  • Is blahaj.zone dead?

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  • It's the Wars, Stupid

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  • “That’s one of the reasons the America First rhetoric resonates,”

    Bullshit. The moment you bring up social programs to MAGGATS they'll call it socialism or communism.

    And war? I guess today the US, who prides itself for having fought the Nazis, would likely just want to appease Hitler and let him do his thing in Europe. At least that's better than WW2, right?

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  • No. If the last "exodus" wasn't it, then nothing will change there.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • Thanks for proving my point with this triggered entitled ranting text wall. You doing what you do does not mean I owe you anything, not in form of feeling obligated to submit things, and I even less so have to take stupid insults from you about getting upset for you not working hard enough for me. If that's the type of shit you make up in your head about the users within the fediverse then please, stop contributing. You're like all those power tripping mod abusers who feel so entitled about it that they expect a "thank you" for ignoring disinformation and ruling over comments in a hypocritical manner. We've had this type of shit on Reddit already, we sure as hell don't need it here.

    There, that's how I react when I'm actually upset. You're welcome.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • My guy, I added my two cents about the topic. Maybe keep your fragility in check and don't feel attacked by everything.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • I don't know why you people keep suggesting people do something that's not within their interest & use case.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • The fuck are you talking about? It's not about algorithms (which there are some, just not content based), it's about the lack of people. Maybe work on your reading comprehension. It's simply a matter of the fediverse lacking critical mass.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • I'm not here to post stuff, that's the opposite of what I want. And the things I'm subscribed to I can scroll through within a couple minutes before they're dry. It's just too empty here with only a few threads and comments here and there.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • The problem, as already stated, is that there are not many communities in the first place. And if there are, they're likely more or less dead, with weeks or even months old posts.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • No, of course not. Cats are mammals, not insects.