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Buddhist mendicant. Pali translations at https://suttacentral.net. I talk suttas at https://discourse.suttacentral.net. Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io/. Writings: https://sujato.me/ repost = read this! 🚫 AI
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War is bad and they are always lying to you. International tensions are not resolved by bombing, because the people are still there. Being bombed doesn’t make them give up. It ignites them with fiery resolve. Meanwhile, the criminals in their suits and ties gloat and golf and count their cash.

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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: F&%k! “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather of the tech firm Stripe and the climate monitoring group Berkeley Earth. “We’re actively moving in the wrong direction..." apnews.com/article/clim...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

“Natalism” is the imposition of dogma (-ism) in birth (natal-). Whether it is pronatalism or antinatalism is an implementation detail: both forms assume that a woman’s body is the appropriate site to implement the outcomes of moral theorizing.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Quick poll! Who thinks about gay sex more? ☐ gay people ☐ religious weirdos

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 8 days ago • 115 comments

The past month, I've been thru Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Australia, three very different countries, with majority Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian respectively. One thing they have in common? Universal health care.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

AI is a delusion machine. Stories like this are horrifying, but what they miss is that AI is *always and only* delusional. Its purpose is to fool humans. Some people fall specularly off the edge, but every user is slowly colonized with machine Unthought. #butlerianjihad

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments