Posts by jakemiller@federate.social
 (DIR) Post #Ac3EHK7VUWizSAKmMi by jakemiller@federate.social
       2023-11-20T23:35:39Z
       
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       @ellie @Hey_Beth We don’t know exactly where LLMs are going, but there are tons of use cases. And they’ll also be used for things that they aren’t good for, and do massive damage to the users and the stakeholders around them. But they are real tech. Altman was CEO of a major SV incubator before this, so has social capital there. Part of the battle was apparently how fast to push the tech. Nonprofit had some concerns. Sam’s grabbing the $, and so is most of the team.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac3EHL7BnC44XTC2Vc by jakemiller@federate.social
       2023-11-20T23:56:27Z
       
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       @peteriskrisjanis @Hey_Beth @ellie I’m not sure what you mean by not “good at practical things.” I have been seeing a lot of chatter about it accelerating programming, for example. The art generators are replacing artists. (Not a great outcome, imo, but that’s a practical use.) @simon has been doing a lot of exploration of uses of GPT. (And this is all just using the chatbot. I prefer to use language models as a map of collective cognition.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AhZ8QTSuNgz5DZV6y8 by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-05-05T01:32:19Z
       
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       @futurebird If I won the lottery, I would consider opening an establishment called The Kite and Dart, which would have the appropriate tiling!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahf4eaoYcV1VCGraHw by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-05-07T22:18:18Z
       
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       @futurebird I think it’s the feel. The detail that he zooms in on gives the impression that the entire world is that full and rich, and it conveys this *feeling* of a possible future. (And it’s important writing because that’s as clear an example of the “Torment Nexus” as exists, inspiring half of Silicon Valley. Still.) IMO, Molly is the most sympathetic and rich character, as the reader and Case get behind her armor. Case mostly just lucks his way into survival.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiPtlM5XnnX2UAwnHE by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-05-30T12:27:41Z
       
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       @futurebird @JuliusGoat I wonder what could be done to get Trump supporters to put out yard signs that say “Trump is my asshole.”
       
 (DIR) Post #Aiv4CPqEDgy2ZnUXgG by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-06-14T13:20:05Z
       
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       @futurebird @albertcardona @doctormo @atomicpoet In tech, managers definitely see the importance of switching costs. Remember how Excel implemented all of Lotus’s commands? With communications systems including social media, the network of connections is the source of real value, which creates a huge motivation to stay. New platforms frequently are built via generational shifts…
       
 (DIR) Post #AjFZA20l0SiAkz1Fc8 by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-06-24T10:41:49Z
       
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       @futurebird So true. We haven’t been talking about how deeply rooted this cynicism and rejection of altruism and *duty* has become in US political discourse over the last 50 years. And when your voting bloc assumes that officials and civil servants are in it for themselves, they’ll give you permission to do exploit the system to enrich yourself. “The system is corrupt, so I’m fine if my side is.” (Disqualifying attitude, IMO.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AkA4RESngEL4pBCsym by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-07-21T16:56:09Z
       
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       @futurebird @icastico Because he misunderstands what it means to “seek asylum” he associated refugees with Silence of the Lambs. And he made a standup bit out of it, and got applause, and so it’s now a 2024 heavy rotation bit, in which refugees will eat you. Which tbh is not far off from the general tendency to equate immigrants to animals.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkWdA8Jt2Zssiijoae by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-08-01T14:08:45Z
       
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       @futurebird AI fork has six tines.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkzZzPlPBB8XMEe1zM by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-08-15T13:19:55Z
       
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       @futurebird In my county, we had 3 big unionized employers. They drove up wages for nonunion factories in the area. In the late 90s, the top paid plant went on strike and the buzz in town was that they were already overpaid, and were lazy. And protected shirkers. Very little public support for strikers. So there, it wasn’t about the bosses, but jealousy and a feeling that they violated the “work hard, get ahead” community ethic.
       
 (DIR) Post #Amzktl9os135SErxho by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-10-14T11:06:27Z
       
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       @futurebird This district’s school board was taken over by right wingers in the last election cycle. They are aggressively anti-trans and have been trying to push discriminatory practices up the legal line. They use guidance from an activist law group to define the line and here, they misunderstood or assumed incorrectly. Btw, this is in a middle school. (Source: I live between this SD and the one that tried to teach Intelligent Design 20 years ago.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AoT0BKj3rHPOEanxlw by jakemiller@federate.social
       2024-11-27T11:36:25Z
       
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       @futurebird As it drags on, with a hostile RW media, it might have broken out regardless. But consider a different counterfactual: a “traditional” Republican, who therefore doesn’t have Fox undermining him. 1. Trump was asleep at the wheel as COVID spread across China and then into Italy. No precautions were taken until it was in the US. No one else would have been. 1/n
       
 (DIR) Post #Ari9wpwAZ4QU9JFIZc by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-03-04T12:42:47Z
       
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       @futurebird I see the Big Men, Justice, and society’s rate of possible change as 3 separate issues. To my thinking, #3 puts real limits on when justice and rights can be delivered. I think Obergefell happened when it did because society changed (slowly) and that was the result of brilliant issue framing around love, as well as Will & Grace, and Ellen, and other incremental changes over the prior 20 years. Big Men want to roll it back, but it’s less possible bc US bought in.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ase0GSwue0wVTuKUEa by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-04-01T10:27:32Z
       
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       @futurebird Uninformed guess: they are two separate categories (hated vs detestable), and the increment makes them more memorable and impactful?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aupkdt8mEsjXWXwHBI by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-06-05T22:13:13Z
       
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       @futurebird Mouse bursts into the crew mess on the Nebuchadnezzar and shouts to the rest of the crew: “Curly is fighting Moe!”
       
 (DIR) Post #AxrbcZ5GwHPQ3St3Dc by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-09-04T13:17:52Z
       
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       @futurebird Sort of tangential… our rural/suburban PD requires the officers to do paperwork in their cars, throughout their service area. This increases visibility (and response time) without paying them to loiter. At a minimum, it slows down speeders, but also functions as PR for their tax money at work. (We have a weird setup where municipalities could contract with competing regional agencies.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AzV7xL305ov9kLCu92 by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-10-23T12:46:03Z
       
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       @futurebird If you haven’t seen this article already… it really reshaped my thinking on humanoid robots as well as a lot of other “AI problems.” Need the right sensors, and the right kind of training data…https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
       
 (DIR) Post #AzcZGbdwlg8Cidm3Ie by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-10-27T02:54:59Z
       
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       @futurebird @magicalthinking In the case of Fetterman, it wasn’t decided by early voting. He was running against TV’s Dr. Oz, who lived ostentatiously in New Jersey. Lots of people hoped that he would recover fully from his stroke and return to being fantastic communicator of progressive policies that he had been for many years. Many people who voted for JF are very disappointed with his performance; very few of them regret keeping Oz out of the Senate.
       
 (DIR) Post #B05c8ancJWoIyuaBxg by jakemiller@federate.social
       2025-11-09T11:45:43Z
       
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       @futurebird IIRC, Bill McKibben has proposed that DC builders fund grid improvements, residential rooftop solar, and most of all, residential energy efficiency investments, because adding generation capacity will take far longer to do. Efficiency lets DCs use power already on the grid. This would be a great benefit of this buildout, while being economically rational for builders. (We will have to see how many DCs actually get built before the music stops though.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Ocz7dju3cO1WO3Fo by jakemiller@federate.social
       2026-01-18T03:07:02Z
       
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       @futurebird @linuxandyarn @johntimaeus Sure it can(e)?