Phanatik

Even the Wayback Machine has limits to what is available.

Looks great, I’ll give it a bash

What you’re alluding to is the Turing test and it hasn’t been proven that any LLM would pass it. At this moment, there are people who have failed the inverse Turing test, being able to acerrtain whether what they’re speaking to is a machine or human. The latter can be done and has been done by things less complex than LLMs and isn’t proof of an LLMs capabilities over more rudimentary chatbots.

You’re also suggesting that it minimises the complexity of its outputs. My determination is that what we’re getting is the limit of what it can achieve. You’d have to prove that any allusion to higher intelligence can’t be attributed to coercion by the user or it’s just hallucinating based on imitating artificial intelligence from media.

There are elements of the model that are very fascinating like how it organises language into these contextual buckets but this is still a predictive model. Understanding that certain words appear near each other in certain contexts is hardly intelligence, it’s a sophisticated machine learning algorithm.

I mainly disagree with the final statement on the basis that the LLMs are more advanced predictive text algorithms. The way they’ve been set up with a chatbox where you’re interacting directly with something that attempts human-like responses, gives off the misconception that the thing you’re talking to is more intelligent than it actually is. It gives off a strong appearance of intelligence but at the end of the day, it predicts the next word in a sentence based on what was said previously but it doesn’t do that good job of comprehending what exactly it’s telling you. It’s very confident when it gives responses which also means when it’s wrong, it’s very confidently delivering the incorrect response.

Ah gotcha so he just never leaves Israel or no one ever acts on the arrest warrant.

So… who is going to be marching into Israel to make the arrest?

The Age rating is who can use the App, not how long it’s been up.

Well, it’s because he’s an old fuck already so his heinous crimes result in him spending the rest of his worthless life in prison. If he’s lucky, he’ll die before he reaches 100.

Shout-out to this film being the only one in my life to put me to sleep.

One of the simplest ways to safeguard against breakage is to have your /home on a separate partition. I realised I wouldn’t need to backup and reformat it from the beginning, I just need to wipe the root drive and reinstall again.

It’s made even easier by writing an installation script. Simply put, you can pipe a list of packages into packstrap and use a little convenience package for pulling a partition scheme out of a file.

I like to tinker and I’m aware that things will break so I have these tools that let me rebuild the system again in as short a time as possible.

YouTube will actually take action and has done in most instances. I won’t say they’re the fastest but they do kick people off the platform if they deem them high risk.

I don’t understand the comments suggesting this is “guilty by proxy”. These platforms have algorithms designed to keep you engaged and through their callousness, have allowed extremist content to remain visible.

Are we going to ignore all the anti-vaxxer groups who fueled vaccine hesitancy which resulted in long dead diseases making a resurgence?

To call Facebook anything less than complicit in the rise of extremist ideologies and conspiratorial beliefs, is extremely short-sighted.

“But Freedom of Speech!”

If that speech causes harm like convincing a teenager walking into a grocery store and gunning people down is a good idea, you don’t deserve to have that speech. Sorry, you’ve violated the social contract and those people’s blood is on your hands.

I would say the acting is pretty good. Especially Alec Newman playing Paul. The weakest one I always thought was the actress playing Chani but she gets better in Children of Dune.

The cast is strong in Denis’s version for sure. I was uncertain about Chalomet for Part 2 but he did well. For me, the cast could’ve shone so much more if the character work was better.

Having seen the SyFy miniseries, I refuse to believe that Dune is unadaptable because it was possible in the early 2000s. It might not look visually stunning and the costumes look goofy but the character work is staggering and the writers go out of their way to give minor characters like Irulan something to do so that her character has a chance to shine. It does all this in less time than Dune 1 & 2 combined.

I came away from Dune 1 largely hollow towards the characters because it felt like they weren’t all the way there. Oscar Isaac is a good choice for Leto but we so little of him that his character isn’t there. Several of Dune’s key points were removed and the film suffers because information is lacking further backing.

The importance of water isn’t emphasised as much and as a consequence, Liet Kynes is non-existent. Kynes’s dream is important because Paul manipulates it to control the Fremen. There’s supposed to be a dinner scene where a lot of the power plays going on in the Empire are presented. It’s also where Paul begins to play the political game himself. It’s where Jessica’s character has a stage where you can see what she’s capable of. Not having this scene removed context for the politics in Dune’s world.

After seeing Dune 2, I enjoyed it a lot more but it confirmed for me that the movies are all spectacle and no substance. I didn’t care what was going on, it all just felt like it wasn’t Dune, I didn’t know these characters. I hated Stilgar, he was incredibly annoying throughout the movie. I have no idea what they’re planning to do with Chani. She has a part to play in Messiah which requires certain things and I don’t think we’re getting them.

The aspect that’s getting lost in all this is that the curator has basically put up a hit list of games for people to review bomb just for associating with a company. The curator has no evidence on the level of involvement SBI had with the game but they don’t recommend the game based on them being involved at all.

They have taken something small and weaponised it so now it’s harming game devs. No one has any evidence on how SBI were involved with any of the games they’ve listed on their website beyond vague mentions of “narrative” or “character development”.

The worst part is, I’m not even surprised by this.

It’ll come trickling down, any day now

I’m talking less about the products and more about Linus’s reviewing practices. We saw this in the watercooler debacle. He half-asses reviews and blames the product when he’s the one messing up.

Not even that. It’s that his review isn’t an objective assessment of the product because he stands to financially benefit from Framework doing well. He’s worse than a hypocrite, he’s a shill.

Wayland isn’t trying to be X12 and since X11 has been around, there haven’t been plans for there to be an X12 either. You want to discourage people from using Wayland but don’t encourage people to contribute to X11. You’re so hellbent on taking Wayland down, rather than further convincing people that X11 is superior and it’s easier to improve.

The comment I replied to suggested the opposite, that whatever decisions Apple makes, Android follows behind which isn’t the case in reality.

I understand your point though. It’s weird that people who use iPhones have this mentality that iPhones are at the forefront of innovation. I know some people who are aware that Apple is behind but the phone does what they require of it so they have no need to ask more.