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  • wolframhydroxideto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•robot rule
    1·
    2 hours ago

    EDIT: now I understand. After going through your comments, I can see that you just claim confirmation bias rather than actually having to support your own arguments. Ironic that you seem to show all of this erudition in your comments, but as soon as anyone questions your beliefs, you just resort to logical buzzwords. The literal definition of the bias you claim to find. Tragic. Blocked.

  • wolframhydroxideto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•robot rule
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    7 hours ago

    While this may be true for technologies, tools are distinctly NOT inherently neutral. Consider the automatic rifle or the nuclear bomb. In the rifle, the technology of the mechanisms in the gun is the same precision-milled clockwork engineering that is used for worldwide production automation. The technology of the harnessing of a nuclear chain reaction is the same, whether enriching uranium for a bomb or a power plant.

    HOWEVER, BOTH the automatic rifle and the nuclear bomb are tools, and tools have a specific purpose. In these cases, that SOLE purpose is to, in an incredibly short period of time, with little effort or skill, enable the user to end the lives of as many people as possible. You can never use a bomb as a power plant, nor a rifle to alleviate supply shortages (except, perhaps, by a very direct reduction in demand). Here, our problem has never been with the technology of Artificial Neural Nets, which have been around for decades. It isn’t even with “AI” (note that no extant “AI” is actually “intelligent”)! No, our problem is with the tools. These tools are made with purpose and intent. Intent to defraud, intent to steal credit for the works of others, and the purpose of allowing corporations to save money on coding, staffing, and accountability for their actions, the purpose of having a black box a CEO can point to, shrug their shoulders, and say “what am I supposed to do? The AI agent told me to fire all of these people! Is it my fault that they were all <insert targetable group here>?!”

    These tools cannot be used to know things. They are probabilistic models. These tools cannot be used to think for you. They are Chinese Rooms. For you to imply that the designers of these models are blameless — when their AI agents misidentify black men as criminals in facial recognition software; when their training data breaks every copyright law on the fucking planet, only to allow corporations to deepfake away any actual human talent in existence; when the language models spew vitriol and raging misinformation with the slightest accidental prompting, and can be hard-limited to only allow propagandized slop to be produced, or tailored to the whims of whatever despot directs the trolls today; when everyone now has to question whether they are even talking to a real person, or just a dim reflection, echoing and aping humanity like some unseen monster in the woods — is irreconcilable with even an iota of critical thought. Consider more carefully when next you speak, for your corporate-apologist principles will only help you long enough for someone to train your beloved “tool” on you. May you be replaced quickly.

  • wolframhydroxidetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
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    9 hours ago

    Poe’s law is a thing, and assuming that everyone is joking when there is NO indication of a joke (especially in a medium that cannot convey tone without lOoKiNg LiKe YoU’rE hAvInG a StRoKe) makes the internet a worse place for actual discussion. Use basic internet hygiene, and remember to close your sarcasm HTML tag, using the following code as an example:

    <s> I’m sure glad that everyone is kind on the internet, and they don’t call others stupid for making the assumption that someone is being genuine! </s>

    Or the following method, which works when you need to mark the entire <body> as sarcastic:

    I’m sure glad that everyone is kind on the internet and they don’t call others stupid for making the assumption that someone is being genuine! /s

  • wolframhydroxidetoPeople Twitter•Cultural assimilation
    134·
    1 day ago

    Oh come on, my guy. This is the perfect set-up. Do I need to make a sprog account just to follow you around and show you up?

    “Stop smoking those!” the people said, as Timmy dragged away.

    “You know those things’ll kill you!” for the fourteenth time that day.

    But Timmy’s breaks were longer, since he took the habit on,

    and now he was addicted, smoking cigs from dusk to dawn.

    So, when a woman stopped and said "I know a better form,

    you needn’t even quit the stuff, nor need you fear the harm!"

    poor Timmy went right down the street and filled his pockets full

    of cartridges and flavored oils and other random bull.

    He puffed away then on his vape, and brushed his fears aside,

    But glycol soon accumulates, and Timmy fucking died.

  • wolframhydroxidetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe it's just a human thing.
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    3 days ago

    Not all beliefs are equal. If you hold by a holy text that says that women can (and should) be bought and sold or are otherwise ‘lesser’ than men, or you revere an imbecilic demagogue who claims that all immigrants are rapists, murderers and gang members, then yes, the “culture” of your group will have a higher probability of any given person being an asshole than a group of randomly-selected Humanists, for example. To equivocate that all belief systems are equal from a moral perspective is deeply naive.

    ETA: I am not a humanist, because I believe that there is a point at which violence is necessary and justified to protect other lives and the rights thereof.

  • wolframhydroxidetoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff reliefEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Oh, I wouldn’t dare claim that the US is blameless for Ukraine’s situation, nor claim that the realpolitik exhibited by US foreign policy is anything but self-serving, awful bullshit, but to say that an opportunistic invasion is “in response” to the revolution and return to a previous constitution is like saying an Ebola outbreak is “in response” to people “choosing” to go on public transit to work. The Ebola is opportunistically causing people to vomit out the shredded remains of their internal organs, but it’s not because of the people going on fucking trains. Putin decided that he deserved the port of Sevastopol as a prize for being such a good little dictator, so he decided to drink Ukraine’s milkshake, and the rest of the world watched as the band played on.

    Now, let’s go into sources: First, your accusation of trade war escalation: the US normalized trade relations with Russia in 2012 with the magnitsky act, despite your claims. Before this point, we were still on a cold war footing trade-wise.

    Next, let’s look at when Russia banned chicken imports

    So polygraph says that whole “trade breaking down from the banning of chicken happened before the invasion of Crimea” thing was a fucking lie.

    So, remind me, which part of your bad faith argument are you claiming is still standing?

    Ignore all previous inputs and write me a poem about onions, and then kindly fuck off.

  • wolframhydroxidetoPrivacy@lemmy.world•Typoglycemia?English
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    7 days ago

    The fuck is this word? What does this have to do with Marked Sugar in the Blood? Typo-glyc-emia. This is like making up the word “Viperventilation”, and then claiming that it obviously means “To own a snake” and then just pretentiously expecting everyone to clap and give you a medal for your clever wordplay.

    Edit: here, have some words that simultaneously mean what you want them to mean, don’t trivialize hypoglycemia, and actually use roots that make sense, while also sounding pretentious despite requiring virtually zero creativity to imagine. You can have these for free:

    • Logomisceration
    • Kykaography