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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

#WestSeattle #Duwamish unceded land

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bkeegan, to random
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Definitely let the guy who can't load balance servers for an audio stream control people's oxygen supplies on Mars.

trochee,
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@bkeegan In Musk's Mars, he'll probably still be stepping on rakes for our amusement

jbigham, to random
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this toot is embargoed -- don't read it!

trochee,
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@jbigham don't read what?

evan, to random
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Drone Day is coming this Saturday! Make some noise.

https://droneday.org/

trochee,
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@tyr @evan

I thought this was

Autonomous Vehicle Day (there are a lot of AI nerds in my follows, but they're mostly opposed to surveillance tech)

Then i realized it might be the eusocial hexapod equivalent of "Men's Day" (I already thought of @futurebird )

Then i realized it was a music thing

... Which seems cool, but i kinda wish it were a combination of the first two

trochee,
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@tyr @evan @futurebird

hahahaaaa I confess I didn't even think of that sense; I am pure as the driven snow

trochee,
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@evan @tyr @futurebird neat!

and the autonomous aircraft is named after the insect (because the males are thought to be unintelligent and non-working)

not the buzzing sound they make (a plausible but wrong back story for autonomous aircraft naming)

mmitchell_ai, to random
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Mentioned to many journalists that this would likely happen!! (Is obv if you know about MS, but still exciting to see predictions pan out). An example of how Microsoft is likely to make generative AI useful for consumers. Also see: Enterprise integration!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfwc-NNo30

trochee,
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@mmitchell_ai hard to imagine that all that investment in Clippy wouldn't pay off in exactly this way

misc, to random
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How are postnews and spoutible doing?

trochee,
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@misc

... king of kings, look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

futurebird, to random
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It's always hilarious when people buy a luxury condo in NYC then proceed to complain that a bus stop is too close to their apartment, or that a new subway stop "makes too much traffic" or that restaurants... exist or that buildings are "so tall" or that "this place feels like it's turning in to a humongous city."

Where are you from that you are shocked by a bus? A woodland glade in the middle of an island in the north sea?

trochee,
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@futurebird a bus stop is "too close to your apartment" tells me exactly what they think of the people who ride buses

...which tells me what I think of them

Bus stop near the apartment is a positive trait in my book

wesdym, to random
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English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

trochee,
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@wesdym "flea market" is a calque?

Pwnallthethings, to random
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OpenAI's statement on "governance of superintelligence" is basically "in our humble opinion you should regulate AI, but not our company's AI which is good, but instead only imaginary evil AI that exists only in the nightmares you have after reading too many Sci-Fi books, and the regulatory framework you choose should be this laughably guaranteed-to-fail regulatory framework which we designed here on a napkin while laughing" https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence

trochee,
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@misc @Pwnallthethings i think you mean, a global surveillance regime that Silicon Valley doesn't run

futurebird, to random
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UH OH. Those aren't ants!

One at formiculture is raising a colony of pallidula, and has allowed Paussus favieri beetles ... terrible moochers who eat baby ants and let the ants feed them while doing no work, live with the colony.

Since the colony has basically unlimited food and a cushy life these won't kill the colony. But, I'm torn about the whole thing. Can't stop watching for updates, though and they just posted a new one:

https://www.formiculture.com/topic/19723-felixs-pheidole-pallidula-featuringthe-beetles/

trochee,
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@futurebird uh

This has some Watership Down tamed-warren horror vibes

mcnees, to random
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Moon count (updated)

☿: 0

♀: 0

♁: 1

♂: 2

♃: 95

♄: 145

♅: 27

♆: 14

♇: 5

@badastro on Saturn’s big jump up the moon charts:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saturns-youthful-rings-and-newfound-moons-put-it-in-stargazing-spotlight/

trochee,
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@mcnees @badastro Pluto has five moons and still can't get back in the "planet" club?!

trochee,
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@mcnees @badastro also, some fun science fictional planetary paleontology suggested by the redating of Saturn's rings to near the K-T boundary event.

