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Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • chemical_cutthroattoScience Memes@mander.xyz•how things become scienceEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    And people have been launching products without thought to the ramifications since the dawn of time. I don’t think that will change, either. What we need to do is educate ourselves better when it comes to identifying potential fraud. Taking anything at face value, regardless of it’s source, is dumb. If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth verifying.

  • chemical_cutthroattoScience Memes@mander.xyz•how things become scienceEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    That isn’t a fault in the LLM, though, that is a fault in the general make-up of human skepticism, or lack their of. We didn’t invent the word ‘Propaganda’ without having a sentence to use it in. Those that don’t practice skepticism, critical thinking, and even mild reasoning are the ones that will get led astray. That didn’t just start happening when LLMs came around, it’s been here since we first started talking to each other. It’s only more visible now because everything is more visible now. The world is much more connected than it ever has been, and that grows with every literal day. All these fucking idiots that don’t double check what they are being told are the problem, regardless of if it came from an LLM or a human, because I guarantee you they are being led astray by both. They don’t trust the machine because it’s a machine, they trust what they are told because they are lazy. That isn’t the LLMs fault.

  • chemical_cutthroattoScience Memes@mander.xyz•how things become scienceEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    What you may as well have said:

    Additionally, the parents didn’t place the cake on an actual plate. They placed the cake on a napkin which can be very questionable anyway as there is no solid foundation for the cake. The child chose to ignore the napkin and treat the cake as food.

    I really don’t understand why people think that LLMs are GOFAI. They aren’t making the hard choices. They aren’t giving novel solutions to the energy crisis. They aren’t solving the trolley problem. They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return. No one is surprised when the dog gets worms after eating poop it found in the yard. Why are we shocked that an AI that doesn’t know fact from fiction treats everything the same?

  • chemical_cutthroattoScience Memes@mander.xyz•how things become scienceEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’m failing to see how this is different from making up a fact and then spreading it to news outlets. If you are the authority, and you say something is true, you don’t get to point and laugh when people believe your lies. That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine. It only regurgitates what’s been said. It isn’t going to suddenly start doing science on it’s own to determine if what you’ve said is true or not. That isn’t it’s job. It’s job is to tell you what color the sky is based on what you told it the color of the sky was.

  • chemical_cutthroattoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess
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    1 day ago

    So, just to make it clear here, this is an Opinion piece.

    The core argument that the author makes is that NASA has played too much into politics and is forgetting the science.

    However, the evidence that the author presents is that when NASA Administrator Jared Issacman was asked about climate change, he said:

    for NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.

    And I get it, that can be a very damning thing to read if you take it at face value and out of context. Here is the actual context from the article in question:

    When there is a market beyond just NASA for a service, you should strongly look in that direction, because every dollar we spend building bespoke Earth observation, or even at this point space weather satellites, is a dollar that comes away from, like, a planetary science mission, your next Dragonfly, which no one else is going to do. There are no mass-produced assembly lines of satellites for Titan right now, but there sure are for Earth observation. I mean, not just SpaceX, right, Planet, Black Sky, and others.

    Second, I would just say, you know, earth sciences has strong bipartisan support. … Because it matters to agriculture and floods and wildfires, real humanitarian issues. So we’re not getting out of that business.

    For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.

    You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead the world is going to end, and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax. How is that useful to anyone right now?

    What [NASA] should do is fund the data that benefits all humankind, and you put it out there and let people draw their conclusions.

    And that doesn’t quite fit the narrative that the author has built in their own world as well as the book they are selling, and probably has nothing to do with the fact that she quit the agency a few weeks ago and is now searching for independent funding, and so publishing NASA attack articles in every science magazine and periodical she can find… So, you know, believe whatever you want, but look for all the facts before trusting the Opinion articles of the NYT, or anyone really.