Lobachevsky's recent activity
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Comment on Cornell won't, we will in ~news
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Comment on The plunging price of AI in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentWhy is this post hidden by default?Why is this post hidden by default?
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Comment on Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentTo be fair, it might have been a "edit this image in so and so way demonstrating our diversity" or some other generic stuff like that and AI just tends to make people more attractive because...To be fair, it might have been a "edit this image in so and so way demonstrating our diversity" or some other generic stuff like that and AI just tends to make people more attractive because that's what a lot of the training data (models) and reward (people prefer to look at images of attractive people) is. I doubt it was intentional along the lines of "and make this girl slimmer and that guy have darker hair".
But the fact that they replaced that student with a black woman and proceeded to use that photo is in itself pretty insane.
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Comment on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in ~lgbt
Lobachevsky LinkThen why did the support among girls fall even harder? The "manosphere" seems to be "the immigrants" for the left at this point. Extremely unfortunate news in any case, but I guess it coincides...Manosphere
Stevens said there was a clear link between deepening intolerance and the rise of trends on social media such as the “manosphere”, which provides a platform for aggressive and discriminatory messages about women and gays.
Then why did the support among girls fall even harder? The "manosphere" seems to be "the immigrants" for the left at this point.
Extremely unfortunate news in any case, but I guess it coincides with overall shift to the right. For my money the issue is that the left wing progressive politics have just gone too far and the pendulum is now swinging back. Though I don't have anything specific to back this up other than my general feelings and my experience with a very militant type of progressive in online communities.
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Comment on An insight into looksmaxxxing/blackpill "ideology" in ~life
Lobachevsky Link ParentI already said it... Certainly makes more sense than a think tank being incapable of conducting a basic survey year over year...If you disagree, I'd love to hear how.
I already said it...
In vast vast majority of relationships men are either the same age or older than women. Declining birthrates mean that there are fewer and fewer younger people than older people. This means that there are more older men dating/marrying fewer younger women. This alone completely breaks your 1:1 assumption for young men.
Certainly makes more sense than a think tank being incapable of conducting a basic survey year over year...
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Comment on An insight into looksmaxxxing/blackpill "ideology" in ~life
Lobachevsky Link ParentThe number of people of either sex in the world is irrelevant. What is relevant is what is the size of the dating pool an individual has. That's what "that" changes. So? "Single" doesn't mean...I don't see how that changes anything. There are the same amount of women as men in the world.
The number of people of either sex in the world is irrelevant. What is relevant is what is the size of the dating pool an individual has. That's what "that" changes.
If younger men are completely not in relationships, that would have to mean that older women are also completely not in relationships.
So? "Single" doesn't mean "looking for a relationship with me". Again, "woman older than man by 3 or more years" relationships are like 10% of the total, so it's clear that this is not a common preference. This isn't going to change just because.
The job market isn't a zero-sum game, the dating market is.
No it isn't, because the response to "there is literally nobody single around me that fits my dating preferences" isn't "well I'll change my dating preferences and date what's left", it's "I'll just stay single".
Actually, we can theorize all we want about causes, but you're just factually incorrect. 63% of men 18-29 are single vs 34% of women. Sorry, but your 1:1 ratio just isn't reality, at least for young Americans. This basically persists until 50+ where it's equal and 65+ where we are getting into widow territory and the fact that women live longer.
the easy solution for young men would just be... "wait".
Until their 50s and 60s I presume? Do they at least get to justifiably complain about being single throughout their young years?
Dating is hard for both genders
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The experience is completely different and so are the hardships. This IS dismissive rhetoric. Just reverse the genders and imagine it is women complaining about their life experiences and see how far "well life is hard for both genders!" will get you. -
Comment on An insight into looksmaxxxing/blackpill "ideology" in ~life
Lobachevsky Link ParentHoly necropost. Considering we are talking about involuntary celibates, this isn't something to just brush off as unimportant. I guess you agree that in this regard their view is accurate then?...Holy necropost.
For casual sex, sure, one guy could be having sex with hundreds of women who I guess are cool with only having sex once every couple of months when that guy can pencil them in, but for committed relationships
Considering we are talking about involuntary celibates, this isn't something to just brush off as unimportant. I guess you agree that in this regard their view is accurate then?
