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eschaton

@eschaton@mastodon.social

Work on tools for people to do work. Play with old computers in my spare time. Only ever speaking for myself.

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eschaton, to random
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@siracusa I was really disappointed to hear you say, shortly before 1hr40m in the latest released episode of ATP, that LLMs are “really good at understanding” which is an enormous category error. They don’t understand anything! What they’re good at is using statistics to predict what text could plausibly come next.

eschaton,
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@enhancedscurry @siracusa Yes, but I don’t think it goes the other direction—being able to make predictions about something doesn’t necessarily mean understanding it.

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From EssenceOfThought on Youtube:

Unfortunately, more people will likely watch the transphobic, pseudoscientific original than this or @rebeccawatson’s thorough refutations.

Debunking Pseudoscience Attacking Trans Youth | RE: Sabine Hossenfelder

https://youtu.be/wEw3YNSSi10

eschaton,
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@dgoldsmith @drahardja @rebeccawatson Do they though? Or have they picked a side?

eschaton,
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@dgoldsmith @drahardja @rebeccawatson I don't these days, it's easy enough to be aware enough of these things to know what's what. I expect that's why Anderson Cooper is out there defending CNN's hosting of a fascist rally.

eschaton,
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@overstrike @dgoldsmith @drahardja @rebeccawatson That’s why it has to be collective action, taken where their audience can see. That’s why collective action works—if they had to replace them all, immediately, they’d be fucked.

eschaton, to random
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CNN staff should engage in a prime time on-air walk-out to protest their executives’ intentional platforming of fascists.

eschaton, to random
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It’s becoming crystal clear that the Republicans will not budge on the debt ceiling because they want the United States to default, in order to leverage the resulting chaos and strife to “impose order” by establishing a fascist state.

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