ryehow.bsky.social
Environmental public health scientist.
Owner, Bear & Bee Bookshop @bearbeebooks.bsky.social .
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"It'll be risotto tomorrow" is a fantastic threat that we should use more often
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ah, that classic blunder: "never go in against a trans person when gender is on the line"
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I can't say I'm surprised by any of it, but wow, it's still shocking, every day. Worst of all is the glee with which they are embracing fascism. Horrifying.
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that really bugged me -- setting off a phrase with a comma on one side, and an em dash on the other? getouttaheah
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I like that, after going after the left and right, she closes with a little jab at trans people. Stay classy Bari
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No one in the field is "debating" whether AI has conceptual representation of the things it manipulates. It has none.
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Not true; they have zero conceptual frame, only local linguistic facility. If AI *understood*, it would know that a human has five distinct fingers, instead of arbitrary fingerlike glop. The number of "r"s in "strawberry" would be easy. But no; an LLM is just autocomplete with a trillion parameters.
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It's welfare Cadillacs all over again
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Can't be done; you'd have to Pig Greek them and I don't think the theory for that even exists yet
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Bring it!
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If you think the LLMs "understand" the science, you don't remotely understand how they work. That ain't it. (Hint: Consider the second 'L'.)
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This is a profound misunderstanding of the design and function of LLMs
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This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
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Have you read Illich's 'Energy and Equity'. Outstanding, highly recommended, and very pro bike 😄
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I do like that Zuck has the whole universe *and* the metaverse to choose from, and he puts them in a high school gym sitting on metal folding chairs 🙄
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oh wow that's incredible! thank you for making it!!
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Better than the original name, "Tim's Holes"
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See, I read "random notes" as meaning "beep boop beep" and I have to admit I'm a little disappointed 😞
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(I wrote "pretty clear" but I guess Grok heard me and stepped in to fuck up my toot)
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The court filing looks pretty contrast. Could the Army's Xitter just be making it up? Or maybe it's a Grok hallucination?
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A question. I'm pleased and proud at the backbone all these folks have shown, but surely they will eventually get to one who will cave. Shouldn't each one at least stall for a couple days? Why resign so quickly? Seems to me they should drag it out!
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You have no business lecturing Parker Molloy, of all people. Step back.
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do you mean he was 42 when he died, a thousand years ago?
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MAKE AMERICA PANGEA AGAIN
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I hope, at least, that you are allowed to use the bathroom in all the states you visit 💜
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what!! Painless Parker is name-dropped in one of my all-time favorite Captain Beefheart songs, but it never occurred to me that he was real!
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I for one welcome our new scraggly overlord
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nailed it — !
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dude I played Galaxian in the arcade in 1980. Back when games were good. It still ain't a title exactly dripping with dignity
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Not sure that an anime-addled kid titling themselves "Galaxian" is really in a place to lecture anyone about dignity. But you do you
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that's... pretty good, actually.
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Whether the brain is sexually dimorphic or not is irrelevant for this purpose (& most others). If so, it's only slightly, detectable on average over a population. You can't look at a brain & say whether it's "male" or "female", any more than you can determine someone's chromosomes from their height.
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Wow, she's really dug into the "it's biology & I never had any choice" route. Which, yeah, but also a little evasive -- and I def don't believe that "medical scans have since confirmed my predominantly female brain biology". OTOH, nice to see how quickly she arrived at the defense of "my community".
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Do you know where they are working?
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Coward.
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deliver us, 2014 YR4
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I mean, first of all, if some 19-year-old broccoli-headed SpaceX dork comes into your office -- log the hell out of everything, turn the computers off, and walk away, for God's sake. Do not let them touch your logged-in computer 🤨
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Are "DOGE" "employees" actual, legal employees of the US government? (And if not, why the hell is he defending them?)
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did they even have evolution in 1956??