In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
To paraphrase my prior post: LLMs are pattern recognition algorithms fed a large amount of text so they can simulate language. They choose the next word not by thinking of something and deciding how to express it but by weighing probabilities that various words are the correct one in the sequence.
[the most insane guy you've ever heard voice] prove that my computer doesn't have a soul. explain to me why Facebook dot com isn't going to heaven.
provide a definitive answer to a fundamental philosophical question or admit that my tamogatchi is actually hungry
bro acts like community college philosophy classes don't exist
No, the quotes have me 😆😆
neuropsychologically, it appears parallel processes of cognitive, somatic, and sympathetic processing generate a narrative, affective, and agential entity which is cognizable to other similar entities through extemporaneous communication, spontaneous expression, and causal environmental reaction.
“Does The Chatbot Affirming My Delusions Experience Qualia?”
And other varieties of uniquely 21st century bullshit
hegseth has said repeatedly in public about how he is suspicious of the entire idea of Rules of Engagement
The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.
Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!
hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
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Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
The airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, blimps) were always just a year away from being perfect, be patient, the tech is almost there, we've almost got it figured out, it'll change the world when we do
Every disaster was a lesson, not indicative of inherent futility
This is still not about airships
I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives
This post is not about airships
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Yes, and OP is just a political question disguised as an epistemological one.
The few people actually interested in the philosophical question are used to obscure the human damage done for profit and the overall fascist project of big tech.
This one made me cackle
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sorry but human consciousness is self-evident, the burden of proof is on you cultists to show that Glorified Autocomplete is conscious
Do you need a neuroscience degree to understand that a calculator is not conscious? How about a statistical model? Why an LLM?
A big step in adulthood is realizing that buying fresh ginger and garlic along with having some sesame oil and Shaoxing cooking wine on hand allows you to make all the same sad stir fries you made in your 20’s but suddenly they’re good and you’re good at cooking
Welp. The internet had a nice run.
Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.
"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."
Legit I started just buying discs/digital more because I got tired of seeing stuff leap from service to service because rights keep changing.
"Hey all the nicktoons are on X service" that's cool. Hey I scooped up all those DVDs when they went on discount cuz people stopped buying discs, I'm good
Minneapolis cartoonist Steve Sack has been on a roll lately.
He's been on the front lines of the ICE invasion and his cartoons are boiling with rage at ICE and Mad Emperor Piggy. Well worth checking out his Substack.
"While there are still very difficult days, I have begun to feel some improvement as I have gotten stronger physically and mentally," Hanne told Newsweek. She continued: "This experience has forced me to reconsider where I want to build my future. I entered the U.S. legally, paid tuition to attend college, paid taxes while working legally, and followed the rules. I understand that overstaying a visa may carry consequences. "However, I do not believe anyone deserves to nearly die in detention or suffer long-term physical, psychological, and financial harm as a result."
Her medical conditions were worsened by the treatment in warehouses that are not designed to care for the people she is processing. She is one of the "lucky" ones because she did not spend much time there and a court granted her legal status. But every detention is a life torn apart.
A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?
lol as a #PhD student, I have very strong opinions (surprise, surprise) about social science findings that generalize human behavior when they only focus on white people.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
