Lobachevsky's recent activity
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Comment on The Oatmeal: A cartoonist's review of AI art in ~comics
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Comment on Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentAs I said, I just joined the platform. Obviously I don't follow anyone so the "Following" feed is just empty. I didn't find anyone worth following in the "Discover" feed.As I said, I just joined the platform. Obviously I don't follow anyone so the "Following" feed is just empty. I didn't find anyone worth following in the "Discover" feed.
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Comment on Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentIt doesn't depend on the people you follow, that's the default experience when you first sign up into the app. I just thought it was supposed to be some actually good X/twitter alternative when in...It doesn't depend on the people you follow, that's the default experience when you first sign up into the app. I just thought it was supposed to be some actually good X/twitter alternative when in reality it's exactly the same just with a leftist flavor.
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Comment on Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentAs I said, it was extremely dominant in the default feed and I have tried fruitlessly to filter it out.As I said, it was extremely dominant in the default feed and I have tried fruitlessly to filter it out.
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Comment on Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentWell I stopped using it after public conversations about something something assassinations are good actually violent uprising capitalist class must be purged, but I don't recall the exact details...Well I stopped using it after public conversations about something something assassinations are good actually violent uprising capitalist class must be purged, but I don't recall the exact details since it was a while ago. And yeah of course majority was trump bad elon bad etc. I just personally don't want to engage with that type of userbase, have enough of that on reddit.
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Comment on Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal in ~tech
Lobachevsky LinkIs the platform genuinely useful for anything? When I joined, my feed was about 20% random pictures of stuff and 80% incredibly extreme leftist US politics. I spent perhaps a week clicking "not...Is the platform genuinely useful for anything? When I joined, my feed was about 20% random pictures of stuff and 80% incredibly extreme leftist US politics. I spent perhaps a week clicking "not interested" on every single one of those posts and it didn't matter. Filters didn't help because a ton of them were pictures of text (extremely annoying practice).
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Comment on The Buff Scammer, isolation, and the male loneliness epidemic in ~life.men
Lobachevsky LinkMy experience tells me that the root of the issue is due to the fact that men are expected to initiate and pursued. This results in men getting almost no experience being pursued while men getting...My experience tells me that the root of the issue is due to the fact that men are expected to initiate and pursued. This results in men getting almost no experience being pursued while men getting almost no experience pursuing. Thus both sexes in a heterosexual context lack the opposite experience and fail their interactions more often as a result. We see examples of this all the time with men not recognizing the subtle signals, not stopping or not pursuing hard enough, or women rejecting really harshly or not knowing how to say no. It's just bad for the overall dynamic to have such one sided culture.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
Lobachevsky (edited )Link ParentThen either this isn't the whole story or the human ability to "reason" is worse at these predictions than "literally the idea to spit out the most likely next token given an input set" and as...Literally the idea of these agents is to spit out the most likely next token given an input set, and predicting future events is somewhat an effort in extrapolation. If anything, this just lowers my confidence in the human ability to predict future events.
Then either this isn't the whole story or the human ability to "reason" is worse at these predictions than "literally the idea to spit out the most likely next token given an input set" and as such isn't as valuable (at these predictions).
The real take is that finding patterns in the data has a LOT of very solid applications in a variety of fields and machine learning is seemingly an incredibly useful tool that excels at finding patterns in the data. Or at the very least exceeds human ability to do so.
One of the most straightforward examples when a "dumb" algorithm outperformed human expert predictions would be index funds in the stock market. So, you don't need some spiritual ability to "reason" or be "intelligent" to get good results from accumulating data (one could argue that by accumulating data from many humans we are already accumulating their reasoning capabilities and hopefully this way can exceed any individual one's).
Also this quote from the article:
Warren Hatch, the chief executive of Good Judgment, a forecasting company co-founded by Tetlock, said: “We expect AI will excel in certain categories of questions, like monthly inflation rates. For categories with sparse data that require more judgment, humans retain the edge. The main point for us is that the answer isn’t human or AI, but instead human and AI to get the best forecast possible as quickly as possible.”
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentYou should be able to agree that it is very easy not to cheer on a political murder of a person. And yet here we are. Where I'm from people live in way worse conditions than practically anyone in...In any case, you should be able to at least agree that the material wealth of the US doesn't necessarily translate to high quality of life for the plurality of its citizens. Many people don't see the ubiquity of goods and services as acceptable trade for the social costs of toxic civil discourse, volatile public and private safety, corrupt institutions, a weak social contract, etc. etc.
