socialwave.bsky.social
Early Internet/BBS Posse (86). Full-stack Drupal developer. Does marketing for small downtowns. Photographer. Former physical therapist. NAFO. Mostly here 👉 sfba.social/@sysop408
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Yes, it’s stunning how much even more harm you can do when you are certain that you just want to cause harm in the name of harm.
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OMG those are sad sad people who never left the dying hometown.
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Hey, if you jump on Mastodon, follow me there @[email protected]. Lots of Canadians there.
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Sounds right. I always secede when someone tells me to stop doing something that I was already thinking about ending.
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Being that I live in the San Jose area, we have lots of Persian friends and this conflict is an exercise of exhaust-usion.
Everything is oh shit-good-wait, oh shit or good-oh shit-no, good.
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Tiktok just shows you what makes you watch. If you're seeing endless tiktoks of white girls with black guys, its because the algorithm knows that you'll watch. Dude is hate-watching his way into a vicious spiral of racism.
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Dude, my comment was a reply in context to something, not a scold.
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I’m commenting on your correction that it’s Canada Geese not Canadian Geese.
The Geese were named after the ornithologist John Canada, not 🇨🇦.
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LOL. Occasional copy editor here. I see you.
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It’s white, but not 99% white. It also depends on where you’re at. In San Jose our protest got a large influx of brown people this time. I was one of a handful of brown people at our Hands Off protest. I wasn’t nearly so novel this time.
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Getting tossed in jail for nothing sure brings new meaning to “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
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I think what he means is that anyone staring down the barrel of a gun figuratively or literally are not going to be in for a discussion about optics.
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I throw up a little every time I see that phony be barely able to do a P.E. push up.
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On the contrary, Elmo agrees with YOU.
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This is some kind of kink. Jack Posobiec has the weirdest fucking Pride Month celebration I’ve ever seen.
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This is some kind of kink. Jack Posobiec has the weirdest fucking Pride Month celebration I’ve ever seen.
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Exactly, if you know that tool might fail 10% of the time, you may design fallbacks to catch it, but that adds complexity and eventually you may decide that you’d rather take one step forward every day than jump 10 steps forward only to randomly drop 5 steps back without warning. It’s exhausting.
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That’s how that project I worked on 20+ years ago fell apart. The AI couldn’t live without humans babysitting it. The humans got better every day. The AI remained flawed in the same way. Value proposition eventually tilted away from the AI because after 6 mos it was glorified Siri so project folded.
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This isn’t to say I think AI is harmless to skilled work. I like the research assistant analogy, but can’t buy into it diminishing the power of human judgement. We don’t need to win every metric. Win at things it does poorly and it may end up being more trouble than it’s worth.
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A flaw in AI dooming is belief that AI is actually smarter than humans or that our work involves mastering 3D chess. Even those of us with complex skills rely on patterns & reflex. We bet our lives on these being true. What good is a parachute that only opens 90% of the time? You tire of uncertainty
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We addressed it by having a human babysit the engine. A human filtered out the batshit insane responses. Gave the humans super powers initially, but thing is humans are good at learning. The humans got smarter over time and started ingesting the AI’s repetitive tasks and then we didn’t need the AI.
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Not just misguided, but that doesn’t actually fix the issue that you can’t trust the result. It’s like saying 4 out of 5 dentists agree that Soylent green helps you lose weight.
So OK, but they’re dentists. What if the 4 dentists are wrong? None of them know. It’s just an extra coin flip.
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It may be an inherent flaw of AI as we know it. I worked on more primitive AI engines 20+ years ago. We saw this exact pattern whenever we tried to fine tune it. We could either have “always not wrong and not exciting” or “sometimes spot on, but sometimes batshit insane.” Nothing in between.
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I think of that historian who posits that humanity has yet to avoid returning to a cycle of violence started centuries ago. He has a timetable for the intervals he expects certain events to happen as we lose generational wisdom and get demagogued into doing the bidding of the powerful. Was he right?
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Not sure if that’s as sound of a remedy as I once did. If I recall, 47 largely won the 1st time voter cohort. COVID distorted our social fabric, trust systems, & complicated the relationship with authority. Will we learn from this or will keep failing again b/c of poor education & magical thinking?
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I’m just super glad you didn’t have to find out one way or another. Glad for us down here too. We need Canada to stay sane if there’s any hope of getting out of this mess.
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We have this at my office check-in window… patients LOVE it! 🤣
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I will never forget how the brave women of Belarus surrounded and tore off the balaclavas of police and security officers in 2020.
This is Lukashenko's Belarus---arrest means beatings and torture. So damn brave. The men retreated and fled.
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www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Damn. I'd swear this woman was auditioning to be the next CEO of United Healthcare. Serious question... da fuq is Joni Ernst doing?!?