BlackDragon

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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/politics · 36 pts · 218d

Yes he does, because you're not fucking doing anything about it. You can say "That's illegal!" like it's a magic spell all you want, but Trump doesn't care what is legal. Either you go stop him, physically, or he will keep doing whatever he feels like.

Maybe some yellow onion is in your future.

(I'm not a huge radish guy so maybe there are nuances that would make you like one and not the other, but to me they seemed similar)

on Apophenia · c/fuck_ai · 1 pts · 221d

There's a lot of stuff it can do that's useful, just all malicious. Anything which requires confidently lying to someone about stuff where the fine details don't matter. So it's a perfect tool for scammers.

Most billionaires either inherit obscene wealth or luck into an insane ROI by accident (or both, like Elon Musk)

What I'm saying is Jeffrey Epstein was made a billionaire by other billionaires specifically to be the guy who takes the fall if the shit hits the fan.

on Apophenia · c/fuck_ai · 8 pts · 221d

(“…a computer doesn’t, like, know what an apple is maaan…”)

I think you're misunderstanding and/or deliberately misrepresenting the point. The point isn't some asinine assertion, it's a very real fundamental problem with using LLMs for any actually useful task.

If you ask a person what an apple is, they think back to their previous experiences. They know what an apple looks like, what it tastes like, what it can be used for, how it feels to hold it. They have a wide variety of experiences that form a complete understanding of what an apple is. If they have never heard of an apple, they'll tell you they've never heard of it.

If you ask an LLM what an apple is, they don't pull from any kind of database of information, they don't pull from experiences, they don't pull from any kind of logic. Rather, they generate an answer that sounds like what a person would say in response to the question, "What is an apple?" They generate this based on nothing more than language itself. To an LLM, the only difference between an apple and a strawberry and a banana and a gibbon is that these things tend to be mentioned in different types of sentences. It is, granted, unlikely to tell you that an apple is a type of ape, but if it did it would say it confidently and with absolutely no doubt in its mind, because it doesn't have a mind and doesn't have doubt and doesn't have an actual way to compare an apple and a gibbon that doesn't involve analyzing the sentences in which the words appear.

The problem is that most of the language-related tasks which would be useful to automate require not just text which sounds grammatically correct but text which makes sense. Text which is written with an understanding of the context and the meanings of the words being used.

An LLM is a very convincing Chinese room. And a Chinese room is not useful.

Epstein wasn't a 'real' rich guy, he was an uplifted peasant fall guy. Dude was a fucking teacher until someone made him the designated head of the worldwide child trafficking ring.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 0 pts · 222d

It doesn't matter whether you suck at hoarding other people's wealth or you're good at it. You're still a shitty person either way.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 1 pts · 222d

Renting you don’t have to keep $30k on hand

Oh woe is me, I could literally fill a swimming pool with other people's money, please feel sorry for me

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 1 pts · 222d

If it really sucked so much to own a home, the upper class wouldn't be buying as many of the fucking things as they could.

Owning a home is 100% upside 0% downside. You have your name on it and someone else pays for it. You use their money to pay other people to maintain it, skim the rest and fuck off to the beach. If you fail at this you wouldn't last an hour at a real job.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 2 pts · 222d

Providing maintenance isn't being a landlord. You can be a landlord and also do real work on the house as a maintenance person, the same way you can be a landlord and also work at McDonald's. But being a landlord is not a job and provides no value.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 6 pts · 223d

Of course it's exploitative, that isn't a question. The entire purpose of rent is to exploit. The down voters are people who recognize that it's complete nonsense to suggest housing rental could ever not be exploitative.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 0 pts · 223d

Landlords are purely evil, they are nothing but a drain on society, and if you disagree you're my enemy and we have no common cause.