NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.world

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Me who only has the original Cantonese version:

I don't agree with this opinion, because it seems very not-well-thought-out to me.

If your computer is having trouble booting up then how are you supposed to get an AI model running there?

If you can get the AI model running, you've got at least a mini kernel working, but that means you need to load that mini kernel, and oh look, where are we now? GRUB-ception?

It seems like a lot of engineering for something that maybe one person per mille might use. The vast majority of users don't do things that would cause GRUB to break and those that do likely already know how to get out of it.

Give me a bunch of open AI models and a big GPU to play with and I'll generate twenty gigabytes of weird anime fetish content.

This is the only true use of AI

At what point does the US start playing hardball with the blatant hostage-taking?

"Don't go to Russia if you are a US citizen. We can provide no assistance if you are taken hostage by Putin's goons. You will be steamrolled by Russia's kangaroo courts and we will not trade ten Russian murderers for your release."

...which increases the cost of doing business for those companies.

And if eco-terrorists are successfully killing their directors, then they are probably also setting fire to their offices, mailing poison to managers, sending death threats and hate mail to employees, vandalising company property, calling in bomb threats to their refineries, executing those threats...

I add an asterisk to your comment.

If enough executives get killed by eco-terrorists then people will reconsider wanting to be an executive at those companies.

A two cheeseburger meal costs about eight US dollars where I am. For two dollars more, I can get this humongous burrito from a Mexican restaurant across the street loaded with potatoes, beans, and shredded chicken. For two dollars less, I can get two pieces of fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and potato salad from the deli counter at the grocery store literally in the same car park.

Agreed. I managed to get my grandpa onto Linux using Mint on his old computer. He said the interface resembled classic Windows and was up and running in less than five minutes. I just had to show him how to use the software manager and that's it.

No, it's not science. It's logic based on a few observations. If you don't observe the same things as I do, you will not come to the same conclusions.

Oh, I understand they are usually human. I just don't think their viewpoints are worthy of discussion. And you make this judgement every day as well, even if you refuse to admit it. And perhaps you make it on grounds that are less sound.

You can say that. It doesn't matter though. I am right. You can keep saying "nuh uh" if you want.

No, of course, I cannot. I do not judge what category someone likely falls into based on whether what they say matches nearly word for word a "promoted" viewpoint. In some cases, I mostly agree with what they said but it's painfully obvious that person didn't come to that conclusion through their own thinking but is rather just parroting a screenshot of a post on the site formerly known as Twitter.

You have missed the entire point of my comment. If someone is likely to be in categories 2 or 3, I dismiss them if the viewpoint is otherwise not worthy of discussion, which it usually is not. I don't care if this causes me to misjudge the intentions of some people, because that is inevitable in any probability-based judgement system. What matters is picking what is most likely correct.

I don't feel that you have the ability to grasp this point and you're just going to come up with another argument I didn't make to attack.

No, I am not. I wouldn't say it if it were made up. Who have I got to convince by making shit up? I am not pushing any viewpoint at all.

I base my assertion on interactions with people on this platform. Whenever someone parrots a point that is promoted this way, they're almost universally just repeating what some wisecrack said on X that sounds correct enough to not investigate further or think critically about and is agreeable to their worldview.

I will not argue over this. You either accept what I am saying or you don't, but I don't give enough of a shit either way to get into an argument.

Oh. I actually interacted with them earlier today then

Who is Dessalines?

The Haitian revolutionary??

This is just simplistic and un-nuanced thinking.

The use of bots is not to generate new opinions, it is to make fringe opinions seem more popular than they are. Most (but not all) opinions propagated this way are already worthy of dismissal for other reasons, but when it's clear that someone is repeating word-for-word a line of dismissable or unsound rhetoric which is also being propagated by those bots, it lends itself to three reasonable conclusions:

1. This person genuinely believes that and was not influenced by the bots to do so, i.e. it is a coincidence
2. This person genuinely believes that but only because they were stupid enough to get absorbed by the bots
3. This person does not genuinely believe that and is acting in bad faith

Only in case 1 is such an opinion worth discussing, but the vast majority of cases will be case 2 or case 3.

That is why it is reasonable to dismiss such opinions despite the possibility that they are genuine, in good faith, and not the product of propaganda. Because the odds that they're not are vastly greater. Nobody can be certain of anyone's intentions on the Internet, so rational actors can only play a game of "What is the most likely scenario?".

Labelling people as bots is not wrong if those people are actually bots

Ubuntu Server, Debian, or Rocky Linux will save you a lot of headaches.

Most software is designed with these major distros in mind and using something more obscure will just cause problems later on when you realise that there are no guides written for it by the software vendor. Fixing broken software gets old really fast especially when it causes your stuff to break when you're actually trying to use it.

The funny thing is that the Belt and Road initiative as a way of buying friends has utterly failed. For example, China built a billion-dollar bridge in the Maldives connecting Malé with its airport on another island but public opinion of China in the Maldives is still low. That's despite the fact that the entrance to the bridge has "China-Maldives Friendship Bridge" written in large letters on an arch over the carriageway.