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  • ublock lite is now on IOS, Should people switch to that instead of using Adguard or should they stick with Adguard?

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  • Safari on iOS has always had some pretty strict limits on what extensions can do. For example, content blockers don't get to run code on the pages you browse, it's more like they give the browser a list of what type of thing to block when you install and configure it, then when you're browsing, the extension isn't even doing anything, it's just the browser using the list. Obviously that's more limiting, there might be ads that are best dealt with by running a bit of code, so it makes sense that they'd consider it "lite". (The benefit of those limits is that ad blocking extensions can't run amok and kill your phone's battery since the browser's handling it by itself.)

  • the welsh are fish

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  • There isn't a simple evolutionary definition of "fish", not the same way there is for, say, mammals. If you found the common ancestor of everything we call a mammal and said "everything descended from this one is also a mammal", you'd be correct. If you did that for everything we call fish, every animal in the world would be a fish. Also, we decided which animals were fish mostly on vibes, so without a clear definition you can pedantically argue that everything is a fish including mammals.

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  • I would guess it's web requests made during a chat session, e.g. the user asks about kayaks and the AI searches and fetches some pages to put into its context before answering. That's not really scraping, it's data being used in the moment in response to a user request, closer to what a "user agent" has always meant in the web world. A crawler would be crawling the site, systematically trying to follow every link and collect what's there with little to no human involvement.

  • Please bro

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  • If nothing else, it seems reasonable to assume that a computer could run a program that does all the important things 1 neuron does, so from there it's "just" a matter of scaling to human brain quantities of neurons and recreating enough of the training that evolution and childhood provide to humans. But that's the insanely inefficient way to do it, like trying to invent a clockwork ox to pull your plow instead of a tractor. It'd be pretty surprising if we couldn't find the tractor version of artificial intelligence before getting an actual digital brain patterned directly off of biology to do it.

  • Please bro

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  • It's making mistakes and failing to think abstractly at levels previously only achieved by humans, so it's only rational to expect it to take over the world in 5 years

  • Most people seem to assume fire alarms are false alarms. Is that how it's always worked? What can be done about it?

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  • That's a decently rational response you've described, though. If you were really at immediate risk, you'd probably know it, especially with an alarm going off to get you looking for signs of danger. And it's usually better to have a lazy, skeptical evacuation than a panicked stampede. Schools do fire drills to check the alarms, sure, but it's also important to make them a routine thing that all the kids know how to handle.

  • Fox host: "If they had National Guard troops in Times Square it would make me feel safer"

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  • It's in the nature of conservatives to be afraid, it's their fundamental motivating emotion. That's why they're so eager to put their tough strong daddy into office who promises to put things back to the reassuring, comfortable way they used to be.

  • Gambits > Gambling

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  • I'm sure shuffled pieces have been a thing, there's also Really Bad Chess which gives you different piece quantities entirely.

  • OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

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  • The tokenization is a low-level implementation detail, it shouldn't affect an LLM's ability to do basic reasoning. We don't do arithmetic by counting how many neurons we can feel firing in our brain, we have higher level concepts of numbers, and LLMs are supposed to have something similar. Plus, in the """thinking""" models, you'll see them break up words into individual letters or even write them out in a numbered list, which should break the tokens up into individual letters as well.

  • Quantum physics manifest

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  • Ah, yes, I see that you know your judo well. Good one.

  • I figure if it's antique it fits here

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  • It's a TV show on PBS. People bring antiques to be appraised, and an expert tells them what they have, what's special about it, and how much it could be worth. The fun ones have someone coming in like "this was my grandmother's cabinet growing up and I haven't thought twice about it" and then the appraiser telling them "this was made by the most famous carpenter in 1890's Massachusetts, it's worth $20,000" or similar stories.

  • What is Lemmy's problem with AI?

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  • I am deeply troubled by the way that AIs slip right past peoples' defenses and convince them of things that are absolutely not true. Not just things like the AI psychosis that some people have been driven into, not just the hallucinations or overly fawning over terrible ideas, it goes so much further than our monkey brains can understand. These things do not think, they do not have feelings, they don't have motivations, they don't have morals or values, no sense of right or wrong, they are, quite literally, word prediction machines that are selecting their responses semi-randomly. And yet, even people who know this to be the case cannot stop themselves from anthropomorphizing the AI. All of our human instincts scream "this is a person!" when we interact with them, and with that comes an assumption of values, morals, thoughts, and feelings, none of which are there. There is a fundamental mismatch between the human mental model and the reality of the software, and that is harmful, even dangerous. We will give benefit of the doubt to them, we will believe their explanations about "why" they "chose" to say or do what they did, and we will repeatedly make the same fundamental mistakes because we want to believe a total lie.

    And that's not even getting in to the harm when they are working properly, encouraging us to outsource our thinking and creativity to a service that charges monthly. I'm seriously worried that kids in school now are going to have their learning stunted terribly, it's just so easy to have any and all homework done in a matter of minutes without learning a single thing.

  • Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future

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  • Not just a disadvantage, a cognitive disadvantage. @grok is this true?????????? my critical thinking skills have atrophied to nothing now that i rely on ai, i need u gronk

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  • Older Unix systems used to only do the first 8 bytes for passwords. Sometimes for my own amusement when logging into one of the Sun machines at school, I'd type in enough of my password to count and then just mash the keyboard.

  • Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap

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  • “Superintelligence is intelligence beyond the sum of all humans,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post Thursday. “It is reasonable to predict that we are going to have specialized AI savants in every field within five years.”

    That is insane. I can't even get one of these things to tell me "no, that API doesn't exist", it always makes one up that would be perfect for what I need if it existed, then apologizes profusely when I tell it it was wrong. It can't write any original or novel code, just boilerplate that matches what it has seen before. What's going to change in 5 years to suddenly give it creativity and a sense of self-awareness of its own knowledge?

  • NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World

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  • "They're the same picture"

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  • Hey, now we're finding common ground! Sincerely, I agree with basically all of this, and the other stuff about the current capitalist regime not really respecting the rights of people any better than the hypothetical indigenous totalitarian government that wants to kick out all the white people. The only thing I really wanted to push back on was the idea that it'd be totally okay for mass deportations or imprisonments to happen as long as it was indigenous people doing it. Even keeping in mind that I've got a lot of white privilege and that I can never know what it's like to be in those shoes, I feel like it's still legitimate to say that there is a point where it would cross over into """reverse oppression""" or whatever; of course that point is essentially impossible to actually reach in practice so it's not worth worrying about other than bickering on a forum. We should be so lucky to be worrying about "geez, are indigenous groups gaining so much power that they might actually be a threat to the American government???"

  • "They're the same picture"

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  • I never said I thought they'd treat me like this. In fact, I don't, for exactly the reasons you're listing. You are the one saying that it would be okay to treat me like this, which is why I've been talking to you about your statements, not them.

  • "They're the same picture"

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  • Thanks for your concern, I'll make sure to double check my standing with them but I think I'll be alright. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can do a DNA test and find some indigenous ancestry that I didn't know about, the thresholds would probably have to be pretty low but it's possible I could squeak in there and get to be on the ruling side instead.