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And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine.

What an absurd statement. Is invading Ukraine some kind of slippery slope that requires constant effort or else we'll just wildly slide wildly down it? No one forced Russia's hand here but their madman despot.

Yeah I don't think the client apps have been updated for API changes in 0.19.0 yet. Bleh.

We are already! Unless we've specifically unfederated from someone, you can get their content. You can see who's blocked by clicking "instances" in the lower right and then checking the blocked tab.

It's a fine username, they're simply using the most uncharitable reading possible of it (that you exclusively like fat enbies and such a stance is equivalent to being a fat enby chaser which is equivalent to transphobia) to perform character assassination. As most of Hexbear's content, it's breathless, derogatory, inflammatory, and unrelated to most people's reality.

Actually it seems pretty unstable. Working on that.

Yeah every time I ask people what non-D&D systems they play I get a rude wake-up call.

If we didn’t evolve to have gay sex why are gays so good at sex? QED.

It seems like they want to see pics of fat enbies, which is not transphobic, nor is a username suggesting their desire to do so.

I saw this. I'm sorry it happened to you.

If it makes you feel any better, they are truly, truly awful people. They spend their time harassing and brigading in order to simp for the most murderous, anti-leftist, anti-queer dictators the world has ever known. They are basically definitionally assholes, and idiots on top of that.

Leave them in their cesspit. They deserve whatever they inflict on each other (and those instances too stupid or naive to defederate with them). We have better uses for our time.

They’ve never broken any rules I’ve seen so not really interested in anonymous (and probably Hexbear-driven) gossip. If you’re interested in unity why are you spreading divisiveness?

It’s “whataboutism” in the sense we’re interrogating focus. Why do you think white ethnonationalists spend so much time asserting “white lives matter?” Because there’s only so much air in the room, and they know giving air to one cause deprives another.

I think it’s worth wondering why people spend so much time discussing Israel/Palestine and so little discussing other issues that are at least as large from a “people impacted” perspective. Obviously there’s also an African infantilization (that is to say, racist) double standard here — we simply don’t expect Africa to have human rights. But I would say there is certainly also an Israel double standard, and it is antisemitic in the same way saying “well of course Sierra Leone is a hellhole, there’s no news there” is racist.

You are not a news outlet. But you choose what you’re spending your time and effort on. And it is this. I think many people don’t interrogate why they get so involved and what their opinions actually mean in terms of what their focus accomplished and what it broadcasts.

I apologize for choosing you as the vehicle for this message; I don’t mean to attack you personally. There are a ton of people doing this and your message was as good as any other to demonstrate my point.

Higher expectations is reasonable! Would you say two times higher? Ten times higher? A hundred times higher?

As a baseline, how much have you posted about Sierra Leone and the human rights abuses there in the last year?

Your second point is entirely correct; see also self-hating gays in the Log Cabin Republicans.

I think the shield for your first point is pretty narrow these days. About a decade ago that point held a lot more salience, but as my "new antisemitism" link discusses, the position has been adopted so vigorously by antisemites that I think it is indeed very close to antisemitic unless deployed extremely carefully.

Yes, criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic. But since this canard is so often invoked by idle and ignorant spectators, with no real understanding of Israeli or Palestinian politics, inserting themselves into a fraught and unhappy situation, usually specifically to criticize or delegitimize only Israel... it's tough to see how that isn't a special standard applied only to Israel. Or, worse, it's invoked by real antisemites hoping to get bystanders on-side with actual antisemitism by cloaking it as criticism of Israel.

As a concrete example of this new antisemitism -- in 2017, Hamas altered its charter, which was wildly and outright antisemitic, to specifically state that it doesn't actually want to kill all Jews as previously stated, but only the occupiers of Palestine. Given their actions, the huge amount of specifically anti-Jewish sentiment in Gaza, and even the incredibly virulent language in their old charter, do you think they actually changed their minds about Jews? Or are they simply cloaking their antisemitism in a package that more people might agree with these days? A new kind of antisemitism?

How in the world did this person call anyone an antisemite? Are you responding to the right post?

Nothing they do will ever cause the international outrage any other country’s actions would cause.

Israel has 45.9% of all UNHRC condemnations ever passed, passed at it. Do you believe Israel is committing 45.9% of all human rights atrocities on Earth right now?

You are right Israel is measured by double standards, but it's not that its actions produce less outrage than other countries' -- they produce far more. This is new antisemitism.

