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pennomi ,

Excellent short horror story! Thank you for sharing this.

pennomi ,

An extraordinarily sensible action. While Israel is certainly causing the most civilian suffering right now, Hamas also needs to be punished for their instigating terrorist actions.

The only good guys here are the noncombatants.

Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....

pennomi ,

The trade with China is a a big part why they haven’t been invaded yet. This may speed up the timeline for China’s invasion.

pennomi ,

Only works if the liquidated assets are worth more than the money spent acquiring them, which usually is not the case.

pennomi ,

One of my favorite Far Side comics!

pennomi ,

The main thing we need to do to fix journalism is crowdsource the titles. But how to make that happen? I dunno.

pennomi ,

You can tactically vote for Biden to avoid Trump and still take actions to dismantle the system.

pennomi ,

No, I’m saying that your analogy breaks down.

pennomi ,

You’re free to do nothing, but smart people choose to minimize harm when there are only bad choices in front of them.

pennomi ,

You can still do both. The only viable path to election reform comes from downballot state elections anyway.

pennomi ,

When entire civilian populations are bombed or starved, then yes. The US is not free of war crimes. They’re merely immune from the consequences.

pennomi ,

Absolutely, there were millions of civilian casualties in WWII. The difference here is that there have been, according to Israel, only 273 soldiers killed in ground operation combat vs the 13,000 civilians killed on Gaza’s side. (According to the new, lower estimates.) This is not so much a war as a one-sided beatdown.

pennomi ,

No, I’m saying that if a nation has such a huge advantage they also have more responsibility to select targets carefully so as to not kill noncombatants.

pennomi ,

Be change wish see

pennomi ,

I love how the economic threat of cheap electric vehicles dramatically outweighs the existential threat of climate change. Nice priorities, everyone!

pennomi ,

Wow this is some serious vintage memery. Nice work.

pennomi ,

God this reads extremely pro-Israel.

“Hey everyone, Hamas lied about 70% of casualties being women and children. The actual number is 50%, so that makes Israel the good guys!”

Fuck no, it doesn’t matter what the ratio is, the fact is that noncombatants are being slaughtered by the thousands.

pennomi ,

Because it’s being used as a weapon to justify Israel’s actions.

pennomi ,

You can condemn both Hamas and Israel for killing civilians. It’s not either or.

pennomi ,

Lying about casualties is standard propaganda in every conflict. Everybody does it (for another comparison, look at the discrepancy between Ukraine and Russia’s published numbers). That’s why third party assessments are important.

It’s been hard to get people into Gaza safely to do accurate analysis however.

pennomi ,

Misleading title more than simply fake, but arguably there’s no difference in the propaganda wars.

pennomi ,

Hell, I should be able to upload an economic playbook with hundreds of rules like the one you described, and load it on game start. Then all I have to do is the actual unit movements.

pennomi ,

That’s not sarcasm, it’s misinformation. Not surprising that people downvoted you even though it was just a joke.

pennomi ,

It certainly used to be true, in the era of 32 bit computers.

Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape ( www.gamespot.com )

I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...

pennomi ,

It’s easy to remember just the successes of the past and ignore the fact that the vast majority of media then was shit too… we’ve simply forgotten about the things that ended up being mediocre. Survivorship bias is really really strong.

pennomi ,

I’d love to see a scientific study that shows this, if the effect really does exist.

pennomi ,

Children can theoretically get fluorosis in their teeth if they chug mouthwash, but it’s a pretty uncommon thing to do.

pennomi ,

Me too, but I make pathfinding algorithms for video game characters. The truly classic Artificial Intelligence.

pennomi ,

It’s not really poaching if they’ve already been fired, now is it?

pennomi ,

They won’t, because they know if they do Israel will bomb them like they do other journalists and aid workers.

pennomi ,

The hitman just coughed on him. Devious.

pennomi ,

Phrases like “it symbolizes the increasing role” are something I generally see ChatGPT say. People don’t typically talk like that, even pretentious lunatics on LinkedIn.

pennomi ,

This will keep happening as long as humans keep ranking wordy AIs higher than succinct ones. Unfortunately we have this gut instinct to judge long responses as more true than short ones, so we keep making the problem worse.

pennomi ,

And the X11 Protocol was released in 1987. We’re not replacing Xorg specifically as much as we are replacing X11.

pennomi ,

Agreed, you put these suckers out on the airfield and they’ll be great decoys. Probably cost less than the missiles that hit them.

pennomi , (edited )

Agreed, even if compensation was something like “minimum wage for the entire time you are wrongly incarcerated” that would be a good place to start.

pennomi ,

Woah MIT license. That’s a lot more permissive than I expected.

pennomi ,

Mmmmmyep me too

pennomi ,

I get the sentiment but wouldn’t you WANT an AI to be trained on your own words? That would make the AI more favorable to your points of view. By self-censoring you effectively let everyone else in the world decide the direction AI goes.

pennomi ,

It wouldn’t look the same, but the US could domestically produce enough food and energy to sustain itself.

pennomi ,

Nah you did good explaining it in detail, nice work.

pennomi ,

Interesting use of rubber bands

pennomi ,

Because they’re not familiar with the concept of doing whatever the fuck you want.

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pennomi , (edited )

What do you mean? AI absolutely can be made deterministic. Do you have a source to back up your claim?

You know what’s not deterministic? Human content reviewers.

Besides, determinism isn’t important for utility. Even if AI classified an ad wrong 5% of the time, it’d still massively clean up the spammy advertisers. But they’re far, FAR more accurate than that.

pennomi ,

Again, you are wrong. Specifically ChatGPT may not be able to be deterministic since it’s a hosted service, but you absolutely can replay a prompt using the same random seed to get deterministic responses. Computer randomness isn’t truly random.

But if that’s not satisfying enough, you can also configure the temperature to be zero and system fingerprinting to always be the same, and that makes it even more deterministic, since it will always use the highest probability token.

For example, Llama can be fully deterministic. https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/25507#issuecomment-1678498896

pennomi ,

Please enlighten me then. Clearly people are doing it, as proved by the link I sent. Are you simply going to ignore that? Perhaps we have different definitions of determinism.

pennomi ,

Yes, but seeding the random generator makes it deterministic. Because LLMs don’t use actual randomness, they use pseudorandom generators.

For all the same inputs, you’ll get the same result, barring a hardware failure. But you have to give it exactly the same inputs. That includes random seed and system prompt (eg. you can’t put the current time and date in the system prompt), as well as the prompt.

pennomi ,

You posted a single blog post about ChatGPT not being deterministic, I posted a GitHub issue that explains exactly how to do it using the transformers library. Not sure we can see eye to eye on this one.

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