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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • It is widely acknowledged that many modern AI chat bots can indeed pass the Turing test as well as an actual human, maybe even better.

    So the new problem is that something is wrong with the Turing test, and we need to come up with something better.
    Because nobody sensible recognize current state of AI to be anywhere near strong AI.
    Or maybe we are performing the Turing test wrong? It can probably not be called a proper Turing test, unless it’s someone particularly skilled in it that performs it. Someone able to detect the answers without actual human experience behind them.

    We know AI can have very basic problems, like not being able to count the number of “r” in strawberry correctly, and act very confused about it when it’s explained that there are 3, and asked to spell the word out and count them.

    If the AI had consciousness and comparable intelligence to a normal human, such banal things should not confuse the AI.
    So we need to understand the limitations better, to be better at testing them.





  • How is it not a bug? The info shown is decidedly wrong!
    Would it also not be a bug if your weather app shows freezing 8 C° tomorrow when it’s going to be 40 C°?
    Because there’s a perfectly understandable explanation, that they only count to 32 because temperatures didn’t get higher than that 30 years ago, so it counts down from zero when it’s above 40, because that’s how we’ve done it for years.

    Just because you know why, and it’s a little bit cumbersome to do it correctly doesn’t mean it’s not a bug.
    It’s not only a bug, it’s a lazy ass bug.



  • Focus might be a bit much,
    I only have a single feature wish, and that is to have file copy operation progress show correctly.
    As it is, if I copy a few gigabytes to an USB stick, it very quickly shows as finished.
    But it can take up to a couple of minutes before the operation is actually finished, and the stick can be unmounted and removed.

    The easiest way to check I know of, is tom open a terminal and simply use sync. And it seems immensely primitive to me that I have to do that.

    This is an age old problem for copying files that began to occur on PC systems way back around 1991, when write cache became a thing for disk operations. And honestly it makes me sad that this problem still isn’t solved now 35 years later. 😥

    Otherwise I think KDE is doing great with their desktop, except I think it should just be called KDE desktop, and not that other thing they call it now.




  • First the price is set to maximize profits, nothing else.

    The reason it’s cheap in Japan is probably because the value is low for Japanese people, so they don’t want to pay more, the price they’ve set is the balance between how many subscribers they can get to maximize the total revenue and profits.

    In India I imagine the value for the individual might be better, but it’s a poor country, so the low price is necessary for people to afford it.

    Second they have copyright deals that vary greatly by region, so cost and content can vary greatly too.

    But you can be 100% sure that the low price in India isn’t because they want to be nicer to the Indians. It’s because that’s the price that will earn them the most money.




  • I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 12, and I’ve had a car and drivers license for decades.
    Why do you keep trusting your own mistaken logic over actual statistics based on real life? Why don’t you look it up for yourself?
    You are the one that sounds like you are not wearing glasses, I’ve never heard anyone using glasses having similar fears you have.
    Your fear is paranoid and delusional. Let’s hear it, which eyeball was taken out by the glasses on who?
    My guess is it never happened, because glasses are designed in a way that makes it practically impossible to happen.
    I’ve been in numerous accidents wearing glasses, on bicycle, kayaking and even a pretty serious one in a car once, where my entire body hurt for weeks, so it was a pain to lie down even on a super soft mattress. I’ve never been hurt by my glasses, I’ve only had to replace them sometimes, which is of course annoying and expensive. And I’ve also never heard about either friends or family or statistics that say there’s an actual problem wearing glasses in accidents.