What would a police college look like, I wonder.

It really just goes to show how all this shit is made up bullshit and manipulation.

The time will come when we’ll realize the grand illusion is killing us but it won’t come soon enough.

When you’re going down a highway at 70 mph and relying on everyone else to navigate traffic with you following the same rules, written and unwritten, it sure as hell is an illusion of control.

I’ll cede that you’re correct you as an individual do have more control over the vehicle you’re in. However, you’re still at the whims of the simulation we live in - physics doesn’t just stop and the unpredictable nature of other drivers makes it impossible to have total control over the situation.

Even driving alone on a road there are animals that could jump out, or a pothole or debris etc etc. That’s like the maximum control you can have and even then it’s not absolute.

I think, unfortunately, it will take widespread adoption of self-driving cars to reduce accident fatalities much further from where they are now. But that’s not likely to happen for many years on, cars and horses were hanging out together on roads for a long time afaik - feel free to correct me.

Anyways I get your point , and anecdotally I’m sure we all have had moments driving where we thought “if I wasn’t driving the car would have gotten into an accident” so yeah I’d say we all have that same feeling.

Not sure between the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses which of them is worse. They both share a lot of commonality. In that both were created by some dude to excuse their behavior and control the community (in my opinion). Obviously deeper than that and plenty of differences but both of them I find have pretty dubious history.

It’s just like … Not though?

If they just straight up live in an alternate reality world where seeing a flag and leaving people alone to live their lives is equivalent to pushing the “woke agenda” there isn’t much you can do.

You can ask how it’s being forced on them but honestly they just are cowards with a victim complex who want to feel like they’re being persecuted as they actually are insulated from the worst shit and are benefiting the most from our society.

So … Yeah anyone that says woke stuff is being shoved down their throats is a moron tbh. I’ve had Mormons come knock on my door, never a queer person trying to convert me to … The horrible idea of equality before the eyes of the law?

I’m aligned with you on that. Also speaking as someone in the USA … We desperately need electrical infrastructure overhauled, invested in and nationalized. The state needs to intervene and help support the American people. Really all of our public infrastructure desperately needs help. So do a lot of people who are looking for work. We spend billions of dollars on killing kids but we can’t fucking spend some to employ folks in massive green energy grid public works projects and kill two birds with one stone?

It’s embarrassing. FDR, our most popular president, literally implemented all of these kind of policies - it’s insane the Democratic party keeps shying away from them.

I do think there are responsible ways to build data centers, they have been around for a long time now - just the scale and speed and cutting corners happening now is something awful.

There is no modernity without data centers, this message between us could not exist without data centers - but what is going on now with these large AI companies and hyperscalers and the giant market speculation and spectre of the looming pop of this huge economic bubble … That all is madness to the highest degree.

I’m not really disagreeing with you completely but I do think there are good use cases if the technology is applied well and the infrastructure is built responsibly in the way that causes the least environmental impact. That’s not happening though.

because of my ADHD, I tend to run a bit on the verbose side of things.

Feel that. I’m sure my speech patterns and propensity to be long-winded will eventually bring me some AI accusations too.

Problem with LLM tech is that if it truly models speech it will eventually be indistinguishable from humans - scary thought but what are you going to do?

I mean, I think you can kind of feel off of vibes if something has used or is AI but it is becoming increasingly harder to spot.

Look if someone thinks you’re Claude because you bothered to test your code that’s kind of sucky. But then again the fuck do I know, I don’t contribute or maintain anything so that’s just an off the cuff take.

At some point we’ll have to acknowledge that AI doesn’t mean inherently awful and bad IF it’s used responsibly and in a helpful manner. I don’t think LLMs are intrinsically bad but the way these companies have been marketing them and trying to make them some technological panacea that’ll replace all the people and fix everything is utterly deranged and divorced from reality.

At the end of the day they’re large language models, their job is to come up with what the model “thinks” a person would write as an answer to whatever the prompt is. They’re not magic and I’m tired of people anthropomorphizing the shit out of LLM / “AI” and acting like AI output is being delivered by the machine with some sort of logic and knowledge and oversight. It is not.

