I find it surprising how many non-technical friends and family constantly anthropomorphize LLMs, regularly bringing up instances where they "asked AI" about this or that and it "told them" whatever. I'm tired of trying to explain that they are merely statistical sequence generators, don't have a mind, are occasionally completely out to lunch, and ultimately cannot be trusted. This is usually a losing battle. The sheer bullshit that "AI tells them" is often astonishing or ridiculous, but a lot of the time it's given undue weight and trusted anyway. The future is bleak.
I agree. There's also something to be said in it being another level of abstraction, only linguistic instead of technical, but failing to understand that they are "random" is a recipe for disaster.
I don't understand why anyone would want to work for a firm that will not allow their employees to do their entire job properly, but will instead insist that they delegate a large portion of it via natural language of all things to some stochastic parrot from hell and hope after enough iterations of this that it will all somehow turn out okay. This sounds like a complete nightmare! To be frank, this entire situation is absurd and honestly sours me on the entire field.
Even just using them for prototyping is a big gain. While they do have monetary cost to run, they massively reduce the time cost of experimenting.
They can also waste a lot of time if you end up over-reliant on them, but that's where experience with LLMs comes in. The nature of them means it's not an exact science, but you get a feel for how to best apply them.
Well the rap and audio plugins are created by some people. It's ok, but I am not ok with it. Having a musician career on Spotify is a lie. It is only vibe draggingdrop or code. I prefer my coworkers doing html-programming work kind of vibe coding.
> That freedom must be balanced against the interests of the rest of society to avoid risk from certain kinds of harm which can easily proliferate in an environment where any program can run with the full authority of the owner and malware spreads willy-nilly.
No, no, a thousand times no. This is an argument for authoritarian clampdown on general computing and must be opposed by all means necessary. I have the right to run whatever code I wish on my own damn property without the permission of arbitrary authorities or whatever subset of society you favor, and if you or they have a problem with this, you or they can proceed to pound sand.
> There's an immigration checkpoint near my house. I've had to present my ID. It took all of 5 minutes and then I moved on with my life.
There's a very real possibility now that if you have the wrong physical attributes, encounter the wrong federal agent, or (in the near future) are insufficiently loyal as deemed by some unaccountable bureaucrat, that it may not take five minutes, but instead quite a long time, when at that checkpoint you are instead arbitrarily and illegally detained, whisked away to some holding camp several states away, and held without access to counsel or due process for some indeterminate length of time. Draconian immigration enforcement is currently used as an excuse to habituate people like you to arbitrary inspection and force. You're going to miss the rule of law when it's gone, so now would be a great time to stop being obtuse with this left-right culture nonsense and instead support the protection of all of the people's constitutional rights.
Ok, well you are only saying this because you are scared of being whisked away. These agents and bureaucrats are fair people, especially compared to Alex Petti.
If they aren't fair, then they will gain experience over the years and eventually become good.
Now consider my attributes: I look Chinese, I will encounter agents throughout my life, and I am a free thinker (loyal only to the white in red-white-and-blue). What changes about the world if I get whisked away, and why shouldn't I sacrifice myself for the greater Good?
The law is gone for many when unenforced and also not gone for many. I am exhausted when repeating this, but law is not mathematical, it is meta-physical and Gone with the Wind, bringing us back to a romantic time of order when resources where plentiful, order was stable, yet mobility was hopeful, in the eyes of many. How harsh would it be to take that away from millions of Americans.
Yet think about how selfish your thinking is. Do you really care about the law? Or are you worried that you may be targeted next, and unwilling to handle even a tiny bit of sacrifice that millions of Americans have endured for years?
Either this is masterful satire or I should be asking you how the weather is in St. Petersburg, eh tovarisch? (no offense to the poor folks who live there and aren't paid to troll Internet fora).
Consider an unfortunate Uyghur situation in China, where 10+ people died at the hands of knives in the mountain city of Kunming, 1000s of miles away far away from the desert.
And how many Americans have died? 2 where video obviously shows escalation from those without weapons.
America is an orderly country and those with guns are holding back. Poke, poke, poke. Pull, pull, pull. Those who play video games know how automatic it can be. Yet these officers are not doing it.
Yet why is everybody screaming and kicking? At whoever they feel they can scream at?
Now let's flip a perspective. Consider the General Secretary says, "your way of life is like a drug" [1]. If the only way you know how to fight the state is to kill, the economy is blocked by Extremists, politics are blocked by Extremists, only knives are open to Centrists, what can you do? You can only poke, no?
So we must hold empathy for the right lives, for the right matters, and for the right centrists. Power should centralize among those who are right, and the wind of history will flow in the right direction. That is the Destiny we rightly Manifest.
The Bluesky app respects Rob's setting (which is off by default) to not show his posts to logged out users, but fundamentally the protocol is for public data, so you can access it.
the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don't have an account, and bluesky not doing so... but i guess thats no longer true?
I just don't understand that choice for either platform, is the intent not, biggest reach possible? locking potential viewers out is such a direct contradiction of that.
edit: seems its user choice to force login to view a post, which changes my mind significantly on if its a bad platform decision.
It's a setting on BlueSky, that the user can enable for their own account, and for people of prominence who don't feel like dealing with drive by trolls all day, I think it's very reasonable. One is a money grab, and the other is giving power to the user.
(You won't be able to read replies, or browse to the user's post feed, but you can at least see individual tweets. I still wrap links with s/x/fxtwitter/ though since it tends to be a better preview in e.g. discord.)
For bluesky, it seems to be a user choice thing, and a step between full-public and only-followers.
I'll (genuinely happily) change my opinion on this when it's possible to do twitter-like microblogging via ATproto without needing any infra from bluesky tye company. I hear there are independent implementations being built, so hopefully that will be soon.
I was going to look into this once, but instead I opted to go into Tosche station to pick up some power converters and unfortunately never quite got around to it.
