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Their training data has nothing to do with it unless you’re using a local one without web access.

Did you know that the ones you access online are also trained?

Did you know that any chatbot that can connect to the web was given that capability?

We have robots outpacing human performance in specific tasks using neural networks.

Because they were created BY HUMANS to do exactly that.

Also, LLMs can perform on tasks they weren’t explicitly trained for.

Such as?

Again, we are stuck in a semantics debate. What I call reasoning you don’t, it seems.

It is a pattern matcher. It does not reason.

But all I know, as someone that has worked in software engineering for 25+ years, is that the output of whatever it does, and whatever you call it, is incredibly useful.

I have a degree in computer science. Irrelevant. Anyone can see that the “AI” is not intelligence.

Saying “it just generates text” is a reflexive reaction that attempts to flatten the nuance.

It’s a large language model. It generates text.

All Columbus did was sail west.

And killed indigenous people. Datacenters and shitty chatbots are killing people today, good point.

All America did was throw some fuel into a tube and put Neil Armstrong on the top.

Scientists did that, not America.

All Picasso did was to throw some paint onto a cloth.

At least he did it himself instead of prompting an image generator.

All this PhD student did was generate text.

Correct. And you seem to have learned nothing useful.

Surely we’ve got to have some more nuance in there.

LLMs can sometimes be useful. AI does not yet exist. It’s a scam.

If there’s a difference between 10000 monkeys hacking on a typewriter and a human writing their doctoral thesis, the quality of their act isn’t in whether text was generated but WHAT text was generated.

You don’t understand the metaphor. It’s about the nature of infinity, not the competency of monkeys as authors.

If you run an AI prompt infinite times, it will inevitably generate a correct answer somewhere in there. The rest of the time, it will be wrong, potentially with lethal consequences.

It can’t reason. It doesn’t think. It makes shit up as it was trained to do. It can sort of detect patterns and make a guess about what response would get it the highest score, but it’s so error-prone that a human has to verify the output anyway. It’s difficult to tell whether the perceived benefits outweigh the costs. There are many different types of LLMs and use cases.

As a person who values life and our environment, I’d rather not participate in the sloppification of our world. As a Linux user, I am wary of vibe coded flaws slipping under the radar and screwing up my system.

“There’s a high risk of death, of course people will die.”

Yeah. That’s why we should reduce that risk. We don’t have to keep killing people.

Can children understand the risks? They suffer regardless:

About 7 out of 10 emergency department visits for sports- and recreation-related TBIs and concussions are among children ages 17 and under. For this age group, boys have about twice the rate of emergency department visits for sports- or recreation-related TBIs and concussions than girls. However, girls have a higher chance for sports-related concussion than boys in sports that use the same rules, like soccer and basketball.

https://www.cdc.gov/heads-up/data/index.html

And every “nice” person who indulges in religion directly enables him. We should be relying on evidence to guide our choices, not magical thinking.

Which ideology/belief do you think he would use if religion was not an option?

it suggests that you are using the claim of victimhood as a license to go to extremes.

It suggests I know firsthand how devastating it can be and I don’t want it to happen to anyone else.

It’s not normalizing abuse to call someone out for hyperaggression and dangerous exaggeration.

It is normalizing abuse to deny it when it happens. The girl did not consent to being touched.

In fact, it’s downright dishonest of you to accuse everyone who suggests that you’ve gone too far of it because it suggests that you are using the claim of victimhood as a license to go to extremes.

It’s not dishonest at all. I provided a common definition of the word. I didn’t invent it.

Fuck you for normalizing abuse. Seriously. Innocent people suffer and die for that shit. You can apologize by opposing it instead of defending it.

Your other post was removed, but you mentioned being in the news for violence. You also mentioned doubting my story.

My brothers and I were, in fact, abused. And my little brother threatened a mass shooting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGTEbloUuk

I did not choose my aggression, it was hit into me.

You should really, really stop normalizing abuse. It hurts everybody.

Yeah. We went to the moon with, like, 1 MHz CPU and 2 KB RAM.

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abuse verb

1. use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse

Why are you gatekeeping it?

A pat on the head is not abuse.

Without consent, yes, it is abuse.

Fuck you for normalizing abuse, shitbag.

much of the language and ideas you expressed are more in line with if some great violence or trauma was inflicted

It was, on me. And it happens because assholes like you normalize abuse and defend aggressors instead of victims.

It does not line up with an unwanted head pat.

It does, the child’s consent was disregarded and her personal space was violated. This is unacceptable.

I am still not convinced you know what a pat on the head is compared to a punch in the face.

I’m still not convinced you realize you’re literally trying to defend abuse.

Fuck off.

No, I’m speaking as if she was touched without her consent. Because she was. We shouldn’t normalize that.

Children should know that they have autonomy. Children should be taught the importance of consent so they can protect themselves. Adults should know better than to touch others without consent.

I referred to the fact that in certain cultures, a persons head is a seen as especially sacred.

Oh? I see; Singapore is such a place. I did not know that.

In those cultures, touching the head is not “relative tame”.

I live in the United States. Here, a pat on the head is condescending if unwelcome, but not as creepy as, say, touching a shoulder. Also, Our president is a pedophile. I am wary of anything that could be construed as normalizing the violation of consent and boundaries.

I hope you learned something, but try to listen to understand, not only to react. Good luck, and all the best.

I’m very concerned for victims of abuse. I wish I could help them.

Your comment does make more sense with the cultural context. Thank you for clarifying. I apologize for insinuating that you had any ill intent, I lacked the information to interpret your comment any other way.

Mentally ill people are not fucking around. They are also not finding out because they don’t always understand what they did or why others reacted,

Good point. Ideally, we would not have such a mental illness epidemic in the first place, and some people blur the line between “mentally ill” and “creep”, but in the interests of not harming the innocent we should be cautious to exercise undue force.

They just need help. Actually i think you might be one of those people.

My christian parents have been hitting me since before I could think. I am seeking help, but I live in the US. Everything’s slow and the therapists have not been good. I’m trying a fifth one in a week or so.

My kids have like all kids acted inappropriately in public at times, and i don’t want to know how you would respond to it if they accidentally invaded your personal space in the process.

At young ages, that is typical. They are still developing, learning boundaries. I do not advocate hitting children. Assuming the old man was not mentally ill, he should have known better.

Yeah. I realize I can be intense sometimes, but I think it’s very important to advocate for those who can’t advocate for themselves. My autonomy was violently disregarded by my parents. I want to protect others because no one protected me. I don’t know the best way to do that, so I try to use what I’ve got. What I’ve got is a broken foundation and a lot of anger, fear, and pain. It’s easy to lash out, though probably not the most effective way of getting through to people.

Thanks for caring.