fsmacolyte

fsmacolyte , 6 months ago to nottheonion in Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense

Funny how “self awareness” has two meanings here. It’s the essence of what makes humans the smartest animals, but the problem you’re referring to—lack of self reflection—is one of the most common problems amongst people today. Common sense ain’t so common.

fsmacolyte , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

Like most popular social media sites, you usually won’t see very valuable discussion in the comments, at least in my experience. It’s mostly for people to post news, research, and so on, and follow the big names or organizations in their field.

Most of the valuable information is diffused via posts but I do put a bit of time and effort into trying to filter out all the crap posts like memes, the faux inspirational stuff, self-aggrandizing nonsense, etc.

fsmacolyte , 6 months ago to news in Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

Yeah I don’t care. I’m not here to make exceptions for pedophiles and abusers.

fsmacolyte , 6 months ago to news in Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

Okay, and if it happened years ago but the victim is now 14 instead of 6 and they’re still in the same environment as their abuser?

“Giving (potential) victimizers a line of support via organized religion to try to help them not commit sex crimes against children (in the future, or again)” is not a good argument because it has been shown time and time again that religious institutions cannot be trusted to reliably take the correct course of action and be accountable. That is the role of the government and law enforcement. It is unacceptable to put the feelings of adults over the safety of children and other victims, and organized religions have a tendency to protect those with power and influence over protecting the vulnerable.

fsmacolyte , 6 months ago to news in Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

So let me get this straight. You’re saying that a member of clergy should be allowed to hear an adult say, “I molested that child last week” and not have to report it?

Is that what you are saying? I want to hear it from you straight.

fsmacolyte , 7 months ago to technology in 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture

Sure, in the short term. I’ve switched to DDG and I’m not getting another Pixel when I need a new phone, and hoards of tech savvy people are feeling the same way. Dissatisfaction is causing them to lose customers and talent.

Eventually, they’ll start feeling it in their bottom line. And by then it might be too late to change course.

fsmacolyte , 7 months ago to lemmyshitpost in hmm rock

I recognize that my intrusive thoughts are my own, but this term existing is helpful because: 1) some people incorrectly believe that thoughts imply a desired outcome, and this term helps explain and describe that this isn’t always the case and 2) it’s a meaningful and useful way of categorizing these types of thoughts for the purposes of psychology, psychiatry, understanding ourselves better, etc.

In cases like severe OCD, classifying intrusive thoughts as such could help someone understand and cope with disturbing thoughts and develop subsequent coping mechanisms. Not everyone’s the same and some terms can be helpful.

fsmacolyte , 7 months ago to technology in OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach'

what in particular shows that Gary Marcus is uniformed? I dislike him because he’s dogmatic and petty but I haven’t seen a specific thing he’s been wrong about, but I’d love examples.

fsmacolyte , 7 months ago to technology in AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

Intent is part of it as well. If you have too many people who want to use your service, you’re not being attacked, you have an actual shortage of ability to service requests and need to adjust accordingly.

fsmacolyte , 8 months ago to technology in Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”

I’m going to use those things as answer machines and you can’t stop me.

Jokes aside, I always validate what chatbots tell me, not even just important things. I use GPT-4 for work and 90% of the time it can show me how to use very specific functions in complex ways, but yesterday (for the first time in awhile) it made up a function that didn’t exist. To its credit, I said, “Are you sure about [function]?” and it said, “I’m sorry, I got confused. That function doesn’t exist. However, look into X, Y, Z for further resources” and I did and they were the correct things to look into.

fsmacolyte , 8 months ago to technology in Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”

The best ones can literally write pretty good code, and explain any concept on the Internet to you that you ask them to. If you don’t understand a specific thing about their explanation, they can add onto their explanation, and they can respond in the style you want (explain as if I’m ten, explain as if I’m an undergrad, etc).

I use it literally every day for work in a somewhat niche field. I don’t really agree that it’s a “parlor trick”.

fsmacolyte , 9 months ago to technology in Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica

I was kind of with you until saying they’re “being a fucking idiot.”

Encouraging someone to help out? Great.

Browbeating someone for voicing the viewpoint or experience a lot of users are facing? We can do better than that.

fsmacolyte , 9 months ago to technology in A speech jammer would be cool on some of our politicians 🤭

Fascinating that people with stutters can be helped by practicing speaking with speech jammers.

It makes me think about how ADHD medication will make people without ADHD more distractible while it’ll help focus people with it.

fsmacolyte , 9 months ago to technology in Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders

John Wayne Gacy is really unhappy with this feature.

fsmacolyte , 9 months ago to pics in [OC] Summer vacation in Trento, Italy

I’ve often looked out of a 20th story window at pedestrians and thought, “They have no idea someone is looking at them right now,” and then I always wonder how many times that has happened to me.

That must happen to people all the time who visit that church.