fishos

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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I've been thinking this for awhile. When people say "AI isn't really that smart, it's just doing pattern recognition" all I can help but think is "don't you realize that is one of the most commonly brought up traits concerning the human mind?" Pareidolia is literally the tendency to see faces in things because the human mind is constantly looking for the "face pattern". Humans are at least 90% regurgitating previous data. It's literally why you're supposed to read and interact with babies so much. It's how you learn "red glowy thing is hot". It's why education and access to knowledge is so important. It's every annoying person who has endless "did you know?" facts. Science is literally "look at previous data, iterate a little bit, look at new data".

None of what AI is doing is truly novel or different. But we've placed the human mind on this pedestal despite all the evidence to the contrary. Eyewitness testimony, optical illusions, magic tricks, the hundreds of common fallacies we fall prey to.... our minds are incredibly fallible and are really just a hodgepodge of processes masquerading as "intelligence". We're a bunch of instincts in a trenchcoat. To think AI isn't or can't reach our level is just hubris. A trait that probably is more unique to humans.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Again, if you're too stupid to make sure the multiton hunk of metal is coming to a stop by all the other obvious visual markers, including watching it's speed compared to stationary objects like signs and lamp posts, then this won't do shit. People need more aweness of their surroundings, not a bunch of lights and horns because people won't pay attention.

You enter the road when it's safe, not jump in and play frogger with lights hoping to get across.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

If a car is braking it rides differently from one that isn't. A car is normally rather level and leans "forward" when braking.

Besides that, YOU SHOULDNT GET IN FRONT OF ANYTHING YOU ARENT SURE IS STOPPING. If it's moving fast enough that you need this, you shouldn't be trying to get in front anyways.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I don't need to make friends to find stl files. A database with a lookup function will do fine.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, because everything needs to be a social web. Fuck off with that nonsense. Sometimes a database just needs to be a database. The last thing we need is more echo chambers in every damn hobby.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You realize a bunch of instances have blocked/defederated Lemmy.world, right? Exactly the kind of fragmentation I'd like to avoid. Literally other people chose who I can and can't talk to already.

This is a hard pass.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Exactly this. I don't want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things. Not everyone needs "my own" whatever. You can be centralized and public. Federation is just another buzzword like blockchain.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed. About the only thing I would search Lemmy for is obnoxious Linux snobbery. That, they have on lock.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You need to remember first of all what sites like reddit, digg, and now Lemmy actually are. They are link aggregators. The content is anything and every thing. Just link to it. It's that simple. And if you feel it is in a place that might get removed, screenshot it, archive.org it, copy into an online Google Doc, and post that. There's no reason we need 500 identical "How do I do X?" posts just to fill content. Do you want 500 posts clogging your feed about how to fix the same printer issue over and over?

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

If you're gonna post spam, at least spell it right.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Well yeah, they have to move over the sensor loop. You can't just place it in the center. It's part of a process that happens as, you know, you pull up to the light. They are a little fancy.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

Yeah... Saying we don't use them as much as... Freight. Try to keep up?

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