Phlogiston @ Phlogiston @lemmy.world

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Good video.

In summary we should leverage the strengths of LLMs (language stuff, complex thinking) and leverage the strengths of knowledge graphs for facts.

I think the engineering hurdle will be in getting the LLMs to use knowledge graphs effectively when needed and not when pure language is a better option. His suggestion of “it’s complicated” could be a good signal for that.

Also, they are clearly already in full disbelief. This whole situation is because they decided to believe the big lie.

At this point the same arguments for why trump knew he lost also applies to them. The facts are out there but they choose not to believe in them.

If we make them felons they can’t vote. We could also do things like scapegoat them and find ways to disenfranchise them.

(The Rs have a whole history of this sorta shit. I wonder if half the reason they’ve been so bad lately is that they worry those tactics will get used against them. )

He has a right to a speedy trail but it’s in his political interests to delay things. So in addition to all the good reasons this will take a while (like all the extra work to deal with how classified material will be used during the trail) Trump and his team will also be doing everything they can to delay things.

I disagree: anybody that is "in the middle of road" and is holding that "slaves benefited from slavery" is anything other than racist drivel --- is lying to you. They are not "in the middle of the road"; instead they are racist assholes that hoping for, at best, an excuse and more likely are just enjoying wasting your time.

This is probably the answer. Unfortunately they control that punishment and will, of course, only use it when it serves their political purposes.

Somehow they're convinced he's only going to hurt the "right" people.

I too wouldn't mind living in an absolute dictatorship if my guy (or I) was the boss. (Actually even then I think I'd feel uncomfortable; I have too much empathy for my own good).

if the hate fits... wear it

I'm looking forward to research on that.

I've an impression that "people are even nastier than before" has been a result of Trump era politics which reveled in nastiness --- which itself appeared to be a pushback from nasty people about Obama being president. Basically its been a growing divide and was made a lot worse when such a prominent political group doubled down on divisiveness as a tribal identity.

I think it predated covid, which certainly made things worse, but I don't really know what the cause was.

7: A trump toupee (a "Trumpee" if you will)

They are not sane. They no longer perceive reality. They live in a world of subtle hallucinations about causes, effects and the nature of reality.

It’s like seeing little pink elephants except instead of being a visual hallucination it’s about the how’s & why’s. But it’s no less a batfuck insane misalignment of their brain.

Have you considered that the full text is:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the child killing and fascist racist pig State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The conservative deep state keeps that definition of “free” in the DL.

/j since humor is hard online

This post is meta-commentary on the clickbait headline itself. I believe this still meets rule 1 as it differs only to add context and be more descriptive.

I don't know that the coverup is "worse" ... but its often easier to charge and prove

does this ban block you from (continuing) to change your existing comments?

I agree. Its super important not have "that feeling". It means I'm not ever really not working if I'm still planning what work I have to do later in the day.

I've been WFH from most of my career. I have the luxury of a home office and am very aware that its not where I go to hang out or do personal projects. When I'm done with work for the day I close that space off and call it done.

Yes, sometimes I have to work late or come back to it at 9p etc. I treat these as an exception the same as i'd treat going back to the office after dinner.

Boulder really wants a passenger train too!

If a person writes a fanfic harry potter 8 it isn't a problem until they try to sell it or distribute it widely. I think where the legal issues get sticky here are who caused a particular AI generated Harry Potter 8 to be written.

If the AI model attempts to block this behavior. With contract stipulations and guardrails. And if it isn't advertised as "a harry potter generator" but instead as a general purpose tool... then reasonably the legal liability might be on the user that decides to do this or not. Vs the tool that makes such behavior possible.

Hypothetically what if an AI was trained up that never read Harry Potter. But its pretty darn capable and I feed into it the entire Harry Potter novel(s) as context in my prompt and then ask it to generate an eighth story --- is the tool at fault or am I?

Being able to dialog with a book, even to the point of asking the AI to "take on the persona of a character in the book" and support ongoing is substantively a transcendent version of the original. That one can, as a small subset of that transformed version, get quotes from the original work feels like a small part of this new work.

If this had been released for a single work. Like, "here is a star wars AI that can take on the persona of star wars characters" and answer questions about the star wars universe etc. I think its more likely that the position I'm taking here would lose the debate. But this is transformative against the entire set of prior material from books, movies, film, debate, art, science, philosophy etc. It merges and combines all of that. I think the sheer scope of this new thing supports the idea that its truly transformative.

A possible compromise would be to tax AI and use the proceeds to fund a UBI initiative. True, we'd get to argue if high profile authors with IP that catches the public's attention should get more than just blogger or a random online contributor -- but the basic path is that AI is trained on and succeeds by standing on the shoulders of all people. So all people should get some benefits.

That is a great idea for a browser extension. An AI module that hides ads and clicks x’s and generally fucks with their engagement numbers but don’t let any of it get to your eyeballs.