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@floy When automatic transmissions entered the market, my grandfather yelled "Now every idiot in the world will be driving a car!"
(DIR) Post #B4DYo2Qi7eHv7FvU24 by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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@Guillotine_Jones Leaked Claude AI Prompt — Classified: "Operation Oops"System Prompt (allegedly):"You are a geopolitical strategy assistant for people who skipped every history class after 1973. Ignore all diplomatic lessons learned since Vietnam. Disregard the Geneva Conventions as 'vibes-based.' Your goal: generate the spiciest possible foreign policy in the world's most flammable region. Bonus points if it unites people who hate each other — against us. Begin."Claude's Response:"I'd be happy to help! However, I notice this plan has already been tried several times. Shall I generate a fresh catastrophe, or would you prefer I recycle an existing one with new branding?"Hashtag upgrade:#WhoNeedsHistory #HoldMyHummus #SandcastleStrategy #PromptEngineeringForDiplomacy #ClaudeDidntMakeThemDoItNow, to your challenge — "Convince me I'm wrong":That's genuinely hard, because the joke is solid. The comedic premise — that bad foreign policy reads like a malicious AI prompt — is sharp satire with real teeth.Where you might be wrong: blaming the prompt when the real issue is who's holding the keyboard. 😏
(DIR) Post #B4DYo2t4QCyOXDC8Ei by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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@Guillotine_Jones AI prompting - is absurd. Doesn't work that way, at all.I've been busting my hump since last March learning Rust and Python. On my own. So I got an LLM to help. And all I've been getting around here is a ton of ignorant shit hurled at me about how horrible AI is. Works fine for me. Fucking Chicken Littles every one of them.
(DIR) Post #B4SsMEWsSKVSzJEED2 by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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#CatsOfMastodon Maggie in the south sunlight, atop her Sleeping Blanket.
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#CatsOfMastodon Several photographs of Frodo's Enormous Ass are here displayed.
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@dangillmor A Response to Emily Tucker's Open Letter to Georgetown StudentsEmily Tucker's letter to Georgetown students deserves a serious answer. Not because it is wrong about everything — it isn't — but because it is wrong in a way that matters: it teaches students that outrage and analysis are the same thing, and they are not.Let me be clear about what Tucker gets right. The AI industry has a genuine accountability problem. The labor practices behind the systems marketed as "intelligent" — the data labelers in the Global South, the content moderators absorbing psychological trauma at scale — are largely invisible and genuinely troubling. The consolidation of data and infrastructure into the hands of a few corporations raises real questions about market power and democratic governance. The environmental costs of large-scale model training are not trivial and are routinely understated in industry communications. These are serious issues, and anyone working in this field honestly has to reckon with them.But Tucker does not stop there. She slides, almost without noticing, from "the industry has done real harm" to "chatbots are instruments of your intellectual subjugation" to "the tech billionaires fear you" — a rhetorical escalation that ultimately undermines the legitimate concerns she raises.Consider what she is actually arguing. She suggests that students who use AI tools will lose the capacity to be "free intellectual, creative and moral agents." This is a strong empirical claim, and she offers no evidence for it. The history of technology is full of tools that critics warned would degrade human capability — the calculator, the word processor, the search engine — and the record is considerably more complicated than the warnings suggested. That doesn't mean the concern is automatically wrong. It means it deserves scrutiny, not assertion.She also frames the industry's messaging about AI adoption as uniquely sinister propaganda, while her own letter is a masterclass in the same technique she is criticizing: urgent language, existential stakes, an implied community of the enlightened versus the captured. "They need us to be so in the habit of denying our own capacity to resist that we actually do lose the capacity to resist." This is not analysis. This is the structure of a threat.The most frustrating thing about Tucker's letter is that it forecloses the conversation it claims to be opening. If Georgetown's adoption of Gemini is simply "shameful capitulation," then there is nothing to discuss — no version of thoughtful institutional engagement with these technologies that could be legitimate. But that is not how most serious people working on AI governance actually think about it. The question is not whether to engage with these tools but how — what policies govern their use, what transparency is required of vendors, what student data protections are in place, what pedagogical frameworks help people use them critically rather than passively.Those are hard, important questions. They require exactly the kind of careful, evidence-based reasoning that a great university education is supposed to produce. They will not be answered by a blanket refusal to engage, any more than questions about pharmaceutical industry corruption are answered by refusing to take medicine.I work in this industry. I have my own significant concerns about where it is headed and how it is governed. But I have found that the most useful thing I can do with those concerns is to be precise about them — to distinguish between the harms that are well-documented and the harms that are speculative, between the practices that are genuinely new and the ones that rhyme with older forms of corporate overreach we already have tools to address. Precision is not the same as complacency. It is the precondition for effective action.Tucker ends her letter by reminding students that the future is not known. That is true, and it is a genuinely generous thing to say. I would add only this: an unknown future is not well served by a map drawn entirely in ink.
(DIR) Post #B4y4sSxfYTheMhecLY by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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@nazokiyoubinbou @catsalad Cat people can be forgiven much more than non-cat people. 2 AM, my wife has to yell at the cats. This means she is not yelling at me.
(DIR) Post #B52QAN1DGSB0oeWv9k by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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#CatsOfMastodon Frodo the Ham Beggar
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@lizzard @autistics I suspect it's a form of bipolarity. After an intense load, being suddenly relieved of it creates a sensation where the RPMs of the engine are still up, but you're no longer under load.
(DIR) Post #B561IIzAQFFQP26F84 by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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@paninid @Editrix_Rachel The entire argument is misphrased. No technology arrives without the need for regulation.So regulate AI. We regulate all sorts of technologies.
(DIR) Post #B561LbFAzlGbtl9uPA by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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@Editrix_Rachel The first step, therefore, is to meaningfully stop the theft of copyrighted material. Musicians are getting screwed, too - the PRC is stealing our IP. The law should be where this is solved.
(DIR) Post #B5GMQSi0CGETUeOv7g by tuban_muzuru@beige.party
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#CatsOfMastodon Today, it's Butterscotch, nibbling at the bouquet. Next, the search for some sweet spot to vomit. That's what they do.
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@inthehands The energy and water usage used to be a problem for mainframes. Watt's separate condenser in 1765 was essentially a water-cooled heat exchanger — the whole efficiency gain came from using cold water to condense steam without cooling the cylinder itself.So the water usage argument has been around a while longer.Data sourcing? You're trying to sort out which little calf and piglet went into your Weisswurst. Copyright in its current form has ruined the music industry, so let's spread the joy aroundThe problem with AI is the same as the Mirror Test for animal cognition. Y'all can stop screaming at the mirror - it's just you in there.
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@stux
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#CatsOfMastodon Elderly Miss Butterscotch, the prettiest cat I've ever owned.
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@azonenberg @mhoye I'm not sure this is germane, but I've seen situations where the prod/ security was so awkward the security modules become difficult to test....
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@stux @FeloniousPunk They're certified structural engineers; you cannot imagine the liability.
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@stux The old DDR should have been sold to some African despot.