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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The release of the Epstein files wasn’t about Trump. It was about getting closure for the victims.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There’s freeCodeCamp which is (wait for it)…free.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
An impressive grift
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well, that’s how journalism has always functioned. People call it “clickbait” as if it’s something new, but headlines have always been designed to grab your attention and get you to read.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think the idea is anonymous querying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No. No, it really doesn’t.

I want a vegan recipe that uses turbinado sugar. I get 3 articles and only one of them is a recipe. If I don’t like that recipe…too bad. That’s what they have.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even if I do want it, there are plenty of free models that I can use locally, on my desktop PC. They don’t phone home, either, so Nadella doesn’t see a cent from me directly or indirectly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You mean that if you convinced somebody to do something stupid…and then they did it and died…you wouldn’t feel guilty at all?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A 19-year-old doesn’t have a fully-developed brain yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah. What year is this?!?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, blind loyalty is bad, but your characterization of Mozilla is either ignorant or disingenuous. From Wikipedia:

The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to own the Mozilla trademarks and other intellectual property and will license them to the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation will also continue to govern the source code repository and control who is allowed to check in.

This doesn’t mean that enshittification can’t happen, but Mozilla Corporation clearly has different pressures than most corporations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks. Fixed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not versions. Distributions. They’re all developed and maintained by different organizations and are geared towards different types of users. It isn’t like Windows where your choice is Microsoft or nothing.

This means that different distributions can have a completely different UI and even approach things like installing software in very different ways. That’s why I tell people that if they install it and they don’t like it, try a different distribution. Or a different version of the same distribution. Changing your desktop environment can make a huge difference. Most distros push GNOME on their flagship version, but I’ve had a much better experience with KDE. If you don’t like the GNOME version, download and install the KDE version. If you like a Windows-style desktop, you can have that. If you prefer Mac, you can have that. Or you can do something completely different! The sky’s the limit, really.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

they are generally completely non invasive.

Does this mean that you usually always have great privacy?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a bit surreal how stupid it is. Almost a work of art.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

It’s not exploitative, it doesn’t exploit anyone.

It had to be trained on music created by human artists. Those artists were not compensated.

It’s not trash, and if it were you wouldn’t need to regulate it because people would reject it on the merits.

I would reject if I knew it was AI. I can’t always tell, though.

The space belongs to whoever wants to create art, with whatever tools they want to do it.

The owners of Bandcamp get to set the rules, because they own it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They fucked the union, though.

The massive layoff that gutted Oakland-based music service Bandcamp hit one group at the company particularly hard: leaders of its nascent union.

As of Monday, Bandcamp has been sold by video game juggernaut Epic Games to Songtradr, a music licensing firm. The acquisition closed with just half of Bandcamp’s employees offered jobs at the Santa Monica-based company.

The job cuts, which SFGATE reported Monday amounted to about 60 of 118 employees, disproportionately hit union leaders, Bandcamp United told SFGATE in a Tuesday press release. Every member of the union’s eight-person bargaining team was laid off, it said, and in sum, 40 of the bargaining unit’s 67 people lost their jobs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t noticed any change since they’ve been bought up. The new owners did bust up an attempt at unionizing, though, so there’s that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I can imagine lots of things, but I don’t confuse it with reality, because I’m an adult.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m aware that it’s a computing term. My argument is that it’s a bad one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You could say something like “the model’s output was inaccurate” or something like that, but it would be much more stilted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The interface makes it appear that the AI is sapient. You talk to it like a human being, and it responds like a human being. Like you said, it might be impossible to avoid ascribing things like intentionality to it, since it’s so good at imitating people.

It may very well be a stepping-stone to AGI. It may not. Nobody knows. So, of course we shouldn’t assume that it is.

I don’t think that “hallucinate” is a good term regardless. Not because it makes AI appear sapient, but because it’s inaccurate whether the AI is sapient or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Because of what they produce.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Except that “hallucinate” is a terrible term. A hallucination is when your senses report something that isn’t true.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What they really need to do is put it on a blockchain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Walled gardens go against the spirit of the Internet, anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s cool and all, but I don’t see how that changes anything. Christian Satan is different from Jewish Satan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, but I’m talking about Satan within Christian mythology, not Judaism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You should read Revolt of the Angels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you read the Bible? The only evil shit that Satan does is when he fucks up Job’s life, and that’s in collusion with God. Meanwhile, God is doing evil on almost every page of the Old Testament.

The reason we’re supposed to hate Satan is because he rebelled against God. Again, if you’ve read the Old Testament, you have dozens of good reasons to rebel against God.

This train of thought is what lead to the creation of Satanism as a literary movement in the 19th century and then as a religion in the late 20th century.