Communist

Communist, 1 year ago

You can easily block them

Communist, 1 year ago

You really do have to pretend that they’re insignificant.

They’re extremely significant. Overhyped? Maybe, but extremely significant nonetheless. I think a lot of people here have gone “well, if it’s overhyped, that means it isn’t even vaguely interesting” and I think the real truth, as much as I hate centrism, is in the middle.

Communist, 1 year ago

Pretend ai is insignificant

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

When you look at a coffe cup from the side, you know it has a hole in it. Because you imagine, not because it’s a reflex.

You’re looking at this backwards, you know those things because of previous experiences, you predict this might happen due to those.

This is still a matter of prediction, and if that had never happened to you even once, I guarantee you wouldn’t look for it.

They’re also significantly smaller than our brains and multimodality has been shown to help with reasoning, so, considering they’re text only and significantly smaller than our brains, their significantly reduced functionality is to be expected. Especially when you factor in that our brain has verification layers, which have only recently been discovered to work for LLM’s, none of them even implement this yet as far as i’m aware.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Trackmania requires no more configuration than it does on windows, and if you use KDE, the interface is almost identical.

The only thing you’d have to learn is to install steam from the app store instead of from the internet, if you give it a shot, I don’t think you’ll find it to be as difficult as you imagine.

The full steps would be

install linux mint (if you have no preference that’s the easiest distro) > open app store > install steam > install trackmania from steam > hit play

edit: just tested it to verify, yeah, trackmania required no additional setup or anything from the standard windows version

Installing linux is a 15 minute process, the only hard part is getting a flash drive, and you only have to do it once, once you have that flash drive you can do it easily endlessly.

I highly recommend trying it out, linux is significantly easier to use and has significantly less maintenance burden. That’s why I give it to the elderly, they’ve all said it makes their lives significantly easier, and none of them have switched back.

Plus, even on a windows machine, the first thing you should do is reinstall the operating system when you get one, especially for second hand machines. Every single major manufacturer puts a bunch of garbage on the computer some of which is nearly impossible to remove without a reinstall, considering you already should do this anyway, it makes it a much easier pill to swallow.

some examples of how linux is easier:

1. Your computer won’t forcibly restart for updates, ever
2. Your computer is never doing anything in the background that you don’t ask it to do, so you don’t have to worry about if the power cuts off, whether your machine will still work.
3. All of the updates are centralized so you don’t have to worry about various updaters
4. All of the installations are centralized so you don’t have to worry about using all of the various installers windows has, making sure not to enable it installing extra crap, etc
5. Guaranteed no cruft that slows your machine down every time, you don’t have to go through uninstalling a bunch of crap
6. Centralization means unless you do something very strange you never have to deal with malware

There’s other things, but I have found that these few things make a significant difference, especially for the elderly.

I would consider it unwise to avoid learning about a machine you regularly have to interact with, you’ll only make your life more difficult in various, impossible to observe ways from the other side. I guarantee the only difficult step will be the first install.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

How do you know you’re happy with windows if you choose to live in ignorance?

What if windows does a ton of annoying things that you’re simply used to and accept as a part of life, that you’re missing out on fixing completely because you’ve chosen ignorance?

I don’t think you should say that you’re happy with windows if you’ve never investigated any other options, you really just don’t know, and it’s not shameful to not know or not care, but if you say you’re happy with something, that implies a level of knowledge that you don’t have.

If someone was proudly ignorant of a topic you cared about, would you not, understandably, be annoyed when they give their opinions founded entirely upon ignorance?

I think that might be what you’re seeing here, sorry if this is an upsetting post, but, I just want to make sure you understand how that sounds to the people who did bother to not be ignorant. I’m ignorant of many things, and I choose not to comment on those things or claim to know things about those things, because I know what I don’t know, I think it’s wise to do that.

