krapp

Functionally, a Markov chain shares many parallels with human cognition for the same reasons.

People don't understand what correlation is and they assume the mapping between a human brain and an LLM is 1:1 in every case where it matters, which is a religious and not scientifically based belief.

There needs to be a Godwin's Law for discussions about LLMs: where any criticism of LLMs exists online the likelihood of equating LLM behavior to human behavior approaches 1.

>Disagree or debate me all you want, but soon you'll realize and admit I was right.

Right about what? Your own irrelevance? Fine, I won't disagree. Your mind, your skills and your talents no longer matter to anyone. Not even to you, apparently.

I don't know why you're so proud of that, or why you think anyone would care.

There are entire industries that exist outside the realm of computer science, and forms of "data" that don't exist on a disk. Look into the perfume industry, for instance. Do you think no one has ever tried copying Chanel No 5? Flavors can't be copyrighted but many restaurants and food manufacturers protect them as trade secrets - see KFC's "11 herbs and spices."

Erm actually... tastes and smells are replicated, plagiarized and generated all the time. Touch less so but it's definitely a factor in a lot of industrial and product design.

But you expect to orient all of society around LLMs.

>I do not think it's a good thing for normal people to have to learn programming languages to built programs to solve their problems. To me this is like how the HAM radio people used to be required to learn Morse code.

No one is saying that anyone has to, but being able to is the whole thesis of the hacker ethos. Knowing how to do things yourself versus being a consumer dependent on corporations.

And children are learning how to program nowadays... although that won't be the case for long. My nephew is taking programming classes in school and making games in Roblox. But soon the only thing they'll teach is how to prompt Claude. We were almost at a point where programming could become general knowledge and that might have enabled widespread freedom and control over the evils of proprietary software and commercialism. Now we're burning it all down and a depressing number of people like yourself on this erstwhile forum of programmers and hackers are actually dancing on the ashes.

Using a service to generate software for you is not "building programs to solve your problems." You aren't building anything, and you certainly aren't learning anything that would give you any real control over it or let you exercise freedom relative to it. AI is just proprietary software and data theft with more steps and a lot more fascism.

It doesn't just suck for us, it sucks for everyone.

It sucks that most of those people are going to be entirely dependent on a proprietary service to build things for them and they will never actually bother learning or improving their skills, even though the tools to do so have never been more freely and widely available.

It also sucks that so many people in tech think that the widespread loss of education, knowledge and freedom is a good thing.

A lot of people use Wordpress for multi-user or business sites and there isn't a replacement that will meet their needs that also doesn't require a higher degree of technical knowledge than they have. Any alternative more complex than Wordpress's install or that doesn't have feature parity with Wordpress' plugins is going to be a no-go for most of them.

"maximum lethality, not tepid legality."

>Constitutionally, states cannot deny citizens the right to vote.

Yes they can. States can deny citizens the right to vote for "participation in rebellion, or other crime", as per the 14th Amendment and felons are often denied the right to vote. They can't do so on the basis of "race, color or former servitude" (15th Amendment) and probably not any other protected class reason (sex, religion, ethnicity) but that implicitly gives states the right to do so for any other reason.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Physics threads on HN can be so entertaining.

"Peter, the cult is here."

>This is what AI was fucking promoted as being for! The utopia where machines do all our work and we receive universal basic income to enjoy our freedoms.

No one promised any utopia of any sort. The only promise was that AI would put people out of work. The rest is just some naive Star Trek bullshit that was never on the table.

Roko’s Basilisk is Pascal's wager but with a robot. It's a fucking creepypasta.

It would be hilarious if people weren't actually killing over it.

I used to do this with videos on DeoVR - they had a couple of long drive channels (usually across Korea) or biking in Japan - while on my exercise bike. After their app stopped working for me I looked for similar videos on Youtube.

I found a lot but unfortunately the VR ones tend to be badly compressed. There are a lot of 8K HD walking/driving videos but none of them are VR.

It is objectively better than staring at my back wall, though.

