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Yet more evidence that Americans can't identify threats with even a shred of accuracy.

Like, when we were all saying "He's gonna be a dictator!" and he was all like "I'm gonna be a dictator!" and then he gets into office and starts doing a dictatorship suddenly everyone is 😮

Silly Americans are so new at this.

No, you see that's when they announce martial law and roll out the ol' Death Squads (they'll have a patriotic name) to enforce the "new order" on the populace.

Americans gonna be shouting "Wait, this is illegal!"

Americans are still going "CAN THEY DO THAT???" every day.

When they announce martial law, people are still going to be like "Well, this is not good, I'm going to rethink my vote!"

If you're using the thing to write your work emails, you're probably so bad at your job that you won't last anyway. Being able to write a clear, effective message is not a skill, it's a basic function like walking. Asking a machine to do it for you just hurts yourself more than anything.

That said, it can be very useful for coding, for analyzing large contracts and agreements and providing summaries of huge datasets, it can help in designing slide shows when you have to do weekly power-points and other small-scale tasks that make your day go faster.

I find it hilarious how many people try to make the thing do ALL their work for them and end up looking like idiots as it blows up in their face.

See, LLM's will never be smarter than you personally, they are tools for amplifying your own cognition and abilities, but few people use them that way, most people think it's already alive and can make meaning for them. It's not, it's a mirror. You wouldn't put a hand-mirror on your work chair and leave it to finish out your day.

If I learned a friend generated AI trash for their blog, they wouldn’t be my friend much longer.

This makes you a pretty shitty friend.

I mean, I cannot stand AI slop and have no sympathy for people who get ridiculed for using it to produce content... but it's different if it's a friend, jesus christ, what kind of giant dick do you have to be to throw away a friendship because someone wanted to use a shortcut to get results for their own personal project? That's supremely performative. I don't care for the current AI content but I wouldn't say something like this thinking it makes me sound cool.

I miss when adults existed.

edit: i love that there's three people who read this and said "Well I never! I would CERTAINLY sever a friendship because someone used an AI product for their own project! " Meanwhile we're all wondering why people are so fucking lonely right now.

I don't really care what anyone wants to call it anymore, people who make this correction are usually pretty firmly against the idea of it even being a thing, but again, it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it or what we call it, because the race is still happening whether we like it or not.

If you're annoyed with the sea of LLM content and generated "art" and the tired way people are abusing ChatGTP, welcome to the club. Most of us are.

But that doesn't mean that every major nation and corporation in the world isn't still scrambling to claim the most powerful, most intelligent machines they can produce, because everyone knows that this technology is here to stay and it's only going to keep getting worked on. I have no idea where it's going or what it will become, but the toothpaste is out and there's no putting it back.

I hate to break it to you, but AI isn't going anywhere, it's only going to accelerate. There is no comparison to NFT's.

Hint: the major governments of the world were never scrambling to produce the best, most powerful NFT's.

I am one of the biggest critics of AI, but yeah, it's NOT going anywhere.

The toothpaste is out, and every nation on Earth is scrambling to get the best, smartest, most capable systems in their hands. We're in the middle of an actual arms-race here and the general public is too caught up on the question of if a realistic rendering of Lola Bunny in lingerie is considered "real art."

The Chat GTP/LLM shit that we're swimming in is just the surface-level annoying marketing for what may be our last invention as a species.

I am not a woman but I have many female friends and family members and a partner who talk about the things they deal with, so let me give a few examples of things you may deal with as a woman online or off, in increasing levels of severity and threat level:

• Being condescended to and ignored, talked over and interrupted constantly.
• Being excluded from things and patronized for wanting to talk about certain topics or activities.
• Guys who cannot stop making sexual advances and sexual comments and have to try to steer every conversation towards sex. Always cracking sexual jokes towards women and looking for a response.
• Getting sent dick pics and other pornographic imagery without prompt or reason.
• Guys in gaming groups or discord servers who act friendly and slowly become more and more obsessive and threatening and feel entitled to your attention.
• Men who fully act normal and decent and integrate into a social group but have secret obsessive impulses and they try to spread rumors and lies about the woman or women in their circle, creating stories to try to isolate the girl they're interested in, or attempts to get the female members of the group ejected because they feel insecure around them.
• Men who can't distinguish between being friends and being intimate, and suddenly feel like they're your boyfriend and entitled to know everything you do and everywhere you go, making threats to harm themselves or you if you don't reciprocate the "relationship."
• Stalkers who find your personal information online and send you pictures from your social media or other personal items to show that they know where you live.
• Being followed home or stalked by actual people who find out who you are.

There are a lot of social "rules" that women have to deal with, and a lot of men aren't even aware of them. Like how they never leave drinks unattended when out with friends. When being dropped off at their house, they ask the driver to wait until they get all the way inside with the door closed before the driver leaves.

