I think it is an egregious error to ever assume these people are acting from any sort of rational basis. Which doesn’t make this piece wrong, it’s entirely correct. But that doesn’t impact the decision making one way or the other.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

book rec just dropped:

Honestly this works for everything “I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅ “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

The teams for World War III are Calvinball: Denmark, Sweden, Iran, Nigeria, Will Stancil, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, transsexuals, and the second Star Wars sequel trilogy movie versus USA, Israel, El Salvador, 4chan, incels, Hungary, and Chick-Fil-A.

I think this is how you win over independents. Not nearly enough people believe in open borders or human rights generally. Lots of people have a basic aversion to living under a ‘papers please’ regime

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

come back soon rev

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I honestly think that the main revelation of Trump 2 has been that there is no big C Capital running things behind the scenes anymore and pulling strings. There's individual rich crazy people with their thumbs on the scale, but there's no smoke filled rooms

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

got it in one

uhhh guys my leitmotif just shifted into a minor key

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re... We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely. Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.

Attachment issues

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Stop trying to be a Smart Little Boy about what this administration is doing. No, it doesn't make sense to try to take over sour oil reserves in a country with decrepit capital equipment. Does it matter if it makes sense? No! Dear Leader wants his imperialist spoils. It's all id and photo ops.

There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies WOMAN: Ok *presses button* STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much STRANGER: No, you don't pay WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again* STRANGER: Jesus Christ

Very Bad People have killed the government, and are walking around in its skinsuit. The question is: do you do what they say, simply because they're wearing the skinsuit?

everyone is waiting for some responsible authority to pull the lever and make this end. they do not wish to believe that such a lever does not exist. you give one totally deranged party control of the entire government, this is what happens

Also, the thing described in the article is perfectly fine. "Give me a list of options for a thing" is something that LLMs are actually good at and useful for. They did not "let chatgpt name their son"

Oh yeah when I finally had the realization that r/kotakuinaction was just stupid shit that was boring as fuck it flipped a light switch, I really believe it was the Russians getting a practice run at the shit they pulled in 2016

In retrospect this is probably one of the most cynical and brazen ratfucking attempts we've ever seen

“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres what does it look like inside these people’s heads

my general rule is that i am only interested in doing things with "AI" which are impossible to do in any other way. everyone else just wants to do someone else's job faster and cheaper.

and they dont want me to do it folks, “you cant break the seventh seal of Valarynx” they say. “mr trump if you unseal the final scroll it will unleash a thousand years of darkness and pestilence.” i don’t know folks, what do you think should i break it? *crowd going absolutely ape shit*

I think my man cracked it

when the time comes, there are going to be entire industries built around trying to prove/disprove identity from the half of an eyebrow not hidden by the oakleys on a masked agent's face. it is going to be so fucking depressing. their paystub is enough.

MAGAism really is just TV poisoning. “Well if the renders look cool, it must be good” After all, he played a great businessman on TV, so he must be a great businessman.

like you cannot say this is for *sure* the reason but

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

very cool thread

I am highlighting a bunch of examples of people genuinely trying to use LLMs and genuinely not finding them very useful to illustrate that this really isn’t just a “rabid AI haters who’ve never actually tried it” conversation

This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them. Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

"I’m sure I discovered William Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs in the same summer [laughter] and read them simultaneously, it’s like _Naked Lunch and _Thuvia Maid of Mars [laughter] and I think that is the literary DNA that accounts for much of what I’ve done." - William Gibson, 2013, interview

im getting really sick of the primary voices i hear about "ai" being a problem coming from people who think learning enough about how it works to identify its use is some kind of sin and whose justifications for hating it range from vibes-based to mystical

I want to read this article. Two (meant constructively) things: 1) "demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing" should, like most of these things, have qualifiers like "in our hands and with our LLM" 2) when people talk like this about accuracy, I suspect the workflow as much as the model.

An example of how Trump is a vehicle for grievances because everyone driven by resentment projects onto him. A leftist like AOC feels America is beautiful and wants to improve it. A crank leftist likes the idea of destroying America, but is totally powerless, therefore they approve of Trump doing it

I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.

capital believes that labor has built them a mill which turns wage labor into a slave you can ethically employ. they believe that this is the end-state of capitalism. palantir and anduril stand for the proposition that they can use this slave to murder their way into eternal tyranny

okay the WaPo editorial board has been an abject disaster since it was Bezosified but a literal “are we the baddies” letter is a fantastic bit, full marks for this one