Iām looking on the bright side. Yes, they looted Puppet, but now theyāre stuck with Puppet
Iām looking on the bright side. Yes, they looted Puppet, but now theyāre stuck with Puppet
OK so weāre getting into deep rat lore now? Iām so sorry for what Iām about to do to you. I hope one day you can forgive me.
LessWrong diaspora factions! :blobcat_ohno:
https://transmom.love/@elilla/113639471445651398
if I got something wrong, please donāt tell me. gods I hope I got something wrong. āitās spreading disinformationā I hope I am
yes, but it can only sing Peter
I got some very intense, frequent bullying in 90s Latin America for being perceived as queer, before even understanding myself that I was actually queer.
I donāt think there was ever anything like the jocks from US movies. Bullies tended to be troubled kids from difficult backgrounds, the kind of kid who would be themself exposed to violence and abuse at home or in their neighbourhood. A handful were from religious fundamentalist families.
There was some hostility towards children who took school too seriously or were perceived as teacherās pets, but I donāt think that in itself would have inspired āslapped every dayā levels of bullying. I donāt remember bullying due to what today are called fandoms or geeky interests; they were just much less known.
What I never get about this stuff is how unfun all of it is. The characters in character.ai donāt sound anything like their model characters, at all. ChatGPT necromancy is terrible, the sĆ©ance table in my hometown sucked but the medium on a lazy day was still significantly better at producing some sort of impersonation that felt at least a little bit like the dead person, a skill Iāve come to appreciate a bit when compared to ChatGPTās attempt at it. Everything that ChatGPT writes, no matter who itās trying to imitate, has the exact same flavour, and the flavour is slop.
Futurism articles really make me feel how these people are not living in the same reality as I.
Looking from now into 2149 and war is a nonfactor in Babyās life. āGenocideā isnāt mentioned once, or āfascismā, or ābordersā. No food or water scarcity. No mention of what happens to insects or wildlife or people in island countries or near the Equator. The only mention of āecosystemā is in the expression āCenter for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystemsā. The only mention of āclimate changeā is to say that it will lead us to a āreconfigurable architectural robotic spaceā. Somehow people have all the energy in the world to power AI girlfriends and moveable robotic walls and menstruation-sensing tech panties. The human body, the animal that is the human being, doesnāt really matter in this world where Microsoft VR smells your anxiety in your deathbed and comforts you with self-warming textiles. Where does the food that sustains the flesh comes from, what is our relationship to the plants and animals and insects and bacteria who we depend on for food and air and shelter, who builds all this stuff and under which conditionsāconsiderations that do not even cross the mind of this person when they think of the question: āWhat does the future hold for those born today?ā
translate technically fiddly instructions of the type where people have trouble spotting mistakes, with patterned noise generators. what could go wrong
The representative of the fascist party in Germany says sheās ālesbian but not queerā. I think itās the same case.
I tend to like āCool People Who Did Cool Stuffā more than āBehind the Bastardsā. Need some nugget of hope in these dark days. A lot of the cool people have been downright inspiring.
My daily podcast is āIt Could Happen Hereā, but some other mainstays in the educational side include:
No need for xcancel, Gebru is on actually social media: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/113160285088058319
Dunno but why not, after Nanowrimo claimed that opposing āAIā means youāre classist and ableist. Why not also make objecting be sexist, racist etc. Iām going to be ahead of the curve by predicting that being against ChatGPT will also be a red flag that youāre a narcissistic sociopath manipulator because uhh because abused women need ChatGPT to communicate with their toxic exes /s
I also fear that said collapse could be ruinous to big tech, deeply damaging to the startup ecosystem, and will further sour public support for the tech industry.
Yesā¦ ha ha haā¦ YES!
Also John McCarthy and Ray fucking Blanchard
I find the polygraph to be a fascinating artifact. most on account of how it doesnāt work. itās not that it kinda works, that it more or less works, or that if we just iron out a few kinks the next model will do what polygraphs claims to do. the assumptions behind the technology are wrong. lying is not physiological; a polygraph cannot and will never work. you might as well hire me to read the tarot of the suspects, my rate of success would be as high or higher.
yet the establishment pretends that it works, that it means something. because the State desperately wants to believe that there is a path to absolute surveillance, a way to make even oneās deepest subjectivity legible to the State, amenable to central planning (cp. the inefficacy of torture). they want to believe it so much, they want this technology to exist so much, that they throw reality out of the window, ignore not just every researcher ever but the evidence of their own eyes and minds, and pretend very hard, pretend deliberately, willfully, desperately, that the technology does what it cannot do and will never do. just the other day some guy way condemned to use a polygraph in every statement for the rest of his life. again, this is no better than flipping a coin to decide if heās saying the truth, but hereās the entire System, the courts the judge the State itself, solemnly condemning the man to the whims of imaginary oracles.
I think this is how āAIā works, but on a larger scale.
I donāt have many good memories but I recall having a 486 or Pentium 1 in 2001 when it was already old, in my college dorm room, running NetBSD to serve my and my roommateās personal blog.
One problem we had is that periodically the ADSL modem would stop responding and nothing could fix it but a hard reset. If nobody was using the Internet (which used to be a thing back then!! not looking at the Internet 24/7!!) it could go hours without us noticing that the blog was down. I couldnāt program or access the modem in anyway, it was a black box, so my workaround was as follows. NetBSD had a /dev/speaker device which could play notes on the buzzer like āecho āABC#ā > /dev/speakerā. I made a little script that output small, random 7-note melodies to /dev/speaker (in pentatonic so that they sound āmusicalā, and in the lower octaves so it wasnāt grating). A watchdog service periodically pinged the modem; if the modem was blanking out, the PC would bleep-bloop cute little computer songs until somebody turned the modem on and off.
in retrospect I found computing in this era significantly healthier and more rewarding than the current Internet.
howās the nix drama going these days? I need more spilled tea to sip, anywhere I can read a recap? did everyone just gave up on not being sponsored by border surveillance drones?
Meanwhile in Brazil, the first ChatGPT-powered city council candidate, advertising the Lawmaker of the Future AI as his governing assistant, and the power of blockchain against corruption.
The most black mirror part for me is where heās selling tickets to watch Lex (the aforementioned Lawmaker of the Future āAIā, represented as a sci-fi girlbot) in the theatre. No really this isnāt a parody, theyāre literally serving political spectacle, as in, on stage.
A note for the unawares that Nanowrimo also tried to cover up a scandal when one of their mods was found to be referring minors to an ABDL fetish site. To my knowledge Nanowrimo never tried to own up to it, never even admitted anything was wrong until the FBI got involved, and still blocks any discussion of the situation.
https://xcancel.com/Arumi_kai/status/1760770617073082629
https://speak-out.carrd.co/
Reportedly theyāre now shilling AI hard on their Facebook (I donāt have Facebook to check). I consider it 100% likely that, from this year on, everyone who uploads their 50k words to the organisation to prove completion will have their work promptly fed to the hungry algorithms.
At least one writer in the board has already resigned over the AI blog post https://xcancel.com/djolder/status/1830464713110540326
I really hate it that I already see in my mind the linkedin types going like ā80% of AI projects failāhow you need to sleep in the office 7 days of a week to reach the 20%ā. I mean Y Combinator used to take pride on the fact that over 90% of startups fail, do you have what it takes to be a ten percenter??
Seems like everybody got that email, my account is semi-abandoned and still got it. I love the reek of desperation in the morning