Avid PC gamer, Linux convert, SCP fan.

Love Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic settings; Fan of the games of the defunct Arkane Studios. Listening to (Power-, Speed-, Thrash-)Metal, Gothic, Deathrock, EBM, Vaporwave, Lo-Fi; Classic and Musicals are fine too. Can’t stand Hip-Hop.

Owned by two cats, recently divorced, blessed with a personality disorder (AVPD) - pensioned (even the state has the opinion I’m a total wreck lol). This causes me to be unable to keep up personal connections and makes me ghost literally everyone, so if it happens to you, sorry in advance.

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Pro GenAI, but Anti-GenAI-Corpos; this technology should be available to everyone, which would only be fair since we all contributed to it. Datasets and Models should be under the jurisdiction of UNESCO, since they are literally the distilled cultural output of humanity.

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  • Please explain how this is ableism in anyway. This nonexistant “person” does not resemble any human alive on this planet at all. Stop getting your panties in a bunch. I am very careful not using language that is used to insult or denigrate people. ADD isnt in the class of “r-word” language at all, and i actually fullfill 9/9 of the medical criteria for diagnosing ADD, so it was the first thing i grabbed at because it is so relateable to my own life. (and my chicken sandwiches are quite tasty too.)


  • It is increasing activity, not necessarily productivity. I see the issue that LLMs do not recognize and cannot communicate when they are missing necessary information to push the inference in the direction that is needed.

    It’s a bit like when you go into a diner and order a chicken sandwich, and the cook has read every book containing a chicken sandwich recipe in the world, no common sense, no budget / time limits on getting ingredients and an attention deficit disorder. You will (most of the time) get something that resembles a chicken sandwich, but it will probably never be to your taste. A normal cook has a lot of real world context to make sure that the sandwich is tasty - he knows what area he works in and what a chicken sandwich in this area normally contains, he knows how different ingredients interact with each other, and he is limited to what is available in his kitchen. If he knows you personally, he will be able to fine-tune the sandwich to your taste.

    LLM output does not have ANY of that context. Even things we do not actively think about - because it’s just the way how things are - are simply not available to an LLM. Only way to make sure our hypothetical ADD-ridden cook with eidetic memory makes a chicken sandwich worth a shit is to provide him with as much clear, non-ambiguous information as possible; and since the connection to the real world is missing, there can never be enough information - or rather, we are in the dark about what pieces of information would be needed to shift the probability towards the thing we actually want.






  • Combustion engines have maximum fuel efficiency at a specific RPM. A Hybrid has the advantage that you can run that engine at maximum efficiency 100% of the time and using the generated electrical energy to generate motion. The gains by being able to keep the ICE at peak efficiency are more than the loss you take from the conversion. That’s the same principle as in hybrid cars - look up Technology Connections video where he analyzes the behavior of his hybrid car. It is for sure preferable to than just the ICE directly, losing a lot of efficiency and therefor fuel because of differences in needed power output. Combining this into a plugin-hybrid makes - as you said - the takeoff use no or just the default amount of jet fuel at all.

    This will not eliminate the need for jet fuel, but even a reduction is preferable to the status quo. Until we get batteries that are light enough while keeping energy density at least as high as now (preferably higher), purely electric long-range flight is not an option that’s available.



  • Pervert glasses should not be in quotes. If humanity were mature enough to handle this technology without harassment of women or generally any human, it could be a boon - but with the way society works currently and the backsliding regarding womens rights worldwide this is something that should be removed from the market until society is mature enough to handle it. Not every technology should be available to the public if it leads to such results.

    Simple fix: make these glasses only work as recording devices when every person in view has said “I consent to this interaction to be recorded”. Anyone else coming in - they shut off if they don’t consent within 10 seconds or so. Also, make activation of recording a voice command a la “I will now start recording if everyone consents”. If this isn’t loudly voiced, recording cannot start. All of this would make sure that only the really criminal elements would be able to use their devices “the pervert way” - and this should be punished hard by law.