Furthermore a number of people have a genuine emotional investment in FOSS that you may not understand, there are good reasons for this, the world would be a significantly better place if FOSS was the norm, for example, in electron microscopy, there are perfectly good electron microscopes that are no longer supported by their companies, forced to run windows 95 and that can never be updated because of proprietary software, the only way of updating these would be to spend literal millions of dollars on this. There’s various aspects of healthcare that would be dramatically improved by FOSS being the norm, when you know many many things like this, people often form an emotional attachment to these things that you may not understand from a position of ignorance, and that seem unreasonable. It’s often helpful to find common ground with people, rather than be proudly ignorant.

Especially for marginalized groups, FOSS could be a huge benefit, as an example, when the holocaust occurred, the nazis turned to companies to get information from people, in the modern era, could microsoft be used by a government not interested in your best interests to corral you and kill you? Yes, absolutely, even if this is unlikely, it’s something that couldn’t happen AT ALL with foss, ever.

I don’t care if you use linux or not at the end of the day, but I do hope you understand that these people have a genuine, reasonable emotional attachment to FOSS that makes them behave in unreasonable ways when it is challenged. Especially when countless people who are completely ignorant of the problem tell them it doesn’t matter on a regular basis, this is an extremely common, compounding annoyance for the community of FOSS enthusiasts.

I hope that makes sense, and doesn’t anger you, I just want you to understand where all of this emotional stuff comes from.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Try to consider the fact that I don’t care enough about my PC to try and optimise every aspect and that maybe some people have a different view of the world to you, it’s not something you need to be upset by.

If you read what I wrote instead of assuming what I wrote, you’d understand that your response makes literally no sense in response to what I wrote, I was trying to make you see why people might be emotionally attached to these issues. Why reply to what you won’t read? Why comment on things when you don’t care what others think?

Odd that you decided to be rude to me when you don’t even know what I said. Or do you hate the idea of having a dialogue, in which case, why post anything at all?

Communist, 1 year ago

I don’t mind, do you have any questions?

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I think LLM’s are on the right track, while an LLM with its current architecture likely couldn’t without a ridiculous scale, they do show signs of understanding ( businessinsider.com/chatgpt-open-ai-balancing-tas… ), pretending they are nothing more than autocompletes as the people here do is disingenuous, what it does is predict, and while that’s all it does, that’s also all that makes humans special, the human mind is an object that takes sensory input, and predicts what muscle movements would be best given the sensory input, in fact, our heavy reliance on prediction is the reason magic tricks fool us, the only way to accurately predict things is through reasoning and understanding, we don’t know what happens when we scale, and there’s a reason experts predictions of when AGI will come are getting closer and closer, right before the LLM boom the average prediction was something like 40 years (based on memory), now it’s like, 10.

I consider an LLM to be akin to what would happen if a persons thoughts were immediately transformed into words, without any layer of verification, you think plenty of wrong things, but you don’t say the wrong things you think because you have a layer of verification before speech, and it turns out, according to recent research, adding a verification layer to LLM’s is extremely potent: arxiv.org/abs/2203.14465

It seems, according to this paper, that the trick is to have an LLM generate thousands of possible outputs, and have a separate tool verify their correctness, and then only present the correct output, this could possibly solve hallucination, which is one of the biggest roadblocks to actual intelligence.

While we aren’t at true intelligence yet, we are creating the building blocks that will allow for it, and it will happen, and the experts believe it’s coming soon, LLM’s are not insignificant in terms of progress.

These are tools made of the same component parts as our brain, admittedly, it takes approximately one thousand artificial neurons to simulate a real neuron, but the fact of the matter is, our minds are quite similar to these artificial minds, the artificial minds are just much, much, much, much more simple, it turns out, intelligence is likely a matter of statistical analysis.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Weird, I use linux because it makes my life significantly more simple. I also give it to the elderly for that reason

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I tried it out and discovered none of the annoyances I had with windows existed here, then I started customizing things, redesigning my interface from the ground up to make everything as optimized as possible, to an extent that would never be possible on windows.

