[–] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I recommend trying to make your own Markov chain based chatbot. You can produce grammaticality correct nonsense just by using raw probability and without even attempting to categorize words as nouns or verbs. All you need is a dataset to build your probabilistic model... Sounds familiar?

I'm not a CS major and I don't know exactly how LLMs work but I think you will find Markov chains interesting and highly relevant.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Loot boxes showing up in games normalizes gambling even if you don't let your kids buy them. Their peers might do it anyway and share that interest with them. Then they'll ask for digital currency for $GAME for Christmas.

    Random loot boxes should be removed from games IMHO. Let games be games.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I have helped organize a workplace and I cant think of a way AI could have aided us. My fellow organizers would occasionally ask it advice or questions about labor law.

    The first use case didn't produce anything overly helpful, but maybe it helped soothe their nerves. The second use case... We're not lawyers and the devil is in the details. Fortunately we had help from the organization we joined. They were extremely helpful and knowledgeable.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Maybe they thought I meant that current 20 year olds should get on to having kids. I don't believe in any sort of obligation like that, its pretty impossible right now unless you are wealthy.

    Nor do I believe there is anything wrong with older parents. Nor do I believe anyone should feel obligated to have kids.

    It should be easy to have kids at 20, though, not life ruining. I agree with you 100%

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago

    Some people do meth.

    You're only seeing the people who don't give a single fuck. This won't affect them, this will affect anonymous posters and people who aren't even "posting" but are using online communication to talk to other people directly (chat rooms, direct messaging)

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    Its day 3 of probably a week long power outage here. The cell towers are overloaded, so watching video is tough. But I can download podcasts when I go to work (yes very cool, still have to do my 100% pointless job during a natural disaster)

    I like these podcasts:

    • True Anon
    • Darknet Diaries
    • This American Life (sometimes)
    • Behind the Bastards (sometimes)

    I was going to put more here but I did a purge of my subscriptions just now. These are the guys that made it.

    I'm not really looking for news/politics podcasts, but feel free to recommend some. IDC.

    I like podcasts that tell a story (this american life, darknet diaries) but I stay away from true crime stuff if its about like, ordinary people who got randomly murdered/SA'd.

    Please recommend me your favorite podcast, even if its some niche interest you have. I'm bored and I appreciate it.

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