quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu
Journalist and essayist.
Internet and technology burnout... I know too much about the net.
I'm a bit like if a trivia board game came to life.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
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I swear your post was to the tune of 'we didn't start the fire 'in my head and it was amazing.
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sooo fermented. but also i'm a vegetarian soooo
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thanks i hate it
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(but also actually thanks)
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Yeah, both of those are ok, NZ only goes insane every once in a while, but is mostly ok. Sadly Iceland has nothing a normal human can eat as food that isn't imported from Europe.
*Icelanders that eat what they do to fish don't count as normal humans
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Denying a healthcare or any other resource is always a matter of human policy. They may, and often do, hide cruel policies behind computers, but technology is no more guilty than a locked door. Accountability always ends with people, and if they're pointing at a machine, they're lying.
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I believe healthcare is a human right, and technology, including AI, doesn't bear on that at all, except in ways it can assist effective universal healthcare. ...which it probably can, in cases like drug discovery or understanding disease processes.
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This piece was mostly based on the non-generative forms, and I'm clearly not against them. Like all technology, I definitely believe it is neither good, nor bad, nor is is neutral, per Kranzberg.
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That's very Orange County.
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I've been pretty critical of the big LLMs and image generators, (and will be even more) but I'm not really anti AI as a concept. It could really help us with a lot of the big issues of our time, *if* we used it right. Which we are not right now.
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Oh, yes. Yes they are. They are not going to rescue America. Not at all.
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honestly i just look for any excuse to use that gif
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yeeeeeesssss 😂
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it's like any time someone makes a point you're screaming LOOK AT THE DEAD BODIES and it's just fishing for thought terminating cliches
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There's actually a lot of procedural things the dems can do when out of power, the same things the gop did to frustrate everything Biden and Obama tried to do for many years. But they're always trying to be more bipartisan. Good guys, that kind of thing.
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that person's tragedy has literally nothing to with what we were talking about, but it's shitty of you to try and use her suffering to incoherently score points on social media. Also, it's a weird shift, is it possible someone named after an ai thought experiment is, in fact, a bot?
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and far more comforting than the idea that these are real people, presumably driven insane by media and social media
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let me know how that's working out for you. ping me when congressional dems have done something, anything, to stop the rise of fascism.
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That literally has nothing to do with what he's talking about. They were killed in their homes by a crazy Trump supporter. They weren't holding forth on the state floor or something. Stop using their deaths to justify letting dems off the hook.
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You might want to have a closer look at his voting record, he's not exactly the worlds bravest progressive.
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And then he went right back to Washington and voted yes on the crypto currency scam that is the genius act.
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I kind of wish I could study the left coded bots... like, why?
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But is there any reason to believe him?
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At least he'll always regret making that stupid face
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There was a time that everyone believed every pamphlet pressed into their hand, because how would anything get printed if it wasn't true?
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I still think mostly people doing that just don't have the literacies to engage in the subject, but they're kind of forced to by the situation. When you think about how technologies interact with societies historically, the learning curve is always absolutely buck wild.
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is that pointed at me?
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The thing is, having a service that is walled off from admins isn't that hard, and a combination of policy and technical measures guards a lot of data in this world, but I doubt a government would ever be willing to impose those limits on itself.
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email is a factor of authentication in most systems, still ergo just about all your most secret information is periodically proxied by email.
Also data nihilism is wrong, as in incorrect, and people can learn to manage and protect their data. Not all of it, but quite a bit.