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Cake day: 2024年3月22日

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  • This is a fascinating case study in the democracy vs technocrat debate, where the educated, well-paid consultant class is too far up their own ideological asshole to recognize that their GenAI chatbot doesn’t work as advertised, and that lack of sanity is poisoning the well and killing discussions over how to use the power of machine learning well. But rather than back off the chatbot, even just to “let it cook” (read: let Saltman and friends continue to play with it in arenas that don’t have geopolitically relevant stakes) they’re doubling down to make this a pure messaging issue which I expect is only going to make the problem worse. Like, people aren’t unaware of GenAI at this point, and education on prompting it right is just a distraction from the fundamental problem.




  • Like, I could completely understand being like “I’m not comfortable with you using my name for something like this. Even though you say it’s not about me there are enough similarities to the character that it could easily mislead people - myself included, as you can see - into thinking otherwise.” There is a reasonable version of this, but insisting that “lol someone wrote a play about me” and using it for clout years later is peak sneerable behavior.

    Also I want to sneer at Yud not understanding the concept of Off-Off-Broadway vs Off-Broadway but TBH I don’t understand the way that different tiers of theatrical prestige connect and can only assume that it’s like the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno.




  • I know I’m kinda bouncing the rubble at this point, but I want to highlight another bit of crazy here:

    I will go ahead and extend this to anything and everything that gives a person the sense of belonging.

    That sense of belonging is definitely part of normal human psychology, and ties into the whole self-concept and sense of identity; we need to know ourselves in relation to one another just as much if not more than we need to understand ourselves in relation to the physical world. Rejecting (checks notes) the concept of community is wildly unhealthy and will lead to deeply unhinged and unhappy people.