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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Your whole logic is based on the idea that being able to do something means understanding that thing. This is simply wrong.

    Humans feel emotions, yet they don’t understand them. A calculator makes calculations, but no one would say that it understands math. People blink and breathe and hear, without any understanding of it.

    The concept of understanding implies some form of meta-knowledge about the subject. Understanding math is more than using math, it’s about understanding what you’re doing and doing it out of intention. All of those things are absent in an AI, neural net or not. They cannot “see the world” because they need to be programmed specifically for a task to be able to do it; they are unable to actually grow out of their programming, which is what understanding would ultimately cause. They simply absorb data and spit it back out after doing some processing, and the fact that an AI can be made to produce completely incompatible results shows that there is nothing behind it.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence

    With your logic, these numbers understand grammar too because they can form sentences.

    Even better, anything that any human could ever say is contained in those, and as such, humanity has a more limited grammar understanding than a sequence.

    You cannot define understanding by the results, and even if you did, AIs give horrible results that prove that they do nothing else than automatically put words next to each other based on the likelihood of it making sense to humans.

    They do not understand grammar just like they do not understand anything, they simply are an algorithm made to spit out “realistic” answers without having to actually understand them.

    Another example of that is AIs that generate images: they’re full of nonsense because the AI doesn’t understand what it’s making, and that’s why you end up with weird artifacts that seem completely absurd to any human with basic understanding of reality.







  • So many people defending alcohol, it shows the current alcoholism problem.

    You get told that something useless (yes alcohol is useless, if you don’t agree you might already have a problem), that causes a LOT of deaths, violence and sickness, is absolutely not healthy (I struggle understanding how people were still believing that shit), and your reaction is to try to argue against it?

    Then people panic at the mention of sweeteners because “maybe they’re dangerous”, but for alcohol which is one of the biggest sources of avoidable deaths, nah, it’s probably fine, no matter what science says.

    Addiction is a sad thing.


  • Messy code by humans generally isn’t logical because it went through multiple modifications/deletions that are not visible anymore.

    I’m not sure that bad devs are much better than AIs, and they’re the ones using them to code now. I think the problem stems from not giving a shit about code making sense, and AIs just increase the problem.

    I mean, I saw code that was essentially saying things like “if True == False” and when asking about what the purpose of the block was to the original dev (who wasn’t even such a bad dev), they just had no idea. Humans are chaotic and nonsensical and messy code comes from that, not from a weird logic, and you can’t comprehend it most of the times because it’s a mix of confusion, lack of planning, mistakes and laziness.



  • Fascism is growing. New communication media are allowing for large scale, in-depth brainwashing.

    People now strive more than ever to be part of the “norm” and eliminate all the rest. Capitalism keeps everyone so busy and self-centered that morals disappear. “Charismatic leaders” spearhead the new trends in a sect/religion approach.

    It’s not stupidity of the masses. It’s an engineered death spiral, where the stupid people are the ones engineering it thinking that if it’s good for them, it is good.