Are_Euclidding_Me

I mean, I'm aromantic and have a partner. It's not like I don't love them, I do, intensely. I simply don't understand what the difference is between romantic and platonic love.

Like, what's different about the love you have for a romantic partner than the love you have for a friend? Is it simply the addition of being sexually attracted to someone? So romantic love is friendship plus sexual attraction? What happens when the sexual attraction fades? Do you stop romantically loving your partner? Do you then break up because you're no longer sexually attracted to them? I just don't get it, frankly.

Sexual attraction for me is so, so fickle, it comes and goes and never stays. If I tried to build partner relationships on sexual attraction, well, I'd never stick with one partner for long, I'd be breaking up with people constantly, and that sounds like a miserable way to live. Especially since I've found a person I get along great with, we have similar long-term goals, senses of humor that mesh great, they're everything I want in a life partner. I really don't think it's unreasonable for me to be married to this person, we've built our life together, why would I throw that away just because I don't really "get" romantic love?

Back in topic, would you be that negative if AI’s issues were addressed and solved? Because they will be addressed and solved. It’s a basic business need to minimise costs (energy, water) and solve legal disputes (copyright).

The issues with LLMs will never be solved. The environmental damage and copyright issues will persist as long as capitalism does. And those aren't even my main issues. These fucking things are marketed as thinking machines that can reason and help people work through problems, but they are fundamentally incapable of that. They hallucinate and spout nonsense and it's not a matter of "oh, just train them better, they'll eventually be worth using", there are fundamental mathematical reasons that these things spout so much nonsense, and no amount of high quality training data will ever fix it.

So you think that the lack of disgust over cell phones (or smartphones, I'm happy to talk about them instead, since that's what you meant) had more to do with the lack of social media than anything inherent in the technology. I don't know that I agree, really. It's possible, I suppose, but I don't really use social media now (except posting on Hexbear), and I would say my disgust with LLMs has more to do with my understanding of the mathematics behind them and my experiences using them, rather than listening to what other people are saying about them.

At this rate of adoption, in a few years it will be as normal as having a mobile phone (they weren't around only 20 years ago)

First, mobile phones were extremely common in 2005 (20 years ago), even I had one, and I was literally a child.

Second, and this is the part I'm actually curious about: I wonder if there were people in the 80s and 90s (when mobile phones were actually rare, but becoming more common) who felt the same pure, visceral disgust for them that I feel for LLMs. I sort of suspect not, but I could be wrong, and I'd be curious to read anti-cell phone writing from that era, to see what people were worried about and whether those worries are in any way the same as the current worries I (and many others) have about LLMs.

Ok, well, enjoy the results of your very obvious bait post I guess.

I find it extremely shitty for someone to actively pick a fight and then whine about how they didn't actually want a fight, but you do you.

Mate, I just posted a meme in our own comm

Are you fucking serious? Remind me again what the first comment posted in this thread was? Was it you saying:

I expect some spicy takes in the comments soon...

Yes, yes it was, you disengenuous fuck. I'm beginning to agree with the people saying you have a humiliation fetish, I don't know why else you'd decide to make this post.

Well see, here you have good proof that chatGPT isn't actually "the best knowledge retrieving tool at the moment". ChatGPT (and every other LLM) suuuucks at complicated math, because these text extruders don't reason. Seriously, try out some more complicated math problems. I think you'll find chatGPT gets most of them wrong, and in infuriating ways that make very little sense.

I don't disagree that we need better math instruction for students. I've been saying this since I was a student. But using chatGPT being horrible at math as evidence of this is, well, ridiculous, frankly. ChatGPT's performance isn't based on how well your average high schooler understands something, and I don't know why you're trying to tie those two very different things together.

It's pretty annoying to read the mailing list, I agree. There's a very small hyperlink that says "next" that's right below the message body. If you click that, you can read the next message in the chain. Keep doing that until you get to the end, and yeah, it looks like this was resolved and wasn't actually malicious.

I'm going to try to be respectful and reasonable here. If I fail at that, I'm truly sorry, I'm really trying.

I think you and I want different things from the fediverse. I like that my instance (Hexbear) is widely defederated. It's a lovely little refuge from the reactionary political opinions I can't help but hear in my day to day life living in America.

I also can't agree with you that political disagreements aren't reason for defederation. To go for an extreme example first, being an avowed neo-nazi is a political choice, and I'd kick an avowed neo-nazi out of any space I had the power to kick them out of.

For other examples, we can look at things that have already happened in the fediverse, such as feddit .uk deciding that posting transphobia is actually fine and dandy, because the laws in the UK are such that transphobic speech is very much allowed, or we can look at the recent kerfuffle surrounding feddit .org, wherein feddit .org decided that due to laws in Germany, criticism of Israel can't be as full-throated as it really should be. These examples are both cases where local politics affect how things are moderated, or, at least, local politics are being used as an excuse for moderation decisions. And I think these moderation decisions (allowing transphobia in the first case, censoring criticism of Israel in the second) are worth defederating over. If transphobia doesn't get banned and removed on sight, then how can trans people feel safe and included in a space? And similarly, if Israel's horrific genocide is downplayed in a space, that space becomes less friendly for Palestinians and other Arab and Muslim people.

I don't need or want political plurality in this online space, I want a brief refuge from the terrible politics surrounding me. This isn't me sticking my head in the sand to ignore the awful shit happening around me, I see all that, I talk to people who believe in the American status quo because believe it or not, most Americans aren't communists. I love that here on this corner of Lemmy I can be openly communist and talk to other open communists about all kinds of things. It's really nice, actually, and that would be lost if we were federated with the anti-communist shitholes like .world. Not to mention the transphobia. Holy shit, every time I accidentally end up outside my lovely little Lemmy bubble it's just transphobia as far as the eye can see. So I'm glad we at Hexbear are widely defederated, I really don't need to see the liberal nonsense and transphobia that are so inescapable in my real life.

Oh, you really should! I mean, I know you know, but like, it's really good! Very good send-off to the series, quite funny, good stuff from beginning to end!

I didn't know about this! I already use rofi for a few different things, so I'm going to get rofi-calc working too, it'll fit perfectly into my workflow. Thanks!