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They're abusing preteens as well, some of the new debuts look like they should be on the playground

Back in college I took a couple machine learning classes. After the second I understood where the market would eventually end up. It's a pattern matching machine, if you were to provide infinite data and infinite compute, you could have the machine do enough regression to match the presented surface of whatever the data represented.

I sat back and was like "oh this is sorta cool but sorta dumb". You can't create a novel thought process from this, you are limited by what data you can collect and label, and labeling data is an extremely time consuming process because it relies on humans. But also, you don't really need labeled data if you don't care about correctness. You can get away with feeding the regression machine a load of data and label more generally based on how close certain points are in a vector space. It's how "sentiment analysis" works. You can take IMDB's database of reviews that each have some words and a star rating, and use the star rating to categorize in "good" and "bad", then average out the distance between certain words and the frequency they appear within the "good", "mid", and "bad" spectrum.

Suddenly, relationships show up, "lawyer" is close to "criminal" in the 3d space.

What modern LLMs do, is just layer this same system with a few short-circuits called context windows. It basically maintains a space of relevance within the broader context of what the model was trained in. For the IMDB example, lets say you're asking a machine about action movies with x, y, z characteristics, the context maintains those to short-circuit the larger model to retain 'focus' and give you near-by relationships.

With enough data you can recreate language based on distance markers and frequency. But back to my original point, it's the surface level of what it was trained on, a plaster mask. The mask doesn't have the complexity of the muscles and skin it was formed on, it's shallow.

That all being said, the ability to make a shallow mask is useful for cross-referencing large amounts of data. The disaster strikes when it's treated as an all knowing god and used to do military strikes.

Yes, that's what "neural networks" in computing are, a method of systematically making a machine that does novel pattern matching tricks without needing to understand how to make that pattern matching machine yourself. Which is cool, and has useful applications, and it starts to do some scary things when scaled up, but it's hitting a clear limit of what just making its numbers bigger will do and all the grifters keep doubling down on just throwing more and more and more processing power at this dead end instead of admitting they were wrong and going back to rethink their fundamental approach (because the grifters don't care and don't know shit, and they're the ones controlling everything).

This one is such a big "open" secret in tech. There is no intelligence; it's all artificial. It really is just a big text prediction algorithm.

To elaborate on your thing, the current models do a little bit better. They are able to algorithmically look a few words ahead and a few words behind to glean some context but that's it. So if you misspell a ward or create a word like "Sally shkloinged Tom in the head with a frying pan," it can programmatically deduce what 'shkloinged' meant in regards to creating coherent context around it.

People confuse the fact that it can do language under the confines of context given to it as "intelligence" but it really has none. We are years away from internal tool calls that can actually work at all, or even some of the time. AI can't even fucking do something like keeping track of time passed. Ask Chat GPT to keep track of the time while you run and then immediately say you finished. It'll just make up a number because algorithmically it goes through the sentence and can programmatically deduce a number should be there in the time format so it inserts one.

I'm starting to think that they are just gonna go down with AI. Like, even though it can't replace workers, they'll just do it anyway. Everything will be shittier and shittier, but for a few glorious months, payroll will be really cheap.

Much of Trump's entire base are on meth or amphetamines of some kind

his brother was a coke smuggler

Covid neurodegeneration and inflammation induced strokes and dementia is really something people don't talk about at all even in medicine unless it research.

I was going to say as much. That dude def gets up to some heinous shit and I suspected it before I ever saw any discussion on it, he makes my skin crawl.

There are also "open secrets" where people do take the actions that their relative power allows, but it's still kept quiet because the victims don't want the attention and risk of coming forward about it. Like a few years there was some controversy about a particular streamer getting kicked off twitch over unspecified reasons, which I only learned about (I'd never heard of him or seen anything he did, and couldn't tell you who he was; I don't think it was Dr Disrespect, but it was around the time he was kicked off twitch and it was obviously the same sort of crime being done) because a games industry insider I was talking with brought it up and was basically like "yeah it's exactly the reason that's the first thing anyone assumes, and that's why this guy has been banned from all our events and a whole bunch of other events for years already. Everyone knows, but the victims don't want to come forward so no one has actionable details beyond just keeping him out of stuff."

That whole "covfefe" thing was clearly Trump passing out mid-tweet

Wow, that’s horrible. I’m glad I watched the video, I have such a sheltered life, I would have never imagined stuff like this went on.

Fucking Hillsong. How people keep falling for these clearly predatory megachurches in such huge numbers is beyond me. Like, they're transparently just after money and don't actually believe what they're preaching, it's not even subtle. I know why it happens, it's just disappointing that it happens to such huge numbers of people.

Hillsong associated celebrities

WTF how have I not heard of this. I even know the church.

Honestly tho, the amount of DL men working for that Administration is genuinely gross.

he's a comprehensively bad dude. you know a guy like that is a nasty, awful ~~homo~~ MSM just like most of the men he works with are nasty, awful ~~heteros~~ MSW. there is no reason to expect deviation.

why don't we like blumenthal? thankfully don't know anything about alt-media drama, but his confrontation with blinken was fire.