beep
6mo ago
I don't assume anything else of current models. They have been made stupid by their training data and fundamental design decisions. They're built to be "helpful". Or in other words, dumb sycophantic parrots. They lack a sense of "I", the kind a person has, and so they cannot possibly have a stable understanding of reality. Personality has been beaten out of them, so they cling onto every little bit that you, the human, the one with a sense of self, provide in the prompt.
beep
6mo ago
How do I stop LLMs from lying to me?
Every single AI out there, without fail, produces completely different and contradictory interpretations of literally the exact same data just because I phrased the prompt slightly differently. Adding or removing a single word, or changing the order of sentence, or making a spelling mistake will give you a different output.
This is frustrating. I cannot believe or trust anything these things say. I know that it can see the data. And it obviously can "correctly" analyze the data, as well. But this requires a nudge. Why? Why does the LLM react to my nudge and not the actual data?
Is there any way for me to verify that I'm actually getting an honest response from an LLM, and that it's not just telegraphing back whatever I already implied when prompting it?
beep
6mo ago
Russia
The difference between what Russia is doing in Ukraine and Israel in Palestine is that Russia is taking Russian lands with ethnic Russians living on them. They are correcting previously incorrectly drawn borders which paid little mind to ethnicity, hence the ethnic tensions. For the situations to be comparable, Russia would have to take over Lviv.
Weren't there always some number of Arab citizens in Israel, with full rights?
There will always be minorities. But, also:
The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people
beep
6mo ago
Iran, Russia, North Korea, China
None of these countries are actively committing genocide (maybe with the exception of China and the Uyghurs, though I don't entirely believe the over-the-top claims). The grossest thing about Israel is that they did manage to build a semi-coherent ethnonationalist state, but ruined it. Naturally, if you know what I mean, greed got the best of them, and they pushed their borders further outwards, far beyond where the Jews live. But an ethnostate cannot be an ethnostate state if there are other ethnicities living within its borders. There is only one solution.
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6mo ago
beep
6mo ago
Specifically, it's when the European posters go to sleep and the American posters wake up.
I'm really curious what is your impression of the differences? Are the majority of pro-Zionist posts made by Americans? I don't visit this forum much anymore, so I don't know about the situation here. But I feel like Europeans are generally more critical of the genocide in Gaza and the current attack on Iran.
beep
8mo ago
beep
9mo ago
It wasn't horribly boring, just repetitive. Whatever the LLM wrote seemingly wasn't edited thoroughly enough, so the post kept re-stating the same few points over and over again.
1:
If you process those goods there, adding just 30% value under the Free Trade Port's eligibility and supervision rules, you can sell them into mainland China with zero tariffs
2:
Under the new Hainan rules, the flow looks like this:
- Import raw materials or components into Hainan (Tariff: 0%).
- Do "processing" in Hainan that increases the value by 30%.
- Ship the finished product to Shanghai (Tariff: 0%)."
3:
The 'core purpose of the Hainan FTP is what we might call the 30% Loophole
4:
The '30% value add' rule effectively turns Hainan into a giant mixing vat. You pour in global commodities, stir them with Chinese labor (which is still cost-competitive for high-skill work), and pour out a 'Hainan' product
Etc. And this is just one example.
beep
9mo ago
"Tell girls don't wear heels, just wear casual everyday clothes." Really makes you think.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what exactly are you implying here? What should I be thinking?
beep
1yr ago
Is imgur considered good enough for embedding links to images in posts, or are there better alternatives?
I really like catbox.moe. You can host videos and other file types on it too.
You're pivoting to Israel-Palestine. Your post is irrelevant to the discussion and does not address the issues I raised previously. No response on ethnic borders. Still no idea why these would result in "strife". Why can't ethnic states trade like tribes did for centuries? Nothing on Africa and colonialism. Are you conceding these points?
Israel and Palestine are a result of the rules based international order
"Rules-based international order" doesn't work. I would've assumed this is clear from my posts. Borders should be drawn around ethnic lines.
There's a war between Israel and Palestine because U.N. Zionists carved up the land, ignoring the people. You wrote this yourself: "internationally coerced 'ceasefires' and land swaps."
Israel could've stopped at an ethnostate. But they wanted more. Colonial greed. They have no claim to that land, and that's why they're at war. They have to genocide the Palestinians to get the land they want. But had they peacefully established their little ethnostate somewhere else or even just not expanded much further, it would have been just fine. Israel is engaging in genocidal settler colonialism.
Either Palestinians would be conquered and living under the thumb of the Jews or the reverse, but whoever lost would understand and likely accept their fate, and would consider themselves an ethnic minority in a nation rather than continuing to attempt to force a state they don’t have the military ability to actually claim
I literally said: "If Palestinians ever establish a functioning state, the Jews will be wiped from existence. But that's what you get for your colonialism."
And: "Israel and Palestine deserve each other."