Earth gives a grizzled nod to Saturn, recognizing a fellow wounded veteran of the same bombardment

finalman, to random
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Kiribati has naming cities figured out

trochee,
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@finalman

[missing alt-text:

A blue map of Kiribati, with towns highlighted.

The towns are around the edge of Kiribati:
Poland (at 9:00)
Paris (at 10:00)
London (at 11:00, inside the harbor)
Banana (at 12:30, facing the north coast).
]

seldo, to random
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Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 surprisingly emotional, very satisfying, A+ MCU fare.

trochee,
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@seldo i went to see it with my kid (age 10)

but he got himself worried about the animal cruelty mentioned on Common Sense Media,

and then noped out 30s in when the raccoon kits were too adorable and he could feel himself falling in love

So I've only seen the first sixty seconds or so 😔

trochee,
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@seldo well maybe he made the right call then.

The High Evolutionary has always been kind of a fucked-up villain character.

"What if Dr Moreau was a Celestial"

oliphant, to random

If you go to the /about page on mastodon.social and hit the "Moderated Servers" you'll be treated to all the servers defederated by mastodon.social.

There are about 200 of them. Only about 15 of the entries are Limits (Silences), the rest are suspends, full defederation.

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon.social.csv

No one escapes the need to defederate once in a while.

The servers that don't defederate at all don't have the "Mastodon experience." They're even worse than Twitter.

trochee,
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@oliphant they defederated brands.town, which is (unless it's a lookalike) a collection of wholesome brand parodies only

Like this one

https://brands.town/@FoxNews/110375675415768735

trochee,
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@oliphant

also disappointing because they could use the public_comment field for at least some of these

kiwifarms.* --> hate-doxxing, swatting-coordinators
birdsite.* --> Twitter bridges
loli.* --> CSAM

and then we could more easily ask questions about why brands.town is defederated

a little transparency would go a long way

(not that I'm telling you anything new)

trochee,
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@oliphant oh that makes me feel a little better

you're not accountable to me as to why you don't pull in the public_comment field; thanks for clarifying that you don't.

your aggregation work is an enormous contribution and you have my gratitude

trochee, to random
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A mild-mannered (but deep) burn on a great many self-serving technosolutionists, from @PavelASamsonov

> If your goal is to "create value," solving the problems of the people with the fewest problems may not be the best place to start!

https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/110374060820177995

ryanrandall, to random
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Me, Myself and (Sigh)

trochee,
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@ryanrandall

I'll Be Watching You
(From 200 Meters Away Because Of That Restraining Order)

mimsical, to random
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Could using AIs -- like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing -- to help us write emails, ads, presentations, essays and the like subtly influence us to adopt the biases of those AIs?

New research says "yes"

1/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-bard-bing-ai-political-beliefs-151a0fe4

trochee,
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@misc @mimsical the apparently simplicity is akin to angry right wing radio shock jocks and Tucker Carlson (and the GPTs)

if I use very simple language than i am counting on cultural priors to do more of the argumentative heavy lifting ("everybody knows there are only two genders!")

trochee,
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@misc @mimsical

As an aside, one of the antireactionaries who is very very good at using this hyper simple style is @JuliusGoat

But I'm pretty sure their style depends on building up the entire edifice of the moral argument from small-word Lego bricks,

instead of firing off a catchy sound bite tied to centuries of old bad assumptions (like the reactionaries do)

E.g. https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/110360974446300500

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?

h/t @Hoch

trochee,
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@ct_bergstrom this collapse of US/EU with "Real Science" deserving of publication

is strikingly well-aligned with current GOP/Tory talking points about "Real Americans/Britons" deserving of government attention and support

trochee, to random
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> Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but buying a $25,000 La Marzocco espresso machine, if the La Marzocco was also bad at making espresso, but could, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso.

The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs | Defector
https://defector.com/the-computers-are-coming-for-the-wrong-jobs

trochee,
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@alex honestly unfair to the Nescafé connaisseurs

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