SkyNTP

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

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

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

If nobody wanted them, including you, then you have your answer, no? Or maybe you are undecided? It sounds like you can't decide if you want to keep them or not. Nobody here can make that decision for you.

Personally I don't think an art project or a donation amounts to much more than avoiding the question of whether you want to keep them or not.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

LLMs have no opinions. They are merely mathematical models that predict how an average person (mostly Internet people) might respond plus a little bit of invisible priming baked in to steer the behaviour a little (which is also easy to change yourself).

A lot of these chatbots, notoriously chatgpt, are heavily primed to pander to the user.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gonna go out on a limb and say, I don't have any issues with the power of modern ceiling fans.

The bigger, the quieter, the better. I'm surprised he didn't instead comment on this trend of small, ultra fast ceiling fans that sound and look like a drone on the ceiling of the bedroom.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Either this is highly exaggerated, or whoever is doing your taxes hasn't explained to you the various deductions you should be claiming or enjoying, from standard/basic deductions, to tax credits and programs, not to mention tax brackets.

That being said, is there a massive discrepancy in how much little tax corporations and the rich pay compared to the little guy? He'll yeah there is.

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

A hobby is pretty much anything you do other than what you do for your own or someone else's sustenance. Getting paid to barbecue for customers paying you? Not a hobby. Grilling some burgers at dinner time because you or your family are hungry? Not a hobby. Spending hours and weekends on end slow cooking a particularly challenging piece of meat? Hobby. Eating an expensive piece of meat (as a treat)? Also a hobby.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Checked luggage.... so that they can get at the bag carousel faster and wait even longer? I think you mean let people with no carry-ons off first.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Remember clipart and wordart? It was colourful and flashy and easy, and everywhere in PowerPoint presentations and word documents and even online. For a few years. Then it vanished.

Turns out, easy and flashy doesn't have a lot of staying power because when something is easy, it is ubiquitous, and when it is ubiquitous it stops being impressive.

AI slop is easy and flashy, and will probably run its course as people become tired of it.

There will still exist AI content, but it will not resemble the slop we see today.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe? Or maybe it's just a byproduct of a very finely tuned system used to tell individual humans apart.

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

Nothing is stopping programmers from inventing and using new words. Getting people to use those words is another matter. You are hand waving the ability for programmers to dictate to non-programmers how language is used, but I think that hand waving also hand waves the idea of language to begin with. So I don't think any answer you get will be meaningful.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nunavut is a territory, not a province, btw.

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

Not really. You can get manual pumps for PEX A which are about the same price as a tile cutter... They are fine. You only need those 500$ power tool expanders if you were doing plumbing all day every day.

 

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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