mo_ztt ✅ @ mo_ztt @lemmy.world

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"None of them is accused of engaging in any violence or destruction on Jan. 6. But prosecutors said none of them has expressed sincere remorse for their crimes."

"Coomer bragged on social media about taking part in 'history,' called for a 'fresh start' and said he was 'waiting for the boogaloo,' a slang term for a second civil war in the U.S."

I think an LLM+Chroma is probably as good as it gets, and who knows, it might work. Just I'd be very careful of getting screwed by the process. As I'm sure you know LLMs are right at that inflection point where they're good enough to seem trustworthy but they can still completely malfunction (and they tend to do so in ways that are actually really difficult to spot because they seem perfectly plausible.)

Yeah the Legal Eagle video was hilarious. The guy used GPT-4 to make his legal briefs, then when it hallucinated cases he lied to the judge and said he'd researched them and the cases existed, then when faced with the clearly obvious fact that they didn't, he finally came clean but still sort of tried to weasel out of responsibility for the whole thing and the judge quite rightly tore him a new one. And, I have some vague memory of it being discovered that GPT had basically tried to tell him it wasn't qualified to make his legal briefs and he insisted to it that it needed to do it anyway. It was just an absolute casserole from start to finish.

This is just me, but I just sort by "new" and make a particular effort to unsubscribe from stuff that's cluttering the feed, and that seems to give me a pretty good mix of content.

1. I would be very hesitant to put my legal reasoning in the hands of an LLM. They're not AIs, they just come up with plausible text completions. There have actually been cases by now of lawyers who've gotten fucked by using AI to try to save themselves effort and then it not being good enough for what they were expecting from it.
2. If you're convinced you want to do this, there are basic tutorials on Youtube - I'm not 100% sure but I think that instead of "fine-tuning" in the same way you would do to fit an LLM to a problem space, you want to import the legal documents into something like Chroma, then use something like Llama as hooked up to the Chroma DB. But again, I wouldn't. For messing around with some things it's fine, but for legal documents you really want a sentient intelligence involved in the process.

IDK anything about how this particular school handled this particular situation, but I genuinely can't think offhand of even a single situation where a school at any level properly handled a physical or sexual assault on their campus. Just call the cops. It's a crime, fuck the school administration, deal with the system that at least has a track record of prosecuting in a meaningful way some nonzero percent of the cases of assault that they come in contact with. You can keep the school administration informed of what you're doing, or not, and ask or subpoena them for information, according to what you feel is necessary.

Yah, that makes sense. In all honesty, the idea that God could be real, but also not disgusted by the Catholic church (i.e. the indulgences would work) just honestly had never even occurred to me. I feel like if God were real He would hate the indulgences-era Catholic church more passionately than any mere mortal ever could.

Anyway it's all good I hope, sorry about being sort of a dick in my response.

• Scott Smith's daughter was allegedly assaulted in a bathroom by someone identifying as genderfluid
• At a school board meeting, Smith got into an argument with a woman, I guess related to this incident in some way, during which he was arguing loudly, clenching his fist, leaning toward and swearing at the woman.
• Deputies arrested him, taking him to the ground and busting his face up a little bit
• He struggled with the deputies while being removed, and video got distributed of him with a bloodied face struggling and threatening to "kick their teeth in"
• He was found guilty of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest
• The governor of Virginia pardoned him

Basically, Republicans were super excited about this whole thing because it backs up two things they particularly like: (1) A rare and exciting confirmation of their almost-totally-hallucinatory claim that we urgently need to keep transgender people out of bathrooms to protect the children (2) People on their team being above the law, and justified in violently resisting law enforcement if someone tries to subject them to the same rules as everyone else (the fascist playbook of replacing "what did you do?" with "which team are you on?" when deciding whether someone is guilty of a crime).

I can show you one fairly well-known example.

I actually do get Russia having a violent response against a hostile alliance coming up right to their borders. That side of it makes sense to me. But also, NATO and EU membership was much less of a priority for Ukraine before Russia started invading their borders and killing their citizens. Once Russia has rolled their military into neighboring sovereign nations and started killing and raping and blowing up homes, I think they're forfeited their right to whine about the unfairness if their neighbors decide to join a mutual-defense alliance that can beat the shit out of them.

