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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

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trochee, to random
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Finding a few old contacts from The Other Sites, even now that I've been On Here for most of a year

And really wishing there was a way to request your local mastodon instance to backfill a new contact's posts

It wouldn't even have to be immediate. It could go into a low priority queue and get throttled by volume, but it would be nice to know that i could have the last, say,100 posts from my new acquaintance/friend from another instance synced to MY instance over the next 24 hours

trochee,
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@soypunk yeah no regrets here either -- just wishing it was easier to sync recent history across smaller instances on good terms

markwyner, (edited ) to random
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These cubes aren’t moving or changing (as implied by the arrows). At all. Not even a little. Other than the color toggle, they remain constant.

(Credit: Ja Gari Kin)

EDIT: added content warning because of the flashing.

trochee,
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@markwyner

what is this magic. WOW

tef, to random
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google's pretty useless while reddit is in lockdown huh

trochee,
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@tef it was useless before that but it's really stark now

FeralRobots, to random
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Riot cops are like guns in that once you whip them out, they're pretty likely to get used.

trochee,
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@FeralRobots

Chekhov's urban occupation

trochee,
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@FeralRobots following the gun safety rules is probably wise for cops, too, though.

Don't {call the cops on, point a gun at} someone you're not prepared to shoot.

(calling the fuzz is 100% a muzzle-sweep safety mistake)

inthehands, to random
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The most foolish, useless hill I am willing to die on:

“Login” is a noun, “log in” is a verb, button labels are verbs or verb phrases, and thus every button-like affordance that’s labeled “Login” is wrong

trochee,
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@shantini

I have similar intuitions that I derive from analogy with "mixin" (noun) vs "mix in" (verb)

but I am not sure that this is the same kind of "in" particle

@inthehands

trochee,
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@inthehands

log-on is not a noun, unless it's maybe a description of the screechy sound of a 90s dial-up connecting

Sorry @merriamwebster you also got the frequencies wrong; a "log-in" is (marginally, tho better w/o hyphen) acceptable as a version of "handle", "identifier" . a "log-on" or "logon" is ... weird to this late Gen-X anglophone USian Old Internet User.

kissane, to random
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Who's done the clearest and friendliest medium-length explanation of how LLM-ing search is going to destroy the human incentives to publish knowledge and analysis? I'm sure there are many, and I don't want to rewrite the wheel.

(And every time I allude to this future, I get people who are totally baffled by the idea of LLMs as extractive and enclosing, so it's not something that goes without saying.)

trochee,
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@kissane i don't know if it's a medium length, nor exactly "friendly", but @emilymbender has written more than one post on why LLMs are broken-as-designed WRT search.

Not so directly on the "this will duck up the commons" though

trochee,
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@kissane

Maybe @baldur 's sections on Plagiarism https://needtoknow.fyi/card/plagiarism/
or Poisoning https://needtoknow.fyi/card/poisoning/ ??

but you're more interested in "reverse poisoning"; i.e. contaminating the well of the useful information-commons (rather than "poisoning" the AI)

@emilymbender

acousticmirror, to random
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I'm over at https://fedivision.party/ having a listen to the submissions and working out how to cast my votes.

Word of warning: you'll only get a maximum vote by me if your submission involves some kind of .

🎵 🎧 🎤

trochee,
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@acousticmirror one would hope it was a stack overflow, honestly

trochee, (edited ) to random
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We need a federal commission to regulate the existential risk posed by Space Murder Boltzmann Hornets

I've done the math, and they pose a serious threat to the ability of humanity to make it to the Rapture

https://mastodon.scot/@FionaCraig/110532199802209089

@FionaCraig @cstross @alexis

trochee,
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@astatide

Asking for a hexapod hivemind friend

trochee,
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@astatide

space murder boltzmann hornet gpu go bzzzzz

ct_bergstrom, to random

Ugh.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/06/08/google-ai-partners-with-mayo-clinic-to-trial-breakthrough-healthcare-chatbot/?sh=1259f3134025

trochee,
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@inthehands

it's not underground, it's Eric Schmidt's penthouse

@ct_bergstrom

trochee,
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@inthehands

and boy howdy does Alito seem like a pretty milquetoast version of this phenomenon these days.

consider the multiple Florida Men in political news this week, and both Sergey and Elon's versions of "X" organizations

@ct_bergstrom

omarlizardo, to random

Best "raises questions" yet?

trochee,
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@omarlizardo you know some headline writer knows what "sweaty" means to the kids these days

ct_bergstrom, to random

Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability.

More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.

Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross

Yes, every single one of them is a man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/technology/silicon-valley-confronts-the-idea-that-the-singularity-is-here.html

trochee,
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@alexshendi @ct_bergstrom

Also @baldur is 100% a contrarian at least as vigorous as @cstross

but still a dude.

trochee,
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@ct_bergstrom @ciurana

Indeed. This list of sources thrown together in a hot minute is an excellent counterweight that WAS available before this article was written

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110442173959696208

lorddimwit, to random
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Emojis and image-based memes are just latter day language. Discuss.

(Yes I know in the academic sense everything mentioned above is a meme. Run with it.)

trochee,
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@lorddimwit

this is all very Darmok

futurebird, to random
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Here is a remarkable video of two young men exploring an abandoned mall in Cleveland, Ohio during a snowstorm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adO20xFdowM

A lot of surprisingly young people are obsessed with what they call "Liminal Spaces" and the related horror genre known as "Backrooms"-- Videos like this put this in context, a nightmare from the collective unconscious of a generation: infinite, but abandoned indoor space, wandering the unimpressive, but at times nostalgic, ruins of a suburban dream.

trochee,
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@echanda @futurebird

That is from THE TRANSFORMERS (1984) and this thought process is explicit in the comics as a motivation for why the alien robots can look like earth motor vehicles

cricketcrocker, to random

Current hobby: reporting violations of IACA on Etsy. You can play too :)

https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act

trochee,
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@cricketcrocker

oh, there's a part of me that wants this to have bounties like the hateful people put on anti abortion legislation

And i wish the fines would go to the misrepresented tribes!

trochee, (edited )
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@cricketcrocker welp, your cyberpunk RPG character is RIGHT THERE

"online indigenous" cyber bounty hunter

trochee,
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@cricketcrocker

Sometimes I think that the legend-level "adventure bro" franchises all need to follow the 007 model and simply recast without bothering to explain

Then i think, no, they should go with DOCTOR WHO "Regeneration" plot logic

Or maybe the Star Trek "reboot and branch timelines" logic

But now I want a full rescue reboot, where Indiana is a(n indigenous) woman's name, but she's still a professor who fights Nazis with a bullwhip

trochee,
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@lowd @cricketcrocker

yes, JM as the next Bond would be perfect!

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