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FTL: Faster than Light, 12th anniversary - New General Megathread for the 14th-15th of September
  • frustrated and feeling dumb enough to post in the gen mega for the first time in years:

    I managed to misplace an entire full/queen sized duvet cover while transporting laundry. Mom had knee surgery so I wfh'd and helped her. No clue where it went, I brought it here to clean. Now I am no longer there after a week and it isn't anywhere in my tiny apartment.

    Can anyone match my stupidity?

  • -1 morale
  • I haven't played a game like this in awhile and it's brought so much joy.

    spoiler

    I tried to get as many clues as quickly as possible thinking that it was actually a detective game and mistakenly thought I was really on the clock and feel kinda bad in retrospect. I'm gonna take like 10 game days and do absolutely everything and let all the voice actors finish their lines now that I know the game is really about sitting around listening to stories

  • This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy Theories
  • One participant, for example, believed the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job” because jet fuel couldn’t have burned hot enough to melt the steel beams of the World Trade Center

    redacted-1 redacted-2 on the NYT offices

  • New ChatGPT model questions it's own profit motive
  • I'll make it perfectly clear that I'm not in anyway informed on the specific mechanisms or the mathematics involved with the algos related to LLMs. I have a computer science bachelor's and worked as a full stack developer. When I had a more free-form web-programming project due it was still called NLP and was used to assess webcrawler data and make recommendations: that's my entire hands on experience so that's why I'm sticking entirely to philosophical aspect.

    Is it embodiment, is it the simplicity of artificial neurons compared to biological ones

    That's basically it. I believe that by bowing to our machine god we aren't giving human intellect enough credit because we don't know and might never know how to measure it precisely enough to torture a machine with a soul. When you write an code the machine is always doing exactly what you told it to, it can't make mistakes. If your code fucked up, you fucked up. Therefore, without a total understand of our body I do not believe we'll be able to make a machine in our image because we don't have the full picture (please forgive me for that).

    Even if you were to 1:1 model a neuron in code, you've got about the entire rest of the body left to recreate. Every thought and feeling is tied to your mind and body. It's not really "mind and body" it's really just "body". there are indescribable feelings that are expressed through song, poetry, paintings, dance, etc. There are entirely "illogical" processes that we simply cannot model. If we are ever able to, of course we can make a machine intelligent. If somehow we were able to get there I think the most obvious question is then: why? Someone on this site might be able to come up with a better use of our top minds and resources.

  • New ChatGPT model questions it's own profit motive
  • be as debatey as you want. What I'm saying is not an entirely different argument. What I said is responding to your entire assertion. I'm not giving you credit for the thought experiment because it helps your argument, I'm trying to give you credit for it because it's creative and beautiful.

  • New ChatGPT model questions it's own profit motive
  • Now I ask you, is there any theoretical reason why this novel wouldn't be any good? Is the essence of it somehow different than any other novel, can we judge it as not being real art or creativity?

    Yes, it is not. You whipped up that fantastical paragraph with 99.99% fewer coal plants and a lifetime's worth of creativity. that life was experienced not through meticulously analyzing each thought mathematically but with your body and mind together. More importantly, you're typing that out because you believe in something which is a theoretical concept that the computer is incapable of analyzing.

  • Recommended Setup for FOSS OCR

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2723840

    > Hi, I need to read handwriting off scanned documents and then file them digitally. What's the best way to approach this? I've done some searching myself but I'm curious what you nerds think. Ty.

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    !07 to the meme of all time

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