grrgyle

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I loooove using m dashes. They’re just so—expressive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to pluralize titles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Actually terrifying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to pluralize titles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nice
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I got you
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Just had to wrap it in triple backticks, or prefix each line with four spaces. Is that what you wanted?
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This was really hard to do on phone lol.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m pretty sure 0 people use it is my thinking
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sh3t
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s because they’re still trying to get people locked in, or at least feeling like they can’t operate without it.

Twitter must just be more desperate for cash.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Now you’re getting it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Shiiit
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s actually incredible what bullshit masters they are. I consider myself a pretty smart, resolved person, but listening to some of these CEOs speak leaves me feeling confused, deflated, and demoralised.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly. I’m sure countless accountants have pointed to that line item before and somehow we still have a CEOs.

People who are so wowed by the incredible generative output of LLMs and can’t wait for them to fix things need to realise this technology is not for them.

Like all nee tech it may cause a slight shakeup in the beginning allowing for a little upward mobility, but eventually big business folds around it until it only works for the owners.

We’ll all just be working more for less, unless something actually changes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes people love a competent seeming authority. In this way the opaque nature of AI becomes a feature rather than a weakness. It just has to seem correct enough and sound authoritative to fulfill that need.

Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity.

I get the feeling that many of us (including myself at times) nurture this notion* that we’re waiting for the “adults” to arrive and save us from what a horrible mess we’ve made because we’re o so awful and can’t have nice things… blah blah bling blah… and so this line of thinking goes.

Anyway, to the sizeable number of people who feel this way it must feel like such a relief that, o finally daddy’s home, and I can stop worrying all the time. When ofc in reality, at best, the LLMs only have the same data we already have, and no AI-informed decisions will ever be followed unless it’s what their owners (as in rich fucks) wanted to do anyway.

Great comment by the way. If you say it was written with AI I may just tear out the last remnants of my hairline lol.

* kind of proto-fascist thinking tbh.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Just reread Brave New World, and you’re spot on. I forgot how consumerism underpinned everything in their society.

It was like a tightly regulated market but in the worst way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We should’ve had that 50 years ago as an “automation tax” and 100 years ago as a “machine tax.”

All this tooling is just dead labour value that is used (by workers) to extract more and more value from workers and nature. We’ve been being robbed for hundreds of years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Because it’s not about productivity. It’s about separating people into owners and toilers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly if the US actually had a left wing party that challenged the status quo, I’m sure he’s vapid enough that he might have tried to get his cult of personality going there.

I don’t think it would have gone well for him because he’s actually just a straight up shitty person, but I feel like for an obvious narcissist like him the party lines are just window dressing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It works because the thing he really wants is validation, and they gave it to him. Now he’ll continue, and come back around their way again soon, I’m sure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I can blame them. It sets a very dangerous precedent and tacitly legitimises the maga party’s bad behaviour.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That specific use case is often brought up as an example of “good AI use” even among people who are opposed to the commercial models, so even if it was an apt comparison, I don’t think your assertion holds much water.

Further, aren’t you assuming my context if you think, for example, that I’m an ignorant hater because I’m hating on some gen AI web comic? Or nebulous defense of AI, like in the op?

Is this exchange one of the data points you mentally tally when you think of contextless, knee jerk reactions to all uses of AI? Because in this case right here, you would clearly be wrong.

I’m not against all ML/AI when applied in the right context.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think you’re assuming people are having a knee jerk, ignorant response, because you have come to a different conclusion than they have.

My dislike of consumer AI is very well informed. I’ve built my own local models and used generative AI extensively for work (no choice). I was actually pretty excited for the technology before the corps started using it as their latest accelerationist cudgel in the class war.

As it stands, I think it’s hard to justify using AI, even as a casual consumer. For many reasons that are already well documented.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I prefer emphasis, highlighting, and italics execution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ah so it’s the classic “but my hands are forced to do the machine’s bidding” then goes on to do the thing they really wanted to do while their hollow appeal to authority is still echoing.

I believe it’s one of the things corpos love about AI so much - it can be used as a stochastic authority to excuse their behaviour. And if they don’t like what it extrudes? Well they can just shake up the inputs and run it again, until they get what they want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The comparison is bunk though.

The awareness of systemic oppression is not equivalent to a technology that produces text and images of dubious provenance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting sucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Also username
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting sucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Seriously. And you will very quickly get used to it. Like you wouldn’t believe what happened to me when I started making red lentil dal on the regular, but after a while, my bowel movements went back to regular and no more “ring of fire.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nazis. I hate these guys.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t understand your comment. What is a ngmi? It looks like an acronym for “not gonna make it”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What’s hilarious is I actually have that shirt
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Never really thought of narcissisms in such a plural and mundane way. Is this a school of abnormal psychology or something?

Interesting lens to look through. I’ve always been a sucker for this kind of transactional analysis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fascinating. I never understood why the cuckolding fetish (fixation? obsession?) came with such a strong overlap with, I guess, race play? Feels like a charitable way to put it.

I didn’t believe it at first, but any quick web search will show that cuckolding largely is about the races of the people involved.

Which makes a lot more sense if seen through the framework you just described.