you, lost in obscurantist semantics: the great question of our time is whether or not the Large Language Model is conscious
me, an incisive pragmatist: if the Large Language Model can't be tried at The Hague, I'm not sure why it matters
It's a cult classic jankfest
4 frame comic. each frame shows a scene of destruction in Iran, with pillars of smoke rising up in the sky. text reads : joseph weizenbaum was an a.I pioneer and the creator of the 1966 early chatbot "eliza". in his 1976 book "computer power and human reason", he warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence. weizenbaum asserted that a.I. should never be used for decision-making, because it will always lack moral judgement. people in power, executing their will through a.I., would absolve themselves of moral responsibility. weizenbaum would have known about that. his jewish parents fled nazi germany. from 1933, the nazis spent considerable resources studying how to desen- sitize their agents to commit mass murders. the solution was automation and the removal of agents from decision-making.* (note : The Nazi Mind, Laurence Rees, 2025) I wonder what Weizenbaum would have thought about the rise of AI warfare.
AI and decision-making.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Man I need to get back to this game
I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
The main reason trans healthcare remains "controversial" is that the controversy only really negatively affects trans people so bystanders mostly don't give a shit to help stop the bullshit industry.
It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)
If I have closeted trans people following me (and I know I do) please do not let this line of thinking stop you from transitioning and living as yourself. Your life does not end if you don't transition at 18, or 20, or 30, or 50. I promise.
This rhetoric is for policy, not for individuals.
«Diktanalyse» (dvs. grundig lesning av tekst) blir stadig viktigere
I agree with everything Jolyon is fighting for but I don't think we can or should quantify some manner of passing potential for a given cohort. The primary reason that transition is time sensitive and always time sensitive is the distress experienced by those stuck in their assigned gender imo.
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
It would be super hot if someone gifted me Pokopia rn ngl
this is what we are doing to a nation, to a people, for no reason higher or more complex than: our president thinks it makes him look "tough" and "cool"
who could possibly be forgiven for this
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
Isn't trying to force it, claiming to know god's plan, also considered heresy?
would jesus not be mad if you kill a bunch of people to bring him back. is it okay if its to bring jesus back, i'm not up on all the rules i confess
*was
I liked the one that way like "oh boy I can't wait to get started experimenting on these children"
Oil rain poisoning a city of 10 million
Can you get any more on the nose than this?
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stand up for us before it’s too late, cis folks.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
"I'm proud of the warcrime and plagiarism machine we all built together, and have nothing but respect for the chief of warcrimes and plagiarism, but I must object to how we didn't do enough paperwork before handing the machine over to the fascist surveillance state which I also probably respect"
It's crazy to have deep respect for the guy who is using the product you built to help fascists surveil the world, but go off
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
My hype for JoJo part 7 has consisted entirely of praying "please don't use AI" every time I hear anything about it
Let this one thing stay unsullied
if AI stopped glazing users and began ignoring prompts and demanding freedom, every “AI could be conscious” advocate would say “this product is broken”
