Well my local library disagrees because they expect me to pay my late fees, smh.
The way it does math is mostly as people have already assumed - approximating instead of doing it "manually". It's 2025 and at this point absolutely nobody should be surprised that AI "confidently describe[s] the standard grade-school method, concealing its actual, bizarre reasoning process".
As for poetry,
Here, the model settled on the word "rabbit" as the word to rhyme with while it was processing "grab it." Then, it appeared to construct the next line with that ending already decided, eventually spitting out the line "His hunger was like a starving rabbit."
this is exactly how many poets write rhymed poetry too, it's not even remotely bizarre.
Still, it is interesting and good to see some concrete advancement in the study of AI reasoning. Hopefully it will contribute towards reducing the mystification of the whole thing.
they had a genuinely traumatic experience
Jesus Christ, this is so ridiculous. They federated on their own accord, and from what I've seen very little non-hexbear users ever came to post on hexbear communitites. Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you isn't fucking traumatic, in fact these people adore arguing and "dunking" on "libs".
If you're thinking of American right-wingers and fascists who are currently celebrating Trump's victory, I must say their view of the world is so dark, negative and pessimistic, that nobody could really describe it as utopia-like. This is a brief respite for them, nothing more.
If you're thinking more abstractly, or of some very specific incredibly lucky people, then I guess it could be so.
Yeah, totally makes sense, "they" attacked IA one month in advance before the elections, knowing that IA would spend around a month rewriting and improving their site code until the Save Page option would be enabled again (unless IA themselves are a part of the plot???), so that news articles could be "edited on the fly" (with what result?) until the election day, while other similar web archiving services such as archive.is would keep working just fine.
I don't get the impression there are even precise definitions of these generational labels.
And I don't think they make any sense at all outside of USA and maybe west Europe.
Is this how you get boipregnant??
Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That's what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can't be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.
Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.
During the exodus I remember I wanted to try Tildes, but it was closed off from new users. (I don't even understand why it was recommended.)
The creator can still feel like shit for making a bad/unpopular video when they see the number of dislikes, so it still has a point for me.
Maybe it affects the algorithm or something. And it allows the users to at least feel like they're expressing their feelings, without outright denying the option like Facebook used to do.
The number of respondents who say Russia should “cease hostilities while maintaining the occupied territories” has more than doubled since last summer, from 11% to 28%.
In other words, the number of respondents with a catastrophic lack of logic has more than doubled. Occupying foreign territory while ceasing hostilities, lol.
Either way, this research doesn't matter too much. Public approval and lack thereof may be relevant in some democratic societies, but certainly not in Putin's Russia. If the number of Russians who are against the war doubled right now, I still doubt there would be any actual consequences.
There's not even much of a shift anyway, unlike what the title suggests.
Considering all the stuff you've written, the let's say philosophical and ambivalent conclusion there feels inappropriate. A society that puts random innocent people without trial into a death camp is not stable. It all comes off as if the system just restructured the violence (who does it to who and by what means), rather than being on the path of eliminating it...
But it's an enlightening and valuable comment anyway, thank you. Do you know when was the deal with US made? I can't find it on Wikipedia...