“No, I! I am the leader of Antifa!”

You misunderstand. The outcome of asking an LLM to think about an apple is the token ‘Okay’. It probably doesn’t get very far into even what you claim is ‘thought’ about apples, because when someone says the phrase “Think about X”, the immediate response is almost always ‘Okay’ and never anything about whatever ‘X’ is. That is the sum total of its objective. It does not perform a facsimile of human thought; it performs an analysis of what the most likely next token would be, given what text existed before it. It imitates human output without any of the behavior or thought processes that lead up to that output in humans. There is no model of how the world works. There is no theory of mind. There is only how words are related to each other with no ‘understanding’. It’s very good at outputting reasonable text, and even drawing inferences based on word relations, but anthropomorphizing LLMs is a path that leads to exactly the sort of conclusion that the original comic is mocking.

Asking an LLM if it is alive does not cause the LLM to ponder the possibility of whether or not it is alive. It causes the LLM to output the response most similar to its training data, and nothing more. It is incapable of pondering its own existence, because that isn’t how it works.

Yes, our brains are actually an immensely complex neural network, but beyond that the structure is so ridiculously different that it’s closer to comparing apples to the concept of justice than comparing apples to oranges.

You can tell a person to think about apples, and the person will think about apples.

You can tell an LLM ‘think about apples’ and the LLM will say ‘Okay’ but it won’t think about apples; it is only saying ‘okay’ because its training data suggests that is the most common response to someone asking someone else to think about apples. LLMs do not have an internal experience. They are statistical models.

You know, that’s a good point. LLMs themselves aren’t horrible abominations - it’s capitalism that, as usual, ruined a good thing.

If Trump is putting someone on blast, odds are it’s because they said something meeeeaaaan about him and got his feefees hurt. He always starts with ‘they’re the worst (whatever their job is)’ and admits partway through what it’s really about.

Uh… WDYM? They already have.

Looks like the intent is to avoid a situation where the jury acquits him out of sympathy to avoid the death penalty. There are still charges on him that carry a penalty of life in prison.

It’s not so bad in comments that don’t have a significant amount of ‘th’ in it, but this one was like hitting a speed bump every five feet.

Considering that LLM content that makes it into training content makes the trained LLMs worse… is this adversarial?

And yet, looking at this phenomenal waste of resources, tech bros took a good hard look at it and said ‘Hold my beer’ - and made LLMs.

That’s because they can’t intimidate Bethesda with an email.

The insult on top of that injury is that the penalties for being uninsured weren’t removed.

For a lot of people, the coffee/energy drink has become a ritual of sorts. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

But you’re not wrong.

Funny how there isn’t any investigation into voter fraud for the 2024 election…

Well, I’m touching a shark right now. Rubbing it every which way. No direction is off limits. It’s smoother than the finest silks

ITT: “No, that’s caffeine”

The controller integration is probably the #1 reason I prefer to keep Steam going in the background.

Consolidated multiplayer (friends list, etc) would be the #2 reason.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

To Laguna Beach, apparently.

(I kid. Calling Cruz ‘tough’ is like calling meringue ‘dense’.)

The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power of any sort shouldn’t be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.

Vector elements can also have shading and translucency without requiring a 3D engine. Easily. If the reflections don’t move, there’s no need to use 3D rendering for any of this.