Hedwig’s Raging Clue

I am equally annoyed that it took them this long to finally get around to it, but happy that they did.

No worries, I get what you’re saying! (I think)

Yes, language changes over time.

Yes, some terms are basically just shot in the pan, fairly short lived fads… but, sometimes they stick around enough to distinctively form part of a kind of age bracket / location specific dialect, or even spread more broadly.

‘Cool’ ‘Radical’ ‘Tubular’ ‘Groovy’… those are all older terms that were popularized by older age brackets, you can take a while bunch of millenialspeak/redditisms as examples as well, ‘smolbean’ ‘chonker’ ‘adulting’, etc.

But also yes, often, terms get reappropriated or basicslly misappropriated, kind of transmuted into having a just totally different meaning, which can then create a lot of confusion when some people are using a more original, domain specific meaning, and then there is a kind of nebulous, vague, commonplace usage of the term.

‘Therapyspeak’ as proliferated by Tiktok is a great example of the dangers and problems of that.

Tons of people misuing terms that have actual specific meanings, that they then almost always use to essentially weaponize their own narcissism.

There are tons of other more technical terms that have more specific meanings in some field of study, but then also have a vague or different colloquial meaning, and then people will just conflate the two different usage/meanings…

That’s pretty much the basis of a bunch of woowoo, psuedo-intellectual, spiritual guru type nonsense, its also used by cults and con artists.

‘Energy’ in physics is not the same thing as ‘energy’ used to describe basically someone’s demeanor, their current mood.

But, in another comment, up the chain in this thread, I did try to lay out how ‘cats are autistic’ is actually a reasonably accurate and defensible use of the term.

I think that if people are more commonly using complex terms… actually relatively correctly… that is just a good thing.

It normalizes the idea that yeah, autistic people exist, they are different, and thats ok, and its also ok to talk about how they are different, because maybe we can all understsnd and relate to them better by way of decently accurate analogies.

What would worry me is people using the term very incorrectly, accidentally or purposefully promoting false stereotypes, or just purely using ‘autistic’ as an insult.

So, I wanted to try and point out some of the details, have the conversation.

Essentially, I’m arguing that language does broadly change over time, and also, broader acceptance and discussion of how neurodivergence actually works is a good thing.

Is me doing that ‘forced’, not a ‘natural’ evolution of language? Eh, sure.

But if a whole bunch of people are also just… using the term autistic more frequently… well, I’m not in charge of all of them, but maybe I can try to at least… shape the flow of that river, so to speak, so that more people know more about the word they’re now using more often.

… that is even funnier.

But also I think that actually breaks canon with at least some of the RPG style games… and I know that actually breaks canon with the comic strip about Mario and Luigi and errybody else, that ran in Nintendo Power, back in the day.

Mario and Luigi are very much actual, literal plumbers, who have to fix up the entitery of Peach’s castle’s plumbing, and they use their plumbing know how to practical effect in other scenarios.

But… that also has the koopalings in it, and… I’m fairly sure that they’ve been either written out of the canon or very heavily retconned… ???

My entire point is that you are just overgeneralizing, in general, and saying rather silly things.

Wait, why could he not have been a plumber, while also being in Med school?

Had a gf with that once.

Sure did make it easy to uh, find the spot.

… quoth the raven, “please, some more.”

Hahaha.

Oh, I’ve owned a game.

I own many games.

I can give them to whoever I want.

… you just have to be clever.

Completely agree with all of this.

Especially the last part.

We don’t even understand our brains, our own minds, we still can’t fully agree on what consciousness or sentience… even… are.

We’re certainly making progress on those fronts… but we are a very, very far distance from the finish line.

That finish line would be like… we solved Psychology, we solved Neuroscience, we have a Grand Unified Theory of Mind, etc.

Introverts exist, and are… very often fine with solitude, prefer it generally over socializing.

But they are generally fine at participating in society and living normal lives.

Healthy people… do need doctors … and therapists.

A person can outwardly appear to be healthy… and actually not be.

Preventative medicine, regular checkups, your body changes as you grow, and habits you develop in your youth may need significant reworking.

Therapy can give otherwise healthy people a method of exploring their inner selves more fully or more consistently… they can teach them frameworks for understanding and dealing with other kinds of people, for being better able to deal with kinds of trauma they have not yet experienced.

Also… same with physical health… people with some nascent mental problems or patterns forming… probably won’t be obvious to a non specialist, untill it gets more severe.

Here is a way of describing what I see as ‘the problem’:

An LLM cannot forget things in its base training data set.

Its permanent memory… is totally permanent.

And this memory has a bunch of wrong ideas, a bunch of nonsensical associations, a bunch of false facts, a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

It has no way of evaluating its own knowledge set for consistency, coherence, and stability.

It literally cannot learn and grow, because it cannot realize why it made mistakes, it cannot discard or ammend in a permanent way, concepts that are incoherent, faulty ways of reasoning (associating) things.

Seriously, ask an LLM a trick question, then tell it it was wrong, explain the correct answer, then ask it to determine why it was wrong.

Then give it another similar category of trick question, but that is specifically different, repeat.

The closer you try to get it toward reworking a fundamental axiom it holds to that is flawed, the closer it gets to responding in totally paradoxical, illogical gibberish, or just stuck in some kind of repetetive loop.

… Learning is as much building new ideas and experiences, as it is reevaluating your old ideas and experiences, and discarding concepts that are wrong or insufficient.

Biological brains have neuroplasticity.

So far, silicon ones do not.

It eats.

It is thus the primordial consumer.

… kinda does bare a resemblance to what AM turns Ted into…

Tim Sweeney is…

…the Tiger King.

Season 3 coming to a Black Mirror near you!

ding ding ding!

No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or set of patterns, which describes what skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs.

Then, that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.

Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.

Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.

None of these C suite types actually do any advanced, in depth, strategic planning.

They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.

The C suite folk, they’re literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.

Like… that’s how this actually works.

It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.

They’re the most expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally, with outsized negative impacts on the whole business.

… But thats not the point.

The point… is to pamper the C suite people’s egos and wallets.

Yep.

That is the actual ultimate end goal.

Its a rigid class system, with an incompetent and haughty nobility… that just kind of pretends to not be that.

Techno-feudalism.

Its less an emulator, and more a translation layer.

Emulation is when you essentially construct a virtual representation of the target hardware, and map the virtual hardware to real hardware, and then you can run code made for the emulated, target hardware, on the real hardware.

A translation layer does not involve emulating a specific target hardware configuration.

WINE -> Wine Is Not (an) Emulator

Proton is basically… a massive expansion pack, for WINE.

Proton translates Windows x86-64 calls into Linux x86-64 calls.

FEX translates Linux x86-64 calls into Linux ARM calls.

The point is actually to be able to run Linux x86-64 on ARM, not the other way around.

But, as a consequence of developing a comprehensive ARM <-> x86-64 translation layer, that does mean that it will be easier to port APKs, Android libraries, or in some instances just run APKs, on x86-64.

EDIT: Fucking derp.

FEX is an emulator, because it is mapping to another hardware architecture.

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

Its also so that some games and/or parts of games can just run entirely on the Steam Frame Headset.

Basically, ARM (mobile) physical hardware is more compact, less energy intensive, and heat causing, than traditional x86-64.

So, they built the hardware of the headset, the Steam Frame, as… essentially, an extremely overbuilt smartphone, because they wanted you to be able to go cordless, un tethered, with decent battery life, as compared to their last headset, the Index, which has to be corded in to both data and power at all times.

So, there are various rendering and other game processes that just run locally on the Steam Frame, via ARM hardware, where for a chonkier game, the core game processes are running on the Steam Machine, and the two share a highspeed, local, wireless datalink.

To get all that to work, well, linux x86-64 instructions need to be interpretable on ARM, thus, make a new translation layer, FEX.

That this means some APKs in their entirety should now just generally be able to run on a Steam Frame, solo… is essentially a side effect.

Not trying to ‘correct’ you, just trying to add more context.

… A prominent cultural meme that is widely adopted… literally is a natural evolution of language.

This is the extremely common and normal method by which languages change over time, which, with the exception of conlangs, they all do.

Go back to 1950 and tell an American English speaker that a song ‘is fire’. Tell them that Elvis is just aura farming. Tell them that their fit is lacking.

They will be confused.

Take an American English speaker from 1950 to the present, and they tell you somebody made a boner at the lollapalooza they were last at.

You probably will not understand that to mean that somebody made a moderately significant mistake at a raccous party, like spilling their drink on the host, or bringing the wrong side dish.

The machine would not make a mistake!