Posts by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AUL71bhyxCynpgRUae by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-04-05T10:51:36Z
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@simon I think this sounds worse if you think of it as "lying" versus "telling the truth".In terms of producing statistically-probable output, then it's to be expected that factchecking certain topics disproportionately would mean that false outputs are less probable in relation to those topics, whereas less-factchecked topics are not. It's a bias in the training data.
(DIR) Post #AUTfoKKAhhDjK8PS6a by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-04-09T13:59:06Z
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@simon I think this is a bit of a strawman. Nobody's suggesting replacing a short explanation with a long one. “ChatGPT produces incorrect answers" is accurate and concise — if the current disclaimer is flawed it’s simply that it's not emphatic enough.I don't think of the problem with ‘lying' as a linguistic one — it's simply misrepresenting what an LLM does and why it does it. It's a barrier to understanding.
(DIR) Post #AUTpFVcjhSbbm584bg by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-04-09T15:44:53Z
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@simon I’d agree — it’s too technical a term, I think, most people (whether software engineers or laypeople) wouldn’t be familiar with it. Unhelpful for explanation even if in some sense analogous (maybe?) to what’s happening.Really I think just saying “false” is clear enough: the idea that something on the internet can be incorrect is not unfamiliar to many people.
(DIR) Post #AUTqAfXdUyJD2Y02gi by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-04-09T15:55:11Z
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@simon To me “lying” seems to bring with it problems of motivation. Like, OK, if ChatGPT is lying to me, why is it lying? Can I persuade it not to? People don’t lie for no reason, generally. But trying to understand LLMs is surely only made more complicated by thinking in terms of intent.(If it was clearly understood as a metaphor then that’d be a different matter. We talk about ordinary programs as if they had intent. But the hype about LLMs being intelligent has muddied the waters.)
(DIR) Post #AVufYPTCag2HTxhLmK by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-05-22T12:27:18Z
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@mansr @ianbetteridge surely the problem is not people who prefer X11 for their personal situation, but people who then expect others to continue to work on X11 for free as a result of their personal preference.
(DIR) Post #AW2d5hGkgmyPdyjddw by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-05-26T08:35:33Z
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@simon if it’s being used for corporate profit at the expense of the creators of the work, yes.It wouldn’t be considered acceptable for a human to create derivative works, uncredited, for profit — I don’t see why an android would be different.I do see your point that this is fundamentally how a human learns, but I don’t think the situation is really comparable to a human learning at least currently.
(DIR) Post #AWFuuzXsFWkSG3BB8C by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-06-01T16:49:52Z
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@liw perhaps you could select the subjects of your talks with more care in future. Consider Microsoft Windows, or cancer, for example.
(DIR) Post #AXxf8R6ZJsXaOPt2Ey by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-07-22T08:53:45Z
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I have no opinion on the technical feasibility of “web environment integrity” but the weaselly justifications of it are offputting enough in themselves.“Users want advertisers to know that they are real humans” — no, *advertisers* want to know that users are real humans. But nobody would find that persuasive because everyone rightly hates ads on the web, so it's clumsily reframed as being in the user's interests.
(DIR) Post #AXxf8UVUffGEwaZU0W by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-07-22T08:57:57Z
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Similarly, “existing ways of verifying user identity can be used to track users without their knowledge or control” — well, yes, but who's doing this? Advertising companies, including Google! This is a problem entirely of your own creation. You could simply … stop tracking people! But you don't want to.And will this mean tracking of users stops? No, of course not. All the other reasons that tracking happens will still apply, because this doesn't address any of them (and isn't intended to).
(DIR) Post #AYIQRDx0ZlamWcwu6S by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-08-01T19:12:57Z
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@simon the “please don’t share false information” part of that system prompt seems misguided at best. Is the model supposed to be able to distinguish between true and false information?
(DIR) Post #AYJilDArAKreF14CgK by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-08-02T10:14:42Z
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@EU_Commission web 3.0 is not a real thing and neither is web 4.0
(DIR) Post #AYkUnZmmgnV7e0KDTc by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-08-15T08:14:03Z
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@simon the usefulness of the code seems to be subjective. I’ve found the need to correct the code they generate to make them no more useful than e.g. StackOverflow, personally. I can see how other people’s development workflows might differ, though.
(DIR) Post #AarxmEwOMW8khJdn4i by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-10-17T15:52:13Z
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A week or so using #emacs, and my muscle memory has switched from trying to type :q in emacs to trying to type C-x C-c in vi.
(DIR) Post #AarxmHsFSNblnKj1X6 by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-10-17T16:12:31Z
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As a rough approximation, my init.el is a little longer than my Helix configuration was (and doesn’t have all the languages configured yet), but it’s only about 20% of the length of my Neovim configuration.(Possibly because Lisp is more compact than Lua?)
(DIR) Post #Ac051XMJ1KXSojm3E0 by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2023-11-20T14:18:52Z
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@mms that looks to me like the freebsd logo, not bsd more generally.
(DIR) Post #AdRQGU3zEoJiEqJ0hk by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2024-01-02T16:46:01Z
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@mansr @CenturyAvocado @neil @secretbatcave total guesswork here, but I could imagine that the face-location is automatic for example. It would be much slower if the human operator had to manually move all of the cameras.And locating a face must be a much simpler task than verifying that the face is definitely the one in the passport.
(DIR) Post #AhM3RAt1EyKmNoACG0 by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2024-04-28T17:54:16Z
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@neptune22222 @francis @Radical_EgoCom @starran @Rob100 It seems contradictory to support socialism and yet claim to want to preserve ‘existing democracies’, when existing democracies have shown themselves to be willing to use extreme force to prevent the success of socialism.
(DIR) Post #AhM3RDCadBB3Z5Kr2W by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2024-04-28T17:59:42Z
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@neptune22222 @francis @Radical_EgoCom @starran @Rob100 Like, it’s not that socialists *want* a bloody fight. As far as I know most socialists would be happy if socialism could be established without any violence. Unfortunately in the real world attempting to do so leads to being targeted by a CIA-backed coup, no matter how democratic and gradual your process is.
(DIR) Post #AiUEpINO5nyTMskS8m by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2024-06-01T08:25:16Z
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@modulux To me that markup sounds perfectly reasonable and so I'd assume it was bad interpretation.I think I’d often put punctuation outside the emphasis (but I could be wrong, as I don't really think about what I'm doing as I write).But perhaps more significantly, someone using a WYSIWYG editor might easily accidentally end the emphasis either before or after the semicolon and it would be very difficult to tell.For it to cause different behaviour would be very unexpected in either case.
(DIR) Post #Aj9dAtMqcCqOXVLQMS by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
2024-06-21T11:22:10Z
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Respectfully, people who are my age should give up trying to use the “I grew up in #socialism therefore I know it’s really bad”. You were three years old when the iron curtain fell, don’t pretend you have any special insight.