What does a Jewish president have to do with fascism?

If you were wondering if chatGPT can do a sum of minterms here’s one I derived on the fly, I’ve attached screenshots of the conversation we had…

https://noc.social/@solomonschuler/115612999578616668

I just mentioned to a friend of mine why I don’t use AI. My hatred towards AI strives from people making it seem sentient, the companies business model, and of course, privacy.

First off, to clear any misconception, AI is not a sentient being, it does not know how to critical think, and it’s incapable of creating thoughts outside from the data it’s trained on. Technically speaking, a LLM is a lossy compression model, which means it takes what is effectively petabytes of information and compresses it down to a sheer 40Gb. When it gets uncompressed it doesnt uncompress the entire petabytes of information it uncompresses the response that it was trained from.

There are several issues I can think of that makes the LLM do poorly at it’s job. remember LLM’s are trained exclusively on the internet, as large as the internet is, it doesn’t have everything, your codebase of a skiplist implementation is probably not going to be the same from on the internet. Assuming you have a logic error in your skiplist implementation, and you ask chatGPT “whats the issue with my codebase” it will notice the code you provided isn’t what it was trained on and will actively try to fix it digging you into a deeper rabbit hole then when you began the implementation.

On the other hand, if you ask chatGPT to derive a truth table given the following sum of minterms, it will not ever be correct unless heavily documented (IE: truth table of an adder/subtractor). This is the simplest example I could give where these LLMs cannot critical think, cannot recognize pattrrns, and only regurgitate the information it has been trained on. It will try to produce a solution but it will always fail.

This leads me to my first point why I refuse to use LLMs, it unintentionally fabricates a lot of the information and treat it as if it’s true. When I started using chatGPT to fix my codebases or to do this problem, it induced a lot of doubt in my knowledge and intelligence that I gathered these past years in college.

The second reason why I don’t like LLMs are the business models of these companies. To reiterate, these tech billionaires make this bubble of delusions and fearmongering to get their userbase to stay. Titles like “chatGPT-5 is terrifying” or “openAI has fired 70,000 employees over AI improvements” they can do this because people see the title, reinvesting more money into the company and because employees heads are up these tech giants asses will of course work with openAI. It is a fucking money making loophole for these giants because of how many employees are fucking far up their employers asses. If I end up getting a job at openAI and accept it, I want my family to put me into a god damn psych ward, that’s how much I frown on these unethical practices.

I often joke about this to people who don’t believe this to be the case, but is becoming more and more a valid point to this fucked up mess: if AI companies say they’ve fired X amount of employees for “AI improvements” why has this not been adopted by defense companies/contractors or other professions in industry. Its a rhetorical question, but it makes them conclude on a better trajectory than “the reason X amount of employees were fired was because of AI improvement”

I just mentioned to a friend of mine why I don’t use AI. My hatred towards AI strives from people making it seem sentient, the companies business model, and of course, privacy.

First off, to clear any misconception, AI is not a sentient being, it does not know how to critical think, and it’s incapable of creating thoughts outside from the data it’s trained on. Technically speaking, a LLM is a lossy compression model, which means it takes what is effectively petabytes of information and compresses it down to a sheer 40Gb. When it gets uncompressed it doesnt uncompress the entire petabytes of information it uncompresses the response that it was trained from.

There are several issues I can think of that makes the LLM do poorly at it’s job. remember LLM’s are trained exclusively on the internet, as large as the internet is, it doesn’t have everything, your codebase of a skiplist implementation is probably not going to be the same from on the internet. Assuming you have a logic error in your skiplist implementation, and you ask chatGPT “whats the issue with my codebase” it will notice the code you provided isn’t what it was trained on and will actively try to fix it digging you into a deeper rabbit hole then when you began the implementation.

On the other hand, if you ask chatGPT to derive a truth table given the following sum of minterms, it will not ever be correct unless heavily documented (IE: truth table of an adder/subtractor). This is the simplest example I could give where these LLMs cannot critical think, cannot recognize pattrrns, and only regurgitate the information it has been trained on. It will try to produce a solution but it will always fail.

This leads me to my first point why I refuse to use LLMs, it unintentionally fabricates a lot of the information and treat it as if it’s true, when I started

Don’t use Firefox, as in, don’t use the official Mozilla release, even that has gone to shit. Pretty much everything has gone to shit, in terms of search results and web browsers. I use librewolf (a fork of firefox) on my laptop and Ironfox on my phone they both by default come with the security features by default. No AI generation built in the browser, no Firefox suggestions, no tracking, none of it. I’ve also stopped using standard search engines like google or DDG and replaced it with marginalia search. This combination has allowed me to eliminate AI generated content and tracking from my browsing experience.

If the proprietary CAD software is only offered on windows, You could always go with wine and install the application through that. Wine works well with most windows applications, only a few of them like proton drive is a bastard to install.

To clarify, as in setting a 1 billion dollar defense budget to traffic people into their head and tail relays in tor. But no government has had their head further up their ass to do such a batshit crazy thing.

