angryknees.bsky.social
I'm trapped in your computer! Smash your screen and let me out!
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I'm so curious what compells publications to so nearly universally have the credulity of a 7 year old when it comes to the subject
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I hate to be pedantic, but "Web3" is not "Web 3.0". The former is cryptoshill nonsense, and the latter is an older cool idea from Sir Tim Berners-Lee of a "semantic web" that is more standardized and therefore machine readable
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A club in my area is doing a Harry Potter themed drag show, and like, excuse me???
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A less scrapable, decentralized web on top of the existing tcp/ip infrastructure is a good start. Although video distribution, monetization, and user by-in are non-trivial issues. Doesn't help that crypto scammers really took the oxygen out of the room re: decentralization with their "web3" nonsense
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The quote is cliche but often true. "It's easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
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It felt like a cheap attack on a strawman of degrowth though the lens of a weird blend of FDR styled social liberalism though a Clintonite perspective, while hoping some magical technology will save is from its obvious ecocidal implications
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It's definitely in the realm of poe's law
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Don't worry, Chuck Schumer will write their director a strongly worded letter and will introduce a resolution to urge the OPM to reduce his yearly bonus.
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Totally, also why I like to add on that this hypocrisy isn't a mistake or really even a contradiction when we take into account these ghouls unironically believe in eugenics and capitalist meritocracy. They don't want poor and marginalized folk to be healthy, they want them out of the "gene pool"
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I guess this is the stumbling block of using individualizing language for a problem with broadly systemic origins.
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Despite the economic devastation, praying for the "AI" bubble to finally collapse
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🤓
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I'm around that age and the whole OJ thing was still echoing through culture when I was a kid growing up in the 2000s
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It feels like a lot of times the unhoused and the economically precarious are viewed less as actors with their own political agency, and instead more akin to wildlife. An externality to be managed.
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The social need to unquestioningly fall in line behind political leadership is the very mentality that allowed for the rise of Trump. You cannot oppose authoritarianism with authoritarian thinking.
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Their logic seems contradictory until we remember that these people pushing this stuff are very literal eugenicists. This is just the so-called "libertarian" road to eugenics
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It's part of my cope about these things as a nightmare propaganda tool. The larger the model, the more training data, the less you can feasibly filter.
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Banger skeet, no notes.
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The media has claimed masculinity is in crisis for well over a century. In this specific case, it feels like a convenient way to avoid recognizing that Tate really isn't that different from the patriarchal masculinity taught by these boys' uncles and fathers, just made more cartoonishly naked.
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I know the actual point is just techno-fascist surveillance. But what in the ever loving fuck is the actual use case that would make any third-party actually want to integrate this.
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I've heard "leaks" are marketing strategy these days. But also rapping is really decoupled from the production. You can get a rapper on the mic with just a loop, without needing the full beat to be finished, and just leave it on the backburner. Can't really do that with most genres
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"Agentic" language models as middleware for non-NLP tasks is largely an attempt to dodge the forethought and talent required to create traditional systems. Heuristics, well designed UIs, and bespoke ML models all require smart people, and therefore money. Dilbert Principle at its most malignant.
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Anarcha-felinism
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Really asking the bold questions like "how can we make municipal democracy fascistic"
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The issue is that these apps are stunning tools of epistemological control, so it's important to ensure a single party doesn't have too much decision making power over the network. Look at how easy it was for Musk to buy Twitter and turn it into a planetary-scale fascist propaganda network.
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Someone I was talking to a while back on bluesky said she preferred the phrasing "economic democracy," which I find delightful
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Even beyond the stratification, this deeply damages the goal of decentralization, even with their delegation to "trusted verifiers," does it not?
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There's the problem that your average american can't imagine the social ownership of the means of production, so they redefine "socialism" as either the social democracy of 20th century capitalist europe, or the authoritarian state capitalism (mislabeled as state socialism) of the soviet system.
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I think that's a perfectly fine way of conceptualizing it. A casual reader doesn't need to understand the transformer architecture and how it approximates semantic meaning in order to understand that an autoregressive language model isn't a machine mind.
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The "effective altruism" crowd has already decided to believe a god-like AI is inevitable. It's not a huge jump to go from believing a language model is a magical machine mind, to believing it's a machine god. What happens when part of the population believes Musk is selling them access to a god?
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I don't think inference-time scaling is really a useful part of this discussion, and the letter guessing description is fine enough to describe autoregressive language models to a causal audience.
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Find your nearest source of ambient temperature stagnant water and throw some instant coffee in it. If Ambient temperature is below freezing, you might have to do a bit of extra chewing.
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Bookchin's most online warrior
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lol the bot even stole benn's face from the screencap
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ngl was a little jealous of that shirt when I saw it
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Yeah, I'm sure that two hour sessions with an entire team at some strip mall karate center lead by a retired rent-a-cop was totally super useful
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Fwiw transformer-based language models are actually really useful for specific natural language processing tasks, but obviously that's not what the business bros are focused on because there's infinitely more money in slop shoveling than there is in niche data science applications
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And then you have the unhinged superposition of stunningly intelligent and bewilderingly stupid that is Nick Land
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Middle East Eye article citing a single poll conducted by a organization specifically dedicated to promoting a pro-palestinian platform. Don't get me wrong, if it helps push towards ending the genocide, I respect the game, but at the same time let's not delude ourselves on how much Americans care
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It's worth noting that this narrative that she actually lost significant vote share over the matter, isn't actually supported by the data
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This is very comfortably within the extreme center. A core feature of the extreme center is a myopia able to make minutia within the hegemonic ideology seem major. Someone who gets all their liquids from soda will swear massive differences between nearly indistinguishable brands of cola.
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Agamben has entered the chat
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Not that sort of "play" lol. By "identity play" I mean a sort of recreational activity (play) does in service of creating and reinforcing one's self-identity. In this case, the self-identity is reinforced through play by engaging with ingroup-outgroup dynamics.
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The extreme center is sweating hard
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The "Apple Store-like experience" stuff is just a selling point. When they say they want government to work like a tech company, they mean they want it to be the dictatorship of an unelected plutocrats working at the behest of a small group of capital owners.