Yah absolutely. Cap and trade actually has worked quite well for a while -- I think the difference being that the caps were being imposed from outside according to a specific finite limit, not just something anyone can make up and start selling. Carbon offsets basically go by Calvinball rules with no oversight whatsoever as far as I'm aware.

Usually that means "unread" (which Lemmy will sometimes assign for a while to things which you have actually read.)

Isn't it possible to change the "display name" even if it's still /c/politics in the URL though?

Yeah, sure. I know if there's one thing I hear Tucker Carlson say all the time, it's stuff like:

This all seems like a pretty cogent argument. Actually, I’d take it a step further than what you’re saying – I’d say that if a fully functioning adult wants to get a knee replacement or a gender transition, it’s nobody’s business but theirs whether or not they should do it. It’s relevant to talk about the long term outcomes and etc, but at the end of the day it’s up to them.

Also, in what sense is this verifiable bullshit? Can you point to a specific claim and why you say it’s bullshit?

Do you have sources indicating clear positive outcomes for adolescents? Like I say, I’m genuinely interested in learning.

Out of all the people who engaged with me on this, one person sent me any kind of links for that last question, which is basically the factual core of the matter that I was looking for. I'm asking that question so I can learn. I took a bunch of time to read over them and responded in detail to each one. Most of them I pretty much agreed with, and I said so.

If you can't tell the difference between someone who's attacking you, and someone who actually is genuinely asking for information although they don't fully agree with you, you're going to wind up "counterattacking" a lot of people for more or less no reason, and making enemies of them.

Yeah I get that. The initial reasonable assumption I 100% understand. But I also think a vulnerable community that makes a habit of lashing out and accusing of crypto-democide anyone who's showing good faith, but just not willing to 100% agree with them on everything without any discussion permitted, is going to find itself more vulnerable and demonized as a result, not less.

The thing of "you have to agree with me or else you're the enemy" isn't a good way to go, whether you're in the majority or the minority. Again I get the reasons why people arrived there. I'm just saying it's not a good place to be.

I was talking about the reaction I was getting in this thread, not anything from any outside source.

What it really is though - not everyone knows everything, so when someone misses the point, helping them understand it is more constructive than belittling their ignorance.

Yeah, maybe I was sorta rude about it. IDK, it's just an overall vibe I've specifically noticed on Lemmy that people tend to assume that the other people they're talking to probably don't know things. It's a really toxic feature in a community. I do it too, and I make a concerted effort not to, and when I see something that looks like that's getting pointed at me I get irritated about it. Probably for reasons of my own.

I think you're right that my message was a little more pointed about it than it needed to be. It would have been pretty easy for me to say "Oh 100% they're a scam in most cases, here's a video about it, that's the whole point of what we were saying."

Bro

• Indulgences
  • Investment: Money
  • Supposed impact: Escape hell
  • Problem: They're a scam
  • Actual impact: Nothing
  • What you could do instead: Save your money
• Carbon offsets
  • Investment: Money
  • Supposed impact: Escape climate crisis
  • Problem: They're a scam
  • Actual impact: Climate crisis anyway
  • What you could do instead: Save your money but also stop killing the planet

 

The comic, and my entire comment replying to it, wouldn't make sense if carbon offsets weren't a scam. IDK why Lemmy is so full of people who want to explain to me things that were the underlying basis for the very thing they're replying to, but yes, carbon credits are mostly a scam.

If the law and the facts are against you, threaten the judge and jurors, double down on everything, and hope your nascent fascistic movement has arrived at its takeoff speed

If you met or worked with the people who post the majority of the programming-language-ism posts, you would know deep down in your bones how little you need to be listening to them.

It's just like purchasing carbon offsets, if God were real and He was 100% coming to punish us. With indulgences, you at least didn't actually go to hell at the end I don't think.

Yep, same here. I honestly wish I knew how to help people out of that situation.