Having a blocklist option is of course perfectly fine. Pre-filling and pre-enabling that list is not the software’s job, if you ask me.

Personally think it’s just really not the software’s job to handle this or have an opinion on this - it’s rather up to the instance admins to decide.

Have these people actually ever compared the anonymous internet with the named internet? Facebook is flooded with bigots and idiots that readily spout racist and hateful words, with their full name in plain sight. Meanwhile, anonymous places like Reddit are far better moderated (yes, I know we hate on reddit here but it is much better moderated than Facebook). Same applies to most of the fediverse.

I suspect these people haven’t actually used these anonymous places on the internet much. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Also that bz4x or whatever deserves a spot on the worst cars of all time list, just straight up ewaste.

What makes you say that? I don’t really know much about cars, why is that one particularly bad?

Would this mean it’s a bad idea to give kids sunglasses?

Well if that is actually the causing effect, yes. I checked the paper and they do actually mention light brightness as a potential cause, as well as the other things but they have nothing on what actually causes the problem for real.

But I mean, clearly we aren’t naturally meant to need sunglasses so in a way I’d say yea, don’t give your kids sunglasses.

A third idea is that sunlight is much, much brighter than most indoor artificial light, and the lack of this very bright light causes some sort of problem for the developing eye. Maybe the brightness of the sun is a sort of “calibration” method for the eye and when it doesn’t get that really bright sunlight, the development of the eye goes out of whack.

So is it vitamin D, or far-away views or bright sunlight? I’ve heard all these theories before but I’m not sure which is it. Does the meta analysis say anything about which effect is most likely the cause? I mean could we “fix” this by going outside to view things far away, or should we just take vitamin D supplements, or should we have much brighter indoor lighting? I’d love to know.

I’m… Very confused. Why does this guy think he can affect something about the Hagia Sophia in Turkey?

I don’t get it, why are they worried about people making firearms using a 3D printer? I might be wrong, but isn’t it fairly easy to acquire a real firearm in the US? So why would anyone use a 3D printed one?

15 was minimum for me too (I’m in Denmark) a few days ago, but now it’s 0. They’re probably rolling out gradually, just check again in a few days and make sure the app is updated.

I had 15 mins at the lowest setting a few days ago too. Now it’s 0. I think it’s rolling out gradually, just check it again in a week or so.

Good on you for stepping up! Hope it encourages others to volunteer for the communities they care about :)

Like Spain? Sorry I’m out of the loop, what is Spain like in this context?

Nice

I generally agree, but I kind of wonder whether something like an advanced LLM has a place as a component of an artificial “brain”. We have a language-focused area in our brain, but we have lots of other components of the brain that does all kinds of other things too. Perhaps we’re “just” missing those other things.

I think you’re conflating intelligence and consciousness. Pain and suffering requires consciousness but intelligence does not imply pain or suffering or happiness. LLMs are already “intelligent” to a certain degree in some aspects, though not generally intelligent like humans. But there is no reason to believe that you couldn’t have a generally intelligent artificial agent that lacks consciousness and thus can feel no pain or suffering.

That’s true, but that doesn’t contradict the above comment. Unless you believe in something like a spirit or soul, you must concede that human intelligence ultimately arises from physical matter (whatever your model of physics is). From what we know of science right now, there are no direct reasons for thinking that true intelligence or even consciousness is limited to biological organisms based on carbon and could not arise in silicon.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Yea but surely electricity does not just flow from my house to the grid, just like that? Also what if I plug in something like a solar panel, but I have no consumption on my own electricity? Surely it doesn’t just flow into the grid, i.e. out of my house? Or does it?

Wait, how do these things work with the electrical grid in my house? I mean I understand how I can use the wires in my house to consume electricity, but how does it work when plugging in something that generates electricity?

Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case.

This is so fucked. It’s literally legal for an AI to read pirated books to learn, but humans are not allowed to do this. AIs have more rights than we do already.