zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 11 hours 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 11 hours 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 11 hours ago:
Yeah. What year is this?!?
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days 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 2 days ago:
Thanks. Fixed.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
Because of what they produce.
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 4 days 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 4 days ago:
What they really need to do is put it on a blockchain.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 days 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.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
Speaking as a Satanist: we don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or an afterlife, so we’re very much anti-apocalypse. This world is the only one we’ve got, so we don’t want it to end.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
The only good that prayer can do is as a mindfulness exercise, and there aren’t any shortcuts for those.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
What’s wrong with effective altruism?
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
I don’t know how you could read the Bible and not think that’s where those are fuckers are going.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.