I’ve personally started using KDE plasma shell version of fedora, its as close to being windows (in terms of technical functionality) without actually being windows. On top of this you have the fedora community, and in a time where access of information has gone to shit, you can be rest assured that someone will get to your question or you’ll find an answer to a question you may have on fedora.

I would say I’m fine supporting Microsoft by buying their laptops, I just don’t want it to be surveiled and capitalized off of through spyware in the OS. I suggest going used instead of new, reason being, you can get really good specs that makes the license practically free. My current laptop is a thinkpad E14, the previous owner loaded it with 40 GB of ram and a 1tb ssd with a ryzen 7 7730. I paid $400 for that machine. If you don’t mind going used with slightly older specs, maybe a haircrack or two, the payout is worth it.

Do not fully know the entire context, but based on what’s given, it seems you enjoy math or majoring in mathematics. I think this isn’t an overreaction on your end, this is asshole behavior.

To clarify, You have the option to learn math, you chose to learn math. I don’t think that’s greed or entitlement, you had the opportunity to learn math and you took that opportunity. Working comes into play when you are in a dire need to make money, and it seems you’re not in that current situation.

I was once questioning my self-worth, since I wasn’t working at community college. I remembered in 2023 I was doing arithmetic, and in 2025, exactly 2 years from when I started, I was doing multivariable calculus. Within 2 years I’ve surpassed every low expectation set upon me: people thought I was going to do a trade, I graduated with an associates in mathematics, and I’m now doing a bachelors in electrical engineering because I fucking can.

This random non has no idea of your back story, don’t let him get into your head and make you doubt your self-worth. If you plan on doing engineering or physics the math that you are learning right the fuck now will be applied. By the time you start working there will be so much fucking money that you won’t have a care going into debt. For fuck sake, I’m a sophomore, I could quit now and make $100,000 a year as an FPGA developer, technically speaking.

Collapse the current US government by changing a 1 to a 0

I got a thinkpad E14 off of eBay for $400. There was a slight haircrack in the hinge, but it came with 40gb of ram 1tb ssd and amd ryzen 7730u I believe. I always recommend looking on eBay first, it’s likely you can find a $1000+ laptop for $400 like I did.

Yea I’m trying out tuta it supposidly is end to end encrypted. My hope is that I’ll take a look at it, and see if I like it. It does have RSA encryption so from my preliminary testing it is believable.

My god, yes. Just yesterday I stopped using duckduckgo since even that has now become increasingly infuriating with AI. I’m using this search engine with no AI it’s based on database queries and to go to a specific website there is a small tab you can use. I love it because now I get to appreciate and use textbooks (whereas i would have chatGPT’d it) because of how limited the queries are and the limited selection. It’s not like google where it dumps the most relevant information at the top, you have to search for it. Anyways, if you were wondering it’s called marginalia search.

I unironically said this in my group chat, “proton mail is becoming more and more sketchy as being a privacy focused mail service” just like how signal is becoming more sketchy as a instant message service. There are things proton mail does such as logging activity that shouldn’t be the case as a paying customer, and yet here we are. When I request privacy I want it to be private, as in don’t give my data to anyone. it seems for that to happen it must be community driven and decentralized.

Yea, I had a server with a nvidia GPU that was orginially on windows. I went with ubuntu, and the installed nvidia driver (when ubuntu asked to install any drivers) gave a horrendous aspect ratio that didn’t fill up the entire screen. I had to uninstall the driver to get it to work.

Came from windows laptop that I got about a year ago, before then I was running unironically chrome os. I liked chrome os for it’s Linux features. So when I did go from my Chromebook to a windows, it wasn’t as fun. I also didn’t like all the spyware on windows, and this was the time when I was removing myself from the internet as if I didn’t exist, So it was inevitable I would switch.

The only reason why I haven’t switched earlier is because I am a university student (currently in electrical engineering) and I was concerned that I would be given an exotic application that my laptop cannot support on Linux. Then I learned the majority of students have macbooks, so if it doesn’t work for me it doesn’t work for them too. That’s when I made the conscious decision to switch from windows to Linux.

Currently trying out fedora workstation, it is like the Mac os of Linux operating systems (and that’s a compliment).

I’ve been using fedora workstation for about a month now, you really can’t go wrong with it. It’s great for laptop, there are also ways to customize it to work with a desktop. I am running it on amd CPU/GPU, so i don’t know how well it works with nvidia and Intel, I know some distributions do a really poor job managing the drivers. I don’t use CAD, but I have done FPGA design and programming (C/C++) and it works great. Haven’t done much gaming, all I have is minecraft installed, I could imagine you can install steam on there as well. Hope this helps.

It seems we are progressively moving back to an era where people will kill there children because they believe the devil is what’s causing them to have a seizure. Except now we have plenty of evidence that is not the case, and is being silenced.

There’s not sufficient proof?!?! No, there is no proof that Tylenol causes autism. Autism is a genetic disorder, you can’t relate the two as a cause-effect relationship. That statement is more shitty and delusional if you smash someone in the head with a metal bat it causes autism, or on a related note, the devil is what causes people to seize (as in the seizure disorder).