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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Animal brains have pliable neuron networks and synapses to build and persist new relationships between things. LLMs do not. This is why they can’t have novel or spontaneous ideation

This Nobel prize winner seems to disagree with you.

Neural nets do indeed learn new relationships. Maybe you are thinking of the fact that most architectures require training to be a separate process from interacting; that is not the case for all architectures.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 25 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

this Chinese feller

He's French, actually.

This is one of the three people that basically invented Deep Learning . One of the others is Geoffrey Hinton, who got the Nobel Prize in 2024

No matter what you think of LeCun or his opinions... he's damn well worth listening to with attention and respect.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 points 19 hours ago

Thank goodness, OpenAI will now have a morally well-anchored Board of Directors as it becomes unrepentantly for-profit

/s

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

TBH this is damning both of auth-right antisemite "extreme free speech" X/Musk, as well as of religious genocidal right-wing Israeli politics

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

omfg every single household in New Hampshire knows Tom Steyer as the asshat who send us more physical mail than all other candidates combined

It got to the point where the watercooler discussion was how many trees Tom Steyer is willing to sacrifice to become President

Shoutout for PieFed

Up until last week, that was my theory too

But now seeing Trump's reactions... he totally ordered the hit

Nonsense! If we can just get all the Wrong Kind of People out, and let only the Right Kind of People in, then we will finally achieve Trump's Economic Miracle the US will be Great Again and big grown men with tears in their eyes from all the winning

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure socialist and communist countries also do perverted things like blatant propaganda, needless use of force, etc.

Cuba is a great example. Cuba wasn't embargoed 'because Communism!' (though that was, stupidly IMO, part of the USA political messaging)

Castro did summary political executions & imprisonment , killed the free press , enacted torture ...

What exactly did you want? Continue doing business like "NBD, you do you?"

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This

You kill bills quietly in the Senate not the Houe

 

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More than 700,000 federal employees have been sidelined and thousands more are at risk of being fired as the government shutdown drags on.

But the workers responsible for carrying out the president’s plans for more fossil fuels and less wind and solar power are still hard at work. Some are approving permits for companies that want to extract metals, coal, oil and gas from public lands and federal waters. Others are rolling back limits on the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change.

On Thursday the Bureau of Land Management approved the expansion of a copper mine on public land in Utah. Earlier this week the Interior Department prepared to open more than 250,000 acres of land in Wyoming and Nebraska to oil drilling, and held a coal lease sale for access to Montana’s Powder River Basin. And at the Environmental Protection Agency, employees are finalizing a plan to allow more mercury emissions from coal plants, according to two people familiar with the work underway.

 
 

Article is largely comprised of opinions from academics who study Government, Democracy, and/or Authoritarianism.

This quote from Prof Sean Westwood hit me particularly hard, motivating this post:

The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.

 
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