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  • The crows were shown how to get the food iir.

    My understanding is LLM contain artificial neural networks. A simplification with an amount of weights similar to small animals. A simpler model aught to make investigation more clear 😅

    Neural networks are “trained” by adjusting the weights on “neurons”. I assume real brains are training themselves on every input while LLM is limitted to sessions with training data. Do you suspect there could be a though process when it’s processing how many letters are in strawberry? What about when it’s weighs are adjusted during training?





  • Sorry if my replies are annoying, I merely find this subject interesting. Feel free to ignore this.

    It is not obvious to me why a being couldn’t have an “understanding” without a “thought”. I do not believe it’s possible to verify if a creature has a subjective experience but an “understanding” of the environment could be attributed to how a being performs in an environment (a crow gets foods that was just out of reach inside a tube of water by adding rocks to raise the water level). I have some experience on game-dev programming and limited understanding on consciousness as a personal interest, if that’s helpful.


  • I think we may disagree on term definitions.

    I perceive “active thought” when trying to decipher parts of a sentence I do not already have an understanding of. If I already understand a part then no active thought is perceived by me - like driving a car when nothing eventful is happening. [Note: I don’t believe I have 100% accurate perception of my own subjective experience. Trying to focus on subjective experience at all instead of constantly being “lost in thought” is very short lived]



  • If I hacked a server to get content then I would be circumventing payment at it shouldn’t be up to me how it responds to requests, I don’t own it. Google trying to enforce playing adverts via software running on my property is an unjust overreach. The user choosing what displays on their own monitor is not “circumvention”, it’s claiming ownership over your computing. Google could choose to verify on their servers if I’ve paid (in normal currency) but instead their servers act like adverts are an optional donation.






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    12 days ago

    When I had static on headphones on Mint (20, maybe 21) then killing PulseAudio would prevent it happening again for a variable amount of time (minutes or weeks). I hope someone suggests something better but that might be worth trying that next time it happens: pulseaudio -k. [edit: tried that just now and had to re-select my headphones as an output device]

    I’ve not had to do that for a long time and I don’t know what has changed (fairly sure it had stopped happening before I got new headphones). PluseAudio isn’t even installed on my Mint MSI B450 machine, I assume it didn’t install during boot. I guess my static issues are are hardware related: something causing inference.


  • [Added information: LTT say they were unaware Honey was mistreating users. So they had no reason to make a video at the time they dropped Honey for mistreating them.]

    I don’t think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on

    Their viewers getting scammed by tech they promoted isn’t worth a video on their main channel? If they could legally do it I think they should have.

    Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT

    LTT have made mistakes (edit: and made choices/comments I would disprove of) but the dunking here does seem disproportionate.