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New comment by dontseethefnord in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"

dontseethefnord — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:04:14 +0000

I hate this industry so much.

New comment by dontseethefnord in "People are just as bad as my LLMs"

dontseethefnord — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:55:25 +0000

You must be living under a rock if you’ve never heard of 7 as a lucky number.

New comment by dontseethefnord in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

dontseethefnord — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:46:14 +0000

Because we know what LLM's do. We know how they produce output. It's just good enough at mimicking human text/speech that people are mystified and stupified by it. But I disagree that "reasoning" is so poorly defined that we're unable to say an LLM doesn't do it. It doesn't need to be a perfect or complete definition. Where there is fuzziness and uncertainty is with humans. We still don't really know how the human brain works, how human consciousness and cognition works. But we can pretty confidently say that an LLM does not reason or think.

Now if it quacks like a duck in 95% of cases, who cares if it's not really a duck? But Google still claims that water isn't frozen at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so I don't think we're there yet.

New comment by dontseethefnord in "Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone"

dontseethefnord — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:31:01 +0000

Does it still say that water isn’t frozen at 0 degrees Fahrenheit?

New comment by dontseethefnord in "Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”"

dontseethefnord — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:55:10 +0000

Just like with Facebook/Instagram, if your account gets taken over and then banned because the hackers used it for spam/scams, there’s no way to get your account back. There’s an “appeal” button where a robot instantly denies your appeal without any opportunity to provide evidence. It’s not a joke.

Once you’re locked out, you’re fucked. Meta doesn’t give a shit about its users, that’s the only way this business model can work.

Now for me, I try to use Meta products as little as possible. But my partner gets a significant amount of business leads from Instagram, it’s quite lucrative for her, so she took quite a hit when she lost that account and had to start over.