douglasg14b

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[–] douglasg14b 7 points 4 months ago

Lol, you are on the Projection part of GOP I see.

[–] douglasg14b 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Yep, and even worse. Lemmy has absolutely NO controls for quality and minimal moderation tools or capabilities. It's in a much worse position than Reddit.

If it's not already happening (And I think it is), it will.

[–] douglasg14b 27 points 4 months ago

They have the concept of a antitrust breakup.

[–] douglasg14b 0 points 4 months ago

And like all android updates, it's guaranteed to be worse than it was.

Everything's getting shittier.

[–] douglasg14b 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"I refuse to accept progress if it's not perfect progress"

Is what you're effectively stating here.

Cmon, really? I have this argument with my toddler when he asks for something like a rip off a loaf of bread. He wants the whole loaf, he can't have the whole load, so he gets a choice: The piece you can have, or nothing.

So. Would you rather have this progress, or nothing? That's your choice, and right now it sounds a whole lot like you would rather have no progress?

[–] douglasg14b 10 points 4 months ago

I didn't really mention immich directly here.

This is a problem which is endemic to casual software development like many FOSS projects. It's a reality of how free software tends to be built in general vs commercial software.

[–] douglasg14b 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The issue here is that these are solvable problems, release compat isn't a new problem. It's just a problem that takes dedicated effort to solve for, just like any other feature.

This is something FOSS apps tend to lack simply due to the nature of how contributions tend to work for free software. Which is an unfortunate reality, but a reality none the less.

[–] douglasg14b 21 points 4 months ago

You would, but if there's no reason for them to spend the money on it why?

This is what regulation is for, and it needs to have teeth.

[–] douglasg14b 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

People really underestimate the value of stability and predictability.

There are some amazing FOSS projects out there ran by folks who don't give a crap about stability or the art of user experience. It holds them back, and unfortunately helps drive a fragmented ecosystem where we get 2,3,5 major projects all trying to do the same thing.

[–] douglasg14b 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

LLMs cannot provide critique

They can simulate what critique might look like by way of glorified autocomplete. But it cannot actually provide critique, because they do not reason, they do not critically think. They match their outputs based upon the most statistically likely interpretation of the input in what you could think of as essentially a 3D word cloud.

Any critique that you get from an llm is going to be extremely limited and shallow (And there's for the critical critique you require). The longer your text the less likely the critique that you receive is going to be relevant to the depth in which it may be needed.

It's good for finding mistakes, it's good for paraphrasing, it's good for targeting. It cannot actually critique, which requires a level of consideration that is impossible for LLMs today. There's a reason why text written by llms tends to have distinguishing features, or lack of, that's a bland statistically generated amalgamation of human writing. It's literally a "common denominator" generator.

[–] douglasg14b 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I like how many of the new top level comments on here are going the way of Reddit already.

One-liners trying to be funny or make puns instead of actually engaging in conversation, indistinguishable from bots. :(

[–] douglasg14b 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just because you don't want it doesn't mean others don't.

And just because you don't know much about the actual tech product itself doesn't mean that it's as narrow as you consider it to be.

There is a ton of vapid hype that everyone including myself is getting sick and tired of. I'm more than happy to recognize that. However, there are still real world problems and continued advancements being made daily.

It's not all about LLMs either, there are many other types of science being done to develop improve and augment various other flavors of artificial intelligence. This has been a pretty constant trend for at least the last 10 years, we've just had a recent explosion in language capabilities with the introduction of generative AI. Thus fueling the hype.

That's a really weird stance that I keep seeing on here which is to be proud of being ignorant. Being proud of hating something without actually understanding what it is. Being proud of not knowing how something works so that you can be more contrare.

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