By the same logic, you could prove that we are not sentient.

Engineers need to stop trying to do the job of philosophers. LLMs are not sentient, but that tells us nothing about what gives rise to sentience or whether silicon is a substrate that could host a sentient consciousness.

An average human? No. A lemmy.world user? Yes.

Whenever you see the words "social media ban" you need to substitute them for "mandatory ID checks for adults to use the internet," because that's the only solution they have to enforce the ban for children.

We don't want to provide our IDs so that we can be associated in perpetuity with every brain fart that we post to MySpace or whatever people are using these days.

Online pseudonymity is important for a functioning democracy. When people fear consequences for expressing their political opinions, this leads to the chilling effect.

The ban is not about children, it's about everyone, and it's about our freedom to speak freely online.

It sounds simple when you're not a mathematician or cryptographer, but the academic study of these systems reveals that it's probably intractable:

Privacy-Preserving Age Verification and Its Limitations - Steven M. Bellovin

Cory Doctorow wrote an article shortly after this paper released that explains the situation quite well: https://pluralistic.net/...

The best time to turn off Bluetooth was 15 years ago. The second best time is now.

I had to read that headline three times. Some quotation marks would help:

The "AI warning for Steam" browser plugin adds Steam search filtering.

So if I'm understanding correctly, on a pair of 6's with the dealer showing a 6 (or lower) I should split, otherwise hit? The bible is full of useful tips for life in the fast lane.

Just think, we could have had Rebecca Long-Bailey or Lisa Nandy instead.

I still can't believe it. RIP Danya ❤️

"Lurk for a while before posting," has been a standard rule of netiquette for at least the 30 years that I've been using the 'net.

I don't know anything about bikes or coffee, but here are my recommendations based on Jeff Geerling:

Sorry for the info-dump but I just went through my list of subscribed channels. That should keep you going for a while!

https://localsend.org/

You'd be insane to still be using this for anything important.

It’s not like meta is doing a literal holocaust.

https://www.amnesty.org/...

https://systemicjustice.org/...

What types of videos do you watch?

Great, but why would I respect the opinion of someone who works at Meta?

Imagine telling a 1981 programmer who was fitting an entire chess engine into 1KB RAM that 40 years in the future every application will ship with its own 250MB operating system to run in a container orchestrator which is running in a virtual machine.

At least we did something useful with Moore’s Law.

Did the LLM choose the name? There’s an obvious existing semantic link between PRISM and intel, so congrats on choosing an un-searchable name.

Yes that’s the one I was referring to.

I just did the dirtiest laugh. I didn't even know I had that noise inside of me.