I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:
Ok, bigger instances ban more often. Not surprising, because they have more communities and more users and more trouble. But hang on, dbzer0 isn’t a very big instance. What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?
Ok, so lemmy.ml, dbzer0 and pawb are issue an outsized amount of bans for the number of users they have… But surely the number of communities the instance hosts is going to mean they have to ban more? Bans are used to moderate communities, not just to shield their user-base from the outside. Let’s look at the number of bans per community hosted:
Seems like dbzer0 really loves to ban. Even more than the marxists and the furries! What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?
Raw-ish numbers and calculations are in this spreadsheet if anyone wants to make their own charts.
Uhuh. Which “basic education” teaches you that? What is it specifically about “neurons and electrochemical signals” that causes them to result in consciousness
All of them. And none of it is relevant to computer programs which aren’t capable of consciousness in any way shape or form or of suffering or of intelligence in any way we would consider living. LLMs can never be genuine AI or AGI or whatever you want to call conscious intelligence. Until computers can fully simulate a near human equivalent brain and central nervous system (and we’ll have a very hard time ever building a powerful enough computer to do that) anthropomorphizing a fucking computer program in any way is fucking stupid. Maybe start with some proof or evidence of your position before saying stupid shit like “we shouldn’t use AI because it might suffer.” No it can’t, and it’s not AI, it’s a shitty predictive algorithm.