I often hesitate to give these kinds of examples because invariably there will be someone who claims it's all lies or exaggerated, or they dismiss it and say "I wish I got that kind of attention online!" and other mind-meltingly dense, stupid or aggressive takes. This is why I asked if you have talked to real women you know about their experiences, because they don't talk about this stuff, particularly online to people they aren't close to. As soon as you get close to any women you learn exactly how much sexual predation they endure their whole lives and yeah, they do "get used it" in that they don't go around telling everyone about every interaction. 1 out of 5 women are raped or have been assaulted/attempted rape. Of these victims, 1 out of 3 had it happen between ages of 11 and 17.

Most women who are murdered are murdered by a spouse, boyfriend, acquaintance or someone who met them once or twice.

Women have very good reason to feel afraid of strangers, online or off, if you're actually interested in learning more and reading actual examples there is a WEALTH of information online and plenty of women's stories on major forums, from Lemmy to Reddit to twitter threads.

There are a lot of things you probably aren't even aware of that are normal for women, I would really encourage you to broaden your social sphere and make friends of other genders and backgrounds and listen to what other people deal with.

You probably don't even know how much harassment and threats you would face just being a woman online, it's not exaggerated, there are a LOT of people who really enjoy making women feel unsafe, it's a game to them. Most girls I know hide their identities online and pretend to be men. Imagine not being able to express yourself freely even on the internet because you don't want to feel unsafe or hated.

Our nation still has the delusion of "Someone is coming to save us."

I look behind us and I just see a red road. It's all red lines, all the way back.

No.

I'm speaking as a fairly moderate, average American who's been around almost a half century.

I am telling you and anyone who reads this, that this is NOT going back to normal. This is going to get worse. I promise you, you all need to understand this thing I'm about to shout here:

NOBODY IS COMING.

If we want to fix this, we have to do it ourselves. And I have very little allusion that liberal, comfy America and the military is going to dream of upsetting their careful balance and privilege, and they will keep their head down and keep working even as their rights are stripped away and nobody can afford food or water anymore without realizing they're boiled toads.

Buy beans and rice. Save money. Quit expensive habits and get healthy. Update your passport and put some cash and gold aside in case you need to leave and the banks won't give you money. Maintain contact with people outside the USA in case you need contacts somewhere. I am dead-fucking-serious.

WE NEED TO POINT OUT THAT THEY'RE HYPOCRITES ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THAT WILL SAVE US!

Surely this time people will all get together and walk down to DC and drag his orange ass out onto the lawn. Surely.

Nobody in this kind of website will be at all surprised.

I would be screaming at liberal America that they've been duped and they need to mobilize if they want to still retire or have social security or medicaid or medicare...

But reddit and google have shadowbanned me across all their platforms for doing that. Four times now.

We're in the dark timeline guys, this doesn't end until there's news reports showing flames.

What they mean is this:

"We spent a fortune to put this fuckin puppet in power, we had to work with every other sleezebag nation with the will to subvert democracy so we could get our golden-idol worshipped by the country's stupidest peasants so we could deregulate the whole world via force if necessary, but it turns out the clown is so stupid he's listening to the morons around him and not just our orders and now the market is crashing and the wrong people are profiting!"

We're in free-fall right now, but kind of like the market when a recession begins, we don't see it until it's in hindsight. But right now it's already in full swing, whatever people meant about the "singularity" it's already happening, because we have no idea what's going to happen next, predictive models are toast. We used to be able to predict the future out to the decade with ideas about politics, technology and society being extrapolated with fairly good accuracy.

We can't predict what's going to happen next month now. Even our so-called leadership has just abandoned all semblance of control and appearances of normalcy and are just trying to get as much as they can as fast as they can before it all collapses.

I don't think we're going to lose everything. We're going to have some hardships and a LOT of people are going to suffer. And likely there will be deaths at a scale that grows so steadily and so long-term that we're all going to collectively tune out the news. Again. I just don't know what's going to be built on the other side. It will either be solar panels and servers and robot factories, or it will be death machines and tools of darkness. (And server farms and robot factories, but meant for like... mulching brown people who still have oil and water.)

That user is unhinged, don't try to engage, they're having a bad day/week/life and just trying to take it out on allies and people having conversations. Check their moderation history and how many places they're banned from.

Fun facts: you may actually hear an orbiting black-hole spin if you're close enough. It's possible for gravitational waves to reach the same amplitude as sound waves, which would probably cause your eardrum to activate as space contracts and expands past it, so you would "hear" something, but we don't really know what it would sound like, likely a hum or high-pitched thrumming.

Depending on the size of the black hole (smaller is more likely for this) you may also "see" static in the air, as hawking radiation is emitted by the space around the event horizon. Hawking radiation doesn't come "out" of a black hole, that would be impossible. Instead, it "appears" in space around the black hole, and as it does, it draws mass off the black hole. For larger black holes this area of hawking radiation could be enormous, millions and millions of miles, and it would be very, very faint. For smaller ones, it may actually throw so much hawking radiation out that it would appear in your retinas at times.