If they don’t contribute to good conversation.

“Stupid questions” i.e. questions that reveal you are missing some basic common knowledge, are actually generally downvoted on No Stupid Questions. Along with any that intentionally agitate people or are otherwise bad faith, bury the lead or otherwise strawman The Correct Side in an unpleasant way.

There needs to be something at least marginally interesting about the conversation the question generates. If it’s just annoying/tedious/aggravating, people will downvote.

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Almost all databases store time in Unix time stamps, which is just a number counting up. Then the various consumers of that value, such as clocks, convert it based on their need (such as time savings, geographic region, etc). But someone in florida has the same unix timestamp at a given instant as someone in Africa.

I have some scary statistics to show you about the typical geographic region of Lemmy users.

Especially once filtered for English

TLDR shit is cold up there

Pretty much anything about science.

We all know models and simplifications but even the people at the utter cutting edge of any sub-niche of any sub-field you pick will agree there are parts they don’t really understand.

You can master & fully understand sufficiently simplified models but to actually understand the underlying process is to take a step beyond what humanity is capable of.

I generally find it unhelpful. People’s reaction time sucks and and so many people hear ‘left’ and jump in that direction before their brain can process. It’s not an intelligence thing that some people try to make it seem, it’s just that the average person has this interaction like once per year thus don’t have muscle memory baked in.

I yell out ‘excuse me’ from several feet back or ring a bell if I’m on a bike. Or more often just slow down as I normally don’t really care.

Websites are basically just a program on a different computer somewhere. Think of it like passing notes back and forth.

User sends a note using their computer requesting the website content, that note gets passed to someone elses computer. That computer looks at the note and sends back a different note with some different information on it i.e. the website content. Then they keep sending notes back and forth as the user takes actions. The main two categories of “taking over a website” is to either catch the notes while they are being passed and change what it says (MITM attack) or to convince the other computer to send different notes to begin with.

But of course, the owners of the website have layers and layers and layers of protection to make it really hard to ‘convince’ their computer to do something unless you have all their special keys/passwords. That’s why you need to find some defect that lets you in anyways, or somehow get their keys/passwords.

Has yahoo become so desperate and/or scammy that they rely on malicious extensions to drive traffic to their shitty search engine

Yes basically. Ask.com went the same way.

Create an incentive program and then let the less ethical side of the internet build adware.

There are many news commentators I generally enjoy but EVERY SINGLE VIDEO has a headline about some person getting destroyed or how “it’s over” for them.

I just want like, 20-30 minutes coverage of whatever happens to be the most interesting & important stuff without a whole bunch of bullshit fluff. I’ve stopped watching news on YT in general because of this and just stick to the content that knows it’s slop i.e. video game challenge runs lmao.

View count is a tipoff. For whatever reason I get a lot of ultra-low view count videos in my feed, like single or double digit view counts. It’s almost always AI slop

Millennials were teenagers during peak cigarette campaigns but before vapes were readily available.

Also benefits your community. Kids that do little side gigs like that are significantly less likely to pursue nefarious ways of getting cash.

“What rhymes with shit”

“No, but it does”

Yeah I used to think the whole “At home data center” guys were insane but personally I’m digging up my old GPU’s to get a small rig going. Nothing insane but enough to run some light weight models.

1. The AI techies were right, this is a revolutionary technology and 2. The companies that own it are evil in a no-joke-actually-evil-like-comic-book-evil kind of way. they-will-destroy-the-climate-and-world-just-to-be-the-one-that-did-it kind of way. Humans-are-too-expensive-kill-them type of way.

Time to build your rigs and pull down some open source models before the criminals (openai, et al) stick telemetry in them to track your usage. Get your own wiki reader while you’re at it…

. It does what you tell it

You can’t just pick which parts of it you are ok with anthropomorphising and pretend that’s an argument. It does not do what you “tell it” as it has no ears right? No ability to be told anything? It’s just data input via electrical impulses in a processor somewhere right?

It does not escape

It can “escape” (which I wrote in scare quotes on purpose to dodge this pedantic rhetoric but pedants have a way of finding me) in the sense that it could clone itself to an external device with open ports and then operate from there, and continue spreading. Just like Worms have been doing for decades, except this one has the capacity to self augment and find new technical vulnerabilities, choose to lay dormant, etc. I’m not claiming it is “caged”, like an actual animal, just that it is currently contained and could do something that looks like escaping.

If it does something bad it was told to.

It’s a stochastic system. It does not require human intent to do something. I agree the human operators are still responsible for the outcomes of using a known stochastic system, but your claim is still fundamentally false.

It depends on what you mean.

• Do I believe the events attributed to a rogue AI actually happened? Yes
• Do I believe the ‘rogue AI’ actually gained sentience in some way to combat it’s reward function? No
• Do I believe it’s possible for an LLM to effectively “break free” and truly “escape”, cloning itself everywhere? Yes
• Do I believe LLM companies orchestrate these “rogue AI” incidents for profit? No not really, but maybe
• Do I believe that, once the event has occurred, the LLM companies maximize spin and fear mongering for profit? Yes absolutely.

Which is a shame considering the Linux distro has never ever once ever ever ever contained a bug

You’re right. Nothing has been stolen and then treated as public property in our society. I am fool, and you are a god.

Anyways

AS I said to the other dude, I’m not going to keep coming up with examples because you’ll just keep moving the goal posts. There are tons of examples of something of value, natural or man made, being stolen and later treated as a common good.

Just do some research.