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Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes
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ack
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dialed in and toy story 4 were intriguing but i haven't put much time into either yet. i feel like for "new pinball" stern is lapping them though
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sucks because jersey jack felt fresh and new... but i look at recent pinball and honestly all the best contenders to me are stern
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he went to prison for sexting a 15 year old
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kinda startled jersey jack would even go for harry potter after all the [gestures]
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Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes.
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?
Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
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real millennial hours
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A previous story
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i think that at this point we simply do not have the data to draw broad conclusions. but qualitatively, these systems are offering horrendous advice to people in crisis because they're too sycophantic
futurism.com/stanford-the...
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it's dicey, i can see the argument both ways -- but i do think that in the court of public discourse, the anthropomorphization ship has sailed
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totally and it's linked in the story, as are these great pieces:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... by @milesklee.bsky.social
futurism.com/chatgpt-ment... by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @nitasha.bsky.social
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i'm honestly torn on this one... no, it doesn't have agency the way a human intelligence does, but it *is* an incredibly effective pattern recognition system that does (among many other things) pick up extremely well on emotional cues, albeit in bizarre and hard-to-control ways
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I feel like that's part of the exact problem -- they're trained on the internet, which is filled with people affirming conspiracies and delusional thinking. It's baked in!
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i feel like the bottom line is that if you're furious at someone else's sexuality, things are way off the rails
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i think everybody should f*ck the exact amount that they (and a consenting partner) want to, even if that amount is zero
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that sounds awesome, but the idea that the only way to get there is by ingesting everybody's creative work without permission to build a competing product that in the short term pollutes the entire internet with garbage is absolutely delulu
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this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, i just wanted to sh*tpost