anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]

Then: Don’t download applications and run executables you don’t fully trust.

Now: Download everyone’s new snazzy app just because and scan everything with your phone that contains all your most private information so you can unlock a surprise!

In the US, especially in the 90’s, there were a lot promotional mailers, TV ads, and so on to prey on people’s desperation and ignorance that were sent out that would say that the person has “a chance to win $1M!” or “may have already won!”

Of course, I’ve never heard of anyone who actually won anything from them. It was probably just a data collection thing or asking people to send $20 to enter the fake lottery, I’m not sure. But, I have to admit, I did join a lot of those because I was a kid and I thought it’d be fun or easy and my dad would humor me by going through the process—or, at least, pretend that he did. We never won anything though.

I do wish Pop!_OS had a better hibernate/sleep mode.

My computer just stays on until I turn it off or the battery dies.

Your crush leaving you for someone else.

I was also thinking I’d love to hear some adagios being sung.

Parking enforcement?

Millennial/Gen Z doom spending?

But, ironically, the Chinese Room Argument you’re bringing up supports what others are saying that LLMs do not ‘understand’ anything.

It seems to me like you are establishing ‘understanding’ with a functionalist meaning to be able to say that input/output is equivalent to understanding in order to say the measurable process in itself shows ‘understanding’. But that’s not what Searle, and seemingly the others here, seem to mean by ‘understanding’. As Searle argues, it is not purely the syntactic manipulation in question but the semantic. In other words, these LLMs do not “know” the information they provide, they are just repeating based off the input/output process with which they were programmed. LLMs do not project or internalize any meaning to the input/output process. If they had some reflexive consciousness and any ‘understanding’, then they could have critically approach the meaning of the information in order to assess its validity against facts rather than just naïvely proclaiming that cockroaches got their name because they like to crawl into penises at night. Do you believe LLMs are conscious?

I was about to ask the same.

Maybe. The US would have to first begin to feel actual shame about colonization and slavery though, which hasn’t really begun in earnest.

I don’t know if the US has the capacity for feeling the weight of its true guilt.

Proton Drive is working well for me so far.

Good day to everyone except to the neo-liberals always btching about .ml being a communist instance, we don’t care about your opinions

I just tried them to see if they worked, but I’m a casual.

I think there’s benefit to blocking the particularly Nazi/pedo instances, but otherwise do wish we’d just all be able to federate together and share content for the most part.

Damn. Well done.

Politicize this.

This is how I found out. RIP to a real one.

Relatable.

Sometime in early-to-mid university when I realized that college in the US is just a glorified and expensive High School degree which doesn’t get you much, and that being smart was not enough to get what you dreamed or felt you deserved in life. Then I had to struggle to not just drop out from total disillusionment. I finished just to not disappoint my family but was terribly depressed realizing it was a waste of time and money and my life was going to fucking suck after it was over. I wasn’t wrong.

If you’re not born rich then you need to be incredibly lucky, if you’re not either then life will be really tough.

Not really, but I’ll notice if someone masturbates with their left hand. That’s weird.