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Not_mikey

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  • They have a word, you just can't say it

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  • This is lemmy, people hate China, America and commercial social media. Not a big fan of any of those three either so yeah, fuck em. Would be better if we banned all commercial social media but I'm not gonna cry over only some of them getting banned.

  • Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

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  • Another very surprising outcome of the research is the discovery that these LLMs do not, as is widely assumed, operate by merely predicting the next word. By tracing how Claude generated rhyming couplets, Anthropic found that it chose the rhyming word at the end of verses first, then filled in the rest of the line.

    If the llm already knows the full sentence it's going to output from the first word it "guesses" I wonder if you could short circuit it and say just give the full sentence instead of doing a cycle for each word of the sentence, could maybe cut down on llm energy costs.

  • Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

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  • I think a lot of services are doing this behind the scenes already. Otherwise chatgpt would be getting basic arithmetic wrong a lot more considering the methods the article has shown it's using.

  • OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

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  • Maybe in the mainstream, but the open source, socialist and anarchist communities that populate lemmy tend to be very critical of ideas like intellectual property and copy right.

  • Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

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  • it's between North America and South America

    You're thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.

    It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn't really going to change anything

    It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.

  • Donald Trump impeachment efforts ramp up

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  • More like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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  • What, it's not e commerce , its massive amounts of data, and a massive amount of content. Most people i know who use tik tok never use the store, they use tik tok because it gives them a seemingly limitless amount of content that interests them. They're able to do this not because they have some secret sauce but because of the sheer volume of people using and posting to the app. The more people watch the more data they have for there algorithm to identify trends, interest groups, interest groups correlations etc. to allow them to identify and target content to an audience. The more people that post the more you can inundate that audience and keep the infinite scroll going.

    If tik tok did get shut down and everyone switched to reels or YouTube they would benefit from the increased scale and it would be pretty much the same app within a couple months.

  • Trump Backs Elon Musk as Possible TikTok Buyer, Suggests Government Stake

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  • While I agree with the sentiment, I'd say this qualifies as news. Elons not buying shake shack, he's buying a social media platform with a very opaque algorithm that has the power to influence a large chunk of the American public. Even if he tanks it, twitter has shown that through network and data ownership combined with sheer inertia many people will remain on an app even after its been revealed to have its thumb on the scale for one side.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • 170 million people

    Where's that number coming from. Maybe you mean the 165 billion installs , but that's not active users and double counts people installing on multiple devices. Tik tok has 50 million dau Of those maybe 10% is actually "speaking" and creating content that the other 90% consume so around 5 million people.

    And those 5 million people aren't silenced, they can still go on to one of multiple apps that provide the same service and allows them to get there message out. He'll they could come on to the fediverse and post blatant ccp propaganda and no one will do anything.

  • US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar

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  • Full protectionism does cause problems with inflation and degrading the competitiveness of firms, but full neoliberal globalism leads to a race to the bottom on wages and working conditions.

    The answer is somewhere in the middle, we shouldn't be putting blanket tariffs on a country or the entire world. But we also shouldn't turn away from possibly helpful protectionist policies.

    Tarriffs can help in new and developing industries to make sure they aren't strangled in the crib by foreign competition. A large reason for the success of the development of south Korean and Taiwanese economies was due to initial protectionist policies . The tariffs have to be understood to be temporary though but they can help in getting an industry off the ground.

    I'd argue electric vehicles are an emerging industry that will be very important if the world shifts to a greener economy. Letting China take over that market and dominate it would be detrimental to the strength of our economy long term.

  • Lemmy today

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  • Has anyone been able to sign up for loops lately?

    I tried registering but never got an email to confirm my account. Is there a waitlist?

  • US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar

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  • One of the main supporters for this was the UAW. Real rich people don't care about this, if this hadn't passed they wouldve just sold there shares in American auto companies and invested in Chinese companies, or moved manufacturing to China for higher subsidies, lower labor costs and even bigger profits, or use that as a threat to lower wages here. Under globalism capital is free to move to wherever there is the most profit.

    This isn't a rich vs poor situation, it's a worker vs consumer situation.

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  • On one hand this will slow the ev transition.

    On the other car manufacturing is one of the few industries left in America with some union density and decent wages and having to compete with subsidized Chinese evs that are made with a fraction of the labor costs would destroy that industry.

    Globalism hurts workers and helps consumers. One of the triumphs of neoliberalism is to get people to identify as consumers first and workers second.

  • Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’

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  • Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality; socialism without redistribution is a tyrant trying to trick you

    Bakunin if he was alive to see this bullshit

  • Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’

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  • Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What is your opinion on the freedom of satire in general and the satire of religion in particular?

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  • Taboos aren't new, they've just shifted. Before they were based more on Christian morality but nowadays it's mostly from a secular multicultural morality.

    If someone repeatedly called you a slur you may not break down and cry, though I don't judge those who do, but wouldn't you at least stop talking to them? Wouldn't you tell other people to also stop associating with them? I know I would and that is the social ostracization that I think should be a punishment for offensive behavior.

    I don't see how you can make the case that verbal abuse doesn't harm people without completely ignoring psychology and mental health. If someone becomes depressed due to harassment are they not harmed? What if they commit suicide, is it purely their fault since they couldn't toughen up and the bully is absolved as some fucked up form of natural selection?

    Even ignoring mental health words can damage your respect which is a valuable resource that is being unjustly taken. If your bosses right hand man keeps making misogynist jokes and using slurs against you and then you get passed over for a promotion because your boss doesn't take you seriously then those words cost you monetarily. Your level of respect can open or close many doors in your life and having someone degrade that which you may have worked very hard for is harmful.

  • Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What is your opinion on the freedom of satire in general and the satire of religion in particular?

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  • No, speaking truth to power is an important part of satire and political discourse in general. I haven't seen the original cartoon but if that's what it was then I'm all for it, though Muslims are very marginal in France and don't hold much power.

    This was in response to all the people, including a lot in this thread, that also probably haven't seen the cartoon but want it published everywhere and for us to show more pictures of Muhammed. In that case people are valuing something not because of its message but because it offends and "triggers" people, which is the same rational for some of the worst right wing "comedy".

    Offensiveness can be a means to an end, such as showing the corruption of the powerful, but when it becomes an end unto itself it simply becomes cruelty.

  • Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What is your opinion on the freedom of satire in general and the satire of religion in particular?

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  • It's not a slippery slope, it's an ambiguous gray area which a lot of moral rational debates like this don't do well with. For example I think we can agree that white people shouldn't call black people n*gger, but what about negro? There are some people who will do the victim hood Olympics and say calling people black is bad too.

    If we follow the free speech absolutist line then we get a bunch of white men demeaning every marginal group with horrific slurs. If we follow the no offense at all costs line then we're walking around a term for Mexican food because someone said that it's racist. We need to find some sort of middle ground and that ground is going to be very blurry, socially determined and subjective, and it won't have any easy hard rules that people desperately search for in stuff like this.

    The punishment for leaving this area should just be social ostracization though, not violence or death. There shouldn't be an assassin's veto but there also shouldn't be an asshole get out of jail free card.

    This all wasn't my argument though, I was arguing against the people in this thread saying we should've doubled down, published the cartoon in all major publications and done more Mohammad drawings simply to assert free speech. That's saying that speech is valuable and should be spread simply because its offensive and caused an overreaction which is the same logic as those annoying right wing assholes who say horrible shit to "trigger the libs". Offensiveness can be a means to an end but when it becomes an end unto itself then it just becomes cruelty.