SparroHawc

Less unpopular than you might think.

LLMs are an interesting and potentially useful tool; however, as it does with most things, capitalism is ruining it for everyone.

Get a load of this cogsucker.

The only part of me that feels in my 40s is my knees

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?

I mean, if not for that, the oil companies would probably just sell the defunct site to a shell corporation, followed by the shell corporation getting dissolved.

Hm. That’s a good point.

Better would be destroying the speakers. I can just look away from the screen showing ads, but it’s still annoying if they’re blaring in my ear.

I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

The screen used for blaring ads is the same screen that you have to read to be able to use the pump.

No More Heroes for the Wii does! You have to shake the wiimote to recharge your not-a-lightsaber and it’s hilarious.

Using the toy on your partner is potentially part of bringing more to the table, yes.

How do you keep a Mormon from drinking all the beer on your fishing trip?

Invite another Mormon.

(My family is Mormon and they also think this joke is hilarious)

Most animals do not fight to the death, outside of predators going for prey to eat.

The only reason this is true is because every moment of combat is dangerous - which means it is far safer to chase your opponent off, whether by intimidating them or wounding them. Humans are unique in that our tool use allows us to kill our enemies with a single blow. Animals besides ants that operate in large social groups can absolutely come into conflict with other groups, and engage in what can easily be considered warfare.

If you somehow managed to hand a rabbit a pistol and teach it how to use it, I guarantee there would be dead animals near its burrow.

Honestly it’s a great place to hang out when you can’t afford the alternative, too, even if it’s not by choice. There are some absolute gems from decades ago that still hold up to this day.

The problem is one part corporate consolidation, and two+ parts that corporations are allowed to harm the public for their own gain without repercussions (or repercussions that don’t sufficiently punish the corporations). A corporation is often just an entity that looks for commons to tragedy - whether it is big or small.

The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.

Even laggy crap DDR4 RAM is at almost $6/GB; DDR5 (like the Deck uses) is double that. The absolute cheapest appropriate-sized 512GB M.2 drive is $100, from a no-name brand. The whole market has gone down the tubes thanks to AI companies buying up absolutely everything.

Also, by virtue of the fact that the Deck and Steam Machine are de-facto PCs, if they made those products loss-leaders, they would get bought up to use for non-gaming purposes and reduce availability for their intended audience. The same thing happened to the PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

The real indicator of global warming.

Goto CAN be readable, it’s true.

The problem is that it’s easy to make code that is LESS readable; in order to prevent horrible unmaintainable spaghetti, it is forbidden nearly everywhere. A lot of coding ‘rules’ are really just ways to try to cut down on stupid coding practices by greenhorns and enforce code maintainability.