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  • how many children died in the widlberry warehouse attacks? how many were intentional?

    Ukraine is saying that the warehouses are legitimate targets, being part of the russian military’s logistical supply chain. In what world would you accept a school as a legitimate target? Or a hospital?

    maybe Ukraine is lying. I personally er on the side of the victims in this war, not on the side of the aggressors. The war can end whenever russia chooses to go home. Ukraine is fighting for survival.


  • You don’t even know what a straw man argument is, do you? Not this. This is a ‘Whataboutism’. In this case, I believe it’s an appropriate whataboutism.

    You’re saying that the Ukrainians shouldn’t be attacking civilian warehouses when the russians are intentionally bombing homes, hospitals schools and parks.

    You’re clearly okay with Russian forces bombing fucking kids, but not okay with Ukranian forces bombing civilian warehouses that may or may not also be part of the military supply chain. Frankly, given how much lying Russia has done in this war (as well as how awful their logistics have been), I’m inclined to not believe them.

    So. Ya gonna criticize Russia for bombing kids, or… not?



  • Not really. LLMs are chatbots predicated on taking an information set, and determining that given a prompt of “how do I make a PB&J” It’s going to go through its’ database, Find the most common responses to that string, and may be strings related to it, and give you a synthesis of the most statistically relevant answers.

    It has no understanding of what it’s regurgitating.

    This is a dumb-as-rocks algorithm with a huge database of stolen material regurgitating the most common associations from that material based on your prompt. The algorithm is pretty clever, don’t get me wrong (and it sort does this multiple-pass thing) But it’s not particularly impressive narrow artificial intelligence.

    LLMs are pretty amazing and they can do some things very well, and reasonably fit under the category of AI,

    I never said they weren’t “AI”… I said they barely rate the term, They’re right up there with the algorithms in your phone that eventually learn that no, you did not mean “ducky” you meant “fucky”. Eliza is also an AI, but you wouldn’t look back at it.

    The reason we’re stuck in that loop is because we don’t know. So we’re looking at examples and being like ‘not yet’, then something new comes around and ‘not yet.’ for that, too.

    AGI is an entirely different monster; and the troublesome thing about it is… we don’t even know if we have free will. Determinism is something we’re actively looking at, and the only good answer is “we don’t know”. we don’t even know how to quantify consciousness- which, from evidence, arises out of complexity, but we don’t really understand how that works. (see octopus and cuddlefish intelligence. It’s totally different than ours.)







  • Not to mention, the time messi was about to get smoked sprinting for the ball and shoved the kid hard enough the kid nearly face planted.

    Shoulda been a yellow at least, but naw. They just cut back to replays of someone accidentally coming down on Argentinian feet.

    I will never understand why people think Messi is a role model- he’s always riding the edge of unsportsmanlike conduct and he gets to go out further than anyone else. (He’s constantly trying to draw fouls or goes into an aggressive challenge and pretends he got fouled. Worse than fucking Aron Rodgers. “But he touched me! ME!”)