Wirlocke

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

As a pansexual I feel that Bi and Pan have enough differences to both be justified while the others are micro labels (not invalid, just less useful as labels).

But I recognize I'm drawing that line very conveniently for myself.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

The people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse

In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or ~~a ponzi scheme~~ inflated stocks.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We also "knew" a bunch of other theories at the time, like his twitter implied it was Epstein related (I think, whole thing was murky).

This is more or less confirming a singular theory. Looks like he just did it because he believed he could. Maybe for legacy or infamy or just general importance.

The irony is that the assassination attempt itself has basically become irrelevant. The Vance couch meme currently has a bigger impact than this.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So a tricky thing with LGBT words is they seem to vary around specificity.

Like people can say gay to mean gay men, gay people, or any kind of queer.

Similarly transgender can mean a gender identity not matching your biological sex, which includes genderfluid; or it can mean specifically a binary trans man/woman.

These aren't different valid opinions about the label. They are literally just different definitions for the words that depend on context. The words mean all of those things but usually only one in each context.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because "it's a theory not a fact" as if the label of "fact" exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. "Facts" is a colloquial word like any other, it's not some special category above theories.

Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein's General Relatively equations reduces into Newton's Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton's Laws of Motion weren't "wrong", it's just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Eeeeeh maybe not "CP settings"...

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Theoretically we could slow down training and coast on fine-tuning existing models. Once the AI's trained they don't take that much energy to run.

Everyone was racing towards "bigger is better" because it worked up to GPT4, but word on the street is that raw training is giving diminishing returns so the massive spending on compute is just a waste now.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But if you break apart Google, how will they afford to keep killing off their own services!?!

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As a Gen-Z, I feel this divide is the result of our gen growing up on the internet and Gen-Alpha growing up in the internet. Like culturally I feel Gen-Z still had roots to reality hidden behind layers of absurdism and abstraction. Gen-Alpha however feels like it's generating new cultural landmarks with no connections to reality.

Like, skibidi was absurdist humor, which is now being covered by absurdist layers. It's absurdism all the way down! It's like some twisted form of enlightenment. To clarify I don't say this in a necessarily negative light, I just think it's interesting from the viewpoint of our species as a whole.

I know Gen-Z was experiencing a stage of wanting to assert real connections to the world against algorithmic forces, before covid that is, now I think we're a little scattered again.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Happened to my brother, normal democrat who agreed with feminism and disliked Trump.

Then fiancee left him for another man, took a hard right thanks to Jordan Peterson.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My brother honestly wants to get rid of divorce so that people will "take the commitment more seriously".

He said this after his fiancee left for another guy. Hilarious at first glance, mortifying when you realize what he actually wanted to happen based on what he said.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What resonated with me is people calling LLMs and Stable Diffusion "copyright laundering". If copyright ever swung in AI's favor it would be super easy to train an AI on stuff you want to steal, add in some generic training, and now you have a "new" piece of art.

LLMs and Stable Diffusion are just compression algorithms for abstract patterns, only one level above data.

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