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I'd love an invite if you're down to give em!

I feel like that's more of a corpo relations phrase, cancel culture is more personal. Like that voting with your wallet was supposed to influence the behavior of corps, not individuals.

I think a good older example of cancel culture were the American red scares, especially the McCarthy trials. Although an extreme example of it, they were 'cancelling' people who's views they considered dangerous. People disliked by others would often be called a Communist and socially / economically harmed tremendously, regardless if they were actually a Communist. If you got to a McCarthy trial, you were doomed; that guy was cancelling with the power of the state, afaik knowledgeable to the fact many of the accusations were false

Cancel culture. It's been around for a very long time, though it used to be expressed in shunning, banishment, or communal acts of corporeal harm (e.g. tarring and feathering, lynching, etc.)

Edit: just realized the question was for something true, not just something that's been around for longer than people think lol

Took a random programming fundamentals course in college. The rest is the rest

I’m commander Shepard, and THIS is my favorite comment in Lemmy.

Such an important tech. Hopefully soon we can get quantum-secure cryptographic algorithms in wide use.

I wonder what things are going to be like when previously hoarded encrypted data begins to be decrypted en mass

For me it was the book Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It played a great part in the development of my beliefs. The most memorable part was where he was talking about the spirituality of science in the chapter "Science and Hope":

In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Legit those exact wasps were on my mind as I wrote that nature has horrors. Creatures like that always make me think, "damn nature, you scary" lol

Honestly I see everything we do as natural. It may be different to the other life on this planet, but that's just the way nature is: different species do different things.

What we do isn't even terribly unique. Other species have been shown to create and use tech, communicate, do agriculture, have societies, and manipulate other life to its gain. What sets us apart from them is that we're especially good at all that, we're nature's ultra generalists.

I think it's also important to note that nature does not equal good or even beneficial for the environment. Some of Earths most profound horrors come from non-human life (that which is often called natural). And other species have been known to destroy their environment to grow (such as the great oxygenation event or the rats that destroyed Easter Island)

Unseeing sounds fun right about now

I think I'm a really unreliable narrator. Some of the stuff I say about myself just turns out to be untrue, particularly as it pertains to likes, dislikes, and my comfort zone. I don't know myself as good as I should, and really need to learn more

I use the app Connect for Lemmy. It's pretty good in my opinion

There's just not as many people here as there is on Reddit. Things will be slow for as long as we don't have large numbers. Best thing you can do to make things better is engage frequently and spread the good word of Lemmy

My ulterior motives are the same as yours: convey a strong opinion. It's not like making others as optimistic about this as I am will change anything. Even if we both agreed to forget the concept, the cat is out of the bag; open sourced LLMs are getting better and access is getting cheaper. Everyone is impotent to stop what's about to happen, it's as futile as trying to stop torrenting copyrighted media. And more advanced they become, the less people need to be involved to make a large impact with it.

Also to clarify, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are two different AIs with different capabilities. I used GPT-4, the better AI. There are many different LLM AIs out there now with varied strengths, weaknesses, and attitudes. ChatGPT is old news, so please don't use it as your sole resource to judge LLMs (especially as you haven't used it yet).

The language it's taught me is valid; the programs successful. I have programming knowledge, but its expertise often surpasses my own and is thus an invaluable resource. There is remarkably limited risk in using it as the tools are limited in scope and I am not a programmer by profession (it just helps); in any case, it writes secure code mostly and is only getting better over time. I imagine soon its kind will take over this domain entirely as their context limits and capabilities continue to grow.

You're probably seeing so many crypto bros liking this AI because they're much more risk tolerant than the average person. These AIs are as much a risk as they are an opportunity. While I am optimistic, I fully recognize that things could go horribly wrong.

With an opinion as strong as yours, I only ask that you look into it more before being so confident in your dismissal. At least try it out first before you denounce it as worthless and disregard the experiences of others

Aight so I've been holding off on making conversation since I generally disagree with most of the negative sentiment towards them. But for real, you think they're worthless? Legit at their present moment they've got so much immediate value; how much have you used them?

I've pulled tremendous value from them. In my personal life, GPT-4 walked me through developing a Kotlin android app for my smart watch so that I could have access to it more easily and conveniently. It's provided me guidance and knowledge, even teaching me German and Spanish and holding practice conversations with me. At work, it's helped me write programs to improve my productivity, taught me how to use software like Excel, and just overal helps me be more capable.

And all that is just one person's value from it. Just imagine what value it's creating right now for the millions who use it. Just imagine what it could do in the hands of innumerable virtuous and malicious individuals. It is so far from worthless

Sour is the best flavor after all

Not necessarily. OpenAI has been trying to make their AIs do this and be generally unharmful, but there's lots of support in the open source LLM space for uncensored models. The uncensored models are less likely to be inclined to say so if they've been instructed to pretend they're humans

Anti-Cheat was one of the major things that pushed me back to Windows for gaming. They often aren't compatible, invalidating the newly proton-compatible game

This program was designed to emulate the biological neural net of your brain. Oftentimes we're nowhere near that good at math just off the top of our heads (we need tools like paper and simplifying formulas). Don't judge it too harshly for being bad at math, that wasn't it's purpose.

This lil robot was trained to know facts and communicate via natural language. As far as I've interacted with it, it has excelled at this intended task. I think it's a good bot

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6448