I use an app called Wander to do this in my Oculus Quest. With some lo-fi music it really helps with anxiety.

It really is fun just picking some random spot on the map, some random neighborhood no tourist would ever think to visit, and poking around.

I actually had a hobby of posting "virtual vacation pictures" for a while. Not any attempt at a business or going viral or anything, just literally cool things I found and took pictures of. No one cared but I thought it was cool.

Here is one of buses in Nairobi https://pixelfed.social/p/krapp/809174497538634738

And "cat island" Tajiroshima https://pixelfed.social/p/krapp/780990927466607564

Once when I pressed the random button I wound up at the LHC at CERN (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBOew7U9rc). That was a trip!

I just wish it could actually export 3D videos in 16:9 format.

They aren't ontologically evil, they aren't "just bad." They choose to be evil.

You don't get to decide who is and isn't a "true" Christian when all it takes is to believe in Jesus' death and resurrection, which even the Prosperity Gospel Christians and Christian Nationalists do.

Bro, Obama hasn't been President for a whole decade, you can stop blaming him for things. It's OK, he had two terms, he can't hurt you anymore.

Not really.

Luigi didn't trigger any sort of mass uprising against the elites, didn't inspire copycats or revolutionaries. No reform of insurance or pharma costs occurred, all of the problems he ostensibly opposed are still there. He just got arrested and became a meme for a while.

Contrary to popular belief, executive orders aren't laws and don't have the force of law. An executive order couldn't legally reduce the age of eligibility for Medicare.

The only reason Trump gets away with it is because Congress is complicit in the authoritarian fiction of the President's "plenary authority" even to the point of obviously illegal things like undermining budget allocations and not doing their actual jobs.

As soon as a Democrat gets in, Congress will miraculously become pedantic sticklers to the rules. This kind of corruption and blatant malfeasance is something only Republicans get away with, at least in the modern era.

You aren't missing anything, it's almost all about voter suppression, and a lot of that is about racism.

And it isn't even a secret. You can find quotes where politicians talk openly about it. I'm trying to be neutral here but when I say "politicians" I mean within one party.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/when...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-house-republicans-pl...

https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/historyvotersuppression/web...

>I don't know about you, but I tend to speak one word at a time...

That isn't how tokens work, nor is it a representation of how the brain represents information.

But I thought AI was just a tool, literally no different than the printing press or the internal combustion engine. Why would the spotlight be put on a tool? How can a tool discover anything? Do we credit printers with writing books?

> Imagine if we had a competent dictator? We’d be in real trouble.

We just might. After a Democrat comes into office, gets blamed when the really bad consequences of Trump's policies manifest and gets run out on a rail, Republicans will sweep with a "return to traditional, serious business Conservatism" candidate who will really just be the next phase of Trumpism. I don't believe for a second that these people haven't been laying the groundwork for keeping the movement going after Trump.

After all, half the country still believes in everything Trumpism represents, they just want a President to follow through.

The only thing I've consistently used VR on is virtual biking/walking videos for when I'm on my exercise bike, and a Google VR app called Wander. I don't have the space for anything that can't be done sitting down and I don't have the memory to run VR Chat.

I agree it's a novelty, it's never going to be the mainstream thing that replaces all existing interfaces and transforms the very concept of reality like some people want it to be. But it is fun within its niche.

I think what's holding it back is price more than anything. I'm still hanging on to my Quest because it just isn't worth the money for me to upgrade, even though half the apps no longer even work (fuck you very much DeoVR.)

If you don't want to do the work look up "HN Comments Owl."

>But it's still funny that we expect the machine to be perfect, before it can do something for us.

We expect machines to be perfect at the things they should be perfect at, and when they aren't perfect we consider that a malfunction and try to make them closer to perfect. A calculator that can't do math correctly every time is a bad calculator. And until LLMs came along computers were just complicated calculators.

Now, however, we build the calculator with an LLM and just accept that it sometimes gets confuzzled and makes numbers up because "humans are no better at math."

It's not funny, it's the way things used to work and it's objectively worse that things can't work that way anymore.