Hi @revenantkioku.letsplaying.com ! Are there any plans to do another FFT 5JF community event again this year?
Matthew Borgard
Matthew Borgard
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Writer, programmer, dad. He/Him.
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can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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This is not really a defense but this has been a problem since the beginning of Gmail, not really a new AI thing. For whatever reason, if they can't use the original semantic web /pagerank search they made their money on, their search algorithms in their tools are absolute dogshit.
Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”
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Replying to @scalzi.com
I genuinely do wonder if the people giving the hot takes about Bluesky being a bubble or an echo chamber really do think everyone else here is a disembodied brain in a nutrient bath that has no other contact with the world and other people aside from what they see here, it sure seems like it
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I live in a county that went 81% for Trump, in a representative district that hasn't gone blue in nine decades, in a state with a gerrymandered GOP supermajority, in a country run by a kleptocrat and his compliant Republican cronies, but sure, I live in a bubble because I'm on fucking Bluesky
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
Complains about sissy little bluesky libs wanting to live in a safe space bubble Disables replies Many such cases!
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
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Hmm. I agree with some of this -- the fetishization of physical books can be a bit much. "Cracking their spines," come on -- but part of the issue is concern about Anthropic both benefiting from copyrighted works *and* potentially locking them away.
Bluesky is mad because people here fetishize the physical object of a book as a symbol rather than the meaningful information it contains. I’m sure Elsevier et al would love the hypothetical IP regime where you only have usufruct to your books and it’s illegal to destroy them or transfer ownership!
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Can't believe anyone would think there could be any negative effects from drowning kids in Elon musk's csam generator, or Mark zuckerberg's torment machine
Standing on a train platform listening to the latest Hard Fork and, I'm sorry, but I'm not sure Jonathan Haidt understands what causation means. Hosts ask him to explain how he's proven causation and he cites single examples of individualized harm which have nothing to do with his broad thesis.
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i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution
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