Posts by ares@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AQYbkzWZSS4yShZINE by ares@kolektiva.social
2022-12-12T01:21:31Z
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@evan or you stay and fightyou tell everyone in your network that it's not okay to surrender spaces to fascists without a struggleyou tell the people who've lost their jobs that we'll resist the new owner using his own wealth and resourcesyou provide an alternative example for all the normies still there that they don't have to be radicalized and recruited by haters and inciters of violence
(DIR) Post #ASrOq8Q7xAsGB0MgIC by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-02-20T04:58:38Z
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@seldo @benjedwards it's like talking with a well-read human beingsometimes you know more than they do, and you see the gaps in their knowledge, you understand the mistakes they're making, and seeing their mistakes clearly helps you clarify your own thoughts, and you're better for itsometimes the other person knows more than you, or makes connections you haven't, and you wind up learning something, and you're better for itsometimes the other person is a wack job who hallucinates bogus facts and tries to convince you to leave your spouse
(DIR) Post #AStDLYScNOXOmXfJtQ by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-02-21T01:58:08Z
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@seldo russians have a well deserved reputation for killing people accidentally on purposejournalists falling out of windowspassenger jet shot out of the skyby notifying them hours in advance they'd have to do it purposely on purpose
(DIR) Post #ATAugApR29KPHnjcuG by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-01T05:19:52Z
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@vortex_egg Everyone I know is overwhelmed and burned out by this shit, it's daunting and never-ending, and it feels hopeless.It's important to take care of yourself and recognize that you can only do so much.I take inspiration from the dedication @pluralistic wrote in his book "radicalized":"This isn't the kind of fight we win, it's the kind of fight we fight.”
(DIR) Post #ATCfCVDispSqbTdGJk by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-02T09:39:26Z
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@ct_bergstrom @emilymbender So frustrating how conversation about #LLM and #ChatGPT completely misses the most important point.We're so easily distracted by #SciFi questions like whether it's a mind, is it sentient, will it destroy humanity.(No, no, and maybe.)The most important point is that we (rightly) fear AI run amok because we (rightly) fear #capitalism run amok.Yes, it hallucinates bogus facts.Yes, it can be tricked into acting like a creepy stalker.No, it doesn't simply predict the statistically most likely next word in a sequence.It actually has an internal model of concepts and relationships, and can draw meaningful and truthful insights that are useful to humans.In many cases, it's more useful than search engines or Wikipedia.It's a powerful tool, and like all powerful tools, it will be used for good and for evil.And you can bet that the evil uses are currently being accelerated and amplified by billionaires and profit-seeking corporations exploiting workers and customers and subverting democracy to enrich themselves.Same as it ever was.That's why the real point is that we need non-profit public-benefit organizations to drive safe and positive and trusted uses of this technology.The Internet Archive, Wikipedia and craigslist are good examples.The genie is out of the bottle. We can't wish this technology away.Let's ensure it gets used for good.Let's ensure humanity has a fighting chance against capitalism amplified by intelligent machines.
(DIR) Post #ATF6THzVaEheukxx2G by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-03T07:25:47Z
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@ML2 I find it hilarious that some people actually think that a tool that does such a dreadful job sawing boards could be useful for any purpose whatsoever
(DIR) Post #ATFG428gNnvY3IqwjI by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-03T16:38:05Z
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@ML2 I asked SageMath to compare conflicts in Spanish society before the 1936 fascist coup to politics in the US today, and it was a miserable failure.Clearly SageMath cannot do tasks that require any use of logic or real-world knowledge.
(DIR) Post #ATeR4AsWuator0o0bw by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-15T16:06:54Z
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@davidgerard anybody saying it's just fancy autocomplete doesn't understand what's happening
(DIR) Post #ATmwlfd56lpeWPTnKy by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-03-19T23:16:23Z
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@simon @madewulf fascists seize power by creating catastrophes that they then propose to solve by suspending democracythey'll profit politically and financially from the very chaos and destruction that they cause
(DIR) Post #AVzlZKjvEa8gcH8sRE by ares@kolektiva.social
2023-05-24T23:28:12Z
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@lowqualityfacts write a headline that will make everyone on mastodon take pleasure in the misfortune of others