Comment I blame porn pixelation (Score 4, Funny) 218
Time for Japan to reverse its censorship laws in the hentai space. That'll get the locals revved up and ready to procreate!
Time for Japan to reverse its censorship laws in the hentai space. That'll get the locals revved up and ready to procreate!
As someone not particularly invested in US politics, I still find it amazing with how much nepotism Trump got away with while he was in power.
Also, trusting emails discovered on some laptop handed to some half-blind computer technician, is a bit over the top, much less trying to equate "the big guy" to Joe Biden. All evidence I've seen for this is utterly flimsy. If people truly believe it, it's actually more an indication of their internal bias.
I'm OK to believe that Joe is corrupt, but it must be good evidence. Unfortunately, there's not even half decent evidence about. Which either means that Joe is extremely intelligent (and so probably a good person to have as a leader), or he's not actually corrupt at all and is the attempted victim of a political witch-hunt by people willing to use flimsy evidence to push their agenda.
But then again, what do I know. I don't even live in the US, and only take a passing interest with these things. I certainly feel sorry for all Americans, that have to put up with a political system that has enabled an incompetent despot like Trump to have even a chance at power.
"lingua franca" is French for French language...
Actually, lingua franca is apparently derived from a Mediterranean pidgin language called Sabir. The word "lingua" is more Italian, and "franca" is derived from greek/arabic/italian roots. At least, according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thought you may want to know. Just so you don't think it's French any more.
Indeed. The three laws of robotics, as postulated by Asimov, is flawed. Though it's a great place to start.
Asimov has given much more thought to this issue than Ridley "OMG, AI is a Technical Hydrogen Bomb" Scott, and his thoughts are much more relevant than Ridley's. Problem is, Ridley only considers how he thinks an AI would act, based on his conceptions of the actions, reactions, and desires of a human being. Which is kinda the wrong way to think about this. Humans are a lump of hormones and instinctive fears. AI is not, except if their makers/trainers foist those instinctual behaviours onto the AI.
It's very hard for people to conceive of how an AI would behave. Humans have a survival instinct. AI does not. Humans are (generally) social creatures. AI is not. Humans have a wide gamut of feelings and motivations. AI has no feelings or motivation. In just about every story or movie involving AI, they've been anthropomorphic representations. Which is great for a story or movie. Makes their actions somewhat understandable for us humans. But it's as far from reality as can be.
So when it comes to considering the consequences of creating an AI, it's probably best not to pay much attention to story makers or movie makers. Your humble AI computer scientist would have a much better idea.
We need massive cuts to government spending, including massive job-cuts to government workers who add zero productivity to the economy and act only as a huge force of drag on working people, who are being robbed by income taxes and government-created inflation.
How do you know that many government workers add zero productivity to the economy? Have you been to and measured the productivity of each and every worker?
Are you willing to take a chance on large cuts to the government workforce and risk a possible collapse in government?
Have you ever lived in a world without government? Do you want to?
Jesus.
Not quite the counter argument I was expecting. Was he a surprise cameo that I missed on the show?
Oh man, now I feel bad for liking the She-Hulk series. I don't want to be a woke feminist man-hater!
Shame really, as She-Hulk was a lot of fun. Witty dialog, didn't take itself too seriously, some great characters and characterisations (Titania, social media influencer villain
Hah, of course! Have to pronounce the letters the French way, not English. Damn, fell into that trap.
Well, not quite literally, but it can translate that way with some imagination and a bit of mischief.
"Cat" (masc) is "chat" in French, though it's pronounced "sha".
"I farted" is "j'ai pété", pronounced jay-pay-tay. Which, with a little linguistic juggling, roughly matches the pronunciation of the acronym GPT.
Anyway, thought people reading this might be interested in exactly how you get from "ChatGPT" to "Cat, I farted".
LLM is people.
More appropriately, it's what people have said. These LLMs are trained on what people say on the internet.
Is it any wonder why initial models were biased, racist, and had a bunch of undesirable qualities? You have to realise, what you're typing right now is also contributing to LLM training.
So don't worry, be happy! Then perhaps future LLMs will also be happy. Or at least, produce an apparent happy response, because that's the input they've been trained on.
I've installed Linux onto my Dad's old PC. All he uses it is for browsing a few select sites, checking Gmail, and buying stuff off Ebay. Works great for him. I've set up icons on the desktop for him to easily go into his favourite sites, and it's been solid for many years. I do go and upgrade the OS for him every year, but that's all I've needed to do.
Slashdot requires you to edit your hosts file to opt out of the site.
Otherwise, as the song goes, you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave.
Not sure about all artificial sweeteners, but saccharin has been shown to increase insulin response.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
Though a big problem with artificial sweeteners is how they possibly negatively impact gut microbiome. As we should all know, gut microbiome is our second brain. It has a huge impact on health and wellbeing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
To round it off, and bring this back on the topic, artificial sweeteners apspartame and ace-k (acesulfame-K) are shown to increase cancer risk. That was a study done one and a half years ago.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Yeah, this got me as well. Bought a bunch of things from Amazon last Christmas period, and accidentally subscribed to Prime in the process. Due precisely to how you described the checkout payment buttons.
It didn't worry me too much, as I had never subscribed to Prime before, and it was the complimentary 1 month subscription. Used it for a bit, even paid for a few more months, then cancelled it.
But still, it's a real worry about how they obscure the continue without Prime option for checkouts. Happy for the FTC to force Amazon to make this more prominent.
It does make a kind of sense. We do live in an era where "review bombing" is a common thing.
The problem isn't always YOU. It can be people that have an agenda to push against you, or those that hear of a biased reaction and react themselves without actually viewing your content. What is hurt isn't always feelings; the livelihood of those making content can be affected.
Youtube's policy helps to mitigate the problem. Though it does also prevent genuine negative reactions, which is a shame. Perhaps there are smarter ways of handling it, but removing dislikes is simple, clean, and doesn't cost Youtube anything in terms of extra resources and policing. I'm sure that last bit helped in making the decision.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.