Posts by trochee@dair-community.social
(DIR) Post #Aj8viLMp8dVYx4TSIy by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-06-21T05:41:47Z
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"… superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie…, or a mathematician… proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."Ted Chiang has been ON IT for years and never missesSilicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fearhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
(DIR) Post #Aj8viNV3D1HFZAL3PE by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-06-21T05:44:13Z
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"we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations."I'll stop here, just go read the thing
(DIR) Post #AjWSEJBcR5kDegtdgG by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-07-02T14:13:09Z
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@dr2chase @futurebird @tshirtman Ads (and probably porn) are consent manufacture, see Chomsky's best work (IMO).And image generation has made it even easier to provoke lower brainstem feelings that smooth the conveyor belt in that manufacturing lineThe flood of those images lately feels like a siege on rational, local, community-oriented decision making
(DIR) Post #AkBp8kiiPsEAMuIiuG by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-07-22T03:43:18Z
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…this is an extremely online take, but I am impressed and mildly hopeful at how Biden's surprise announcement took all of the oxygen away from T's ear bandage and exacerbated messiah complex
(DIR) Post #AlA02bD7cHbk7MO4wa by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-08-20T12:58:35Z
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"I hope [D]emocrats will just ignore [red-baiting] and dismiss it without flinching. If someone called you a kangaroo would you spend time trying to prove you don't hop around?" — @futurebird YES. the Democratic Party is so far from Communism that even a mildly helpful social program (lunch in schools!) looks like the DPRK to the right. Like a parody of that New Yorker cartoon that shows "Manhattan, Staten Island, Jersey City, some stuff, California"https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112993865617246398
(DIR) Post #AnlCQYZTbwGVobQ1nU by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-11-06T06:56:27Z
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Americans have showed me that >50% of us are still racist, sexist assholes.I am angry and ashamed. Fuck.
(DIR) Post #Aol4P2KWwksVthOoE4 by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-12-05T16:43:34Z
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Just when I was starting to despair about the kid's video game habits— too much violence, thinly buried fash ideologies, awful strangers online, DLC extortion campaigns, etc —yesterday he asked to buyKERBAL SPACE PROGRAMI said yes on the spot That was the right callThough he was initially frustrated — wanted to start in free play without understanding the game — when he went through the tutorial he was entertained by the Kerbal pratfalls and GIDDY upon making it to suborbital space
(DIR) Post #AsxhGhwd9dnSSFs3ua by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-04-10T22:28:55Z
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@futurebird the seven stages of News Grief?
(DIR) Post #AtmBwS42P1pie2nQIa by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-05-01T14:01:27Z
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Look at this amazing business brain at workDrew Harwell: "Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)" — Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/post/3lo4foide3s2g
(DIR) Post #AubxW8Y5e85aBbyS8G by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-05-23T20:15:03Z
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If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mindLLM-powered chatbots are, correspondingly, Cybertrucks.
(DIR) Post #AujE6GeLxkxR6psDJo by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T18:40:18Z
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@futurebird I mean, I suspect that "space ant", uh, xeno-myrmecologists* might not recognize human cities as the behavior of "intelligence" either*"xenoanthropologist" just seems like the wrong phrase, even though they would be studying the collective anthropos in this instance
(DIR) Post #Auk6PiQkIKgSIPEOJc by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T19:05:13Z
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@Thebratdragon I for one welcome our vespoid overlords@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Auk6PjPiddSNLVl5M0 by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T19:10:19Z
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@Thebratdragon oh i was a little too clever and should have said "Apocritan" or "Aculeatan"sorry @futurebird i was not cladistically correct (but "vespoid" does sound cool)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aculeata
(DIR) Post #Av2NNzmlOAIDQbIXmS by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-12T00:23:53Z
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@futurebird so, you're saying a medium frenched these fries?
(DIR) Post #AvEqG3C83hfEFhFHl2 by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-17T23:52:21Z
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@darwinwoodka ...wow@dangillmor
(DIR) Post #AvEqG52zAfXRzuz0me by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-17T23:54:55Z
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@aud this guy is basically a poster child of what Zitron calls the Business Idiot@dangillmor @darwinwoodka
(DIR) Post #AvKdzUxxWED4xXiaNE by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-18T04:59:09Z
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Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best settingBut the real problem is even dumber-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too
(DIR) Post #AvYB7KtBKTgOwE88Ia by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-26T21:39:50Z
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asking an LLM for technical support help is like turning the crank on a skating-rink candy-vendorit will dump a bundle of food-shaped objects into your hand (or on the floor) that have a dubious relationship to actually being food, and may include a thumbtack or two.Chew carefully
(DIR) Post #Aw0wyMTzl147GWMxfM by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-07-11T05:43:25Z
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Thinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw LemA Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics>… held that information technology drowns people in a glut of low-quality information, and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem*seriously, this is not a subtoot
(DIR) Post #AxoN53mCKzWmZEDNR2 by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-09-02T23:50:46Z
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@futurebird > what happens if/when ICE defies the rule about not running around unidentifiedPritzker may be setting up the rather improbable case where the Chicago PD comes off as the *good guys*