What the fuck are you talking about.

I made a statement about how LLM s are implemented. They can make use of true random data, something you claimed was impossible.

You were simply wrong that competes cannot do randomness. Admit you were mistaken.

I hope I don't get dumber as I get up to his age.

And I hope I don't get stiff joints!

Since proof that the deity of any major religion exists, or doesn't exist, is, by definition, impossible, that affirmative belief there is not God is exactly as much an act of faith as the belief there is.

You can't prove that magical wielding, sentient unicorns exist or don't exist either (they use their magic and wiles to stay hidden you see). I think it's a stretch to say that belief that they do exist is exactly as much an act of faith as belief that they don't.

Am I deeply religious because I'm basically sure they don't exist? That seems a bit of a stretch to me.

Or you know, Russel's teapot.

Do I believe that an ill-defined thing for which there's no evidence exists? Well, there's a countably infinite number of those and by brain is finite, so I literally, mathematically cannot believe in them all, which makes it not blind faith. So what's special about this so-called "god" to elevate it beyond one member of an infinite list of things with no evidence?

This CANNOT be overstated. LLMs are software, they execute on machines that are entirely deterministic and do not work unless they are.

This is not true. Firstly, most computers contain hardware random number generators which are absolutely not deterministic, along with things like the kernel RNG which pools entropy from external sources yielding non determinism.

This is not a "well akshually", it's an important point.

Second, LLMs make use of a random or pseudorandom source. The output of an iteration is basically all possible tokens with weights (ish) and it uses weighted randomness to pick them.

But also, are you saying the determining factor for consciousness is randomness? Because we can do randomness now quite well.

Ok that's different.

Not sure I agree though, not entirely. The general public has never been as into privacy and security as the average slashdotter. We care a lot, most people just don't care as much. I'm not sure the Overton window has shifted so much as there has been more reason to go in this direction.

Regardless of the solution it's clear to me something is rotten in the state of tech companies. Most people feel the predatory actions and targeting of young people is a real problem. Also I don't think it's reasonable to simply blame parents, that now over worked group work two jobs not one, when the thing that's changed isn't people but the concentration of wealth and power.

The proposed solution is I've that many just never objected to and is at least superficially reasonable and effective. I don't think this is much of a left be right thing for most people, maybe more of a tech Vs not tech. I think many people don't understand the risks and consequences and just assume nerds will make it work somehow.

Yeah but this speaks multiple countries.

What you're claiming is that somehow there's an international cross party conspiracy between American government agencies, American religious fundies and some much more left wing governments in Australia, France and the UK, and somehow no one has blabbed.

That's beyond credible in my book.

This is not too say I agree with what the outcome is, but it's just not a conspiracy. Thing is there are real problems with the tech giants and most populations don't really agree that American homed multinationals should have some sort of holy free market right to do whatever the heck they want in the name of the holy dollar.

Something is absolutely rotten with what's happening right now. Some people recognise that and want to use bad solutions to stop it. Others are opportunists who think those problems can yield solutions they want. But I don't buy there is a grand conspiracy. Heck if the one world government is that competent maybe we just ought to let them have at it.

That's a joke by the way.

Who is "them"?

What you're hypothesising is basically a cross party conspiracy that they've somehow in a bout of absolutely unprecedented competence managed to keep secret. I don't buy it.

It's only weird to you because you are wildly misleading the situation because you can only think about things in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys".

No one's rooting for the mullahs.

The mullahs being murderous shitbags doesn't make war crimes ok. And given so far all trump managed was replacing one mullah with his son while killing Iranians, the only thing he actually achieved was killing innocent Iranians and that's also not any good.

Oh also fucking things for his allies, but that cloud his a silver lining I suppose in that everyone wants to be less dependent on America and oil. But that wasn't intended and we both know it.

I first heard about chess I was in junior school, so probably 7 or 8. There was a chess set in the games box and one of the kids knew how to play. That particular game involved lining up all the pieces then you take turns to flick your pieces at the opponent. The one left with pieces standing was the winner of course.

I think that fits quite well here.

I did subsequently learn but never got especially good (solid minor player).

And plus one ought to be stopping because not doing so increases the risk of a crash.

The number of posters here engaged in last minute, unplanned cannonball runs, hailing cargo with a reserve driver to swap with, while also possessing a bladder of steel never creases to amaze me.

I don't have a car, electric or otherwise, but when I hire a van (diesel) my driving style would definitely fit with charging because I also stop for food and drink and a wee when when I am splitting the driving.

The problem with them getting their politics figured out is that we utterly fucked them so wet could have their oil.

Of your political system is destroyed but hostile empires, it takes a very very long time to recover.

I object to them when they are stupid. The world is complicated and you're trying to make me look stupid by pretending it's simple. That's fucking stupid.

No you're making yourself look stupid but trying to tell me facts about the city I live in which simply aren't true. We've had the conversation before. I've provided hard numbers which you ignored. I'm living inside the largest bus network in the world and you're busy telling me it's different from how it actually is.

You're the one making yourself look stupid, not me.

I took the bus for years, that's how I know they suck.

I took the bus yesterday to work. It didn't suck. That means only your buses suck not that all buses suck.

That's the thing, you think that because you buses suck all buses suck. You need to learn to accept that you're buses are bad not an buses are bad. That means that buses aren't bad per se.

So what? The buses aren't the vehicles that make up the bulk of the road usage, it's the swarms of cars.

In terms of people moved, no you are wrong. Personally I don't think drivers should count for more just because they are spending money on something more wasteful. But you know I value people as people not based on their wealth. Pretty radical!

CopyFail only affects kernels from 2017 on, nothing that new is running CPanel

and a license for established bands to milk/bilk listeners by generating a bunch of AI slop, they can hide behind their green checkmark.

They do but this is CA; They will be instructed to harass ebike riders while they ignore serious property and violent crime because ...demographics.