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Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

Morning chatter on AI alignment spurred a bit of ironic and lazy cybernetic philosophy. I think Rorty’s contingent liberalism could be an interesting starting point for an alignment research program. www.perplexity.ai/search/9ab37...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

At this point, censorship will just be privatized. It will side-step the first amendment worries quite neatly. We’re certainly in the right frame for it to happen, and distracted enough to not oppose it coherently. This is the human alignment problem, if you like.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

New favorite incantation. First prepare your spellbook. ``` git config --global alias.recent-branches '!f() { count="${1:-5}"; git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count="$count" refs/heads/ --format=" %(refname:short) (%(committerdate:relative))"; }; f' ``` Now: `git recent-branches 10`

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Is #shitvibing a thing yet? You just vibe code your way to a shitpost of a computer program. Earlier I made a game which is just clicking through tutorial dialogues. That's the game.

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Today in software engineering, a website I needed to use was broken. As it loaded I saw it show and then remove a button I needed. I opened the web developer tools and throttled my connection. The website worked afterwards and I shared a good laugh with my coworker. 🥲

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

submitted 91 days ago • 72 comments

"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

submitted 91 days ago • 151 comments

Kudos to Mapquest for this brilliant bit of fun marketing

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 110 days ago • 1291 comments

When it comes to these executive orders, I need more states with Democratic governors and majorities saying, simply, “That shit is illegal. We ain’t doing that. Sue us,” and go on with business as usual.

submitted 111 days ago • 15 comments

American conservatism is rooted in a profound, unwavering commitment to bizarro versions of the Constitution and Christian Scriptures that exist nowhere else but in the right-wing universe

submitted 113 days ago • 19 comments

During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly took hundreds of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry from their homes and held them in incarceration camps. Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for defying the government’s order and refusing to go to the camps.

submitted 113 days ago • 11 comments

Join us today at 8 PM EST for our Know Your Rights training to learn how you can protect immigrant communities facing the threat of mass deportation.

submitted 113 days ago • 6 comments

Morning dose of good in the world. I just started a new job, so these quiet morning moments with my cat are that much more precious. I love this little cinnamon roll.

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Signal boosting some whimsy as a respite in these dark times

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

submitted 121 days ago • 484 comments

Just to see the full scope of their acting range, I want to watch a movie where Karl Urban plays Gary Oldman opposite Gary Oldman playing Karl Urban.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵

submitted 137 days ago • 52 comments

Anyone else have a favorite video game for dissociating your way through a cold? Mine is Civ VI. Can't sleep all day so I may as well go conquer Russia.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

submitted 140 days ago • 61 comments

My moment of zen this morning

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

submitted 171 days ago • 130 comments

This looks cool. Virtual clay sculpting for the ipad. sculptura.app (noted in a Discord server I'm in where the creator just announced the 2.0 release yesterday)

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

submitted 171 days ago • 1318 comments

The simple joy of seeing your cat enjoy a warm south facing window

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

. @translunar.io thought of you at the Asian Art museum when I realized Guanyin, bodhisattva of compassion is sort of canonically trans. Depicted masc in first Indian appearances and becomes increasingly non-binary and femme as Buddhism spreads to China en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

An ethical counterpoint on datasets made of public information: if I publish some writing which is critiqued or included in a meta-analysis, I don't expect I can force retraction of the critique or meta-analysis without my data. See also: death of the author and remix culture.

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment