ignis

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[ignis @ignis_onX]

@10x_er Constantly breaking compatibility with Android Auto in my car just to fuck with me.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

@edmundmcmillen Just remember. Barely any of your actual customers, no matter if they're Russian, Ukrainian, or from elsewhere, give a fuck about this media manufactured drama. Ignore the noise.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

With all these moves to introduce age verification on various websites and even as low as the OS user level, it's strange the SSI and DID advocates are largely absent from the conversation.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

This FFVIII AI video is extremely janky. But as a big fan of the game, I have to say it was compelling to watch. The Selphie scene was actually quite charming, surprisingly.
https://t.co/0tfHbhvauK

[ignis @ignis_onX]

So, Labour are giving up a parliament seat to let Reform in and a mayoralty to let either Reform or Greens in? ��
At least it has the benefit of ending Burnham's career as an elected politician, so I'm sure Starmer won't object.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Josh Simons will resign to trigger a by-election in Makerfield to give Andy Burnham a route back to Parliament

[ignis @ignis_onX]

Sure, put Burnham in a parliamentary by-election and make him PM. Labour will then lose Greater Manchester mayoralty in a by-election and still lose the next general election.
Starmer is NOT the issue. The issue is Labour and the broader Uniparty.
The ground is already lost to Reform on the right and Greens on the left.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

There I am, enjoying Andy Sirkis audiobook readings of The Hobbit and LOTR. Get to Return of the King and Beregond is a... scouser!? Suddenly it's like an episode of Bread.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

The reality is that the Greens surge in support is driven by their anti-Israel rhetoric. It plays well with far-left young people and Muslim communities. They want you to believe it is because women think they're great and you must be some anti-woman a-hole if you don't vote Green. It is propaganda to demoralise Labour and Lib Dem voters in to thinking they're on the wrong side of progressivism and to try and reframe their support away from a base that can easily go from anti-Israel today to anti-Semitism tomorrow.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

It is a deliberate manipulation a data point to suggest if only women aged 18 to 50 voted in a UK general election that the Green's would win a majority. It is a demoralisation campaign targeting non-Green voters. The numbers simply don't track.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

The truth is that the Greens are the largest minority by percentage support among 18 to 49 year old women, though that is heavily skewed by support among 18 to 24 year old women. They do not have a majority of support with women of any age bracket.
They are taking the minority support percentage of this narrow demographic and applying it as a national vote share to project seats using a lot of assumptions.
Winning a majority of seats with a minority vote share happens in the UK sometimes. But it can only happen with a broad geographic spread of support. The Greens don't have that and likely never will.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

@Jonathan_Blow I think media cycle through peaks and troughs over time. The next peak won't look like the last peak though. I'm sure there have been plenty of people over time have seen literature peak only for it to peak again.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

This man is either an egomaniacal tosspot or Uniparty controlled opposition. I can't decide.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

History made. We won ten out of ten seats, with overwhelming majorities in every single one.

Great Yarmouth First, then we Restore Britain.

A very special day.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

@for_texas68730 @TBrit90 Of course, it would be a disaster. The point is that the US is not immune to the consequences of breaking deep alliances such as the US-UK alliance or NATO. So maybe they should stop treating allies as though they are enemies whenever there is a disagreement.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

It isn't realistic. If something that insane actually happened the entire world order would be upturned. No western ally would trust the US. Same as if the US invaded Greenland. No war with the US, but massive global economic and strategic changes. I imagine China would benefit.
A more realistic concern is US rhetoric over the island's status emboldening Argentina to do something stupid. Similar to how the US rhetoric of "help is on the way" emboldened Iranian citizens to protest and get themselves killed.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

@LinchZhang @waitbutwhy Level 5 is the Kobayashi Maru.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

@waitbutwhy It is impossible to guarantee 100% of people press the red button so you prepare for the possibility of death and press the blue button. You don't choose to preserve your own life if it requires action that could kill innocents.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

The most baffling thing about reading through this and deeper threads is that many people genuinely don't seem to know that computers, and thus all algorithms running on any computer, are fundamentally deterministic.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

A lot of people don't seem to understand that if you ask an AI the SAME question, you will get the SAME answer. Every. Single. Time.

To avoid that, the models "salt" your prompt by adding random input params so that the model does not take the same path.

But LLMs are not random or unpredictable - if you ask it the name of TinTin's dog, and it gives you an answer, then the same model with the same weights and the same input will ALWAYS say Snowy.

[ignis @ignis_onX]

Games, movies, music used to me amazing because amazing people made them. These things are are shit now because...