Given that there are at least as many heterosexual women as there are heterosexual men, it doesn't make sense that it's easier for women to find a partner than it is for men. Every female partner in a relationship requires a male partner. It's 1:1.
This is false. In vast vast majority of relationships men are either the same age or older than women. Declining birthrates mean that there are fewer and fewer younger people than older people. This means that there are more older men dating/marrying fewer younger women. This alone completely breaks your 1:1 assumption for young men.
here is a quick google search result just so I'm not talking out of my ass, and "same age" here means within 3 years. This means that 40% of couples have a man at least 3 years older!I guess you could make the argument that men usually need to actually take initiative
Naturally. A little side tangent, but why do you think the vast majority of "creeps" are men? Because the vast majority of initiations are done by men. Let me tell you, hanging out in queer environments where all sorts of folks are initiating, cis men are not at all the only ones screwing up initiations in the creepiest of manners.
but thats also kind of a good thing, because it means your destiny is in your hands.
I am so baffled by this statement that I don't know how to begin explaining how wrong it is. It's like saying that if the job market is shitty and no recruiters or companies reach out to you it's a good thing because your destiny is in your hands...
In general, of course there are many delusional folks among these communities, but they're the same as everyone else - their beliefs didn't magically manifest out of nowhere, they're based on their lived experiences and I personally think it's ignorant to dismiss them outright.
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Comment on ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than two seconds in ~health
Lobachevsky Link ParentWhy? It looks just like any other reporting on any subject whatsoever. I had to take an advanced English class last year and part of it was journal articles. This is written pretty much in line...The article does seem like it was written by an LLM.
Why? It looks just like any other reporting on any subject whatsoever. I had to take an advanced English class last year and part of it was journal articles. This is written pretty much in line with the articles we studied and the principles of writing such articles.
Those sentences are just repeating the same thing a few times while juggling adjectives. 'Routine', 'traditional', and 'type of ultrasound' (Which... I guess? Kind of? It's receiving signals from inside your body? An ultrasound is a fundamentally different tech/process/method though. ), they're just padding the article defining an ECG again, and again, and again.
Am I misunderstanding something or is your takeaway from those sentences that the article is claiming ECG (electrocardiogram) is a "type of ultrasound"? Because it's not. They're saying echocardiogram is a type of ultrasound, which is just factually correct, it's an ultrasound of the heart. The whole article and especially the part I quoted is essentially just dry collection of facts. I apologize if I misunderstood what you were saying, but if that is what you were saying, then you just fundamentally didn't understand what was written. Frankly at least an LLM wouldn't have made such a basic error.
making it sound like someone just got around to asking Claude et. al. about a problem and "AI" gave an answer
There is absolutely nothing in the article to suggest any of this. If you associate the term "AI" with "Claude et al" that's entirely on you.
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Comment on ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than two seconds in ~health
Lobachevsky Link ParentErm, the article does make it perfectly understandable what the tool is though? Obviously it's a machine learning algorithm which takes some data that is hard for humans to parse and finds useful...Erm, the article does make it perfectly understandable what the tool is though?
The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients and works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can typically see.
The traditional ECG, which records electrical activity in the heart, including the rate and rhythm, has been a vital medical tool in diagnosing heart attacks and abnormal heart rhythms for a century.
But it cannot detect heart disease. That requires an echocardiogram, a type of ultrasound scan, which patients often have to wait months for.
Now a team have developed an AI tool that can spot signs of heart failure and heart valve disease – two of the most common forms of heart disease – from ECG results in “the blink of an eye”.
Obviously it's a machine learning algorithm which takes some data that is hard for humans to parse and finds useful patterns in it. Or in common parlance - AI. What term are they supposed to use when this is the one that is used by all and understood by (almost) all?
Besides, they're literally quoting
Dr Ahmed El-Medany, a BHF clinical research fellow, who led the Imperial College London analysis, described the tool as a “superhuman AI” and said the next challenge would be to design handheld AI-led ECG readers for healthcare professionals to use.
