And I would argue that this is different than if a soldier kills someone.

Like, when you kill as a soldier, generally the other person is trying to kill you (or you can at least tell yourself that afterwards. When you’re an executioner…well let’s just say they are known for wearing hoods for a reason.

Just gonna leave this here:

Hour Glass Urns

25 per year (call it one every two weeks?) really doesn’t seem that high, esp with their wording of “non-stop executions”.

Guess that really speaks to how messed up these execution methods are.

As I type this, I can’t help but wonder how the mass executions during the French Revolution affected people’s psyche (seems like a well built guillotine would be able to go through closer to 25 executions per day). Anyone have info on that?

Not in the slightest. I feel the same way.

A boost? I’m not familiar with what that is. That’s not a Lemmy thing is it?

Had just clicked away from this post when I saw you comment. I need you to know that I came back just to ensure I upvoted your post (or whatever we call those here).

Not at all impressive, but to maximize interactions on a newborn thread:

It’s probably my PS3, which I would have gotten Christmas 2008 (or maybe it was 2009?). I recently started sailining the seas, and the most convenient way to watch those videos is to burn them to a disk, and so the PS3 is really just a glorified DVD player (can’t even be bothered to use it’s blue ray functionality)

This attempted contradiction doesn’t seem to counteract the above comment.

I think there’s something to be said about shared cultural experiences, and so reading some older books is probably a good thing.

To clarify what I mean though: that means that we should be reading stuff that was written/popular when our grandparents were our age. Going back 200+ years should be saved for a history class cause that’s the real value in reading that material. In my opinion, Great Gatsby should be about the oldest book kids need to be reading for a literature class these days, and even that’s pushing it.

Yeah and I’ll bet you use Tau instead of Pi, don’t you, you human scum.

Liquor Bottle by Herbal T. Has a nice faux-upbeat rhythm with jazzy kinda beats, but lyrics.are dark. Definitely helps me keep a sane face on the dark days:

And that’s why / I keep a

A liquor bottle in the freezer ♪

In case I gotta take it out ♫

Mix me a drink

To help me

Forget all the things

In my life that I worry about ♪ ♫

pain receptors are distinct receptors in your body that don’t dull themselves after a while

Man, that’s some bullshit.

Come on Body, can’t you just have some, like, nice things that aren’t purely functional?

I’ve got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.

“No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world”

I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago:

Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP.

Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

Ugh, yeah, I don’t hate the guy, but I also think that anyone who still thinks he’s a visionary hasn’t actually been paying attention to his work/how his companies are going lately.

I suppose my instinctive reaction isn’t to assume someone’s politics would determine how they react to Musk.

My first real assumption would be that tech/engineering types are the only ones who’d really think about him at all (in both directions). Like, I do have an uncle who occasionally brings him up whenever theirs news on SpaceX’s rockets (though usually this gets brought up in the context of “new technology sucks” and “what was wrong with the rockets that carried up Voyager” and such).

So yeah, I really don’t think I’d describe anyone as “gargling Elon’s cock” except those who still have good will for Tesla.

Yeah, I hate how toxic just politics in general get. Like, it feels like any time anything political gets brought up, everyone leaves their good will and sense of humanity at the door, ya know?

I do enjoy how much tech-focused content is on Lemmy, but it also feels like there’s a higher concentration of toxic leftist type posts.

That’s definitely a thing I miss about the good ol’ reddit days: being able to scroll for days without seeing anything political. Or rather - being able to filter out all the political subs and not feeling like you were missing out on the larger conversation on the platform.

That’s interesting to hear. I wouldn’t have expected Europeans would have thought about ol’ Elon that much.

Ugh, yeah, that is a point of frustration I have with the family.

For them, it’s not so much “look what Musk is doing” so much as “look at how much better Twitter’s gotten”, which is particularly ripe cause none of them even use the platform. As I think on it, that probably means the big Fox talking heads are saying things like that.

I never got into Twitter myself (just never really understood / took to the format), which is kind of a shame cause I’d really like to be supporting Mastodon in this years surgance of the Fediverse.

Right.

I don’t mean to say that the mechanism by which human brains learn and the mechanism by which AI is trained are 1:1 directly comparable.

I do mean to say that the process looks pretty similar.

My knee jerk reaction is to analogize it as comparing a fish swimming to a bird flying. Sure there are some important distinctions (e.g. bird’s need to generate lift while fish can rely on buoyancy) but in general, the two do look pretty similar (i.e. they both take a fluid medium and push it to generate thrust).

And so with that, it feels fair to say that learning, that the storage and retrieval of memories/experiences, and that the way that that stored information shapes our sub-concious (and probably conscious too) reactions to the world around us seems largely comparable to the processes that underlie the training of “AI” and LLMs.