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File this under “I saw this now you get to”: https://xcancel.com/bryan_johnson/status/2049687845082910812#m
jfc bryan you are not the guy for this
NB: image is part of the linked tweet
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I was thinking of an LLM trained on sovereign citizens. AKA “I’m not hallucinating, I’m generating. There is no such thing as copyright under maritime law”
I have mixed feelings about speaking things into existence
Wake me up when there’s an agentic butt plug
I was recommended allbirds by my piano teacher. They suck
Riding this high for a while folks
Old by modern standards but this dramatic reading of some shit the suno guy said got me to laugh: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVLmCoNj_PB/
Did I mention that one of your more recent eps covered some shit so odious I stress ate a pile of oreos? Keep up the good work
I started using duolingo for japanese in maybe 2022 and quit in maybe 2024. I did 4 years of Japanese in high school and so I had a vague memory of grammar and some vocab. Duo didn’t really improve my situation; I think all i got out of duolingo was frustration.
Also, I can’t speak to other examples of it, but the gamification was ass. Games are usually trying to be fun.
ok ngl I didn’t actually read the article at first (can you blame me) but since you pointed that out, FUCK. That’s so fucking pathetic. I was imagining a scenario where scott had met epstein IRL but had gotten “jock” vibes from him and decided not to associate based on that.
nice. this would probably make a roko’s basilisk believer uncomfortable and i like that
was doomscrolling and got fucking jumpscared by this fucking article: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-three-scientists-who-said-no-epstein
Istg this has come up before, i am just too lazy to prove it. Still. Why would anyone want this
I’ve been seeing some people (not here, I’ve been taking a break) saying that we shouldn’t be mean to clankers by bringing up Kant’s position on being nice to animals. Well. Fuck all that.
ah, yes, we must defend “race science”, the heretical political belief that gets millions from techbros that are empowered politically right now due to the rise in fascism. So brave, it’s almost like we’re on the internet 15 years ago talking about Ron Paul /s
WRT animal domestication, I mean there are plenty of ethicists who could credibly argue that it’s a form of abuse. IMO it’s not great.
WRT the rest- kind of riffing on your first sentence- we haven’t even sorted out those things for people, really.
Wait does LW even think slavery is bad
There is some pedophilia in there too.
…also, what the fuck. This is a step backwards, even just reading it. I’m mad.
I was gonna joke that he spent all the prize money on cocaine and needed a job. Because of the film Good Will Hunting, I always thought that the Fields was the same reward as the Nobel. I looked it up and the fields only awards 15k CAD (about 102k Norwegian Krone) vs. the Nobel’s 11mil SEK (10.8m NOK).
FWIW my bookshelf contains very few works along these lines except for the works of Nagata Kabi, specifically 「My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness」, which you might like to check out, if you haven’t already. But uh, yeah all I can say in relation is that it has “Lesbian” in the title.
RIP oceangate guy, you would have loved vibe submarine design
They hope it’ll land safely, but all signs point to it disintegrating during descent and sinking into the abyss
Extremely mature of both of you to make a crouton joke and not once include a scrotum joke
List appended! Thanks!
It’s books, right?? /s
(In this case the /s stands for sapphic)
Also noted!
I guess I will learn what my tolerances for Scots is!
thanks, noted!
thanks!
Am seeking suggestions on audiobooks to listen to! I think I’d like to start with the works of Ursula K. Le Guin, tho I don’t know what order to go with, or if that matters.
I’ve always thought that the ability for a VCS to show me exactly what my codebase looked like at any point in the past wasn’t as dementia-simulating as I’d like
The Edge from U2?!?!
https://xcancel.com/heyJohnEe/status/2062755881255833695
Video description: A tesla driver positions a doll head hanging from a chain such that the teslas autopilot safeguard thinks the driver is safely looking at the road.
From Al Jazeera: Why do AI models struggle with online hate speech detection?
Saw this chart from insta, peep the hate speech target categories, specifically the very oppressed minorities “white nationalists” and “anti-vaxxers”. I’m surprised “men” doesn’t make the list.
NB: I have not looked at the article contents and I’m sure there’s something there.
- Women
- White nationalists
- People targeted by sexual slurs
- Republicans
- Muslims
- Migrants
- Gay people
- Democrats
- Christians
- Blacks
- Asians
- Anti-vaxxers
image description
A chart showing the amount of hate speech against specific groups across a range of different LLM models. The groups included are: