But even that case doesn’t work because someone could use a different account (or no account at all) to do the stalking.

Also if the CEO of target decides he really doesn’t like a popular shirt and is able to force everyone to only shop at target, then he can come a lot closer to snuffing out the existence of that shirt.

I put a link in another reply, dunno if you’d consider it credible or not, but I got it from a websearch for “inhaling diatomaceous earth” if you want to look at the many other links.

Food grade isn’t as bad as non-food grade, but still not great. And the “aabestos-like” bit was in the context that it causes harm through a similar mechanism (small sharp, jagged particles). Severity and outcome might vary.

It’s particularly bad for them but that doesn’t mean it’s perfectly safe otherwise. I wouldn’t use it at all with cats or especially dogs, since they explore their world with their noses. A lot of the claims that it’s safe for pets say something about if it’s food grade, it’s safe for pets to ingest the small amounts needed for pest control and then ignore how dogs get right up to things with their nose when they say “but don’t inhale it!”

https://www.earthworkshealth.com/post/myths-and-misconceptions-about-diatomaceous-earth

I wouldn’t use that on pets. Inhaling that stuff is similar to inhaling asbestos.

It’s because they are horrible at problem solving and creativity. They are based on word association from training purely on text. The technical singularity will need to innovate on its own so that it can improve the hardware it runs on and its software.

Even though github copilot has impressed me by implementing a 3 file Python script from scratch to finish such that I barely wrote any code, I had to hold its hand the entire way and give it very specific instructions about every function as we added the pieces one by one to build it up. And even then, it would get parts I failed to specify completely wrong and initially implemented things in a very inefficient way.

There are fundamental things that the technical singularity needs that today’s LLMs lack entirely. I think the changes that would be required to get there will also change them from LLMs into something else. The training is a part of it, but fundamentally, LLMs are massive word association engines. Words (or vectors translated to and from words) are their entire world and they can only describe things with those words because it was trained on other people doing that.

I don’t hate AI or LLMs. As much as it might mess up civilization as we know it, I’d like to see the technological singularity during my lifetime, though I think the fixation on LLMs will do more to delay than realize that.

I just think that there’s a lot of people fooled by their conversational capability into thinking they are more than what they are and using the fact that these models are massive with billions or trillions of weighs that the data is encoded into and no one understands how they work to the point of being able to definitively say “this is why it suggested glue as a pizza topping” to put whether or not it approaches AGI in a grey zone.

I’ll agree though that it was maybe too much to say they don’t have knowledge. “Having knowledge” is a pretty abstract and hard to define thing itself, though I’m also not sure it directly translates to having intelligence (which is also poorly defined tbf). Like one could argue that encyclopedias have knowledge, but they don’t have intelligence. And I’d argue that LLMs are more akin to encyclopedias than how we operate (though maybe more like a chatbot dictionairy that pretends to be an encyclopedia).

Calling the errors “hallucinations” is kinda misleading because it implies there’s regular real knowledge but false stuff gets mixed in. That’s not how LLMs work.

LLMs are purely about word associations to other words. It’s just massive enough that it can add a lot of context to those associations and seem conversational about almost any topic, but it has no depth to any of it. Where it seems like it does is just because the contexts of its training got very specific, which is bound to happen when it’s trained on every online conversation its owners (or rather people hired by people hired by its owners) could get their hands on.

All it does is, given the set of tokens provided and already predicted, plus a bit of randomness, what is the most likely token to come next, then repeat until it predicts an “end” token.

Earlier on when using LLMs, I’d ask it about how it did things or why it would fail at certain things. ChatGPT would answer, but only because it was trained on text that explained what it could and couldn’t do. Its capabilities don’t actually include any self-reflection or self-understanding, or any understanding at all. The text it was trained on doesn’t even have to reflect how it really works.

Those aren’t pens.

Not sure where 1440p would land, but after using one for a while, I was going to upgrade my monitor to 4k but realized I’m not disappointed with my current resolution at all and instead opted for a 1440p ultrawide and haven’t regretted it at all.

My TV is 4k, but I have no intention of even seriously looking at anything 8k.

Screen specs seem like a mostly solved problem. Would be great if focus could shift to efficiency improvements instead of adding more unnecessary power. Actually, boot time could be way better, too (ie get rid of the smart shit running on a weak processor, emphasis on the first part).

This guy knows how to party!

Or maybe you get gravel in the same sense that someone could own Jupiter or a star. “You now own all the gravel in that quary!” But it doesn’t inform the workers of that fact, or the officials who still rely on whatever paperwork was filled out by the agents of the guy who paid them to ensure the quary belongs to his corporation’s corporation. The whole idea of ownership is pretty abstract in the first place.

Could be that every pill just means that, under the jurisdiction of the entity who made the pills, you are legally allowed to do what the pills claim, though you need to figure out the rest from there, and people from other jurisdictions are able to disagree even if you do figure out the how.

Unless he was as skilled in robotics and engineering as a fish was at climbing trees.

Get a “replace the pin in the grenade before the time runs out” alarm clock. Then, if you sleep in anyways, it won’t be your problem anymore.

I thought you were going to say it was a BBQ sauce spiced with Carolina Reapers. In which case, avoid using heavy amounts in groin area and sleep with goggles on. Maybe even tie your hands up so you don’t scratch anywhere in your sleep.

I’ve wondered if it was because the air vibrations that sound is help knock dust loose from the plant, which helps gasses get in and out as well as more light.

Heavy metal probably has the most vibration going on out of all genres.

People are bad at estimating how long it will take to develop something, but everything I’ve seen indicates that we are getting closer to it being a real thing.

Though I’m skeptical about the safety, as it does sound like it could get pretty explody if the containment fields fail. Or if they fail in just one direction, I wonder if they’d shoot out a plasma jet that fucks up everything in its path.

Even the sun shoots shit at us from time to time, which our own magnetic field generally protects us from.

Not that I’m against fusion power, just not holding my breath that it’s going to be all sunshine and no flares.

Yeah, I don’t get how people can think like this but not want nukes to take out everything. Like you’re living this shit, too, if you are willing to keep living this shit, why do you assume it’s a bad thing for anyone to bring someone else into it? Anti-natalism is pro-extinction from my pov.

Not that I have an issue with people taking themselves out of the gene pool or anything, I just find the position wildly inconsistent with anyone who wants to continue living themselves.

And to be clear, I mean specifically the “if you choose to have a kid, you are bad” position, I can understand “having kids is not for me, I don’t want to do parenting”.

Hey you should have some pride in your dad, being able to keep going longer than a movie!

Guessing you mean in a similar vein to the connection between various degrees and food service jobs?

Personally, I’ve been able to avoid IT jobs so far.