[–] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

He has admitted in court that he purposefully killed Thompson and has pled guilty to stalking causing death.

I shot Mr Thompson and he died. I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.

His murder trial is up in the air because of rules around double jeopardy, but the fact that he did purposefully kill Thompson is no longer alleged.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    The training is one part but its also how they work on a technical level.

    They're trained to always give an answer and never give responses like "I don't know" and "I didn't understand". They could be trained to give these types of responses more frequently, but I'm not sure it fixes anything because of the technical aspect.

    Technically, LLMs have no understanding of words, let alone sentence structure, because they're mathematical models. Input words are tokenized (turned into numbers, essentially), run through a large equation that was crafted and tuned during training, and the resulting output tokens are turned back into words. They can't be confused by ambiguous sentence structure because they don't parse sentence structure. They can only ever be trained to appear like they don't understand in the same way they are trained to appear like they do.

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  • [–] 24 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    That's the point. A human would ask for clarification, but AI trys to continue the conversation.

    It's similar to this guy doing a job interview with an AI where he just says things like "Freight cadence Richard walnut and sprucewood. Six years of sprucewood, actually seven if you count Richard." And the AI interviewer responds "It sounds like you've built up a long tenure with Richard at Sprucewood."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcp1VBaCvEY

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    I think this is very important to realize. People look for someone to blame when they can't afford food and, unfortunately, it tends to be people who don't look like them. It's hard for any democratically elected politician to state they're not going to do what 50% of the voting population believes will solve all their problems.

    Progressive candidates have a huge uphill battle if they're ever going to be seen as "electable". They have to convince 50% of the population that minorities aren't the cause of all their problems.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I once played around with reverse engineering a Rust program. I compiled the optimized version of the standard "hello world" program which somehow turned into 50,000 lines of assembly.

    It looked like it copied over dozens of functions from libc and the data section was filled with every single possible error string "file not found", "connection timed out", etc. as if there was a possibility of hello world generating an access denied error.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Fun fact! An early source of training material for LLMs were the 600,000 internal emails the FBI seized from Enron. At the time, it was the largest source of publically available casual conversion. The only issue was that the chat bots trained on those conversions ended up sounding like rich assholes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago

    English haiku don't follow the Japanese rules because a bunch of them rely on language features that don't exist in English. The haiku structure taught in western schools isn't a form actual poets use often.

    Wiki has some examples of English haiku that dont follow the 5-7-5 syllable pattern, nor reference to season, but still capture the essence of expressing an abstract thought with minimal language by presenting two short unlinked statements. The last lines of these poems arent explicitly connected to the first two. The reader is left to speculate on the link between them.

    old home
    the light we’d leave
    on, off

    beam by beam
    the old barn taken down
    to sky

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    It also led me to this 2015 article in which some Canadians considered it "defacing" the symbol to use a safer pin design than an inches long stick pin. I'm just glad USians aren't the only that get mouth-frothing stupid about arbitrary symbols.

    There's also been a controversial movement of wearing white poppies, or "peace" poppies. The idea is that if red poppies are specifically for soldiers then white poppies are for all victims of war, most of whom are non-combatants.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Couldn't someone just lie? If Alice hates romance and wants to know if Bob is a filthy romance lover, she could just lie and say she likes romance. No matter what system you implement, Alice will now be told "You and Bob both like romance!"

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago*

    That's the common journalist error of mixing up power and energy. 1 Watt is 1 joule per second, and is a rate of power. Saying a datacentre will have a daily thermal load of 16 and 18 gigawatts is like saying your car has a daily thermal load of 14 litres of gas per kilometre.

    Heat exchange can be given in watts, but again that's heat exchanged per second. If a room has a heat loss of 500w you can maintain temperature by using a 500w space heater on max or a 1000w space heater at 50% power. Saying the room requires 500w of heat daily doesn't make sense.

    It's most likely the data centre has a maximum power draw of 18 gigawatts if everything was running at max all at once, which isn't a realistic average use, and also doesn't give an indication of how much heat is being produced.

    It seems they got the 23 nuclear bombs by taking the amount of energy the Hiroshima nuclear bomb was estimated to have released (about 63 terajoule) and comparing it to the amount of energy consumed in 24 hours at a rate of 18 gigawatts (18 gigajoule/s × 86,400 s/day is about equal to 63 terajoule × 23).

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  • [–] 48 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    They were founded in 2012 and exist primarily to challenge US laws that are overtly religious. If a governor passes a law saying public schools must teach Bible study, atheists can't legally object under US law. You can only object if a law violates your religion, not your lack of religion. So what if you made atheism a religion? That's the Satanic Temple.

    It's Satanic themed on purpose because "court rules schools must provide children Satanic literature" makes for a funny headline when in reality it's just a paragraph about critical thinking.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    I just assumed all female v-tubers were actually guys IRL. Is that just me?

    No, it's a very common idea, though I'm not sure why. There are thousands of v-tubers, but it's the top 1% that make 90% of the money. Pretending to be a woman online isn't a cheat code to becoming rich and famous.

    A lot of v-tubers are drawn to it because it creates a separation between their onscreen persona and their real life face.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    I have about 100 hours into it. NMS has pretty much every mechanic you could imagine, but they're shallow and become repetitive fast and there's almost zero overlap between them. That doesn't mean it's bad, but definitely temper your expectations.

    For example: there's an entire quest line about growing your own plants and refining them into expensive items that you can trade for millions of credits. These plants have grow times of 16 real life hours so you can really only cash in once every real life day.

    You can also just teleport between a few galaxies buying low and selling high to generate infinite money in a couple hours. If getting lots of money is your goal, then that quest line is a waste of time. You have to enjoy the act of searching the galaxy for seeds of rare plants and building out a huge farm for no other reason than it's fun. Most of the game is like this.

    There's no reason to collect the bones of ancient species, or to farm asteroids for rare minerals, or to investigate derelict freighter ships, other than it's a fun way to pass the time.

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