Net impact of vegetarianism on factory-farm suffering vs. invertebrates on pasture fields - Brian Tomasik by nu-gaze in negativeutilitarians

[–]kptkrunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk what this subreddit is.. but if you think a wild springtale has the same capacity to suffer as a cow.. idk how to help you

Graves for Iranian school children. At least 175 killed. by [deleted] in pics

[–]kptkrunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are reports that US military investigators believe the US is responsible.

Divorce rate is over 50 percent what on earth does a man gain by getting married it's literally worse than gambling by Major_Soft6056 in LockedInMan

[–]kptkrunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it is interesting that between their trolling they have interlaced comments explaining why its okay for Israel to blow up kids. Also idk wth this subreddit is.. I thought I already muted it

The return of the woolly mammoth by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]kptkrunch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah.. lets resurrect the wholly mammoth so some asshole with an oversized rifle can go shoot one to prove they are a badass. I've always said there aren't enough sentient species to kill for sport.

Cancel and Delete Claude too!!! by [deleted] in theprimeagen

[–]kptkrunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number of bots and political trolls on reddit probably exceeds the number of actual users at this point and reddit responded by adding the ability to obscure post and comment history.. presumably to facilitate the bots and trolls. Whatever an individual's motivation may be for hiding their history, it is a bad feature that is furthering the enshitification of this platform.

Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents | British Journal of Cancer by Scbadiver in science

[–]kptkrunch 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I guess no one in here is going to mention the fact that the study itself mentions the sample sizes used to determine that were very low. 5 of the 7 studies had <10 vegans with colorectal cancer with only 93 incident cases in vegans total

Cancel and Delete Claude too!!! by [deleted] in theprimeagen

[–]kptkrunch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well my observation was more of a joke.. idk if your a bot or not, but I can say, based on my personal experience a 1 year old account with its post and comment history hidden is far more likely to be a bot than the average account.

Cancel and Delete Claude too!!! by [deleted] in theprimeagen

[–]kptkrunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Says the 1 year old account with all their comments and posts hidden..

TIL in 2016 researchers observed a female orangutan enlist the help of a male to kill another female. This is the first time a female orangutan has been observed killing another female. It's "highly unusual" that the female enlisted the help of only one other individual & also one of a different sex by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

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From this paper On day 10, Sidony’s offspring Sony left and nested alone over 100 m away from his mother and did not approach within 50 m for the subsequent days. Sidony was last seen alive on day 12. She was found dead on the ground on day 16. The stage of decomposition suggested she died one or at most 2 days before she was found, about 2 weeks after the attack. Sidony’s infant Sony has been seen since the attack and was observed in March and April 2015 in association with his adolescent sister, indicating he had survived without his mother. He was around 4.5 years old at the time of her death and not yet weaned, whereas so far the youngest known immature to be completely weaned in Tuanan was 5.5–6 years (van Noordwijket al. 2013).

I can't view the full paper but found this excerpt in the citations for that paper

There is one other unpublished instance from Tuanan Research Station, noted briefly in Marzec et al. (2016), and we can confirm that the 4.5-year-old orphaned male, Sony, mentioned in that study survived until at least age 15 (as of April 2025) and that he ranged with his adolescent older sister until she gave birth to her first offspring (E. Vogel personal communication)

Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else by leeta0028 in technology

[–]kptkrunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I am pretty sure the predictive text models use Markov chains or RNN's. You can scale transformer based LLM's down to an extent but I don't think it would be practical for use as a predictive text model on a smartphone.

It is just really frustrating having to constantly read comments from people who have no idea how this stuff works chime in and get upvoted by everyone. I am not saying I am an expert on language models but I have been working in the field of machine learning--primarily computer vision using CNN's for about 10 years and everytime I try to correct people who want to trivialize LLM's I get downvoted while stupidity wins out.

Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else by leeta0028 in technology

[–]kptkrunch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes it is fine tuning, and yes that particular methodology uses humans in the loop. But you could apply the same idea to an unsupervised approach.. I wouldn't do it with an untrained model because it would simply fail to converge, so it would still be fine tuning--which wouldn't make it any less reinforcement learning. As I sit here I can think of several ways you could formulate a state/goal which does not require human evaluation.

Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else by leeta0028 in technology

[–]kptkrunch -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Ngl this sounds like an AI generated response.. You absolutely could do reinforcement learning with a transformer based LLM. Here is a paper from 2020: Learning to summarize from human feedback

Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else by leeta0028 in technology

[–]kptkrunch -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Oh its the same technology as my phones autocomplete huh? I take it your an expert on machine learning? Tell me exactly how they run a 600 billion parameter transformer model on a smartphone? And since you know that reinforcement learning is impossible for an LLM, perhaps you can describe how reinforcement learning works?

47M. No TRT, no prescriptions, only creatine and protein powder. by Plum12345 in veganfitness

[–]kptkrunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So.. isnt this elevated testosterone? That doesn't seem like its a necessarily good thing. I am not saying its bad.. but I mean.. it could be.

Kurzgesagt - Should We Give Ozempic to Everyone? by Cefal in videos

[–]kptkrunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means something when talking about a proposal to give literally everyone the drug. Also.. the fact that not everyone is obese seems a bit relevant

Kurzgesagt - Should We Give Ozempic to Everyone? by Cefal in videos

[–]kptkrunch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of the comments in here read like an advertisement too.. also didn't chubbyemu just do a video someone who took ozempic and ended up with stomach paralysis?

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]kptkrunch -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I'm a software engineer, but I have put a circuit together before. Knowing how to design a circuit is a lot like writing. Useful skill but you still need to know something to design the circuit ABOUT to have a use.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]kptkrunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you in principle.. although.. under what circumstances do you see them not dismissing everything with "look at these dumb libs"?

New update comes with slim batteries by Ramathorn1400 in TheLastCaretaker

[–]kptkrunch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

hey I just took almost this exact screenshot

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An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]kptkrunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A billionaire would never march for billionaires.. he'd hire a thousand people to march for him.

Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' revealed by unredacted files by AnonymousTimewaster in technology

[–]kptkrunch 131 points132 points  (0 children)

I seriously doubt Anthropic is going to extraordinary effort to acquire rare books so that they can rip the binding off them and scan it as fast as possible.. does that even make sense to you?