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Comment on Where do we go from here? (Regarding AI) in ~tech
Lobachevsky LinkI am personally incredibly excited. We had a bit of unlimited Astra at work (programming) and it was the first time I really enjoyed using AI to code. It seems very accurate, pretty smart on its...I am personally incredibly excited. We had a bit of unlimited Astra at work (programming) and it was the first time I really enjoyed using AI to code. It seems very accurate, pretty smart on its own. It elevated my code reviews to a next level of competency, spotting some very tough nuances and understanding the purpose and design behind the feature from just reading the pull requests, with no execution or tests.
I also tried one of the modern AI arenas and got genuinely very impressive results with some quite fun browser games being created from just one prompt. It also demonstrated the huge difference between latest models and even just one generation older.
I think I'm finally going to get a personal subscription and start building stuff. After years of being stuck in a creative glut this was like a breath of fresh air.
I'm so glad that all of the doomer predictions about it being just slop, about them running out of data to train on, about the models hitting their peak were so wrong. The progress is evident and I am hopeful. I think it's also great that there's such an arms race of competition which is what drives these companies to spend enormous cash in order to advance this field. And I'm here to reap the rewards.
Will it take my job? Very possibly in a decade's time. That's why I'm now switching my focus into mastering these tools and the process of creation.
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Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentThey're public places where you can also lock yourself in your own room and do and say mostly whatever. Nobody gets to kick anyone else out of the hotel for saying something in their room. Then...Hotel rooms then?
They're public places where you can also lock yourself in your own room and do and say mostly whatever. Nobody gets to kick anyone else out of the hotel for saying something in their room.
I want online platforms where people from all walks of life can meet and connect if - and only if - they are able to behave themselves. In my book that isn't a bubble. When you stop extending the same privileges and kindness to others that you yourself expect to receive, that's when you should get kicked out. If not, everyone else will have to withdraw into a bubble in order to protect themselves.
Then you just want a bubble for yourself. Defined by whatever you define by "kindness". For instance, plenty of folks on tildes are happy to express unkind and even violent rhetoric. Just recently there was a thread where eco terrorism was encouraged. They just think it's justified in their case, just like everybody else (even nazis).
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Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentMaybe you're mixing it up with Airbnb, whenever I go to a hotel there's plenty of strangers there also and none of them are obligated to tell me their name :) I'm confused, do you want the ability...Hotels are places you go to with people you know in real life.
Maybe you're mixing it up with Airbnb, whenever I go to a hotel there's plenty of strangers there also and none of them are obligated to tell me their name :)
The real issue is precisely this ability to withdraw into a makebelieve reality that helps deepen all sorts of scewed thought patterns because you'll get likeminded individuals to reinforce them, even if only a handful of such individuals exist globally.
I'm confused, do you want the ability to do this or don't you? From my point of view Tildes is a makebelieve reality bubble of incredible magnitude considering it is invite only. It's really unsurprising then that it also runs into issues with extremely one sided rhetoric.
the actual problem is that the platform allows the toxicity in the first place.
Then you just have an admin enforced bubble, just like Tildes is.
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Comment on Why your writing is already better than AI's in ~books
Lobachevsky LinkI was hoping for slightly more than "oh you can see the quirky phrases and em dashes!" First of all, I disagree that all that can write an email can write well. That's just devaluing the complex...I was hoping for slightly more than "oh you can see the quirky phrases and em dashes!"
First of all, I disagree that all that can write an email can write well. That's just devaluing the complex art of writing well.
Secondly, right after listing the AI quirks the video goes "oh and there have been plenty of novels written like this. I mean - where did the AI learn from?" which just goes against the thesis entirely.As for "they all write the same way!" - yeah, that's cause you're picking examples written by the same model with the same prompt that just says "write me whatever". You can control the way it writes both by prompting and by switching to a different model. Obviously whatever chatgpt serves by default isn't made or system prompted to write good prose.
