gadgetrat.bsky.social
Electronic Musician, Engineer, Technologist.
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Seattle, WA
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I love my partner and reptiles. They'd at least have to throw in a pair of pink sidewinders and a bright orange pair of pants to sweeten the deal.
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If Les Claypool can sail the seas of cheese, I would argue that nacho cheese is inherently the gravy of the standard tortilla chip.
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"...Fred Williamson. Hell yeah. From Dusk Till Dawn. Check.
...Pam Grier! Hell yeah, Escape From L.A. Check.
...Clint Howard...? Hell, throw him in, why not."
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"Yes, I relieved myself in the crustacean tank at a Red Lobster. Yes, I got a lifetime ban from every seafood restaurant in Cincinnati. BUT, The fact that I got banned and the radical woke staff threw me out into the street with pants around ankles, is ALL the proof you need that it had to be done."
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I don't know what that looks like. Inevitably, the honor system would break down, and the profit motive in content generation would have to be left behind to discourage the wasteland from reforming. Curation and moderation would be important, and it would have to be unbiased and unpolitical.
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True. For http and web content, it's dire—similar to someone 'pissing in the lemonade.' There's no easy filter for that.
I think we can salvage the idea of a "global village" and shared knowledgebase by transplanting them somewhere inhospitable to content slop but there would need to be agreements.
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I think we are going to have to head back to a version of the internet akin to the early or mid '90s that largely consisted of curated web rings and search engines with verified content.
I really wish the small community keeping gopher alive would use that as an opportunity to bring more people in.
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Decades from now, there will be an industrial accident caused by someone following an emergency manual that was written using AI and never checked for accuracy/relevance.
They'll be in the middle of trying to stop a runaway train and suddenly hit step six, which tells them how to train a dragon.
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Now I want a YouTube channel "Regular Car Reviews" but for cats. "Regular Cat Reviews."
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It always seems like traumatized people do the worst damage to peers, mostly because they don't know what to do with the damage.
It's sad really, because it does nothing more than isolate their own selves, even among those that could best understand them. I'm really sorry you had that experience.
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The radical act of creating something personal and sharing with others allows us to put something good and connective into a world that increasingly insists on being ugly and divisive.
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If anything, I'm just careful to mind what happens when all of us start relying on these tools that eschew certain word choices, wordplay, metaphor, and simile, because they are weighted to write stories based on their corpus rather than the kind of emotive exploration with which brains excel.
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There are like 20 different ways to say "poop" but an LLM will have the propensity to use a few of those over others based on commonality. I think we lose a lot of richness and variance and storytelling by limiting ourselves in structure and word choice like that. AI for composition Hastens that.
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There is this linguistic axiom that says we learn vocabulary from the people around us. But really, a lot of our word choices and dialogue come from exploration and playing with composition. One of my worries is that we will begin to see a narrowing in vocabulary and sentence structure.
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Just give me a Sharpie and I can upgrade it.
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I hope it isn't too controversial to say, watching the series has made me want Sanctuary Moon to be an actual standing show by itself.
I would unironically watch the shit out of it.
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Boosting good people is always a nice thing. I think the starter packs are a great way of curating a quality feed with community input and are way better than any kind of algorithmic suggestion.
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Yep, delete the comment. Slink back into the bushes. Excellent Anna. Excellent. Good job.
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No human mind is made to feel this amount of existential dread everyday. I've been trying to be extra lenient and kind to the people around me because it seems like the right (and only) thing I can do. But I do wonder how long this can go on. It surely isn't sustainable, for anyone.
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I have a hard time seeing how current trends get reversed unless certain producers ignore disingenuous campaigns of bigotry and simply tell a good story, or, platforms give voice to disenfranchised people. Both of those are in sore need right now, but I don't know how that would work in the climate.
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I guess the hard question I have here is, how would you reverse it? Would you have a TV showrunner and producer willing to take the heat and risk of alienating some of the audience? Would you try to get more grassroots voices out there, knowing that the distribution model has changed with streaming?
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The state I'm in limits me to two hot dog plants only, and just for medicinal purposes.
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I would really want to hear some remixes of the MarioKart soundtrack.
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Who has the money for a rig with 100s gigs of RAM, multiple server CPUs, and quad GPUs capable of rocking ollama or running NextCloud Assistant? Who doesn't have the money for access to a decent Internet connection, let alone ChatGPT Plus? It just seems like more digital haves/have nots in ways.
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So, Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness. If I can run my own model privately on my own HW, I don't have to have that outlay. Depending on how well my HW performs, I will spend more in monthly fees to access for inferior products just to get by. And some people will have to wear cardboard.
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I guess, if people are going to insist that these tools be integrated into everything and become a part of our daily lives, I wish there was some kind of guarantee that we all had equal access to them, regardless of our economic status or ability to pay or other limiting factors.
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We could see situations where one analyst with the money for an advanced model and endless queries can do all of their work in hours where another analyst without that $20 or $40 every month needs to wait for a refresh or use a worse model.
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$20 a month for ChatGPT Plus with unlimited 4o doesn't isn't a big deal right now because we're in this strange middle ground where people are still shoving these tools everywhere, trying to fit them into everything, even if it doesn't make sense. But when they become embedded, it could get worse.
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While AI has the potential to displace whole groups of workers, I think there's also a danger in that it could pull apart and isolate groups of workers further by their ability to gain access to advanced AI tools and platforms.