bjc, bjc@scribe.disroot.org

step 1: run country like business

step 2: put guy who ruins every business he touches in charge

step 3:

amtrak joe!

you gotta give the ai bros credit, they’ve managed to turn “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” into a multi-disciplinary corporate stratgy.

then you’re going to find that you’re on the opposite side of an intractable line in a bunch of conversations. almost everyone has a deep, fundamental belief in their own free will, and the vast majority of those will extend that belief to others.

you will never see eye-to-eye on a disagreement so profound.

do you believe in free will?

“this machine kills facists”

re-read, it says the opposite: helps a little.

although, tbh, i’m not entirely sure of that either, but the reasoning is complex and longer-term.

local models don’t appear out of the ether. using a local model solves one problem around privacy of your prompts, does little about consolidation of power, and nothing about the thousands of other problems genai brings.

if your organic coffee is made with slave labor, you still have a massive problem.

and they may not be of the devil, but they definitely are of the humans who most resemble the devil.

what else are you supposed to do when things aren’t done properly? it’s just common sense. not racist. the migrant crisis in europe proves that, surely. i just love to look across the pond at some of their creative ideas for how to deal with people who just refuse to do things the right way. if only we also had a large sea we could just let them drown in, instead of having to spend so much money after they get here. clever stuff there from enlightened europe!

“sensibly”

are you american?

oh no, here we say “the right way”

*italian

it’s way creepier to ask for consent to look up the stairs in a staircase than it is to just do it.

“ma’am, i don’t want to be a creep, so i need to know if you ENTHUSIASTICALLY CONSENT to having my eyes look in the direction of my travel. I AM NOT A CREEPER”

i’d be shocked if it’s tens. people should really talk to their professors. unless it’s basically open and shut, no one is going to see a disciplinary hearing.

and even in those meetings, actually failing a student is often not the outcome.

from what i’ve seen at least half of students cheat now, and it is a tiny, tiny fraction that face any consequences.

no, what will happen instead is more in person stuff without computers and more work-showing.

playing a really shitty game of the prisoner’s paradox

don’t worry, this won’t happen

3ish generations at a time, but ok

the actual unpopular opinion: xml was, and continues to be a good choice for a chat protocol

“around the corner,” to mean something is nearby but out-of-sight, is a common idiom in the united states

real, but failed, self-coup d’etat

but ai is inevitable! it can’t be stopped! it’s impossible to regulate!