You should be able to agree that it is very easy not to cheer on a political murder of a person. And yet here we are. Where I'm from people live in way worse conditions than practically anyone in the US. If you're able to post online about your misgivings, you're privileged, I'm sorry to say. I understand that this is a very difficult thing to accept for someone who lives in the US, such is reality for anyone with a privilege, but just take my word for it as an outside independent observer whose experience of the world isn't limited to the first world liberal West. Moreover, I just find it a very poor excuse for a very simple bar - not cheering on a political murder.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentThis is an incredible statement considering the most empathetic, kind and charitable people I've ever met always seem to come from a place of hardship, from countries torn by war or other...people who live under the constant psychological stress of the USA's current political landscape when the victim is someone who would have contributed to said stress in a not-insignificant way. People are human.
This is an incredible statement considering the most empathetic, kind and charitable people I've ever met always seem to come from a place of hardship, from countries torn by war or other destructive political and social events. Meanwhile citizens of the richest country on Earth are apparently incapable of not only showing the most basic of empathy, they're so consumed by their emotions that they're also not capable of not going on their expensive smartphones and posting their emotions all over the internet, that's just how horrible the conditions in modern day USA are. For the love of god have some perspective.
Makes sense that you don't see anything wrong with what is being said in this thread if that is how low of a standard you have for the commenters here. Just like how proclaiming Luigi as a hero being highly upvoted with very little pushback and me bringing it up in this thread again resulting in very little pushback also doesn't mean anything at all and I'm just chasing ghosts.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentI didn't say "legal or ethical". I said "not deserving of an execution decided by 1 person". It's an incredibly low standard which is why it's weird to me that 90% of the thread cannot seem to...To boil it down to "saying things" is like saying the person who shouts "Fire!" in a movie theater to incite panic is just "saying things" when clearly that scenario isn't protected in the same way as saying other things. While I'm not arguing that Kirk was saying anything illegal, we also know that what is defined as legal or illegal isn't necessarily equating to the ethics behind the actions or words.
I didn't say "legal or ethical". I said "not deserving of an execution decided by 1 person". It's an incredibly low standard which is why it's weird to me that 90% of the thread cannot seem to apply it.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentI really think repeating ad nauseam that what's he's saying is a literal war on X and that he's practically in the same category as Putin and Hitler (i.e. what happened all over this thread) did....You really think Kirk's over decade long project normalising political violence on the right had nothing to do with someone being radicalised and then killing him?
I really think repeating ad nauseam that what's he's saying is a literal war on X and that he's practically in the same category as Putin and Hitler (i.e. what happened all over this thread) did. It's just a logical conclusion of those words that he should therefore be killed (in war you kill the enemy), and finally someone unhinged enough took it upon themselves to do it. Same exact thing with the whole Luigi rhetoric which as I initially brought up is considered a hero (a war hero!!) by people here. So please forgive me but I do believe that every single person doing that and accepting that without protest is doing exactly that - defending murders.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentSince I am rate limited I cannot reply to everyone, but I'm positively shocked by the amount of misunderstanding in the replies to my comments so I'll address this one. This has no relevance to...Since I am rate limited I cannot reply to everyone, but I'm positively shocked by the amount of misunderstanding in the replies to my comments so I'll address this one.
Do people who commit crimes or take drugs (black or otherwise) try to incite the people they interact with to reach for violence and murder their enemies? Idk, I think the causation - such as it is - in each case is wildly different and not comparable.
This has no relevance to what I was saying. The point of "cause and effect" discussion is saying that what the person did caused them to get murdered. During the whole George Floyd discussion plenty of people pointed out that the guy was a criminal and a drug user, which directly put him in risky situations such as the one where he got killed. The counter argument is that nothing that he did deserved him to be killed the way he was and that this rhetoric about a murdered man is at best in really poor taste. Something tells me that tildes community is/was on the latter side. So why do the people supposedly against such rhetoric use exactly the same rhetoric against Charlie Kirk? Is speaking about politics that you disagree with really that much worse than being a criminal and a drug user that you can speak like this about one killing but not the other? Yeah, once again, completely indefensible to me to think like this. If you think that all killings are like this and people should just be more risk averse (don't do drugs, don't walk the streets at night, don't support gun rights, don't dress provocatively) that's fine, I just disagree with that.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentI, too, can understand that cause and effect, as well as that that cause and effect is blatant preferential bias for their perceived side and I can call it out when I see it, that is, all over...I, too, can understand that cause and effect, as well as that that cause and effect is blatant preferential bias for their perceived side and I can call it out when I see it, that is, all over this thread and beyond it on tildes.
CK unfortunately had a consistent history of not engaging in good faith, and encouraging others to follow his example, so I'm not surprised at what I see now.
I'm not surprised a criminal with a drug problem got killed either, and yet I believe that had I posted this on a George Floyd tildes post comments section, I would have been shouted down by the same people that are apparently unsurprised that Charlie Kirk got killed. That's really all I have to say about this.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentI personally find this explanation entirely unsatisfactory for one simple reason. I do not image anyone who is commenting in this manner to say something along the lines of "I don't celebrate the...I don't celebrate Kirk's killing, and I don't think anyone here does either. I don't celebrate the apathy towards the loss of human life either - I actually agree with your spiritual perspective. However, I understand cause and effect. I understand the reaction that I'm seeing because I understand the action that came before... and that initial action was not merely having a bad opinion, it was advancing and enacting a harmful agenda based on a bad opinion, with little to no reasonable component of good faith.
I personally find this explanation entirely unsatisfactory for one simple reason. I do not image anyone who is commenting in this manner to say something along the lines of "I don't celebrate the loss of life but I understand cause and effect, George Floyd should have stayed away from drugs and shouldn't have stolen from a store." Well no, because you're not supposed to get killed for that, that's why we condemn the people who killed him. Well, you're not supposed to get killed for saying things either, so what cause and effect are you talking about? As far as I see it, you're either engaging in blaming the victims or you don't, otherwise it just feels like you're just siding with whatever circumstances fit your preferred narrative, which in my opinion is exactly what is happening in this online discussions every single time, no matter which side the author of that opinion chooses.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentLast I checked both the CEO nor Charlie Kirk were defenseless and neither were executing people (saying that an insurance company denying claims is akin to that is laughable). In that their...Last I checked both the CEO nor Charlie Kirk were defenseless and neither were executing people (saying that an insurance company denying claims is akin to that is laughable). In that their killers are apparently closer to Putin and Hitler than the victims ever were.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentI'm not sure where in my post did you find a defense of Adolf Hitler. I condemn all extremists that use political violence as means of achieving the goals that they of course view as righteous....I'm not sure where in my post did you find a defense of Adolf Hitler. I condemn all extremists that use political violence as means of achieving the goals that they of course view as righteous. That includes Hitler, Putin, Luigi and the person who killed Charlie Kirk. I also condemn everyone that views their actions as good, though obviously not in the same way.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentYeah I'm not really convinced by the logic of "forcing someone into doing something that is good for you by method of political assassination is a good thing". Since the comments here love...Yeah I'm not really convinced by the logic of "forcing someone into doing something that is good for you by method of political assassination is a good thing". Since the comments here love incredibly thoughtful discussions of Putin and Hitler as examples of "well wouldn't you murder them???", both Putin and Hitler helped a lot of people in major ways, including life saving, just at the cost of someone else's lives and livelihoods. And both Putin and Hitler were absolutely convinced that were/are they doing was right through what I would consider some twisted logic, kind of like every single extremist thinks that way. I personally cannot stand this kind of extremism and it makes me feel quite upset that this community, supposedly gated with intent for thoughtful and measured discussions, is seemingly so into that type of extremism.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Lobachevsky (edited )Link ParentConsidering I've seen legitimate "Luigi is a hero" stuff being upvoted on Tildes, I'm completely not surprised. It really is not different from Reddit at this point, which I guess makes sense...Considering I've seen legitimate "Luigi is a hero" stuff being upvoted on Tildes, I'm completely not surprised. It really is not different from Reddit at this point, which I guess makes sense considering where the users came from.
Just FYI I'm rate limited for whatever reason (another phenomenal aspect of this website...) and cannot respond.
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Comment on Ed Zitron: How to argue with an AI booster in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentThe question is not whether it's "a lot", the question is whether it's so bad compared to other online services that it deserves to be called an environmental nightmare that should be rallied...The question is not whether it's "a lot", the question is whether it's so bad compared to other online services that it deserves to be called an environmental nightmare that should be rallied against.
that wouldn't otherwise be needed
Well what do you mean by that? We don't need tiktok, I think we need it way less actually, and yet no one is speaking out about the horrors of how much compute is required to deliver videos to millions of people. To me it feels like outcry against dirty polluting container ships when they're actually insanely efficient compared to other transportation methods and a pretty small factor when it comes to emissions as a whole.
I don't think there's any way that doing a task with AI assistance (from a large cutting edge model) is cheaper in terms of power than doing the same task unaided.
This is CO2 emissions, not power, but
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x
Thank you. Honestly it felt for a long time like it's such a discussion in English speaking communities precisely because the the word "art" refers to imagery as well.