[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Could well be, I'm sure there were lots of poisonings and whatnot that earlier forensic science misattributed to natural causes.

But it could also be that murderers are getting more savvy too. There have been so many CSI-style shows, police procedurals, and so forth that it doesn't take a great genius to know how to make it a lot harder for police to identify you. Like, if you made an untraceable "ghost gun" to shoot someone with, don't carry it around in your backpack for days after shooting the guy. Sheesh, basic stuff.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 16 points 4 hours ago

They were never designed for routine "cycling" to begin with, it was originally meant as an emergency thing that wouldn't routinely be tapped just to keep market prices even. It was there so that the military could continue operating in the event of an extreme shortage.

It's basically just some old salt mines that a bunch of oil got pumped into.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 23 hours ago

AIs benefit from negative examples too. As long as the inputs are accurately labelled then it enhances what it knows.

For example, if I go to ChatGPT I can ask it to produce a wild parody of a far-right rant about something and it'll be able to do so. I could feed it an existing far-right rant and ask it to analyze what it's actually talking about and it'll have a better ability to figure out what's going on if it knows that style from its training. I could tell it "write an article about this subject that specifically avoids the tropes and pitfalls of far-right media."

We've seen frequently the pitfalls of trying to censor a model's training data to exclude something that's part of the common world around it, the model either "fills in the gaps" itself or just ends up insane. When the nude human form was excluded from training data for early image AIs it wound up making weird Cronenbergs because it had no idea what was really going on underneath the clothing, for example.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Security robots should be able to fill most of those roles, I would imagine.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Trump doesn't joke. He doesn't really comprehend the concept. What he does is say something outrageous and then if there's pushback he'll claim he was joking so it doesn't look like he's backing down.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly, the "distractions" are at this point so far far worse than the Epstein files themselves are that I do kind of want to focus on them.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

Last I heard the judge hadn't decided yet whether the current dismissal of the case would be "with prejudice", which would prevent reopening it. Presumably his lawyers will be bringing statements like this to the judge's attention to further drive home the argument that this is deliberate persecution.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

Alas, sometimes smart people do really dumb things now and then.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago

It really baffles me sometimes how clever people can make such basic mistakes when doing crimes.

If you're planning to do something illegal don't literally document your crime. Or if you do need to do some written-down planning ahead of time, a major part of that plan should include how to destroy that documentation at the earliest possible moment.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Oh man, I used to look forward to deleting lots of stuff so I could watch this run.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

Choice is a good thing. Small communites are good. Decentralized is good because then big bullies can't come in and take your community away. Small size and fragmentation are features, not bugs.

Would be nice if the Fediverse had more of that.

There are three or four different "Technology" communities. But there might as well just be one, it's the same bubble in each of them.

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