DrJenkem

My dad introduced me to Napster and Weird Al.

While it would defeat most if not all audio DRM, this would result in a lossy capture, whether by line-in or Bluetooth.

Thanks!

I'm out of the loop, what's the issue with OG Nixos maintainers?

That scan only scans your hard drive once an hour.

To check rss feeds for new podcast episodes, you need to go to the settings of each podcast and schedule it to scan the podcast feed.

Crows are based.

VC's and companies like OpenAI have done a really good job of propagandizing AI (LLMs). People think it's magical and the future, so there's money in saying you have it.

People who aren't programmers, haven't studied computer science, and don't understand LLMs are much more impressed by LLMs.

Depends on what you mean by general intelligence. I've seen a lot of people confuse Artificial General Intelligence and AI more broadly. Even something as simple as the K-nearest neighbor algorithm is artificial intelligence, as this is a much broader topic than AGI.

Well, I mean the ability to solve problems we don't already have the solution to. Can it cure cancer? Can it solve the p vs np problem?

And by the way, wikipedia tags that second definition as dubious as that is the definition put fourth by OpenAI, who again, has a financial incentive to make us believe LLMs will lead to AGI.

Not only has it not been proven whether LLMs will lead to AGI, it hasn't even been proven that AGIs are possible.

If some task can be represented through text, an LLM can, in theory, be trained to perform it either through fine-tuning or few-shot learning.

No it can't. If the task requires the LLM to solve a problem that hasn't been solved before, it will fail.

I can't pass the bar exam like GPT-4 did

Exams often are bad measures of intelligence. They typically measure your ability to consume, retain, and recall facts. LLMs are very good at that.

Ask an LLM to solve a problem without a known solution and it will fail.

We can interact with physical objects in ways that GPT-4 can't, but it is catching up. Plus Stephen Hawking couldn't move the same way that most people can either and we certainly wouldn't say that he didn't have general intelligence.

The ability to interact with physical objects is very clearly not a good test for general intelligence and I never claimed otherwise.

I mean of you have two boxes, one of which is actually intelligent and the other is "just" a very advanced parrot - it doesn't matter, given they produce the same output.

You're making a huge assumption; that an advanced parrot produces the same output as something with general intelligence. And I reject that assumption. Something with general intelligence can produce something novel. An advanced parrot can only repeat things it's already heard.

They're kind of right. LLMs are not general intelligence and there's not much evidence to suggest that LLMs will lead to general intelligence. A lot of the hype around AI is manufactured by VCs and companies that stand to make a lot of money off of the AI branding/hype.

What if I want no taxes for the lower class lower taxes for the middle class and small business but much higher taxes on the upper class and large corporations

Left.

a very strong military

Typically right, but plenty of examples of marxist-leninist states with strong militaries, such as the USSR or China. And on the less authoritarian side you have the YPG in rojava who was very effective at fighting the Islamic state.

but stronger corporate regulation with more teeth

This one's a little confusing, would probably need more clarification.

to fund public works and social services with the taxes we bring in

Left.

a free and equal society with no hierarchical systems or bigotry, freedom of speech and strong privacy laws with certain restrictions on speech (calls to violence, etc...), very strong unions, a near complete elimination of wall street, and a fair justice system that doesn't target minorities as prey?

Left-libertarian/anarchist.

Also, guns are fine for self defense in my opinion.

At least in America, the guns issue is typically viewed as a left vs. right issue, but there's plenty of folks on the far left that are in favor of guns (socialist rifle association, redneck revolt, John Brown gun club, etc).

Karl Marx even has an often cited quote on guns:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

Which side do I fall on?

Pretty much left. You're certainly left of the American Democrats. Pretty much the only thing stopping you from being a full on leftist is you don't seem to be opposed to capitalism itself. Therefore, I'd say most of your positions sound like they fall under social democracy.