Thedogdrinkscoffee

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

The rule of law is dead. Enter the age of action and consequence.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 28 points 9 hours ago

Not in my lifetime. I don't deal with backstabbers.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I had a lot of fun talking to one about how we could fully electrify a hobby farm without batteries, by using a high voltage DC overhead wire on a cable pulley system. Everything from electrical engineering, to cable selection, sourcing vendors and costs.

Mistakes were made, but it was genuinely helpful at times. I was impressed at how far it has come.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I respect what you are saying, and agree our LLM are just superficial pseudo communication engines. Theories of intelligence differ, but I don't think human intelligence, i.e. IQ of 100 is really all that far ahead of LLM. Just talk to your average person. We are easily wrong. We have bias and error. We repeat and amplify untruths and make mistakes.

It could be fewer breakthoughs than you think to get there. Not because the tech is so advanced, but because we are not that special.

Super-intelligence is just degrees better.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I am not smart enough to get this. Can someone please explain it like I'm a 60 year old man with the wrong science degree?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

"I like your Christ very much. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"

  • apocryphal
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

Like all technology, the development times get shorter and shorter. No one can predict the future and specific dates are meaningless, but it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future. My gut says sooner than later with 90% probability by 2040. <-remember I said dates are meaningless. ;)

The world is not ready for it. It will be more destructive than constructive. May god have mercy on us all. I hope I am wrong.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

The horny Bard strikes again.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

The article told you. There is NO safe level of lead. The legal limits are not appropriate for health.

Low level mass lead poisoning makes the world make a lot more sense now.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yet another reason to never buy American. Commerce requires trust and Americans can't even trust themselves.

I just came home from another grocery run with 0% american product. This is not some great effort, its the new normal and its easy.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 17 hours ago

While Tesla is now and forever dead to me. I would love an EV without the surveilance, self steering, self braking etc...

I want an EV that only I control, not run by some fascists software updates. Autodrive isn't something that frees you from the burden of driving, its control over where when and how you go anywhere. Its control marketed as convenience.

Give me the dumbest EV possible. It should also be cheaper to produce.

 

I am new to Lemmy so I may be missing some setting, apologies if so.

Using the mobile app on Android. When someone replies to a comment and I tap the bell icon to see messages, I can only see the reply itself, not what it was replying to. When I click on the message it takes me to the thread leaving me to scroll through the entire thread to find the comment and its reply. This is frustrating and time consuming and I often abandon the discussion because I'm not interested in looking for a needle in a haystack. This stifles discussion. It's confusing because the context of the reply is often lost without it's parent.

As an example of how it can be done better, in Reddit when you click on a comment it takes you to the thread and filters for only the reply and its parent, with the option to "view all".

Is there any viable solution to this? I can't be the only one with this concern.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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