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Even your plagiariasm machine isn't good at the work of doing plagiarism

We could save a lot of the Federal budget if we just didn't give the military weapons and it would be safer for basically everyone

I think LLM’s are pretty close to blockchain where it‘s conceptually interesting and smart people think it should have immense utility but one by one every use-case erodes until the only thing left is crime and scams

Cars encourage drivers to consider themselves the only real person, everyone else is Traffic.

Never liked Ed Sheeran, another W for my kneejerk distaste for someone's art coinciding with them being eventually revealed as objectively a bad person; like something I hate at your own peril

I am aware that there is a common misapprehension that I am cool and normal and let me be clear: this is false. I am a worm. A wriggling little worm.

Centrist defenses usually involve some incrementalism, that things are gradually getting better but if your candidates are getting elected while agreeing to curtail these rights in certain respects, the incrementalism is going the other way. It’s just getting worse.

I mean nothing *can* change? an LLM remains a syntax engine incapable of engaging with communicative intent [pragmatics] or mapping between words and things [semantics]. If you have a syntax problem that's fine but the only people who do are "people using a programming language they are bad at".

Adding another item to the long list of things Republicans fervently believe and I go "buddy, I fuckin' wish"

no matter how you slice it we're going to need to overthrow capitalism to keep all of us safe. the rich and powerful have always targeted minorities to stave off class war and will continue to do so forever if we let them as we have.

The most important thing for people of bad faith to accomplish is the total memory-holing of the Summer of 2020, when solidarity across race and class around a host of social justice issues was on full display (MLB players were participating!). It was a threat so dire, it birthed thousands of liars.

even if you really think it's true that Republicans are "secretly cheering" Canada--why the fuck would you say this if you are a prominent Democrat several weeks away from the midterms. Your job should be to tie this shitty party to their unpopular leader that 70% of the country despises

I do think machine learning could bring us post-scarcity As the planning engine of a communist centralized economy (So, you know, the opposite of everything called "AI")

Went to a bar earlier tonight where there was music playing everywhere else but in one of the single-occupent restrooms the speaker was instead playing an audiobook of Dune

half the discourse on this website is from the most insecure writers you know writing the stupidest shit you imagine and the other half is from people who are usually insecure resistlib white dudes who are desperate to convince you that people are wrong to criticize them

My longstanding assertion is that spreadsheets are never the right tool for a job, and nobody has ever come back at me with a convincing counterexample (My cheat here is that databases exist, and databases > spreadsheets)

i am steadfast in my belief that the weirdest relationships happen when you are specifically not fucking

People still think Y2K was a hoax because nothing bad happened when really the crisis was averted because of a massive effort to fix it ahead of January 1, 2000 This does not portend well for unix end of time in 2038

yessssss resist the tyranny of suburban lawncare and twin-stroke engines. though Chip's relationship with his biological father remains strained. 3/10 QDUs

20 some years ago the government banned online poker in the U.S. and now it feels like the main problem they had with it is not the online gambling, but that poker is a game wherein at least a few of the players win.

Another big L for the Liz Lads

The party leadership hates Zohran because he’s Muslim and antizionist, to be sure — but the real reason he’s so dangerous to them is because he reminds voters that elected officials are supposed to make your life better, and half the time it’s not even that hard for them to do it

If Bluesky's gonna add new features with entirely new types of notifications maybe they should uhh start actually naming their notification channels

The 10th Victim (1965) called at least one thing about the future right

It's ridiculous that police departments make up around 30-50% of the average municipality's budget, but those same police look at you like you're stupid if you ever ask them to investigate a crime.

i feel like that has to do with the fact that it's big dumb and flashy and it conforms to our preconceptions of what futuristic technology is, same issue with why we put insane amounts of money and publicity into specifically robotaxis and chatbot assistants and not other types of machine learning

Now let's get Hoon Lee some motherfuckin love