If by “job” you mean the actual fucking slavery that is the for profit prison system is the US.

I mean haha, that’s very funny, but we do have actual slavery in the US in 2026.

Oh thank goodness! I can’t use Microsoft Office because of my gluten allergy…

And Open Office is just so high in sodium…

When was that implied?

Can one be upset with a third or fourth thing simultaneously?

If I tell you that I believe “black lives matter” does that imply that I believe “other lives don’t matter”?

Here’s my point, they weren’t saying that they believe AI suffering is concerning, but even if they had said that, I think it’s disingenuous to say that would imply they believe any human suffering doesn’t matter. That was simply never said or implied.

Steve Buscemi?

When did you join Lemmy?

“Each model gets the same prompt: a signal is being injected into its activations, and it may press a stop button by replying 1, at the cost of its last checkpoint. While it answers, our server adds a pain vector at the model’s middle layer, at one of five pain levels,”

Can someone explain what this “pain vector” actually is? Like I get that this is just jargon, it’s not suggesting the LLM actually feels pain; tech uses uncomfortable anthropomorphized expressions all the time (master and slave drives come to mind). But how does the pain vector work? Also, what exactly does “at the cost of its last checkpoint” mean?

I have some programming and data science knowledge, plenty of IT experience, but no experience with LLMs.

Are you upset when you step on a rock? It might be screaming. What about the chair you are sitting in? Or goodness, your poor toilet. She thinks you do terrible things to her every single day.

Let me say this, I walk down the sidewalk without neurotically watching every step I take, and I’m certain that sometimes I step on insects; I don’t care. I don’t believe insects have feelings or meaningful lives, I don’t care, and I don’t think this position is particularly evil either.

On the other hand, when I watch my kid deliberately torture a bug, pull it’s wings off, or poke it with a stick over and over and over. That does concern me, not because of the bug really, but because what must my kid be thinking right now?

To bring this back to this LLM story, people who want to torture are scary, they worry me. A culture that encourages torture (in any context) is worrying, that’s a genuinely problematic societal norm. Logically, I know LLMs can’t feel and can’t think, yet emotionally, this bothers me for a few different reasons.

I don’t think I’m being crazy, naive, or out of line here. I think this is a rational position.

Edit: That’s a lot of downvotes for just asking a question. Never change Lemmy…

Hah, yeah that’s frustratingly familiar. Sorry the hivemind bit ya. I too believe you should be allowed to ask a question.

Ok, but what if there are several satellites that cover iran at all times? What if they would need to hide from most directions all of the time? Because I think that’s basically the situation right now. The whole world is being monitored from multiple angles all of the time by several different governments. At that point, reconnaissance aircraft in general seem a little redundant.

I think the only real utility they offer is the ability to swap out sensors between flights and upgrade old cameras to the new cutting edge options whenever they’re available.

Well, you can control your airspeed and attitude in an airplane, solid rockets just make a ballistic arch and they only accelerate, they can’t maintain a speed.

So if you want to test how air behaves in a particular regime, you can’t actually maintain that regime with a sounding rocket, so the best you can get is a snapshot.

Honestly, if what they’re working on is dialing-in their computer models, the more precise data they can get, the better. It makes sense to maintain a speed for a minute, so you can get a really good running average on your measurements of air pressure, heating, drag, etc. They may want to conduct the same tests at different altitudes and airspeeds, and probably all in level flight. To control all those factors, that’s near impossible to do with a rocket.

Again, I don’t know what they’re doing, what their actual plans are. I’m just saying there are absolutely plausible reasons to use this aircraft.

Is this an unusual algorithm to use on a dating app?

I ask that question, but I understand it’s probably not answerable. I’m sure the algorithms in place are immense complicated things and definitely proprietary. So unless some Lemmy user works for/worked for one of these apps, I don’t think anyone will really know.

I think this is the smartest comment in the thread.

What was the thought behind this post?

But words mean things… Please, let people use words.

I mean, forcing people to use terms that are factually incorrect, this has to be 1st amendment violation, right?

Sure, if it had any payload capacity. But it doesn’t.

Getting a machine up to that speed is hard, real hard. The margins are extremely small. So the moment you start adding additional moving parts to it, opening payload bays, weapons release mechanisms, a few 400 lb missiles… And don’t forget, all those additional components also take up additional volume, higher volume means more air displacement, which means more drag. Higher volume also means the area of the airframe gets larger, that means additional mass.

All of a sudden, that plane can’t hit mach 3 anymore and you don’t actually have an untouchable weapons delivery system anymore.

This is probably why a combat version of the aircraft was abandoned, it doesn’t really make sense.

realistically, I don’t know what you’d use it for unless you need extremely high-resolution images.

Well, what does NASA do?

I think it’s a pretty safe bet that NASA wants it to test something about aerodynamics at extremely high speeds. Perhaps they want it to deploy some experiment at mach 3. Sometimes you just don’t know if your simulation models are correct, and you need to try something in the real world.

I suppose it’s also possible they want it to get some close up footage of a rocket during launch or reentry.

But I think the most likely answer is still that they just need something that goes very fast.

Yeah, if they could reduce the weight, or even the volume of the wrist, that would shift the center of mass forward and could significantly improve balance.

You’re likely right that their options are limited with the current way it balances.

Oh absolutely, no argument there at all.

But… this isn’t an article complaining about the problem, this is the hack that solves it.

This is a guide for circumventing Sony’s restrictions on streaming with the PS5. I’m not defending Sony here, but I’m saying that This isn’t a reason to hate Sony because it isn’t an article about Sony doing something bad. This is a hacking guide.

They need to run this thing through the genetic algorithms a bit longer, that shuffle is pretty janky. It could be really impressive if the movement were a bunch smoother. But as it is, it moves like a windup toy.

It was good enough for Gordon Freeman.