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  • SkyeStarfalltome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    20 hours ago

    Don’t worry, suicidal people know. In fact, chances are they’re extremely aware of it. Maybe they even despite themselves even more due to it

    It’s just that they suffer so much, that suicide still seems desirable








  • To further the analogy, if you make your living cooking using a microwave, you better know how one works, how micro-waves propagate, how they interfere with each other (superposition), creating either constructive or deconstructive interference, creating hot and cold pockets, how they are generated and where they come from in a microwave, as well as ideally how heat works… And so on. Otherwise you’re just gonna end up with mushy food that has hot and cold spots, and not know why or how to fix the problem.



  • SkyeStarfalltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldVery much smart people
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    4 days ago

    Il’ll give you the point regarding LLMs… but conventional neural networks? Nah. They’ve been used for a reason, and generally been very successful where other methods have failed. And there very much are investments into stuff with real brains or analog brain-like structures… it’s just that it’s far more difficult, especially as have very little idea on how real brains work.

    A big issue regarding digitally emulating real brain structures is that it’s very computationally expensive. Real brains work using chemistry, after all. Not something that’s easy to simulate. Though there is research in this are, but that research is mostly to understand brains more, not for any practical purpose, from what I know. But also, this won’t solve the black box problem.

    Neural networks are great at what they do, being a sort of universal statistics optimization process (to a degree, no free lunch etc.). They solved problems that failed to be solved before, that now are considered mundane. Like, would anyone really think it would be possible to have your phone be able to detect what it was you took a picture of 15 years ago? That was considered to be practically impossible. Take this xkcd from a decade ago, for example https://xkcd.com/1425/

    In addition, there are avenues that are being explored such as “Explainable AI” and so on. The field is more varied and interesting than most people realize. And, yes, genuinely useful. And not every neural network is a massive large scale one, many are small-scale and specialized.










  • Don’t forget the arrows after the quote, though

    It’s a reference to Helldivers 2, and a sufficiently brainrotted individual might very well just put internet references on there. Which he did. And it’s not like right wingers haven’t been misusing political terms for ages. Remember the term “feminazi”?

    The shooter seems to have been involved in some deep internet culture and communities. You can’t just treat it like standard opinions, but under that internet lens, which is far less straightforward and filled with codewords. From an outside perspective a lot of that might seem straight up nonsensical when put together. My point is is simply that it’s inconclusive

    Not that it matters much anyhow, as republicans will pin it on the left and trans people no matter what. They’re gearing up for a genocide and will use any excuse available