knightly the Sneptaur

Far be it from me to yuck anyone’s yum, but did you have to pick almost the worst possible analogy to describe it? XD

Me reading this with a hippie beard.

LLMs are just massively-multidimensional maps of human language use. It is academically interesting to have developed both the map and a method for plotting a course through language-space using a prompt as an initial vector, but human intellience is not in language. Rather, language is part of human intelligence, and mapping it to ever more computationally-expensive distances is never going to chart a path to the digital mind that all the tech billionaires are so desperate to enslave.

They lost me when they released Fallout 76 prematurely and refused to honor my refund request. I’m glad I bought it direct rather than through Steam, I charged that shit back and swore them off right then.

Not a 60% success rate, but a 60% rate of throwing good money after bad.

You’re an indie, stop worrying about piracy costing you sales and start worrying about the people who’ve never heard of you but would buy your game if they did.

If anything, you should be encouraging piracy as a marketing strategy to help get your name out there. Anonymity is a bigger cause of lost sales than piracy ever could be.

I just say that I do, but I actually didn’t touch Copilot for so long that my license expired. XD

I cannot, and they can’t stand me either because I’ve deleted more bitcoin than most of them will ever see and I’ve personally killed about $5million in crypto scams before they could pull out the rug. XD

It could have been, there’s nothing preventing such a network from providing a degree of anonymity by leaving your signature out of a post and adding a few increments to the distance on its onion route to obfuscate the source.

And in any case, you’d only need to make one remote friend to reach an entirely different segment of the network.

IMO, it isn’t decentralized enough. The federated model is better than centralized corporate services, of course, but it still suffers many of the same pitfalls in microcosm. We need private, encrypted friend-to-friend connections that enable friend-of-a-friend onion routing to those outside one’s personal social circle to effectively mimic how real human social networks actually work. The only middlemen we need are the friends we made along the way.

Incorrect. The people who designed it did not set out with a goal of producing a bot that reguritates true information. If that’s what they wanted they’d never have used a neural network architecture in the first place.

“Unintentionally” is the wrong word, because it attributes the intent to the model rather than the people who designed it.

Hallucinations are not an accidental side effect, they are the inevitable result of building a multidimensional map of human language use. People hallucinate, lie, dissemble, write fiction, misrepresent reality, etc. Obviously a system that is designed to map out a human-sounding path from a given system prompt to a particular query is going to take those same shortcuts that people used in its training data.

Fundamentally, cryptocurrency is a scam.

The idea that anyone can make up their own unregistered securities and start selling them to naive investors is nothing more than a system for encouraging fraud.

Every single purpose given for the existence of cryptocurrency is contradicted by their actual implementation. They do not enable untracable transactions and so are of no utility for the underground economy. They do not enable un-banked consumers to safely store and exchange value as they are risky and volatile. They’re more environmentally damaging, less secure, and much harder to use than cash or credit cards.

Who even are they for other than weird tech bros who have made crypto their entire personality?

I am entirely down for P2P socials, and have been ever since I stumbled across Retroshare some 15 years back.

Edit: oof, I can tell you why Keet will never catch on.

Crypto integration.

I have immediately lost interest.