Hamartiogonic

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to science in Swiss Alps Hide a Lethal Lake Layer: A Poisonous Sulphuric Layer Home Of Alien Bacteria

Having seen enough exceptions in biology, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone found a multicellular bacterial species that violates everything we know about bacteria. Biology is completely wild, and it’s really hard to come up with a rule or a category that always works and nobody has any problems with it.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to nostupidquestions in Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive?

That’s a good point. “Determining the cause of death” implies that the person is dead. It’s like braiding the hair of a bald guy.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to nottheonion in Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches

First, you need to find a place where soup restaurants have some special privileges compared to normal businesses. Then, just start a soup restaurant there and serve cereal and milk instead.

If you can’t find such a place, then maybe you can ask your local politicians to pass a bill like that. Would be nice if soup restaurants had to pay only half the amount of taxes compared to everyone else. Would be good for the owners, and fun for everyone else to see where the resulting legal battles go. Suddenly, you would find lots of companies selling just about anything and everything as soup and claiming they don’t have to pay the usual taxes.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

Our perception of it is also highly distorted due to the bubble we live in. Chinese are living in a different kind of bubble where everyone can more or less understand each other, as long as they stick to the written form. The languages may be different, but they are written using the same system, which makes communication possible. Also, the Great Firewall of China keeps Chinese people inside that bubble and foreigners outside it.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to nostupidquestions in What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?

All of this also touches upon an interesting topic. What it really means to understand something? Just because you know stuff and may even be able to apply it in flexible ways, does that count as understanding? I’m not a philosopher, so I don’t even know how to approach something like this.

Anyway, I think the main difference is the lack of personal experience about the real world. With LLMs, it’s all second hand knowledge. A human could memorize facts like how water circulates between rivers, lakes and clouds, and all of that information would be linked to personal experiences, which would shape the answer in many ways. An LLM doesn’t have such experiences.

Another thing would be reflecting on your experiences and knowledge. LLMs do none of that. They just speak whatever “pops in their mind”, whereas humans usually think before speaking… Well at least we are capable of doing that even though we may not always take advantage of this super power. Although, the output of an LLM can be monitored and abruptly deleted as soon as it crosses some line. It’s sort of like mimicking the thought processes you have inside your head before opening your mouth.

Example: Explain what it feels like to have an MRI taken of your head. If you haven’t actually experienced that yourself, you’ll have to rely on second hand information. In that case, the explanation will probably be a bit flimsy. Imagine you also read all the books, blog posts and and reddit comments about it, and you’re able to reconstruct a fancy explanation regardless.

This lack of experience may hurt the explanation a bit, but an LLM doesn’t have any experiences of anything in the real world. It has only second hand descriptions of all those experiences, and that will severely hurt all explanations and reasoning.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What good/positive habits have you taken away from your time in Covid lockdown and kept up since then?

Really? I should totally give it a go some time. Sounds like the ideal life hack for me.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to showerthoughts in In Star Trek, Commander Data is socially awkward because he lacks training data. This might be because he was built and developed in isolation from the rest of society.

Had they done it with Xitter, the result would have been a total racist.

Source: www.theverge.com/…/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to worldnews in Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

If you’re in a city, bikes and public transportation are the answer. Rural areas are stuck with cars though. America seems to be a bit of an exception to this rule, because lots of things would need to change before any of this could potentially happen.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to worldnews in Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

That’s just the media doing its thing. Information content is a byproduct of making money. Actually, educating the public isn’t strictly necessary, because you can also manipulate emotions to attract attention and clicks.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?

Congrats!

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to asklemmy in What are your best intrusive ads ideas?

Remember those mobile games where you can watch ads to get some gold and diamonds or simply pay for them with real money? Well, I can imagine a dystopian future where that logic has been applied to everything.

Wanna press an elevator button? Pay with shopping center diamonds or watch this quick ad.

Wanna try on this shirt before buying it? Ads. Is this made of cotton? Ads.

Take the escalator to the next floor? Ads.

Wanna check the info screen to figure out where you can find a restaurant in this shopping center? Ads.

Wanna unlock different parts of the menu? Ads. Wanna see the prices too? Ads. Allergens? Ads again.

Need to go to the toilet? Ads. Want some toilet paper? More ads.

If you encounter this literally every 30 seconds, spending some money on those shopping center diamonds suddenly becomes a very appealing idea.

On the outside of the mall you see a punk looking guy with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. You feel a sudden urge to join in whatever he is up to.

Anyway, if you want some more suffering and sadness, simply dump the first lines to GPT and ask it to take this dystopia to its logical conclusion. It could get pretty wild.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to technology in How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

That’s true. If something doesn’t directly make money, it can still exist because of taxes or another arrangement like that.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to technology in How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

So, the key is to run your business for loss. Wait, that’s called a charity, not a business. How is this thing supposed to work?

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to technology in Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about

In the early days of laser development, it was seen as a solution seeking a problem. A few decades later, it actually turned out to be really handy, but it would have been tough to sell this idea to anyone before that. Imagine how hard it is to find funding for research that solves a problem that doesn’t exist.

Hamartiogonic , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?

LOL. Far in the unseen later, it is then.