ALostInquirer @ ALostInquirer @lemm.ee

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Set up an elaborate thievery ring to amass wealth and bribe folks for the permits all in the name of science?

a lot of training data that is expensive to put together.

Isn't training data simply data? If a community were to agree to pool their data together to enable the AI, wouldn't that bypass the cost issue? Or is this one of those situations where the amount of data required thoroughly demonstrates how much businesses have arguably stolen from the public, and in turn no community may produce sufficient data to enable their AI tools to the same degree?

This guy thinks he can’t be arrested because he saw her having sex with her husband!?!

Wouldn't you enjoy the new legal precedent of Consensual Voyeur Immunity?

Eventually I can see getting rid of them, but for now they’re keeping Lemmy active.

Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity? Before I simply hid bot posts via settings, I'd rarely see any conversations appearing on Reddit reposts. Even now if you look at probably the most prolific bot instance/account behind this, Lemmit.online bot, you can see this for yourself.

Interesting archival project, I suppose, but it certainly doesn't seem to generate activity in terms of conversation, besides posts like this.

But at the end of the day, I think lemmy is architected wrong. It relies on people spending a lot on hosting, which I really don’t think it’s sustainable, and it is also confusing for users, which is going to reduce adoption.

Have you considered that while those may be genuine technical issues, addressing those alone won't in turn help much in building good communities? Imo one of the common problems across all social media is that a lot of smart, capable folks build their backend systems but neglect to bring on community relations teams (or in the context of entire platforms, community governance teams, maybe?) that coordinate with the people that use those systems.

Probably the big reason for this is that thus far large social media platforms have been built with a corporate mindset, and so the people aren't viewed as people, but an audience for adverts, subscriptions, products, etc. Lemmy has a different yet similar issue insofar as technically capable folks building backend systems, but they don't (nor others deploying their tech) have the resources to bring on any additional community-facing help to then coordinate and collaborate with people in governing their spaces.

I tend to agree, however LLMs aren't the entirety of the AI field at the moment, despite them receiving a large amount of attention. This question is open to all forms of AI under development.

Aren't there already a few free and open source tools available though? That's a part of what inspired this question tbh.

Something I struggle to understand with theistic religions: what is the place of human action in a divinely created universe besides prayer for and faith in divine intervention in any undesirable circumstance?

It strikes me that any action might require what one may call a suspension of faith, depending on the circumstances, otherwise it seems that the more rational course of action would be to submit to one's fate, however it may be decided by their deity.

He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.

I'm a little confused, how does one separate actions towards global order from imperial actions? Aren't imperial actions typically in relation to attempting to establish or maintain a nation's position in, or as, the global order? In a similar vein, does anyone believe the West is a genuine, political entity that is altogether united, rather than a basic academic concept to help differentiate some elements of the world from others?

Last I looked around, the West is about as much of a real political entity that's wholly united about as much as the East is, which is to say, it isn't.

Out of curiosity, are you Canadian, or just on the Canadian instance? I ask because if memory serves the search results tend to be a combination of search history (if you have personalized ads enabled, you can opt out of them), country/region, and general subject/topic (so in this case social apps), probably among other details.

Won't a wall, supposing it's somewhat effective at mitigating unlawful entry over the surface, simply encourage even more risky behavior such as (more?) tunneling and/or attempts at entering via the Gulf?

Also, for cat lovers out there, you might want to note this detail that just adds to the suffering this will perpetuate:

Concern is shared with environmental advocates who say structures will run through public lands, habitats of endangered plants and species like the Ocelot, a spotted wild cat.

Finally, wouldn't the more modern, humane, and fiscally responsible solution to this whole issue be migration reform such that people can more easily, legally enter the country? More people become citizens, more tax revenue, governments' budgets may still be tight but more manageable (supposing they continue to insist on avoiding taxing businesses more).

Don't get me wrong, though, I realize a big part of why it's not being addressed that way is related to fearmongering, with another big part being exploited migrant labor.

That and an increase in size for religions that believe in reincarnation [...]

Would reincarnation alone still really be a religious element at that point, given that it may just be a natural phenomena?

Thanks! Something's certainly better than nothing!

Speaking of, would anyone happen to know where one may buy digital movies/tv shows without DRM? Up to now I've opted to simply buy DVDs/blurays and rip them, but if there's a more straightforward digital option without DRM, I'd be all for that.

What is college? Is it employed for middle school or high school? If so then no.

It's for post-high school education, also referred to as higher education in my area. Generally they're synonymous with universities in that respect where I'm from, and while I'm sure there may be some slight difference between the two (probably more distinct in other areas), I don't know what they are exactly.

But as someone who has gone on to do actual research at an academic level, I’d say the essential challenge of the task wasn’t even touched. Which is getting to the bottom of a question or field, exploring the material on said topic and then digesting and synthesising all of that. Some may hit this in undergrad depending on the degree, and it’s tricky work to do well and at an advanced level.

From what I’ve seen, the ideas and techniques required aren’t covered early on at all. Now it may be rather challenging at an early educational level, but I’d bet you it’s possible but undesirable because it’s hard to grade and takes a long time.

Without having gone on to do actual research, but with at least undergrad completed, I'm inclined to agree. Despite having completed undergrad, even it left me wondering a fair amount how much I'd just been a terrible student or how much my education had somehow managed to sort of gloss over or speed over rather critical research skills to develop.

Sure, I knew how to search for info and kind of weigh the sources, as some others have noted, but the more involved work like you describe? Not so much, and I'm fairly confident it was as much to do with the curriculum as it was to do with the limited time each class/course had to work with (plus accounting for the fact you'd also be muddling through multiple other classes/courses), which wouldn't necessarily even permit for assignments that would have one digging in and really researching thoroughly.

My high school had access to a couple of the major academic publication databases, so we definitely learned the fundamentals.

Was this a public high school? I ask as I know many academic publication databases tend to have notorious costs associated with them, albeit maybe they're more relaxed than I had realized for schools.

dishonors the previous selections from previous presidents.

To what degree should prior selections be honored/respected if the presidents in question won under questionable circumstances, e.g. George W. Bush's election in 2000 and the stopping of the Florida recount, or Donald J. Trump's election in 2016 after his call for foreign interference, alongside James Comey reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton just before the election?

The entire meme is a fraud.

Which way to the meme courts?

They do reportedly sell them at a loss and compensate via software sales and these days more than ever, subscriptions. Ads are just icing on the cake for them, I imagine, compared to the software sales & subscription revenues.