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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

Matrix is not a good platform. Especially as a discord replacement. All clients suck in their own unique ways, and so does server software. It doesn't have any meaningful moderation tools. It doesn't have half the user facing discord features (like streaming or functional pins). The search sucks.

You're not getting out of the corporate hellhole that easily

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.

What a dumb comparison. Calculators are just tools to do the same mechanical action as abaci, which were also just tools to speed up human mechanical actions of calculation.

Writing, drawing, research are creative, not mechanical, and offloading them to a tool is very different from offloading calculations to integrated circuits

OP read that Boost may contain code used for tracking, then started spewing some conspiracy that "Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more!" without any proof or any actual research.

This has actually been on my mind for a while now. Louis Rossmann and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race. He and his ilk talk about profiling in terms so sensationalist ("data stealing", "spying") that any connection to reality goes out the window and people become conspiratorial and paranoid. All reasoning about why it happens gets flattened to "they're evil" and there's no way to actually engage with the reasons.

What about "user@not_domain"? It validates but isn't valid - there's no domain part, the @ is quoted

Weren't they defined by major cultural events? Zoomers not remembering 9/11 for example

This is anywhere, period. You can do that with letters, you can do that with speeches, or in casual conversations.

And you're not always wrong about it either.

If you've played Disco Elysium, "Welcome to Revachol". If you haven't, play it. It's an amazing game

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Fight me. Also, one of these is a function

Welp, there's nothing to lose I think. I'm gonna give it a shot and see if it works

Oh, by "that space" I meant the space where that specific person hung out in, not AI research in general

Though I have heard a fair share of idiotic takes from actual researchers as well

I have seen AI apologists talk about how "AI" is already sentient and we shouldn't restrict it because it's immoral.

That straight up killed my desire to interact in that space the community with that person

🥰 😳 thank you

I mean, sure. My comment was entirely tongue in cheek. I didn't like awards, especially those that are more than just a glorified emoji (such as those I mentioned)

But, truth be told, the wealthy can just straight up buy discussions and opinions. User farms/bots aren't free, and neither was Twitter currently X. Nothing can hide from the cruel hand of capital. The fediverse isn't immune to this either: it's too small for anyone rich to buy out, but there's very little preventing them from just buying one of the larger instances. And even without that, it still privileges those with money - hosting isn't free.

The most we can do is to stay vigilant, I suppose. Be aware of the inherent biases in the world and refuse to engage with systems that are too strongly captured - Twitter currently X, the zuck platform, Reddit soon (probably).

Didn't a lot of traditions start this way? First they solved some problem, then they forgot the problem existed and continued to apply the solution

But it doesn't make your comment glow/move around/whatever the fuck awards did

Math is a language and as such it's less pure than sociology. The universe knows no numbers, it knows no addition not division.

Which is why you should:

1. Preallocate the vector if you can guesstimate the size
2. Use a vector library that won't reallocate the entire vector on every single addition (like Rust, whose Vec doubles in size every time it runs out of space)

Memory is fairly cheap. Allocation time not so much.

Is this a reference to Bergson v Einstein?

If it is, why am I aware of it?

At first I wanted to dismiss your worry and just call her dumb, but you may be right. I'm still not entirely sold on that, I think she can just be out of her depth, but what you're saying would make for a very nice pivot to political grifting. What makes me skeptical of that is her old trans video, about sport. Though, now that I think about it, it used the exact same "both sides" and "insufficient data" arguments the new video abused.

I actually also wanted to link a video about free will and a livestream react but I couldn't find a good one. Was that the one that made you quit?