It's not actually necessary to rake Israel over the coals more than other countries. Doing so is a double standard. Sierra Leone has roughly the population of Israel; If you aren't holding it to task for its human rights abuses as much as you are Israel, you are engaged in that double standard.

I was reading about new antisemitism the other day and I thought it was interesting.

Most canny antisemites have turned to the old (and formerly totally fine) canard “criticizing Israel is not antisemitic” to shield their actual antisemitic criticism. Not wanting to call Hamas a terrorist organization is a perfect example. They’re only terrorizing Israel, which isn’t inherently antisemitic! /s

But yeah it’s really everywhere now. Sometimes it’s mask off as in this incident. But frequently it’s mask on.

Antisemites of a feather flock together I guess.

I mean, your argument is still basically that it's thinking inside there; everything I've said is germane to that point, including what GPT4 itself has said.

The Anthropic one is saying they think they have a way to figure it out, but it hasn’t been tested on large models. This is their last paragraph:

Again, all your quotes indicate that what they've figured out is a way to inspect the interior state of models and transform the vector space into something humans can understand without analyzing the output.

I think your confusion is you believe that because we don't know what the vector space is on the inside, we don't know how AI works. But we actually do know how it accomplishes what it accomplishes. Simply because its interior is a black box doesn't mean we don't understand how we built that black box, or how it operates and functions.

For an overview of how many different kinds of LLMs function, here's a good paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06435.pdf You'll note that nowhere is there any confusion about the process of how they generate input or produce output. It is all extremely well-understood. You are correct that we cannot interrogate their internals, but that is also not what I mean, at least, when I say that we can understand them and how they work.

I also can't inspect the electrons moving through my computer's CPU. Does that mean we don't understand how computers work? Is there intelligence in there?

I think you’re maybe having a hard time with using numbers to represent concepts. While a lot less abstract, we do this all the time in geometry. ((0, 0), (10, 0), (10, 10), (0, 10), (0, 0)) What’s that? It’s a square. Word vectors work differently but have the same outcome (albeit in a more abstract way).

No, that is not my main objection. It is your anthropomorphization of data and LLMs -- your claim that they "have intelligence." From your initial post:

But also, can you define what intelligence is? Are you sure it isn’t whatever LLMs are doing under the hood, deep in hidden layers?

I think you're getting caught up in trying to define what intelligence is; but I am simply stating what it is not. It is not a complex statistical model with no self-awareness, no semantic understanding, no ability to learn, no emotional or ethical dimensionality, no qualia...

((0, 0), (10, 0), (10, 10), (0, 10), (0, 0)) is a square to humans. This is the crux of the problem: it is not a "square" to a computer because a "square" is a human classification. Your thoughts about squares are not just more robust than GPT's, they are a different kind of thing altogether. For GPT, a square is a token that it has been trained to use in a context-appropriate manner with no idea of what it represents. It lacks semantic understanding of squares. As do all computers.

If you’re saying that intelligence and understanding is limited to the human mind, then please point to some non-religious literature that backs up your assertion.

I'm disappointed that you're asking me to prove a negative. The burden of proof is on you to show that GPT4 is actually intelligent. I don't believe intelligence and understanding are for humans only; animals clearly show it too. But GPT4 does not.

GPT4 has knowledge of its own training since it was trained in 2022.

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NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Instance upgraded to 0.19.0-rc.3

Can we federate with dormi.zone?

I would like to point out that "PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES" is taking you for a ride

Instance upgraded to 0.19.0-rc.3

Instance upgraded to 0.19.0-rc.3

Indie RPGs are second nature to us RPG bloggers

Sorry I don't make the Rule

I would like to point out that "PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES" is taking you for a ride

Hexbear made a thread about me and it's full of ableism. They think I have the "being evil and selfish" mental disorder.

I would like to point out that "PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES" is taking you for a ride

The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter

The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter

The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter

The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter

The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter

Pro-Hamas extremists and neo-Nazis flood social media with calls for violence

GPT-4 Understands

GPT-4 Understands

GPT-4 Understands

GPT-4 Understands

Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines

Defederating from Hexbear

How are you enjoying Lemmy?

Refederating with sh.itjust.works?

Upgraded to v0.18.4

Defederating from rammy.site

Upgraded to Lemmy v0.18.3

Can lemmy.film fix its timestamps?

Switching frontends?

What is Lib Dot LGBT?

How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies”

Mastodon?