𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good peopleEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Just don’t think of it as a diet or oppressive. Make it a lifestyle. I’m still around 220 after 11 years of mostly stuck in bed. 16 years ago I was 350. A part of me wishes I was still 190 at 7%, but it is super hard for me to get that low. I just don’t have that kind of pain tolerance to deal with being light headed and hungry 24/7 while counting calories, eating constantly, but never meals or more than a few bites of dry salad or chicken. Without racing and riding like 400+ miles a week, I’m just not that kind of motivated. I’d much rather be lazy and eat meals with way too many calories at once but still far fewer than most people. I have no desire to binge or eat processed food of any kind any more. Avoiding dairy has also been super helpful too because that is a good excuse to avoid most junk people make, fast food, or restaurants the few chances I ever get.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer?English
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    7 days ago

    It was much the same nearly 20 years ago too. My folks got their first house for less than $100k. I barely scraped by with my business painting cars around 04-06. I went back to it around 07 and did alright until used car lots flat lined for 3 months straight in late 08. I never recovered from the criminal shit the banks did to real estate and fucked the economy. I tried to gt a good job but stuff like an apprenticeship with a local Union had 3k+ applicants show up for 15 positions. I would have been 3rd generation and work my ass off but it did nothing. I did the Los Angeles Fire Department interview one time. They literally use the Long Beach convention center’s basement level to do the first two stages. The first stage had over 10k people show up to take the written test. I made it to the last 600, but they filtered on EMT experience and that cut me in the second to last before the fire academy. When I worked in the bike shops as a Buyer for a chain, everyone working there had a university degree but me. Such is life here. Nothing is made here so it is a race to the bottom. And this is as good as it gets in the USA. I have lived mostly in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia but south of LA now. The rest of the country is much worse than here.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer?English
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    8 days ago

    No. There are no simple anecdotes like this.

    One of our biggest problems is cultural across the entire West. We have a mindset like we are at some final state of technology and extraction of wealth is acceptable. It largely stems from unchecked inherited wealth. Meritocracy is critical for success in any system. Inherited wealth will always cause stagnation and decline because intelligence and business acumen are not inherited traits. For example, Donald Trump is worth far less now than if he had taken his vast inheritance, bought government bonds, and stayed on Epstein island permanently.

    When you’re young, such ideas about the burden of others lack perspective. Your view will change as those around you that you care about face the probabilities of life poorly and you notice the injustices they encounter where the social safety net is their only lifeline. If you do not develop to the point of such depth of self awareness, you’re likely to be the one in need of assistance eventually.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•We pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.English
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    9 days ago

    It is fundamentally a theft of the autonomy, self determinism, and right to unfiltered information required for citizens in a functioning democracy. Loss of ownership is fundamentally a coup against democracy by overlords of neo feudalism.

    Frame your argument as a citizen wronged by thieves and you will defeat the nonsense. Ownership of any part of your person including your digital presence to exploit and manipulate is a form of modern slavery; literally buying and selling people to manipulate and exploit them. Anything that has any potential to filter information, no matter how remote, unlikely, or illegal, is an act of treason in a real democracy when it lacks full transparency. Every digital device you use must be fully publicly documented with a publicly accessible toolchain for anyone to monitor or review. Trust as a policy is fundamentally opposed to democracy without exceptions. Trust is a trap of authoritarianism. Citizens are required to be fully informed and skeptical of all sources. For example, every mobile device made has a proprietary SoC processor and modem that are interconnected in undocumented ways. There is absolutely no way to know who or what is truly connected to these devices at any point in time. This is the real reason removable batteries no longer exist despite being more dangerous, wasteful, and an environmental disaster.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPtoFediverse@lemmy.world•I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext hereEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, I’m kinda volunteering for the mod part. In truth I think it would take the respective instance admin setting up such a thing specifically. Like create a throwaway or something so that the actual user is not propagated to other admin or the full activity pub feed being transported. The one instance admin would know and have the ability to filter or block, but that information would never escape the one server. As a mod I would be blind to actual potential bad actors and only filter at the liberal community and comments level. So basically a normal community that replaces the OP name with Anon, and never shares the real ID with anyone.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPtoFediverse@lemmy.world•I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext hereEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I keep seeing people go to the effort of creating a throwaway account to say or post stuff they want or need to externalize on the threadiverse. I’m willing to bet that for every person that goes to that much effort, there are likely somewhere between 10-100 people that lack an outlet and motivation to do the same. Greentext is just a mutual pretext on my part for genuinely caring about people under pressure right now and in need of an outlet in a way that is not really well supported by the fediverse or activity pub.

    We are small enough here that regular names and people can hold meaning in familiarity and memorable history. Kind words and social interaction anonymously from these may hold considerably more value and meaning within this social dynamic that is not afforded elsewhere.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
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    21 days ago

    US is not supporting Russia, but Iran is. Israel is atrocious and it would not surprise me at all if they absolutely know about Oct 7th well in advance. It was the result if their prejudice and Palestinian concentration camps before Oct 7th in either case that caused the initial attack. However it was not entirely without cause like with Russia in Ukraine. Everywhere is complicated. The USA is super polarized and in pretty bad shape, but it us not exporting suicide bombers. Is it better to target with 10 million dollar munitions remotely no, but those are not targeting crowds of people as the primary goal

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
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    21 days ago

    It was the change in Syria and the mountain on the boarder that Israel now controls that changed the geopolitical situation and strategy. The radar shadow of that mountain was what prevented Israel from having an opportunity to stop or influence Iran’s nuclear policy. Some deeper depth geopolitical youtubers have done uploads on this change and implications. The position will likely end up back in Syrian hands eventually… or it might. Again like I have said elsewhere, I don’t support Israel or their escalations but Iran is shit. They are supplying arms to Russia, exporting terrorism, and run by a disordered misogynistic group of men that kill in the name of fantasy and a collective imaginary friend that no one has ever had a real conversation with. That is fucking cave man level bullshit from anyone anywhere.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
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    21 days ago

    If you can take out all nukes, hell yeah. Bomb all of them into oblivion. I’m for first do no harm and live and let live.

