…no

Man, non-americans can be so slow lmao.

It would be easier to just say a mile.

What a stupid figure of speech.

I get excited during wildfire season.

Maybe my house will burn down and I’ll get to go on a road trip for a few months while it gets sorted out…

Yes, you’re missing the joke.

A a series fb post from an elderly lady attempting to prompt facebook into simulating her deceased child.

“Keep it realistic. don’t make make them sound too kind.”

I’ve recently heard some AI Music that is objectively just good.

Like it sounds real, feels real, the lyrics have deep meaning, and so on. I hate it, and wish it didn’t exist. But fact is “I hate AI art because it’s bad art” just doesn’t really make sense anymore. You can hate it for many other reasons but the quality of the product is very good.

The terms are bc / ad - before Christ & ad domini

Or bce/ce - before common era & common era

What do you think bc stands for

And? That’s still not single payer care insurance.

Also owning & operating a vehicle is a privilege whereas living & receiving medical care, should be, a right.

No, single payer system means a legal guarentee of public health care.

What they did was make it a punishable offense to not have health care. That is very very different. They aren’t giving a product that are forcing you to buy a product.

Sir, this is a meme.

Not only is there a skeleton possesing your body.

It is also deeply, extremely, fully, w e t

I broadly agree with their sentiment but

• I basically agree with this one. I don’t agree with climate change being a rapture but I believe this point isn’t meant literally.
• The whole point on race is poorly argued. First, the original claim is just a figure of speech it is not meant to be a prescription. Their argument that it’s a lie doesn’t make any sense since they DO agree that black people have to work harder which is the speakers point. So they are essentially just failing to understand a metaphor. Also it’s weird to make a single point that both says “Things are so much harder for black people” and also “this affects all races”, they kinda just don’t fit together rhetorically even if logically it’s consistent. Also “get’s us to the starting line” uuuuuuuh we’re well past the starting line, racism aside. Racism and other prejudices feel like a consequence of being after the starting line, not before it.
• Idk what to say, success exists. It’s possible to be successful even in a “explotative, supremacist, advantage-imbalanced, wealth-dominated system”. I see their point about it being a shallow success but they go too far by claiming “there is no point at all”. Also contradict themselves by saying there is no point but also you should desire for more. I acknlowedge that life is not fair and your circumstances of birth dictate the majority of your life but I also believe aiming up is really the only rational conclusion. If you don’t work towards some definition of success (which can be defined another time) then what’s the point of life?
• They don’t really refute heaven existing, just assert that hell also does. As a metaphor in isolation it works but when the lead in is “Heaven is a lie”, the rebuttle looks more like a literal claim. And gaza isn’t literally hell. They reject the claim but the staple heaven & hell onto the real earth and it just doesn’t work as an argument IMO.
• I’m not touching that whole “quantum tunneling” thing… Call that one ‘the one that doesn’t fit’ I guess.

. It does what you tell it

You can’t just pick which parts of it you are ok with anthropomorphising and pretend that’s an argument. It does not do what you “tell it” as it has no ears right? No ability to be told anything? It’s just data input via electrical impulses in a processor somewhere right?

It does not escape

It can “escape” (which I wrote in scare quotes on purpose to dodge this pedantic rhetoric but pedants have a way of finding me) in the sense that it could clone itself to an external device with open ports and then operate from there, and continue spreading. Just like Worms have been doing for decades, except this one has the capacity to self augment and find new technical vulnerabilities, choose to lay dormant, etc. I’m not claiming it is “caged”, like an actual animal, just that it is currently contained and could do something that looks like escaping.

If it does something bad it was told to.

It’s a stochastic system. It does not require human intent to do something. I agree the human operators are still responsible for the outcomes of using a known stochastic system, but your claim is still fundamentally false.

But Reddit mods told me misandry fundamentally cannot exist and it is logically impossible to be sexist towards men while in a patriarchy

So you’re lying.

It depends on what you mean.

• Do I believe the events attributed to a rogue AI actually happened? Yes
• Do I believe the ‘rogue AI’ actually gained sentience in some way to combat it’s reward function? No
• Do I believe it’s possible for an LLM to effectively “break free” and truly “escape”, cloning itself everywhere? Yes
• Do I believe LLM companies orchestrate these “rogue AI” incidents for profit? No not really, but maybe
• Do I believe that, once the event has occurred, the LLM companies maximize spin and fear mongering for profit? Yes absolutely.

Real talk I’m surprised some tech bro hasn’t made that yet. Like not hiding it, just fully branding it as an AI-first replacement for Reddit/Twitter.

The user could describe the type of content they want to see or “world event” they want their “community” to experience. Like a medival twitter, and have a political plot develop between two kingdoms and the human user’s engagement on the thread can help sway public opinion on the subject leading to different narrative events.

With a world of 8 billion people, there are enough out there that would enjoy it…

Over a decade on the internet and I still don’t know what to do when I agree with someone’s general point but disagree with their logic in support of that point.

I vividly remember my dad telling me football was “too complicated” to explain and so I just assumed it was some mystical unknowable sport and checked out of any conversation involving it.

It wasn’t until I was like 25 that I put any effort into understanding the sport and like… He could have just told me “we want the guys in blue to get the ball and run to the other side” and then we could have bonded over that. Weird thing to be lazy about as a dad.