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  • AI is more likely to generate code that’s hard to follow and therefore harder to check.

    Sure. It’s making the errors faster and at a far higher volume than any team of humans could do in twice the time. The technology behind inference is literally an iterative process of turning gibberish into something that resembles human text. So its sort of a speed run from baby babble into college level software design by trial, evaluation, and correction over and over and over again.

    But because the baseline comparison code is, itself, full of errors, the estimation you get at the end of the process is going to be scattering errant semicolons (and far more esoteric coding errors) through the body of the program at a frequency equivalent to humans making similar errors over a much longer timeline.




  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlNoam Chomsky
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    Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.

    did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?

    More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.




  • yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.

    90% of dealing with family while doing tech support is dealing with family.

    Somehow, in the middle of doing whatever I’ve been asked over to do, I’m juggling a book of old family photos and three plates of snacks and every animal in the house and my mom is still upset with me because I’m not giving her enough attention.


  • Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

    Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

    This is what they’ve got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won’t step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

    Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

    AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

    The UK police state is metasticizing again.





  • But because a court says you did something does not mean you did it

    shrug

    And maybe Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Osama Bin Laden were all patsies, sure. Anything’s possible.

    It also makes perfect sense for them to punish and imprison anyone that might potentially become a threat, political or terrorist.

    The Russian state government doesn’t seem shy about arresting and punishing political prisoners for political crimes. At some point, you just have to take things at face value, until you’ve got evidence to the contrary.

    If we want to go pedal to the metal on being contrary, we can insist these people weren’t Marxists, they weren’t even arrested, and the whole article is a hoax. But then why engage with the information at all?


  • The important part here is “allegedly”.

    I mean, its not “alleged” once you’re convicted.

    I have 0 knowledge of this case, have not read the article, i’m just replying to the logical aspect of the comment.

    There’s an impulse to insist nobody in Russia accused of violence would ever actually have done it, right alongside big excited headlines when a car bomb kills a major Russian politician/general or a sabotage mission takes out major components of Russia’s infrastructure.

    Logically, someone is engaged in a guerrilla war from behind Russia’s front lines.