SkyNTP

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 points 48 minutes ago

Did you have a stroke mid-sentence or something?

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

The typing is the means of communicating the thinking. If you are "doing the thinking" and the AI is doing the "typing" then either you are instructing the AI to generate additional content without original thought (which is a waste of your time, the AI's time, and the reader's time), or the AI is actually doing some of the thinking (in which case your job can be automated).

The programers use AI to make art. The artists use AI to write. The writers use AI to program. I think we're all in denial by both just how much our own value is at risk, and also the real value of AI (less than advertised). A bit paradoxical.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Right so in the end it never was about the machines. In the end, it was man's folly which would have been our inevitable demise.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Like most sentences, this sentence has meaning in the right context. For example, imagine I told you beforehand that I owned people. Suddenly there is tons of meaning.

Out of context, most sentences also don't have meaning. The lone sentences we do find meaning in have lots of bagaged context that is just assumed.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's not a war, why then was it renamed the department of war?

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

The page is broken. I type in the right answer and nothing happens and the bolt option remains. I know it's the right answer because the bolt erases what I wrote and enters what I just wrote. Disappointing.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's the first I'm hearing about it. And I would have rather not heard about it.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Microsoft's mission isn't to improve the public good. Microsoft's mission is wealth extraction for its shareholders.

Windows is worse for you as an individual consumer. But I would argue Windows is a better product for advertisers and other interests that go beyond you. Those interests are at odds with your interests. You need to look at the bigger picture.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Instead of regulating people, how about we regulate big tech and their predatory business practices instead.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the cameras that are tracking you, it's the machine vision that reads licence plates, and that has not been around longer than you've been alive.

All these loops can detect is if a massive chunk of metal moves over them, no PII. Knowing how many cars use a road is critical in knowing if a road is congested or not, and that helps make roads better for everyone. It's not part of the surveillance machine. This kind of sensor is no more nefarious than the 100 year old sensor in your toilet that stops filling the tank when it is full.

Take your tinfoil hat off.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

TL;DR the same way you detect lies, be skeptical of untrustworthy sources and think critically.

 

This is currently my primary frustration with Connect: complete opaqueness regarding instances.

I understand that one design philosophy might argue that instances shouldn't matter, so why show it at all. But it does matter, especially on All, and in comments. I think at the current and near-term state of development, obscuring instances creates more confusion than it alleviates.

  • In this example, I have no idea what community this is. Where is "here"? "General" is a super broad category (does a multi-community even make sense for this type of community name?). Is this /c/general for a general purpose instance, or /c/general of an instance dedicated to a very specific topic? Is that instance worth checking out? Who knows?
  • Is this an instance I'm subscribed to yet?
  • is this the same /c/general I was in last time with a moderation policy and moderators I didn't like, or a new one?
  • Is my instance defederated from seal_of_approval and will they receive my message? Who knows?
  • Are most responders coming from lemmy.world, from sketchy instances loaded with bots or is there good traction from smaller instances? Is there instance brigading going on?
  • Is this an impersonator of seal_of_approval?
  • is this a specific community that spams a lot and I should block it?
  • What moderation rules apply to this instance?

I can't block entire instances myself...

I realize that a lot of these problems have some sort of workaround by drilling down into community details and profiles. Ain't nobody have time for that.

I realize that specific UI solutions could be introduced to tackle each of these problems individually in a user-friendly manner. But we're not there and who knows when we will get there.

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