You know what would be awesome is if there was a way to easily see new posts to a thread, like if the “New” button actually put New posts on top. Maybe lemmy truly is too janky for that but it’s a shame because I just start to ignore threads after a while.

I was going to say something about use value, but BTC doesn’t have any exchange value either lol

The fermi paradox is like flipping a coin one time and wondering why coins always come up heads

I do like how you shoved the stupid fermi paradox in there specifically to annoy me though!

ai can’t hurt us just unplug the computer bro

I don’t really agree with this. Artists can’t (and shouldn’t want to) entirely control interpretation, but they still have a responsibility. If your work is palatable to nazis or advertisers or whatever kind of parasite, you need to reflect on why and make it less so, or you’re complicit in my book. I say this as an artist who’s repeatedly moved on to new forms of expression as fashion catches up.

Yeah I thought this one looked very very made up and far too on the nose. I think it’s fine to label human-run spam/troll accounts as bots though.

Somewhat related I stumbled upon robots flirting with eachother the other day.

i love you tom seven

“Hallucination” implies LLMs can meaningfully perceive. They can’t, they’re not made that way and they have no reason to be.

binary tree invert

happy pride month

How to deal with the AI-pocalypse as a regular guy?

This is an antinomy so, problem solved I guess?

I often mention that Heidegger was a Nazi, and that doesn’t mean his philosophy should just be dismissed outright

Very true. It should instead be dismissed because it is the exact sort of reactionary nonsense a craven nazi would try to pass off as philosophical inquiry.

cool graph what’s the x axis

it’s unsolvable because it’s literally how LLMs work lol.

though to be fair i would indeed love for them to solve the LLMs-outputting-text problem.

I think you are missing the first half the modern male reproductive lifecycle. What you are saying increasingly applies to 30’s onward (when males are looking for long term family relationships) but for the 20 somethings many are looking for these shallow, vacuous women because they often can be convinced into meaningless sex. It’s a pretty sad state but it appears to be this way now.

Wowsers. I don’t think you’re supposed to say this out loud.

it is qwerty!

a) i tend to take a few tries at a keymash until it looks satisfactory

b) i play piano at the level of a second year student and i have some weird fine coordination quirks, one of the two or a combination of both might be an influence on the sequence

taking all people with cancer in the world right now it’s at least a couple thousands of pure profits, but if you account for all future humans it’s basically giving it away for free!

oh you can’t be fucking serious

The AI Mirror Test

The “mirror test” is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.

In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.

In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.

I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”

The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.

Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)

lmao right, it’s the audacity of it, oh yeah maybe the work we’re doing is worse than a thousand hitlers, but we’ve made a chatroom so fingers crossed it’ll be alright!! come on just admit you’re getting off on being techno mengele

so true, there’s nothing conceivably wrong with making… a trillion dollars… ? on the backs of cancer patients …?