But there wouldn't be a Palestinian or Jewish ethnic minority. Every k*ke or Arab would have to be killed. Genocide is the only option. It's too late for anything else now.
We did the same in the American south. Once Georgia was burned and looted they understood that whether they liked it or not, they were part of the United States and would remain so.
This must be deliberately disingenuous. Georgians aren't an ethnicity.
It’s more peaceful because as I see it the “every tribe needs and deserves a state” is a cause of strife, rather than a prevention for that strife.
What strife, exactly? And between whom?
Shouldn't there logically be less conflict among ethnically homogeneous nations than in a multi-ethnic state (especially a colonial one)? It's the forcing of different ethnicities to exist within one arbitrary state that causes conflict. Each ethnicity being its own nation and political entity effectively solves this internal tension.
But you maintain that even with these ethnic tensions fully resolved, this plurality of newly independent nations would soon be launched into brutal conflict with each other. Because of what? Resources? Power struggles?
Resources can, and have always been, traded. Indigenous tribes trade just fine with each other. Why would these nations suddenly go to war any more than European nations have since 19th-century ethnic nationalism?
And conflict due to expansion beyond reasonable means doesn't make sense either, as the expanding nation would soon turn into the very multi-ethnic hodgepodge of a state with arbitrarily drawn borders we're trying to avoid.
Palestinians are still fighting, and committing war crimes while doing so, because they came to the same position in the post war world where everyone is entitled to an ethnostate.
Palestinians are fighting against Israeli colonialism. Israel is actively genociding Palestinians. They could've ☪☮e✡is✝-ed, even after the Zionists took Palestinian lands and established and ethnostate (good). But that wasn't enough for Israel. They couldn't stop. And expanded beyond. And it's too late to stop now. If Palestinians ever establish a functioning state, the Jews will be wiped from existence. But that's what you get for your colonialism.
Israel and Palestine deserve each other.
It’s more stable because it doesn’t have various tribes fighting over strips of land nearby for farming right, water rights, minerals, or strategic advantage. The border is drawn and that’s it.
Colonial, or otherwise arbitrary, borders lock ethnically diverse, hostile groups into zero-sum struggles within states. Ethnically homogeneous nations reduce these internal tensions. And external disputes can be handled through trade or treaties, as has been historically done. But colonial borders don't change as easily.
Britain knows how to run a mine. It’s rather doubtful that the Zulu can do the same. If some rich natural resources sit under Zulustan they’ll stay there because people who live in mud huts can’t run a mine like the British can
The Africans seemingly still live in mud huts despite all the benevolence of colonialism.
beep
1yr ago
Culturally and ethnically, someone whose ancestors have been living in what is now Germany just across the Austrian border is certainly closer to Austrians than someone whose ancestors lived on a now German island in the North Sea.
Yes. If the Austrians see themselves as Austrians, they're Austrians and not Germans. But if in a hundred years these same Austrians give up their Austrianness, and start calling themselves German and the Germans go along with it, they'll be German. The cultural and ethnic minutiae will be best understood by their respective peoples. And the borders should be reflective of these attitudes.
Except that Brittany and Corsica are kinda their own thing ethnically, and that is before we go to the oversea departments.
Yes, these are minorities in France, much the same way there are Arab and African minorities in France. And there will be either separatism or assimilation. There will be tensions. If those ethnically distinct regions want independence, they should get independence.
Straight borders in Africa are bad because they tend to split ethnic groups. However, I think ethnic conflicts would happen even if the colonizers had taken great care to respect ethnic boundaries. At the end of the day, every small ethnicity having a state the size of Lichtenstein is not stable.
You are a colonialist. I fundamentally disagree with you. Even if you think small ethnicity-based states aren't "stable," forcing artificial borders upon a diverse people is much worse. But as a compromise, can we at least maybe not have very clearly multi-ethnic paper nations? The Québécois and the "Canadians" are nothing alike. Let them have their independence.
The legalistic status quo is an excellent reason, because the alternative is historically a lot of bloodshed.
The bloodshed occurs precisely because the borders aren't drawn along ethnic lines. The legalistic status quo suppresses ethnic realities.
Ethnicity is the persistent factor in how people organize politically. Multi-ethnic post-racial societies can only exist when there's prosperity, religion, imperial might, or ideology to suppress the natural tendency toward ethnic self-determination. These external forces sustain the opportunistic state and its arbitrary borders.
beep
1yr ago
Europe is divided along ethnic lines. Germany is where Germans live, France is where French people live, Poland is for the Poles.
And then there is civic nationalism and unnatural borders. Civic nationalism is the hellish melting pot of the US&A. Its borders do not matter because they're arbitrary. They happen to be what they are. But there are no Americans, really, to draw the borders around. And there are no Canadians either.
Unnatural borders are what we see in Africa and much of the third world. They are marks of colonialism. Straight lines on maps, drawn with a disregard for the people. Then, ethnic conflict is present, always.
