The question of whether LLMs "work" (in the whitepaper sense) serves as an obfuscating abstraction over the questions of whether they are fit for a given purpose - policing, medical diagnosis, education, etc. That they frequently work for producing passable code becomes a way of insisting, by the people sitting at the top of the pyramid of labor most valued by capital, that they work just as well for the many other purposes they have been deployed, that we can clearly see they are unfit for.
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The question of whether LLMs "work" (in the whitepaper sense) serves as an obfuscating abstraction over the questions of whether they are fit for a given purpose - policing, medical diagnosis, education, etc. That they frequently work for producing pas... -
This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.@mhoye unable to turn the page on my book because scroll lock is on in this room
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This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.@mhoye person asks which direction the ice machine is in, i try to point them down the hall but instead i say "6" because numlock is on in this room
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This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.@mhoye [realizes everyone in a room is shouting] wait a minute... capslock is on
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Steve Jobs loved the metaphor “A bicycle for the mind.” So do I.@raganwald a bicycle for the mind vs a steamroller for the mind
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A follow-up on Firefox pushing a "labs" feature that gives you a sidebar to talk to an AI chatbot.https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113098293672475886@mcc as i said in that thread, i think they're just opening themselves up even further to be crushed by the entities with capital, who are the entire reason the current LLM hype wave exists in the first place (ie it's a way for them to monetize their data hoards) (and i don't buy the naive fossbro argument that open models will eventually "win" in this space, ever)
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A follow-up on Firefox pushing a "labs" feature that gives you a sidebar to talk to an AI chatbot.https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113098293672475886@mcc that's the same guy who's active in the "feedback on this feature" thread, using a lot of the same rhetorical tactics that the chrome team uses to dismiss criticism when they deliberately break some part of the web. "oh you think it's unethical? do you have any ethical LLMs you could recommend that we put alongside [the unethical LLMs we added without asking anyone]?" - that insistence that any critics need to be ready with their own alternative solution, obviating "y'all just shouldn't've"
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"Is anyone in power responsible for anything?" https://therealnews.com/is-anyone-in-power-responsible-for-anything"Is anyone in power responsible for anything?" https://therealnews.com/is-anyone-in-power-responsible-for-anything
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It was written a few days before today's Internet Archive ruling but this piece still sums up my position on copyright quite well: we should not concede it to the corporations who have hijacked it, any more than we should concede "doors with locks" to...It was written a few days before today's Internet Archive ruling but this piece still sums up my position on copyright quite well: we should not concede it to the corporations who have hijacked it, any more than we should concede "doors with locks" to the prison industrial complex: https://cohost.org/caffeinatedOtter/post/7503529-there-is-a-set-of-id
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the thing about "[group of vulnerable people] need [consumer product/service that makes the world worse] to live" is that while in certain cases it's true (eg places where public transit is so underfunded disabled people's best alternative is uber), if...the thing about "[group of vulnerable people] need [consumer product/service that makes the world worse] to live" is that while in certain cases it's true (eg places where public transit is so underfunded disabled people's best alternative is uber), if you couple that with "and you're ableist/classist/etc for criticizing [consumer product/service that makes the world worse]" then i will assume you are simply using said people as hostages to defend said harmful thing.
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I'd like to make a static HTML page with a gallery of pixel art images that can be viewed in a javascript-powered "lightbox".I'd like to make a static HTML page with a gallery of pixel art images that can be viewed in a javascript-powered "lightbox". Tons of existing libraries for that, but none of them seem to have a couple niche features I need: aspect correction from non-square (4:2.5) pixel source resolution, nearest-neighbor upscaling small (320x200) images to fill screen / a larger area. Am I in "code your own custom lightbox" territory here, or is there a smarter path?
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hm, that name sounds familiar, let's have a peek at the public timeline...hm, that name sounds familiar, let's have a peek at the public timeline... ah. well, that's a block from me then.
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https://xcancel.com/snowmaker/status/1826069657339703346 as the recent generation of "AI" startups flounder and it becomes increasingly clear that ordinary people don't want what they're selling, tech investors are going to pivot more and more overtly ...https://xcancel.com/snowmaker/status/1826069657339703346 as the recent generation of "AI" startups flounder and it becomes increasingly clear that ordinary people don't want what they're selling, tech investors are going to pivot more and more overtly to the death industry. their argument is literally that the industrial mass killing of humans has become too inefficient and cost-ineffective, thus ripe for "disruption".