lazyblueberry.bsky.social
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Saw someone point out that in most authoritarian regimes they leave the pensions, etc alone.
Something tells me that very visibly dissolving social safety nets might not be the brightest idea.
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Problem with this is we are already in a recession, and we aren't running towards a deeper recession but depression.
Once that AI bubble pops it's gonna take the whole market with it.
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I'm that person at work constantly warning everyone else to keep their cellphone off work wifi and to keep personal convos off of teams.
I freak out every time I see someone log into a personal account on work equipment.
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And he's now threatening the EU. Hoover speedrun.
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I feel like I've seen this exact headline every 3 months for the past 4 years. At least.
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More than boomers judging by the reaction to Roe being repealed.
I've never understood the "they don't actually mean the horrifying things they say they want to do" crowd.
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A normal oligarch, yeah, that'd probably be more accurate. But with Musk trying to fuck around with funding for public programs via the Treasury - nope that's mob worthy.
Especially if he touches social security.
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After watching that imbecile stumble around for the last decade, I sincerely doubt he has the forethought to off himself before the mob comes.
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I'm expecting to see some of these people Mussolini'ed by the end of this shit.
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Out and about, I've found people just aren't paying attention. "It's too stressful."
As a queer person, I want to scream.
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Considering how many investors have bought into all these different grifts over the last 20 years, yeah they probably do.
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Easier than covering actual news - you know arresting elected officials for "checks notes" um voting no on a bill.
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
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At we'll all have entertainment watching the most incompetent clown car of dipshit nepobabies attempt to solve the impossible while we all starve.
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Which I don't think was their plan. I think they were hoping they could ride this grift much longer and everyone would blame economic collapse on tariffs and the heritage foundation machinations.
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I agree that's been their strategy. We'll see how effective it is when the bottom falls out.
Most Americans hate big tech - for a variety of different reasons depending on who you ask. And it looks like they're going to win the "break the economy race" instead of Trump.
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I'm not saying this is going to kill tech. I'm saying this is going to trigger a global financial crisis.
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But American big tech makes up 40% of the S&P 500. Last time you saw that kind of market consolidation was 1929.
Doesn't matter that smaller firms didn't completely buy in. This bubble popping is gonna cause a cascade.
A bunch of other bubbles in a bunch of countries are gonna pop too.
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Which is precisely why I've been apprehensive about the DSA. I've tried to join political action groups before and they never did anything.
It was just an excuse to socialize. I think I'll have more luck actually helping people with mutual aid orgs.
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True. I'm planning on researching what mutual aid orgs are in my area this weekend. Figuring out what to join.
Also thinking of the local DSA chapter, but I'm torn on how useful that'd be.
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Fair. I'm still learning and definitely in that "if I can figure out what will happen, I can prepare myself" phase.
Despite knowing full well, there is no "prepared" for a crash like this. Unless you have money insulation - which I certainly do not lol 😭
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That and sending over almost all of our manufacturing jobs as well as a good number of our white collar positions.
Might've been useful to have more people consistently employed all this time.
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Ah, okay. Perhaps I'm projecting too far in the future atm. Thanks 👍
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Possible. I'm still catching up on all this stuff so here's my -likely wrong- hot take:
I think it's more likely that if the BRICS alliance proves successful, we'll all be desperate to get whatever currency they create. Or just the Chinese Yuan 🤷♀️
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I'm not sure it's possible tbh. They've been trying to legitimize Crypto for over a decade now and most people associate crypto with rug pull meme coins, silk road, and stupid monkey JPEGs.
You need a certain level of consumer consent to switch currencies successfully.
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I work for a really small company, and upper management is exactly this stupid. It's all of them, everywhere. They're all this stupid.
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Adrenaline eyes. Is he sick?
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I read it as him being a snarky shit.
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My difficulty in labeling them errors is more the fact that these programs weren't designed to be answer finders. Is it an error of the program when you use Excel to create a PowerPoint instead of, you know, PowerPoint?
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I wouldn't even go as far as to say it's even the best fit. Depending on the generator, the response is different each time you run the same query. Image generators are notorious for this.
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Nope, I fucking refuse to call them "lies" or "hallucinations". I typically call them errors, even though that's also kind of inaccurate.
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This grift cycle honestly makes me miss NFTs. Aside from the incessant advertising, I could mostly ignore them. They won't let you ignore AI
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No it'll take quite a bit of the economy this time. Just the amount that Capital has been dumping into it and the fact that almost all of our economic growth is driven by these tech companies... I think it's gonna matter when this bubble pops
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This is the problem. This is from their conclusion.
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Yes you can do it that way, but with datasets this large, it's honestly impractical, if not basically impossible. It's why they haven't bothered.
The process you're describing is a human manual process that cannot be automated by these programs. These programs cannot tell the truth from fiction.
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What we do know is that these programs already give erroneous answers given the datasets they're currently using. If they're generating synthetic data from this dataset which again the entirety of the Internet is what they claim- the obvious conclusion is that synthetic data is erroneous as well
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I literally don't know what the hell you're on about at this point. You already know these programs are effectively black box algorithms, that nobody has access to. We don't know what they're trained on exactly, or how predictions are weighted.
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I'm not saying they're doing it to be evil. I'm saying they're doing this to appease the investment cycle. Tech is incentivized to find "the next big thing" like computers, the Internet, smartphones, and social media.
This is why LLMs are being pushed despite them having limited utility.
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I would also like to point out, even without synthetic data, these LLMs are already trained on "lies". The dataset is the entirety of the Internet, it's full of lies.
It's also full of jokes which a predictive text generator can't discern and is how you get the glue pizza answers
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research.ibm.com/blog/LLM-gen...
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www.thestack.technology/llama33-rele...
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lifehacker.com/tech/ai-is-r...
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These programs have always given erroneous facts. It's a byproduct of the actual design of the programs. They are, when boiled down, supped up versions of the kind of program that your phone keyboard uses to predict the next word you're likely looking to type next.
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This is why we're getting wild goose chase tech that has limited use (like LLMs) getting blown out of proportion or flat out snake oil grifting like NFTs
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The US economy has been reliant on the tech industry for continuous growth for the last 25 years but we've hit that wall where innovation has just slowed. Right now given technological constraints there is no new tech market to create that will just generate billions
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They have zero incentive to keep their machines from dispensing misinformation or putting out errors. GenAI just like the meta verse, autonomous driving, crypto, nfts, anything from the past decade tbh, is just the latest bullshit bubble
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Okay first, they don't lie they're predictive text programs. LLMs give factual errors because they're designed to give the most optimal set of words given a query. Not the most correct answer. They aren't designed to be the best answer giver, they give the "most likely" answer given a set of data.
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Yes, the median voter is incoherent, we KNOW THIS ALREADY. It's not novel anymore.
Voters know their material conditions - shit healthcare, everything being more expensive, enshittification.
The Dems should have run on a platform people want - Medicare for all, taxing the rich, jobs, antitrust.
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Oh they absolutely are, synthetic data. Data sets generated by ai because they ran out of internet to gobble up.
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I read that and felt like I had a mini stroke. Just completely incoherent.
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I'm amused the mainstream is still trying this angle when literally everyone online is still posting"claims adjuster" memes or sharing insurance horror stories