Barabas

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Depends on the context of what I’m thinking about. I think that is the case for anyone that is truly fluent in more than one language.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

I’m pretty close with my mum but have had a tendency to not tell her about struggles I have, not because of anything she has done but rather because of shame and not wanting to make her sad. She would listen and is very non-judgemental but I’d rather shoulder it on my own. The only caveat to that is that she is proper anti-drugs.

Dad was a dickhead and he can RIP in piss.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t really consider rushing someone to a hospital as an especially high bar for genuinely good person. Seems more like the bar for not being a genuinely bad person. Not sure if that means that I’m positive or negative about humanity.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Stainless steel or cast iron in general. Let go of your nonsticks.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this mean that my TI-84 calculator was actually an AI since it could solve equations I put into it? Or Wolfram Alpha? Or a speed camera? These are all able to read external inputs to produce an output. At which point does your line go, because the current technology is nowhere near where mine goes.

We are currently ruining the biosphere so that some people might earn a lot of money by being able to lay off workers. If you remove this integral part to what “AI” is and all other negative externalities of course it will look better, but not all of the externalities are tied to the capitalist mode of production. Economies and resource allocation would still be a thing without capitalism, it isn’t like everything magically becomes good.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago (13 children)

They don’t understand though. A lot of AI evangelists seem to smooth over that detail, it is a LLM not anything that “understands” language, video nor images.

There are uses for these kinds of models like semi-automating analysing large pools of data, but even in a socialist society the resources that allocated to do it like it is currently is completely unsustainable.