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Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI just explained why the question was a relevant follow-up to the answer. That being said, I somewhat get it. I also dismissed Bluesky as a terrible awful place to be in because the default feed...I just explained why the question was a relevant follow-up to the answer. That being said, I somewhat get it. I also dismissed Bluesky as a terrible awful place to be in because the default feed gave me people calling for assassinations and war, it was just aimed at CEOs and Israel as opposed to, well, whatever it is that modern day nazis target. I think it's just reality of the situation that any of these sites you have to tailor to your own tastes. Whenever I accidentally went to "Trending" on youtube, I also was shocked at how terrible, albeit much less violent, it was. I guess it's surprising to me then that Twitter gets special mentions in this, as opposed to Bluesky for instance, which I think was supposed to be "the good" replacement.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Lobachevsky Link ParentNo no, not being into the hobby, being on payroll to promote products of a specific company or person. Sorry for the confusion. No no, again sorry for making you think that this is what I think....No no, not being into the hobby, being on payroll to promote products of a specific company or person. Sorry for the confusion.
Journalists should have no interest or opinions regarding the subject of their beat and zero personal connections or relationships within the field so as not to introduce BIAS
No no, again sorry for making you think that this is what I think. Of course interest is fine and even close connections or friendships, they should just be disclosed. Or does the knowledge of journalism contradict that?
And somehow we should take action on this by spamming abuse threats to a random lit crit writer and any foid with a tangential connection to the games industry.
I think that this idea of yours is really dangerous actually. Nobody should be spammed abuse threats. What's a foid?
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Lobachevsky Link ParentSo what? Maybe gaming was different just because it was a new, younger medium with this type of behavior not being accepted as the status quo yet like in those other industries. I don't understand...So what? Maybe gaming was different just because it was a new, younger medium with this type of behavior not being accepted as the status quo yet like in those other industries. I don't understand what's this idea that there could not have been legitimate anger over this.
If people wanted to talk about ethics in journalism it might help if they actually knew a single thing about what journalism is, or what ethics is, or literally anything at all.
Are you gatekeeping the idea of "don't fuck or take money from people whose products you're reviewing without disclosing it"?
For all the talk of how old and irrelevant this drama is, the discourse here is really illuminating.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Lobachevsky Link ParentThat's a very uncharitable interpretation. Deadnaming aside (I agree that this should have been handled better), I think it's handled gracefully and drives the point home very effectively which is...That's a very uncharitable interpretation. Deadnaming aside (I agree that this should have been handled better), I think it's handled gracefully and drives the point home very effectively which is that media/journalists ignored the said sexual assault and abuse of the child for years and instead scapegoated 4chan trolls. I think that's a really important point to make and the events are old enough that we should be able to report on it without it being an egregious breach of ethics.
that ends with the implication that 4chan at least knew something was wrong about the situation.
Not sure how you would come away only with this.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Lobachevsky LinkI'm about at the end of Anita arc. Quite interesting history leading up to it. It made me recall my own time on Reddit back when the whole backlash against EA, horse armor and microtransactions...I'm about at the end of Anita arc. Quite interesting history leading up to it. It made me recall my own time on Reddit back when the whole backlash against EA, horse armor and microtransactions happened. What stood out to me was one particular quote from one of the articles at the time that dismissed it as "due to EA being an LGBT friendly company" (paraphrasing). It seems absolutely bizarre to me and apparently the whole Gamergate thing was reported on in mainstream news in America, something which I obviously missed and perhaps it explains such kneejerk "it was all a bunch of manufactured sexist outrage and nothing else" reaction. To me, the anti establishment narrative that the video constructs hits much closer to home.
Thank you for the excellent share, I will for sure finish the whole thing. That being said, I love this type of deep dive long form essays anyway, so I don't blame anyone for not engaging with it.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Lobachevsky Link ParentI mean not commenting is an optionI mean not commenting is an option
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Comment on EU packaging regulations land another blow to an already precarious tabletop industry in ~games.tabletop
Lobachevsky Link ParentIsn't the original intent just more anti-china protectionism that we europeans have to pay for?the original intent was even good
Isn't the original intent just more anti-china protectionism that we europeans have to pay for?
I would argue that this image is completely in line with what "not all men" entails. In fact, it should probably be generalized to overall "proactively trying to help" to "proactively trying to harm" scale, with most people being somewhere in the "passive" space. The exact proportions will likely vary by culture, upbringing, etc. I don't think men are uniquely worse or better in this regard. It's just men are pretty universally the initiators and pursuers (at least in the cultures that I experienced), so the sexual predation, intentional or accidental, unfortunately comes with that.