feralrobots.bsky.social
Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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Yeh I usually think of it as a metal so putting it that way has extra-unhealthy connotations for me.😜
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... as for the 'you do know how to use a search engine, do you?' crack...seriously? That's basically begging someone to tell you 'go f* yourself.' Someone pulls that shit in a conversation with me, I pretty much tune them out right away.
& so, muting you.
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Singularity makes me absolutely nuts. Gotta snort mind boggling quantities of handwavium to get from stochastic parrots to AI Superintelligence controlling all supply & creation chains with no human input (a pretty basic requirement for Singularity).
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Dude, you've got a chance here to engage with a couple of people (neither of them me) who are very experienced in these matters & you're choosing not to do so. That doesn't lead me to believe your blog stack is gonna be very educational for me.
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It’s legit funny that we’ve got like a third of the population obsessed about the purity of their food when the actual problem is they can’t walk past their mailboxes without running into serious structural issues and social stigma.
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& let's not even get started on the weird internal infighting in biking politics. There are literally pro-biking factions that militate AGAINST bike lanes.
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Also if one knows a bit about the history of right-wing anti-government extremism in the US, these assassinations happening in Minnesota is not at all surprising. It has a more-paranoid flavor in MN/IL than in, say, ID/WA/OR/WY, & might be more ideologically militant.
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Were they white?
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Meanwhile there are people out there trying to do it & learning from that.
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OK so from what I can see in "like, the whole thread" your solution for 'capture resistance' is 'make sure it's got all the features, but in a way that's not vulnerable to takeover by billionaire ideologues.'
Strikes me as a bit like "How to Do It".
youtu.be/tNfGyIW7aHM?...
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Mutual interest suffices.
For deterrence: Musk still has fingers into DOGE, but at the end of any internal fight the Trumpists would still control the rubble. Basically MAD, though.
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Of course. It increases the investment of the populace. Israelis are big on the whole 'we live in a fortress surrounded by hostiles' mindset, this just enhances that, which if you're Bibi Netanyahu is a good thing.
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The point of the study is to gin up the narrative that LLMs aren't qualitatively different from persons.
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OK. So what way is that?
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You foreground this, as you claim 'nothing happened in LA'?
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You are not helping.
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"A flaming, spinning logo."
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1. What I'm hearing you say is "never try."
2. ... That having been said, I do not see you having made a case for that.
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"They're...fighting."
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...also, this response to the comic struck me for 'Curtain is blue' discourse resonates with generative "AI" hype: If the raven is just a bird & writer is just putting a bunch of stuff together for us to randomly interpret, then LLM slop is NO DIFFERENT FROM literary work!
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I'm over here chuckling because while I imagined him using a process, this process is far more rigorous & goal driven than I'd expected. If I tried to do it his way, I'd make dreck. Just demonstrates how differently we can work.
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So often when we say stuff like this, we get someone parroting Hemingway back at us. As though we should be taking the word of someone whose stuff often works BECAUSE OF how un-self-aware he can be.
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we’re going to end up in a full scale Iran/Israel war so Bibi doesn’t have to stand trial
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Now, me, I've been allergic to the term "liberal" since probably 1972, but that's because I was raised conservative. In my household "Liberals" were regarded as at best dupes & more often actively unamerican commie-simps.
Now I guess "liberal" roughly means "establishmentarian."
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So what I'm hearing is that "Liberal" is the label you use for people who do stuff you don't agree with.
Reality is of course that you don't actually have a way of knowing how other people classify themselves.
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Some Nigerian expats have also noticed a strong bias to flag Nigerian English, too.
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That's an interesting transformation of the kind of thing they used to mean when they said 'the self-driving car isn't the expensive part, the expensive part is the road it rides on.' We've just shifted the cost from infrastructure to knowledge about infrastructure.
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Strong 'no true protestor' vibe I'm getting from you.
I absolutely guarantee you that there will be many people at real, unstaged protests who would call themselves "liberal" when they don't think they're about to be judged for it.
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Occurs to me this can also be seen as ushering in the kind of military cosplay that party elites in 20th century fascist regimes loved so much.
My sense is the Italians went in for this stuff more than the Nazis, but happy to be corrected.
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Counterpoint: Maybe it's big enough to be worth capturing, but doesn't shake out as cleanly as you think. E.g. that subset you dismiss because it really annoys you may have people in it who are really important to others, & once you isolate it, what's left isn't big enough to be worth capturing.