To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.
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- 5 months
Computer users are stupider every day. The internet was a mistake, or at least we should have required some kind of license to access it.
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Today is 11827 September 1993
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To be fair, LLMs can repost the same crap much faster than my tired
furryhuman operator hands can. - T156@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
In fairness, this isn’t an LLM issue, but a poorly made bot issue. An old fashioned bot would be equally vulnerable to doing it, assuming it isn’t one.
- VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish5 months
For anyone who opened this link in the GitHub mobile app and got confused, make sure to read from the very beginning of the comment thread - the mobile app only shows the very last comments, which cuts out the actual interesting part.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
Thanks for the notice! Did not know Microslop does that on the mobile render.
- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
In fairness, it is off-topic, since a lot of it is more commentary about AI, rather than talking about the repo, or the issue. The only comment that could arguably be relevant is the person saying that the user could also use
CTRL-Dto exit the program.The repo might be for an AI tool, but I’m fairly sure that the bot isn’t itself LLM-powered. It’s just your basic generic bot.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
Yeah it’s like the Microslop AI is so committed to the importance of smelling its own farts.
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Funny but I have an itch to note that this is a simple infinite loop, not a recursion.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
What is capitalism if not recursion? Spending more and more resources on falling into a bottomless pit.
5 monthsNot to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
What does capitalism do but logically terminate resources?
But note taken. I just think the comparison is inspiring.
Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.
Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the “base case”. In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.
I did say I was being pedantic :P
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Oh, I meant the ping pong loop of the GitHub bot and it was pure technical nitpicking. But since you’re asking, the definition of recursion is a function calling itself. I find it difficult thinking about capitalism as a single function. For me it looks more like running an infinite loop on finite resources. But applying a technical term as a metaphor leaves a lot of room for interpretation, so there is no right or wrong
- 5 months
So it’s stuck in a loop but also can hide replies coming from any source but itself.
Awesome job there, Gemini programmers.
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One hundred billion dollars worth of GPUs (and all the RAM they can hoard) hard at work, ladies and gentlemen. Of course Slopya Nadella needs more data centers.
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Ignoring the AI going haywire for a bit - what is that feature request? I seriously can’t wrap my head around it. What even is the point it’s trying to make?
- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
From what I can tell, they want the program to close when you write
exitinstead of/exit. Guessing it currently does the latter, and does a “did you mean/exit” sort of thing.- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
I understood it as enabling
exitin addition to/exit. It’s honestly a reasonable request unless “exit” is already an internal keyword. I assume the presence of “/exit” in the text also somehow affects an effect on the Microslop botmisbehaving.- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
I don’t think it was. It was them putting the triage tag on themselves that seems to have put it into a loop, at least going by the progression of events.
The user put on the tag, the bot removes the tag, because only maintainers can put that on, and then puts on the tag, after which it removes it because someone who wasn’t a maintainer put the tag on.
I could see
exitbeing an issue if you’re doing something in the CLI that might cause you to type that without passing it as a command (“What do you want the program to do after the task is complete?” “Exit”), but I’m not familiar enough with the program to say one way or the other.
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To understand recursion, first you must understand terminal capitalism.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish5 months
Instructions unclear, I now support the Frente Patriótico Eduardo Artés.
