TheCornCollector

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The concept seems pretty clear to me from a quick look on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. [3] It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes.

Also further down:

Animals such as pigs, chickens, and fish are typically recognized as sentient. There is more uncertainty regarding insects, and findings on certain insect species may not be applicable to others.

And if you don't like wikipedia here is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[...] we raise cattle, chickens, and pigs. Evidence from their behavior, their brains, and their evolutionary origins, adduced in Allen 2004, Andrews 2016, and Tye 2016, supports the view that they have mental lives and, importantly, are sentient creatures with likes and dislikes. Even chickens and other “birdbrains” have interesting mental lives. The exhaustive Marino 2017 collects evidence that chickens can adopt others’ visual perspectives, communicate deceptively, engage in arithmetic and simple logical reasoning, and keep track of pecking orders and short increments of time. Their personalities vary with respect to boldness, self-control, and vigilance.

Looks good! I did see multiple places that were listed as 100% vegan even though they were tagged ‘diet:vegan=yes’ and not ‘diet:vegan=only’. I know for a fact these places aren’t vegan only, so is it possible to see how a listing was established?

There is an existing OSM based map https://veggiekarte.de/ that also has filtering options. The biggest issue is that OSM doesn’t have much detail on POIs and they’re often out of date. Even in Western Europe where most other stuff is up to date. Mostly because POIs require on the ground surveys which only a handful of contributors can do in more than one region.

So, please consider contributing to OSM using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor if you have some spare time.

on Man boobs · c/vegan · 10 pts · 91d

I’m not defending the meme at all. I agreed with the point immediately in the first sentence. I just interpreted the tone of some remarks to be a bit condescending and gave a recommendation based on my opinion on that. Do with it what you want. I’m not here to force any view onto you.

on Man boobs · c/vegan · 27 pts · 91d

I agree with your first point and I really dislike the amount of misinformation flowing around on both sides, but spending even a little time online will show that is just humans being humans on any topic.

Since any other reference probably wouldn't work here, have one from one of those holistic medicine places

I’m not sure if I’m reading it right, but are you saying that people here, so vegans, don’t trust normal scientific evidence and are only here to reinforce their beliefs by excluding proper evidence? That sounds kind of patronising and implies people are only vegan because of their biased world view instead of proper ethics and science.

[…] to promote a hobby.

This also sounds dismissive of veganism and rude towards people that try their best to reduce harm in a part of their life. Vegans do it because they see it as necessary to live ethically consistent. This is not something done for ✨fun✨.

I would recommend leaving these unnecessary remarks out of your comments if you want to address misinformation such as in this post more effectively while also coming off more respectful.

You can also contribute to OpenStreetMap in your area using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor. This has a way lower barrier to entry than contributing code in my opinion. And it has the immediate benefit of a better local map for a LOT of services that are built on top of OSM.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/fediverse · 10 pts · 107d

As long as the moderation follows their rules, and it is always as transparent as shown in this example, I don’t see an issue with this.

My only concern is that LLMs are very good at recognising biases in questions and are more likely to confirm them than push back. So the LLM might pay too much attention to small/possible infringements. But this depends heavily on the model, the prompt, and the reader.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/fediverse · 8 pts · 108d

I’m really not fond of the profiling by automated means, but it seems like an inevitable consequence of the design of the threadiverse. Everything is public and easily accessible by anyone that would like to profile you.

I certainly disapprove of moderation based on ideology. Moderation should be based on quality of the content and if it fits in the publicly readable rules. Definitely not some hidden analytics or if the user completely fits in the in-group of the moderator.

I will admit that this might be a good way to find and filter out LLM based bots that are only there to promote or manipulate the conversation. But it should still be done according to public rules.

on On the topic of privacy · c/fosai · 2 pts · 110d

I trust them as much as Google, Meta, or any other big tech company. I won’t use their cloud services, but I do run there local models.

I’m no expert, but basically the way to unlock higher/full bandwidth for HDMI 2.1. This will allow the use of higher refresh rate, resolution, and bit depth + HDR. Right now you need to make sacrifices in at least one category with HDMI

on On the topic of privacy · c/fosai · 5 pts · 111d

I think I saw a similar comment on here last month. It was a user saying that Gemma claimed to send his chats to Google. Which is clearly a hallucination.

I’m not a professional or expert on anything security and/or AI related but this is my take:

  • In general there will not be data sent anywhere if you use the big/trustworthy open-source backends.
  • Unless there are bigger security issues the model files shouldn’t contain such code.
  • Data could be sent using MCP/tool calling but you can see each tool call as it is happening so it can’t be hidden.

If you really don’t trust something you can always try to use a network sniffer