wonderingwanderer

The part about predicting protein folding makes sense, but this post was about waffles…

You could ask Gemini to write it for you, but be careful it doesn’t start blending fact and fiction

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

It’s a method of fine-tuning and aligning LLMs which requires active human input

That’s fucking crazy. Did he ask it to be GM in a roleplaying choose-your-own-adventure game that got out of hand, and while they both gradually forgot that it was a game the lines between fantasy and reality became blurred by the day? Or did it just come up with this stuff out of nowhere?

I see. My initial reaction was “aren’t there psych holds for situations where people are unstable/ a danger to themself or others, but haven’t committed any crimes yet?”

But the first example sounds like some sort of incitement to panic, which some states have laws about (like shouting “fire!” in a movie theater). So I’m surprised it was just a disorderly conduct.

The second example depends a lot on context which I obviously don’t have so I can’t really make a judgement, but depending on how far things escalated and what sort of history they had, it sounds like it could be either a case for a psychiatric hold, a protective order, or some type of domestic violence or credible threat charge. But depending on the degree of escalation I could see “disorderly conduct” over psychiatric hold. I’m not the judge though and I don’t know the details of the case, nor am I a lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt

Probably for saying something like “Hey wait a minute, what are we even arresting this person for? They didn’t break any laws.”

The 2/2 (I think?) arrests I’ve made for Disorderly Conduct

Wait, are you a cop? Or are you saying you’ve been arrested twice for disorderly conduct? Because being arrested is completely different from making arrests.

Ah, but you’re forgetting that this is america where if a white man wins any competition against a black woman, the only conceivable reason has to be racism.

If people vote based on the merits of the individuals’ policy platforms or who they receive their funding from, then it’s racism plain and simple. Only the people whose voting choices are entirely based on skin color aren’t racist. Anything else is colorblind racism.

Some autistics thrive on chaos, some thrive on order. I’m not the “pack a prime number into a square” kind of autistic, I’m the “why would you want to do that” kind

Do I need to tap the sign?

You raised the packing coefficient by ⅝ to squeeze one extra square in with all that wasted space, so don’t argue that 25 squares has a packing coefficient of 5. Another ⅜ will get you an extra 8 squares, and no wasted space.

My autistic ass can’t comprehend why anyone would want to arrange a prime number in a square pattern…

But you can fit 25 squares into the same space. This isn’t efficiency, it’s just wasted space and bad planning.

You raised the packing coefficient by ⅝ to squeeze one extra square in with all that wasted space, so don’t argue that 25 squares has a packing coefficient of 5. Another ⅜ will get you an extra 8 squares, and no wasted space.

That’s not what an abstract is.

And just because you failed to understand something doesn’t represent an inadequacy on the article’s part.

It’s quite demonstrable that atmospheric CO2 levels have been increasing over the decades, and that the increase is accelerating rather than slowing down.

Data that concrete can easily be extrapolated. “If we continue polluting at the current rate, the air will be unbreathable in X amount of years” is not a wild claim.

And changes in blood chemistry that are correlated with atmospheric CO2 level increases are a valid means of studying how much pollution humanity can tolerate before it has catastrophic effects.

You think the russian federation isn’t a fascist and and ultra-capitalist oligarchy/kleptocracy?

Cause that’s what you seem to be insinuating when you suggest that supporting NATO makes me a fascist…

The entire world-order (Yes, including the PRC and the BRICS bloc) is capitalist. I can be against capitalism, while also supporting the defense pact that enables Europe to maintain a unified front against russian imperialist aggression.

Because economies and political institutions, although deeply interconnected, are two different things. And russian fascism isn’t any better than american fascism.

Political parties are based on commonalities of persuasion. Democratic Socialism is primarily a political persuasion, but there are some countries with Democratic Socialist parties, which are obviously based on the persuasion. It wasn’t unclear, unless you’re deliberately trying to muddy the waters.

Both of those things are different from a political system, though. Social Democracies can have multiple political parties of various persuasions, because Social Democracy itself isn’t an individual party but a whole system within which various parties interact. There are social democratic parties, based on the goal of implementing policies that resemble how a social democracy would run.

The majority of Nordic countries are part of NATO. It’s a nasty terrorist organization.

Fucking vatnik.

You pretend to be progressive, but fail to see true progressivism.

Oh, so I guess “true progressivism” is Lenin ordering the Bolsheviks to assassinate all the Soviet leadership and replace them with sycophantic puppets because… he lost an election to them?

Millions die due to capitalism every year

I never denied that, and I don’t support capitalism.

I’m not sure why you’re not bringing that up as well.

Way to flip the fucking script. I brought up the deaths under Lenin et al as a response to you failing to mention them while pointing out the supposed deaths Social Democracy is allegedly responsible for. I even acknowledged that some western countries have committed war crimes, but I guess you’ll just breeze over anything that doesn’t reinforce your predetermined narrative?

Also, do note that you’re now defending capitalism.

I didn’t do that, but believe it or not I can be against bolshevism and capitalism. Not everyone is trapped in your narrow, campist worldview.

He explained that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had effectively boxed in the Trump administration, taking the decision out of American hands.

I imagine that conversation went something like this:

“Do it or we release the tapes.”

And the US was supporting Ukraine at that time. That support got cut off as soon as trump entered office. What’s your point?

What did I say that was rude?

Also, you’re assuming I’m a liberal and that I haven’t read leftist theory. I understand what tankies are talking about enough to engage with it critically, which is apparently more than they do.

The best of the Democratic Socialist countries are still ran by child murdering shitbags

Do you mean Social Democracy countries? Because Democratic Socialism is a political party or persuasion, not a political system in its own right. What country is exclusively Democratic Socialist?

There are countries that are Social Democracies, and most of them have some of the best human rights track records out of all modern nations.

But if you want to cherrypick the most egregious examples of western nations and lump every western nation in with them under some collective guilt, while ignoring the infractions, crimes, and atrocities of all the non-western and anti-western countries, then I suppose you could make the argument that Social Democracies are baby murderers. It wouldn’t be a very good argument, but that just describes the layers of distortion you would have to put it through to reach that conclusion.

But keep blaming the Nordic model for the crimes of the US, I’m sure that strategy will convince somebody, just not me.

Oh and by the way, do you want to mention the millions of deaths under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot? Since apparently you’re juxtaposing “true” leftism against all the inferior or “untrue” leftisms as some sort of harbinger of moral superiority and respect for human lives?

I bet she bought a new mansion that year…

You’re forgetting that the singular person responsible for the decision not to do it was assassinated shortly after…