I’m not violence neutral, I’m anti-violence. Defensive violence is 10000% necessary as long as military of any kind exist. As long as there are military, there is the capacity to create the world we are living in now through a combination of aggression and survival. When there can’t be military because there would be no point of forming one, only then would non-violence make sense to me.

I can tell you are experienced with Rubberducking. Thanks for the detailed answer.

Thanks for specifying a legitimate use-case for this tool. I understand that google search has been the most valuable programming tool for a very long time so it makes sense LLMs would be more helpful in the same kind of way. Search engine technology is quite a bit different than blockchain or VR in terms of consumer and business demand.

For my purposes of news and history research, the unreliability of LLMs making me have to check all its claims every single time negates its usefulness as an assistant because I will have to examine its references anyway so it’s more time effective for me to skip the questionable output I would get and do the research myself in the first place. How have you been able to manage the issue of unreliability with the volumes of data you’re dealing with? Is the kind of data which you’re dealing with less likely to be unreliable since it is of a kind the LLM is more likely to process correctly?

The difference that I’ve seen is that the internet was a development of communication technology which has been in clear demand since at least the 1800s. Chatbots have been around for the last few decades and have been treated as novelties by consumers for brief periods intermittently throughout my life. LLMs are the most sophisticated chatbots ever designed and are better than ever at imitating Austin Powers, but is that something we can expect will ever revolutionize the economy? Can we replace the labor force with a technology which can’t do work but can convince the most credulous people that it can?

LLMs are more like vr goggles with the force of the entire plutocracy pumping up the bubble. What is the value proposition for “intelligence” which can’t reason nor possibly determine fact from falsehood? When consumers start to pay what it actually costs to run these things, is it possible to profit? What are they good at other than confidence schemes?

“What race are you?” It’s an extremely insidious, loaded question usually asked by someone who believes race is a biological reality. Things change however I answer this question, but nowadays my attitude toward the asker is what changes the fastest.

This is kind of unprecedented. Usually a government only considers nationalizing an industry after it’s established. LLMs are still in the speculative pre-adoption phase, and unlike many other technologies from the last century, LLMs are not very useful at anything other than obfuscating accountability. This is great for racketeers and infuriating for the vast majority of people who have been outspoken at refusing to accept the worthless garbage LLMs can print on demand.

This is a huge problem for LLMs as they cost more to run they they can possibly produce. The only value proposition is technically existing in industries which are totally speculative and require no productivity other than from their salespeople. LLMs can only last for as long as our economy remains fundamentally fraudulent. Making a public bet on LLMs to keep the fraud up is a massive risk that the people taking it have never had to worry about understanding.

I remember before Snowden’s whistle-blowing people online assumed it was crazy to think the government would want to spy on citizens personal internet communications, too. Online privacy was tinfoil hat stuff for people who didn’t know better.

A washing machine with no intelligence has replaced the task of me doing my laundry by hand. There are probably tasks that LLMs would be suited for if they ever become reliable or consistent in any way.

I grew up all the way by the time I was five years old by this standard.

Now that I’m an actual adult I’ve learned that growing up has a lot more to do with emotional maturity, self-confidence, and social responsibility. If a system suppresses the honest expression of emotions and the confidence to be totally authentic within a group and instead encourages people to consider themselves each the enemy of all others in a competitive system, I don’t think it’s a conducive environment for actual maturity.

It is impossible. Everyone has free access to the List of All Famous People and took celebrity class in school. Every single person on the planet is aware of and interested in every famous person.

Dolphins will get there one day too.

This is actually fascinating because it demonstrates a social construct created by animals. Not all animals have the same intelligence, and in nature intelligence is typically found among animals living in groups. It requires intelligence to live and cooperate with others. To me it seems that these animals actually used their intelligence to preserve socially constructed zones for the general good of multiple groups of wolves, likely by staying where the right smell is and not going where the wrong smell is. Hopefully none of the wolves discover the prisoner’s dilemma and become a wolf emperor by suddenly invading and enslaving their unprepared neighbors.

I have desired constant stimulation for my entire life and I get bored by a lot of media quickly. Media that has no silence or pauses is boring in its own way. Well timed, artful pauses and silence capture my attention and gets my mind racing as to what it could mean in the context of a well-told story. Creating engaging media is more than jingling keys.

Everything is politics. Avoiding thinking about or discussing consequential things is a political position which is well served almost everywhere else on the internet.

Egg -> Coot -> Dead

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I’m in a US state with a submissive to authority government. As of today it’s still giving me an “unable to connect” page.

Yesterday the site and its mirrors redirected to an eero page saying it was blocked because it was “dangerous.” Today it was a more general couldn’t connect page.

My eero router recently got an update which permanently blocks archive.ph . What a coincidence.

You know how thinking gets exhausting after a while and it’s frustrating because your brain won’t stop even when you’re already tired? People without adhd don’t have this issue because they choose when to have a train of thought and they stop when it gets too hard. We can’t choose.