anachronist @ anachronist @midwest.social

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The fact that Luigi has not been convicted seems to be being treated as an irrelevant technicality by the media in this matter. Interesting given how scrupulous they usually are in dropping "alleged" everywhere.

Because everything we know about how the brain works says that it's not a statistical word predictor.

LLMs have no encoding of meaning or veracity.

There are some great philosophical exercises about this like the chinese room experiment.

There's also the fact that, empirically, human brains are bad at statistical inference but do not need to consume the entire internet and all written communication ever to have a conversation. Nor do they need to process a billion images of a bird to identify a bird.

Now of course because this exact argument has been had a billion times over the last few years your obvious comeback is "maybe it's a different kind of intelligence." Well fuck, maybe birds shit icecream. If you want to worship a chatbot made by a psycopath be my guest.

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Because it's an expensive madlibs program..

Really determining if a computer is self-aware would be very hard because we are good at making programs that mimic self-awareness. Additionally, humans are kinda hardwired to anthropomorphize things that talk.

But we do know for absolute sure that OpenAI's expensive madlibs program is not self-aware and is not even on the road to self-awareness, and anyone who thinks otherwise has lost the plot.

Given that its training data probably has millions of instances of people fearing death I have no doubt that it would regurgitate some of that stuff. And LLMs constantly "say" stuff that isn't true. They have no concept of truth and therefore can not either reliably lie or tell the truth.

They're not releasing it because it sucks.

Their counternarrative is they're not releasing it because it's like, just way too powerful dude!

The wedge already exists. The Trump people started leaking that Elon is a seagull less than 3 days after the election. The problem is that Elon paid for Trump's victory and he's continuing to throw money around. Trump knows this and it's why he keeps appointing Elon's goons to the administration (beginning with JD Vance and continuing with David Sachs and all the other VC).

Anarchists find it really hard to support despotic regimes even when they're opposing the USA.

Next time they pick a patsy for a guy with distinctive eyebrows they should find a guy with the same eyebrows.

"Invading" is a curious word to use when the US military is already the main military presence on the island.

You're overthinking it.

In any case, The USA already controls Greenland in every way that matters from a strategic perspective, and has since the 40s.

Tesla is the new BMW and nobody's using those buttons.

You'd probably have to lie between them instead of just looking at a photo, to assess if it's still possible.

Clearly they were put there with the intention of making it difficult/uncomfortable to lie down on the subway vent. If they were installed incompetently that doesn't make them unhostile though, it just makes them ineffective for their obviously intended purpose.

Also the future is bleak in the poly-crisis.

That cliff committed an act of terrorism.

When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.

TBH I think it was always clear that he was going to be at least somewhat right-coded given that he was so competent with firearms.

I personally don't care what he thinks about pronouns or whatever, unlike Rittenhouse or that subway guy he actually went after one of America's true villains. The right wing violence in this country finally found a legitimate target.