This is democracy manifest! (rip)

Hmm, the way I’ve chosen to interpret this is to propose the analogy of a person eating corn as a model of LLMs. You can eat a huge variety of foods and your poop looks more or less the same. Sometimes, you eat something like corn, and the result is you can spot kernels of things resembling real food (i.e. corn kernels) in the poop. However, if you were to inspect said kernels, you would quickly realise they were full of shit.

Here's the full text of the article, which, unfortunately, xcancel doesn't seem to support.

reported because I want my internet points and I want them NOW (jk)

Worrying about whether or not an LLM has censorship issues is like worrying about the taste of poop.

Oh hey Sam Altman is here, doing his best to bring down deepseek

What? You don’t have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home?

Really sorry about this but this sounds like the premise to a shitty boomer joke:

“If I wanted to spend another 6000 for a home nonsense generator, I’d get married again!”

etc.

Screenshot of an insta post of a screenshot of a tweet

Tweet:

I can’t believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Ok you brought aella up so now I can post this:

Heard this song for the first time the other day and it reminded me of aella.

side note: what’s a good way to post links to music that isn’t youtube?

Working on this take:

Aside from stitching together a bigger and bigger trenchcoat, has open AI done anything else? Just goes to show how vacuous LLMs are if this is what it takes to catch up/outpace them.

This but it’s american vs chinese slop

Isn’t this one of the things that LW was spooked by? Giving the reins to an AI? Won’t someone think of the wrongers???

You'd think the AI safety chuds would have more reservations about using GPT, which they believe has sapience, to learn things. They have the concept of an AI being a good convincer, which, hey, idiots, how have none of you thought the great convincing has started? Also, how have none of you realised that maybe you should be a little harder to convince in general???

ah, am conflating the cold war and the space race. Though, why the nations wanted to develop ICBMs is entirely relevant.

Snark answer: for the US to avoid collapse, the democrats will have to do literally anything, so yeah collapse is inevitable.

Optimistic answer: a third, actually leftist, anti-liberal party suddenly gains popularity and power and reforms the US entirely.

Realistic answer: trump and the republicans will fully construct a fascist chokehold over the US probably by the end of this year at the earliest. Anyone who has any hope in non-violent action is deluding themselves.

I just want it all to stop.

Hmm, any sort of vision for generating public support for development of a technology has to have either ideological backing or a profit incentive. I don’t say this to mean that the future must be profitable, rather, I say this to mean that you don’t get the space race if western powers aren’t afraid of communism appearing as a viable alternative to capitalism, on both ideological and commercial fronts.

Unfortunately, a vision of that kind is necessarily technofascist. Rather than look for a tech-forward vision of the future, we need deprogram ourselves and unlearn the unspoken narratives that prop up capitalism and liberal democracy as the only viable forms of society. We need to dismantle the systems and structures that require the complex political buy-in for projects that are clearly good for society at large.

Uh, I guess I’ve kind of gone completely orthogonal to your point of discussion. I’m kind of saying the collapse of the US is inevitable.

Always down for the european alternative if you know what I mean.

Trump revoked the order as part of revoking a long list of Biden executive orders. The reason? “To effectuate the revocations described in section 2 of this order, the heads of each agency shall take immediate steps to end Federal implementation of unlawful and radical DEI ideology.” Uh, okay.

We are going to see exactly far they can take this “radical DEI ideology” boogeyman. Maybe they’ll go to nuclear war over it.

IDK how helpful this is, but Apple intelligence appears to not get downloaded if you set your ipad language and your siri language to be different. I have it set to english (australia) and english (united states). Guess I’ll have to live without “gaol” support, but that just shows how much I’m willing to sacrifice.