orclev

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I seem to recall a big kerfuffle around a decade and a half back about Russia not actually knowing what became of a whole bunch of nuclear weapons in the aftermath of the USSR collapsing. There were also rumors of Soviet nukes being sold off to various unsavory groups. It really wouldn't surprise me to find out there was some truth to that.

I have also heard that ICBMs and the like require regular expensive and specialized maintenance in order to remain functional. Knowing what we now know about Russia what do you figure the odds are that some general or other decided those maintenance funds would be better used to line their pockets since the odds of actually using those nukes were so low?

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

China would just wait until it's over and then pick through the remains of Russia. Probably try to claim a big chunk of southern Russia using some excuse or another.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

LLMs are basically just really fancy search engines. The reason the initial code is garbage is that it's cut and pasted together from random crap the LLM found on the net under various keywords. It gets more performant when you ask because then the LLM is running a different search. The first search was "assemble some pieces of code to accomplish X", while the second search was "given this sample of code find parts of it that could be optimized", two completely different queries.

As noted in another comment the true fatal flaw of LLMs is that they don't really have a threshold for just saying " I don't know that" as they are inherently probabilistic in nature. When asked something they can't find an answer for they assemble a lexically probable response from similar search results even in cases where it's wildly wrong. The more uncommon and niche your search is the more likely this is to happen. In other words they work well for finding very common information, and increasingly worse the less common that information is.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Basically because Go's type system is garbage and interfaces are the one hammer it gives you for solving all problems. They're literally the only way to do polymorphism in Go.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Existing law already covers that. Libel/slander only applies in cases that it appears you're making a statement of fact. I can for instance say Trump gargles Putin's balls once a month and as long as it's clear from the context that this isn't intended to be a statement of fact then it doesn't qualify as defamation. Companies should be liable for what their AI outputs in the exact same way they're liable for what their employees produce. If they want to not be held liable then they need to make sure their customers are properly informed that what they're viewing might be complete bullshit. This means prominent notifications not a single line buried in paragraph 84 of their EULA.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Why? What possible downside is there in holding companies accountable for what they produce?

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 104 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

I really hope he sues them and establishes case law that companies are 100% responsible for all AI generated content. If we let them get away with this it's only going to get worse from here.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm going to vote for Harris because Trump is an existential threat to the US and the tiny shred of actual democracy we still have left, but I'm getting really damn tired of having a choice between the conservative party cosplaying as liberals and the fascist party cosplaying as conservatives. First past the post may very well be the worst choice in the history of the US in terms of damage it has done to this country.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How the fuck does he still have any media presence? What kind of idiot is even listening to anything he has to say in 2024? It's been at least a decade since he was even remotely relevant to anything.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you watched the news recently? They finally replaced Biden with two actually good candidates, things were looking on track for an easy win, and then they went and fucked it all up by kicking reporters out of their convention and confiscating their press credentials. It's not a good look. They only had to go less then a month without fucking up and they couldn't even do that.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sure, but the demographic he's campaigning for have a tenuous grasp on reality at best, you expect them to remember something that happened in 2016? I'm sure they've already constructed some elaborate scenario in their heads about how Trump tried to reveal the truth but a Oceans 11 worthy plot by The Deep State(tm), Bill Gates, and Barack Obama conspired to prevent its release.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Of all the reasons to be mad at the DNC that's what you're going with? The way they treated Mr. Brainworms whose Venn Diagram between him and Trump has always been dangerously close to a circle?

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