too based for earth, too cringe for heaven, misfit in hell i mean, huh?

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  • None that aren’t at least in some way corporate. Maybe in another life, who knows. Or in a few years we’ll have something that’s actually useful and not corpo owned. With that out of the way, I’ve heard of but not tested these two:

    • Guilded is basically discord but not yet enshittified
    • Revolt.chat looks interesting, seems to be still in beta, is European, and iirc it’s developed by a non-profit


  • First off, no, not even boilerplate can be done incorrectly sometimes. Software that ingests words and outputs words can’t check, say, official forms for correctness. Or test reports. You need a different type of reasoning for that.

    And then, even if we assume that AI can do these tasks correctly, boilerplate isn’t being just offloaded, it’s being created. Sure, we’ve had bullshit generators before. But now our bullshit machines are faster, and spew out more believable bullshit. Google has been ruined by generated slop. That’s work that wasn’t performed before, doesn’t improve our lives and yet is being done.











  • You can’t apply computers to humans and expect good results. Period. Human made text is not easily parametrizable; much less someone’s manner of speaking or bodily expressions.

    And human relationships as a whole, where at least two beings fundamentally incomprehensible to the machine interact, within a larger societal context that is equally incomprehensible? Acting like you can fit it into a neat model is peak computer science hubris.

    And, in the end, it would only reinforce the preexisting notions of what is “healthy” or how others are feeling. I’m not sure that it applies to autistics as well as it does to neurotypicals. And I’m not certain if it applies to them either.