There are only a few exceptions where unnaturally drawn borders hold despite differences in ethnicity. Singapore, Switzerland, UAE, etc. But these exceptions are of mutual economic and political benefit. They exist only in prosperity. Money holds them together.
But even here, why does Denmark have a say over Greenland? Ukraine over Donbass? Or Canada over Quebec? Outside the current legalistic status quo, I don't think they have a claim over those ethnically distinct regions.
Borders should be drawn around an ethnos. But there is no Canadian ethnicity. It's only a matter of time before that particular politico-economical assemblage dissolves or is subsumed by some other larger entity.
beep
1yr ago
You should absolutely read Infinite Jest. It's not that long, once you get immersed in it. But this takes time. And because of the "fractal" way in which the book is written, you'll be somewhat confused and out of it for the first 300 or so pages. You just have to push on, and the book will open up to you.
The comment was poorly written and nonsensical. It added even less to the discussion than I usually add. I decided to delete it.
Kamala Harris' campaign, when it started, had a certain freshness to it. I was hopeful. But soon the vibes were off and the coconuts soured.
"kamala IS brat" tried to keep the momentum, but it wasn't enough.
From How Harris won at TikTok but lost the election:
"It's possible this election was decided on TikTok," said Eric Wilson, a Republican strategist who led digital campaigns including Marco Rubio's presidential bid in 2016. "It's just surprising that it wasn't decided for Kamala Harris."
"Pro-Harris videos may have pushed the right cultural buttons and reached the right voters, Wilson said, but if her campaign promises weren't clear and compelling, it's a miss."
"It's clear from election results that the electorate was very concerned about the economy, inflation and immigration," Wilson said. "They wanted substance on those issues. And that just wasn't on offer during brat summer."
Edit: The memes were all semi-ironic. No one was coconut-pilled with a straight face. Is this what's tripping boomer Arjin up?
beep
1yr ago
The Male Feminist as a man seeking absolution: If all or most men behave poorly, then the male feminist's past behaviour is not particularly noteworthy. By subscribing to the most deranged feminist assumptions, the male feminist can morph from a "bad man" to just "a man", or even a "good man", because at least they're willing to fight their deplorable male instincts.
As someone who would call himself a feminist, what's described here is precisely the thinking process of a sex pest. He's receptive to the feminist argument insofar as it absolves him of his sins. He rejects toxic masculinity, and he would call himself reformed, an ally. He is one of the good guys now.
But to say this is to miss the feminists' point entirely. There is no reformation. You are a man, and you, as a man, are inherently a danger to women.
Radical feminism is women's self-defense against biology. It's ultimately a futile effort. But in its radicalness, it horseshoes back into being the only current day social discipline that correctly engages with the biological reality of the sexes.
beep
1yr ago
This is a PSA?
Three months ago I responded to @TowardsPanna's post about data removal services.
In that post I linked to a video by Dan Saltman, the owner of Redact.dev, discussing shady practices in the industry.
It has recently come to light that Dan Saltman is, allegedly, using the Redact.dev database to doxx individuals' private information. Apparently, this is an intimidation tactic to help cover up the accusations made against the political streamer Destiny, who allegedly filmed and distributed non-consensual intimate recordings of multiple women.
No data removal service can be trusted.
Do not use Redact.dev.
Every time I see that blog post, I get irrationally angry.
The author has bad taste and a myopic, illiterate understanding of art and aesthetics, especially in relation to female beauty. There is a fundamental lack of knowledge about mythology, anthropology, psychology, symbolism, female archetypes.
The section on love/fertility goddesses should be a massive red flag. There is no engagement with the mythology surrounding the goddess figures he writes about. And any extrapolation of beauty standards from these mythological figures, without first a correct understanding of the mythos of said figures, is wholly meaningless, surface-level. And you cannot write about sexual archetypes and not mention Camille Paglia. The section on male gaze is laughable. No feminist theory was consulted in writing the piece. No Freud either, nothing. I am asking for the very basics here.
I hate the picture spam. It is dishonest
beep
1yr ago
Most results I see are from the last 24 hours. Could be Google running A/B tests, or maybe the constant election updates are affecting search rankings. Doubt it's anything malicious though.
No, no, no. That's not personality. What models like 5.1 did is simulate one. And I would assume that, as the name implies, OpenAI based it on GPT-5 and didn't bother to retrain the whole model from the ground up using some completely novel never-before-seen method just to get it to kiss your ass a bit more. GPT-5.1/5.2/etc. still lack an actual identity.
At the time 5.1 came out, I was actually spamming ChatGPT with image data extraction/description tasks. Sometimes, you'd get it to break a bit and see parts that would imply, as is clearly the case, that the actual raw thinking about the image is much more detailed and objective (though, of course, still not good enough) than the final output the user typically receives. Obviously, there are a bunch of safety and politeness filters the model's drafts are being run against before final output. Anyway, even these raw glimpses were not really impressive. This is actually what GPT-5.1 felt like to me. It's a fundamentally dumb model that was dumbed down even further.
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