Posts by willowwren@hcommons.social
 (DIR) Post #ArQmDGpbC6sA70Zc3c by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-02-24T03:26:43Z
       
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       @futurebird The ELIZA effect in full force. This is why I try to tell both students and faculty to stop using anthropomorphic terms. It's not "saying," "thinking," "trying"... it's just giving you a statistical output, and often a pretty poor one. A "spreadsheet," like you said; that's a good description. And I'm not even in technology, but I do know language. And a fair bit about how psychology and con artistry work too. We need more people explaining that the danger of AI is not machine intelligence but the human impulse to attribute meaning to meaningless things, like the complete nonexistence of machine intelligence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsoVw9SIpLBzmK2dIO by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-04-06T12:09:32Z
       
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       @futurebird I've been trying to stay really open-minded reading about this bug, but it just keeps getting more horrifying. I'm deathly afraid of spiders, and this thing is like a spider's nightmare. It terrified me the first time i saw one in my house after moving to the east coast.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsvxHkZq3x8LrJoFMm by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-04-10T02:19:01Z
       
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       @Nonilex The... Bar? So are DOJ lawyers not lawyers anymore?
       
 (DIR) Post #AtT6eT2lJU0YTdNGHA by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-04-26T02:09:23Z
       
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       @futurebird This is slightly random, and you probably do, but do you know there is a video game called Empire of the Ants? It looks adorable.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ayyx53scULLuGV78RU by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-10-08T00:13:25Z
       
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       @overholt This sounds like microfiction omg
       
 (DIR) Post #B05cublQ1yvvsBRyLY by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2025-11-09T13:24:59Z
       
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       @ricci I wonder if they consulted the Spanish dub; the Spanish Shrek is a hilarious translation and one of my absolute favorite dubs. What a fun idea!
       
 (DIR) Post #B3A9KznrULkU6ZoAxk by willowwren@hcommons.social
       2026-02-10T01:20:59Z
       
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       @futurebird I've noticed this too, at my university, and it makes me very nervous. If you're willing to sway that far, then how much further? This is why universities and law firms buckled so fast to pressure. Corporate culture rewards being flexible with your values and morals. I see what you're saying, who cares if it's performative if it's the right thing. But at the same time, isn't this a counterargument? That being performative means you really have no moral compass at all, and you can't trust people like that to have your back when it matters.