I find myself rewatching it in its entirety every so often but mostly I just throw a few episodes on every so often when nostalgia strikes.

I also find it to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen but my taste is terrible. It’s just nice to watch something that is easy to turn my brain off with - the show is quite disjointed from reality so offers a nice escapism

You’re in the right ballpark.

https://youtu.be/yZdG1rY2U7s

This is Lemmy. You can say you hope a suicide drone blows up in his face on camera and we get to watch his head turn into pink mist.

How code is written directly impacts how well it runs and if it can even do what you want. Like if it’s written shitty it might work for 95% of the time and things you need it to but 5% you hit some random edge case and it explodes because it wasn’t properly tested and developed.

Damn, I need to stop robomorphizing the software!

Right I appreciate your insight. I’m not heavy in coding myself, I brush up against code and use it for some automation and assistance but I’ve also seen it write literal nonsense for code.

That rub is so real. I asked the thing to write some code for me for a Sailpoint workflow and I wasn’t familiar with the syntax so figured it’d be a good place to use AI. That thing hallucinated extremely convincing code except it just wholesale made up how it worked and of course it looks fine to my eyes but then go to run it and error -> work to fix that error and then -> error, etc etc.

After chasing my tail for an hour or two I finally stopped and went to pull up some official documentation and that’s when I figured out the AI was just hallucinating like a motherfucker. So I went back and did it the “old fashioned” way, but at least the AI did give me an idea of what I had to do.

Anyways, I could see someone who isn’t me just running around in circles for days because they believe the LLMs we call AI are giving them actual answers.

I blame some of it on how AI got mixed into web search. Traditionally, the resource from the web would at least be written by a human and usually relevant. Generally semi trustworthy and not made up. Now people see search results with AI summary/answer at the top and that is not vetted, could be a straight up hallucination*, or even just a total misinterpretation of your search phrase so totally irrelevant.

*I wish this term was different because it has an implication that the AI can and cannot hallucinate when the truth is the AI is always hallucinating. Put another way, to the LLM there is no such concept as truth. It annoys me that people seem to believe that the AI “knows” stuff. It does not. Stop anthropomorphizing the fancy robot.

who cares how clean it is like this is what I don’t get about programmers they’re so obsessed with cleanness and it doesn’t matter

It matters to the compiler so the code actually will run and not break. It matters to whoever has to fix or update it when things change. It matters to the hardware it runs on and how much memory that hardware has.

It very much matters.

I’ve seen AI rewrite entire code bases overnight that would have taken a team of humans over a year.

And was the code better, cleaner and more readable? Moreover did it actually still do what it was supposed to and not introduce further unknowns?

I get that it’s basically just a prediction engine but thinking of it like that is unhelpful in my opinion.

Unhelpful in the sense that it is what it actually is or unhelpful in the sense that it makes you question the fake narrative we’re getting shoveled to us by tech bros and traditional mass media?

Like that’s just what it is. All I want is folks to be honest about the limitations of this tech and what is underpinning it. It’s still very impressive but at the end of the day there will always be an inherent problem with LLM in that they are non deterministic - you can give the same AI the exact same prompt 10 times and you’ll get 10 different replies.

There is no way to get around that. You can’t have a perfectly predictable output and even 1% of the time error is not good enough for widespread adoption when a mistake could mean someone dies or is horribly injured or loses a ton of money etc etc

Damn I try to keep my mouth shut but if someone screamed that near me I’d be interjecting. Like goddamnit the AI does not know anything.

It’s a machine modeling human speech. It’s all a hallucination and sometimes that hallucination is straight up lies and sometimes, hopefully most of the time, it aligns with actual reality.

I fucking loathe that people won’t take 15 minutes to just read a basic primer on what an LLM is. It’s a fancy autocorrect, and yeah it’s way more complex than that but at the end of a day it’s made to model realistic human language output - and that’s it. It doesn’t have any actual knowledge, it doesn’t have any way to know if what it says is true or not, and it certainly doesn’t know if what it says is insane.

I’ll mark your words with a big giant red X because it’s some doomerist bullshit.

Dude for a second I was like what the fuck are you on about before I realized your point.