Plus I have massive ethical concerns regarding proprietary software.

Now I can’t leave.

Communist, 1 year ago

Wayland is not poorly designed or coded, screensharing works perfectly as long as the apps properly support wayland.

That’s not a problem with waylands design or code, that’s a problem with apps design or code, the thing you may want to take issue with is the notion that we could change things like this while still being poorly supported generally.

Communist, 1 year ago

no, it’s waypipe.

Communist, 1 year ago

Ah, I see, i didn’t realize sea lioning was an established term before that.

Communist, 1 year ago

…do you actually think the sea lion understands why people hate sea lions?

None of this is in the comic.

Communist, 1 year ago

Still makes no sense, why would I ask about x? I also wouldn’t ask about dos. This seems like a pointless observation.

Communist, 1 year ago

Considering they stole the land right after they did it, it’s really not.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

“land tilled by the peasantry was increasingly subject to government control, undoing many key principles of ownership as we shall see in the subsequent section ‘The Collectivisation of Agriculture.’”

So… the government took it. Making it a meaningless gesture. Communism is not when the government owns things.

Y’know it’s not hard to figure this stuff out. The government took everything in china. That doesn’t even take research, that’s basic knowledge.

Bold of you to call me “fucking stupid” when you didn’t even read your own source, not to mention that that’s ONE of the requirements, not all of them, and they didn’t even do that.

Communist, 1 year ago

Well, the workers didn’t own the means of production, they didn’t abolish currency, they didn’t do anything about class division, they didn’t abolish the state, they didn’t empower the working class, and they aren’t going to do any of these things later, but on the other hand, you clearly think mao was very trustworthy so surely you must just be taking his word for it.

Communist, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Especially trying to accuse me of not reading the source when you skipped past to the very last paragraph to dishonestly quote out of context a line that even within itself betrays the fact that you’re being a dishonest piece of shit.

Congratulations, you’ve at best given 1 of the things that I listed… and tried to turn that into me being the idiot and not you. Except you didn’t because you know full well the chinese government owns that now. They didn’t give the land to the people, they pretended to briefly and then took it for themselves. Unlike you I have actually bothered to research these things: resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/…/real-estate-law

Who owns land in china? the chinese government. So, no, they did not even make an attempt.

You said they didn’t do anything about class division and being the debatelord idiot you are, you decided to ignore the fact as you read it that they abolished an entire landlord class so you could stay on course with your reply.

When the government takes everything is that solving class division in your mind, or is that just creating a new class that owns everything?

Now, what I want you to try to do, with your very useful and very large brain is compare the list of things that make communism, and compare the list of things that the chinese did, right, and notice that the chinese didn’t do any of them.

1. Abolish class division < they created a new class, their own bourgeois, and took everything. This could ARGUABLY be an attempt… and it’s the best you’ve got.
2. Abolish currency < not even attempted
3. Abolish the state < not even attempted
4. Give the workers the means of production < not even attempted

So, at best, they attempted one of the things… and didn’t do it.

And when I say you don’t need research for this, I’m saying that it’s common knowledge that the chinese government took anything… Even gradeschoolers know that.

Communist, 1 year ago

I think a lot of people have already learned some things about it when they try gimp, and then when gimp is completely different, it is rather unintuitive to them, but if you started with gimp, you don’t have that problem

Communist, 1 year ago

Here is an excellent video that explains why the non-beaked birds died out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1TanPmCckM

Communist, 1 year ago

I actually think 2024 has a very good chance of being the year of wayland, scene graph api just got finished wlroots side, wine is rapidly approaching ready for wayland, sway-side all that’s missing is global shortcuts and single window capture (and disabling vsync for games is about to be merged, if you care about that).

It’s all rapidly shaping up, they even fixed nightlight nvidia side. I think it all depends on nvidia fixing shit.

Communist, 1 year ago

The is calvin okay version of this one must be golden