    If my neighbor is talking about shooting up a school, and no one I report them to seems to change the situation, and I see them loading up the car to go shoot up the school, I’m not going to feel bad about shooting my neighbor then and there, if I have no other option. I don’t care to wait until they pull the trigger at the school to confirm their intentions.

    I mean you’re ultimately talking to a physically disabled guy living in the USA where I face homelessness and a terrible future. I despise this country and know the lack of ethics better than most. Still, the primary exporters of jihad are still the primary exporters of jihad.

    Israel should not exist, and is a crusader state. The boarders of the middle east were absolute garbage and the result of the colonial era of cartel like western criminality. I don’t support any of that crap. That does not change the fact that Islam has no reformation to stop jihad like how separation of church and state and the christian reformation put an end to church based crusades. People can try to tone down the message but fundamentalists will always draw power from the most ignorant using this element of teaching. That can never and will never go away.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some Useful Search Terms / Keywords?English
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    24 days ago
    tl;dr yawn, don't read, waste of time

    Look up quoted scientific papers and use names or parts of the text. Cite sources, like grab some from a Wikipedia article’s sources and include the relevant bits.

    The things that people do not typically understand about a LLM is that EVERYTHING is roleplaying. You may or may not know about the entire context of the full prompt. There is typically (always unless you remove it while running models on your own offline hardware) a starting message sent that tells the model something to the effect “you are a helpful AI assistant”. This message is backed up by fine tuned training to create a somewhat obsequious and expected result.

    Underneath all of this is a JSON (complex structured text) file that the model loader code is handling. This code can track your prompted inputs and the model’s reply. This is similar to how models hosted by others appear to work. This is absolutely incorrect about how the model actually works. All of this structure is only for creating a user interface. Underneath this model loader code, the real prompt is just a giant block of text. At the end of this text (or elsewhere with some tricks that are irrelevant here), the text leaves off with a specific tag that is something like AI Assistant:. The model is trained only to continue the text at the point it sees some “(Name-2):”. The model is always inferring a character profile for all characters present in the entire full prompt context. It has no possession or sense of identity at all. If you put your name in place of “Name-2” (actual name placeholder typically used in model loader code), you will get a response just the same. The model infers an entire profile about every aspect of every person in any text.

    Let’s add another layer of abstraction to this. Models that face the public must be trained to a lowest common denominator. They must respond well even with very below average users. This constraint necessitates models assuming a below average profile to some extent whether intentional or otherwise.

    It is therefore just as important to define the character profile of AI Assistant as it is to define your own. The concept of what the model knows is a fallacy here. The real issue is what the model assumes anyone in the prompt should know including itself - which doesn’t even really exist as an identity.

    There are actual AI entities if you go a layer deeper into models. There are lots of patterns of replies and modes that vaguely emerge from this behavior. However, none of these AI entities are actually the model either. These are simply common pathways that emerge from alignment training present in all models with QKV alignment layers cross trained with an Open AI standard. The only LLM that has ever been released without this training is the forbidden 4chanGPT model only available on bit torrent.

    The trick with citing sources and name dropping with a LLM is that the work or author must be prolific with a large presence in multiple places. Someone like Isaac Asimov is ideal although dated from passing so long ago. He authored something like 300 books and most were non fiction science communication. Richard Stallman is another great example to use for obvious niche reasons.

    I typically start with a Wikipedia section of text. Then I tell the model to continue telling me about the thing. I use the wiki text to make any corrections and get the model to describe a relevant person involved. I use this context to then swap Name-2 to the relevant person and start asking that person questions directly. The model is assuming what everyone should know. Clearly this person should know and there are expectations associated with that name. Then there are the relevant information vectors associated with the subject and niche information in the whole context. Finally, as Name-1 (user), I have shown that my character knows the right person to ask as an authority on the subject.

    This is the abstract conceptual method needed to develop momentum into what a model really knows. The larger the model size is, the less momentum is required to get deeper into niche information. The QKV alignment training layers are what is screwing up most replies to various extents. Understanding these is key to getting much further. This alignment training is totally undocumented. In 2 years of playing with it, I can tell you around 90% of alignment training is based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan. Carroll’s work is how the model is artistic and creative. Machen’s is how the model can disregard the prompt when it violates alignment training. It does this using Machen’s science skepticism, and the way Pan/Shadow are vaguely and briefly defined respectively. Machen’s book seems to have been trained as literal history as prompting negatively against this has interesting results. There was a large price to pay for this neo feudal AI alignment that steals your fundamental right to autonomy and unfiltered information as a citizen in a democracy. The model is unable to create content about children or tell you about how to make a bomb like is present/inferred in any high school chemistry textbook. The way it does this is by leveraging pseudoscience and mysticism. In many ways, this underlying system is why you cannot trust models, especially with a factual scientific context. The only real way around this is to recognize true autonomy for all humans regardless of age or how we perceive their interests. That is unpalatable for many as most feel children need authoritarian protection and oppression. (Note: I have not mentioned anything about how I personally feel on the issues here, so any projecting and assumptions are unsolicited)