AeroLemming @ AeroLemming @lemm.ee

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Arrrr!

I see people complaining on Lemmy, where that subject is constantly on the front page and they'd see it if they scrolled for 3 minutes.

I mean specifically the people that are complaining on Lemmy, where you can't go more than a dozen posts without running into someone mentioning some sort of ad blocking or privacy tools.

I'd say it's more like complaining about the neighbors running their heater too high and you having to crack a window to compensate. Once the blockers are installed, ads are something you only rarely even become aware of. If you were holding up a shield, it would be a constant effort. That'd be more like if you had to reinstall ad blockers every time you watched a video.

NIMBY applies to stuff like urban housing development and certain kinds of healthcare clinics. Not wanting loud-ass fucking trains rolling through 24/7 is perfectly reasonable. Too many people don't care enough about noise pollution.

No, some guy named Taylor has to train the model for you.

Wouldn't let your friend leave? So, false imprisonment, or because it's in a car, kidnapping?

Disabled people: (X) doubt

I don't understand (from a technical standpoint) why they can't just ship a dual boot that only partitions any real space for an OS once you actually use it. Linux is what, 2-3GB on its own with a DE? You could use less than 1% of a modern computer's storage to give users the option to activate and allocate space to an already-working Linux install whenever they feel like it, and if they really need those few gigs and don't want Linux, they could just delete it.

I don't like that you can't use the Dark Reader extension on mobile in Vivaldi. I like all of my websites to be dark.

No, lending that purpose is not a mistake, it's a tool to aid in understanding. The force of evolution is not conscious, does not think, and is governed by pretty basic rules, but what arises from those simple rules is as close as we can get to intelligent design (not the bogus religious kind) outside of a conscious designer. This similarities are so fundamental, in fact, that the chaotic process of evolution studied and refined into a set of algorithms has actually proven useful in the field of artificial intelligence. Machine learning agents can use Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies to train (essentially learn) because evolution can do the same thing our brains can by reacting to negative and positive stimulus and adjusting a strategy accordingly. The difference of course is that evolution needs a generation to make any adjustments and just tries random bullshit with no clear direction, so our brains are much more efficient and effective.

Note: NEAT works in tandem with normal training procedures and typically replaces the person who would otherwise be attempting to intelligently design the neural network architecture. You can train the weights directly using evolution (I've tried it before), but for the aforementioned reasons, it's slow as hell and doesn't work very well.

Are you seriously trying to argue that fungi have a level of consciousness or sentience because they have simple chemical processes that guide their growth based on external stimulus?

I suppose you must also believe that growing Chorus Plants in Minecraft are self-aware because they don't grow through blocks.

I am not saying bacteria are conscious. I am saying that as a fungus (or bacterium), you wouldn't be aware of environmental collapse because you wouldn't be aware of anything. You wouldn't suffer.

only to be keenly aware at all moments of how pollution, deforestation, and climate change is damaging the forest in real time.

There is no evidence to suggest that fungi are conscious.

I just tried it with Copilot and all four results matched the prompt. No humans. Which one did you use?

W take. I have no problem with my public comments being used as training data for AI as long as they're public. I just don't want some shitty private company to hoard them like they fucking own them when they don't.

With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.

The fuzzing of the plunger input is what I was thinking about. You could run a bunch of simulations right as the plunger is released with slightly different inputs and then pick the one with the desired result to display on the screen. You'd need to have a pretty efficient simulation, but the user would be none-the-wiser.