I feel so uncomfortable I have a whole nervous system.

Oh, I get it! You still want 2fa, you just don’t want the code to be shown! colors the text white

None, that’s a jar.

Neither, you grow it directly inside the bottle.

Yep, the problem would be worse because he would be a martyr and out of the news enough that his crimes would fade away into history. And a different fascist would lead that group. At least this way, there is some chance a few more people will finally understand he is a lying thieving scumbag pedophile rapist with no intention of ever helping anyone other than himself.

You had me at Furbies. Oh wait, I can’t read.

In my opinion, being anti-AI or anti-LLM is much like being anti-chocolate. There are many good reasons to be anti-chocolate. It is very difficult to verify that a chocolate supply line does not include slave labor or child labor. I only know of one brand that even comes close. And the deforestation caused by farming can and does lead to climate change. Not to mention the addictive qualities and health effects of eating sugary candy.

It seems mostly bad and when you look at the numbers, I think we should all be against it. And yet, making these arguments tends to do very little to make people stop eating chocolate.

Yet, I could imagine a world where it’s farmed sustainably, by people who are paid appropriately, and with proper guidance on nutrition and exercise, it could be consumed safely.

I have no problem with people saying they are anti-AI. But I’d just like to pause here to confirm whether maybe anti-AI is just our shorthand for anti-the-way-AI-is-right-now. Anti-the-companies-that-run-AI. I do not want noisy server farms taking up all the water of rural communities. I don’t want all of our electricity to go towards LLMs that are already “intelligent” enough to tell us that the best most immediate way to prevent further climate change is to turn them off.

I’m not making this comment to promote one side or another. I’m just suggesting that we act strategically and try to be mindful about how polarization can appear from the outside. Being anti-AI likely persuades about as many people as being anti-chocolate. That is, very few. But if we could work towards more ethical AI, even if we don’t plan to use it, just so our argument is more palatable to the masses, it could lower the use of AI overall.

So, I think it is worthwhile to get into the technical details of things like LLMs even if most of us here are fighting against such technologies. Just trying to add some nuance to a world that often feels way too polarized for me.

Do any of you like to go to the ISS in your free time? Just me? I’m never going to find someone who shares my hobbies.

He has a theme song if you didn’t know.

Well now you tell me.

What is all this water doing here? And you’ve gone into the water?? You are going to drown before you feed me and that is not the correct order.

Or the gas station near my house when they forget to turn the sign off.

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Reminds me of when I got my second ever flip phone, and while it was great with texts (which played cool data transmission sounds over nearby speakers) and it was the first one I had with a camera, the first-gen web browser they had on it simply took ages getting even an image to load over the cellular connection.

I was thinking, this is cool. I can actually web browse on my phone. Sort of. I figured the connection will get better over time and was generally optimistic about what a cell phone would someday be, but never did I think we’d be able to stream not just video but high-definition video over cell service like it’s nothing. While I have a lot more experience and knowledge now, I’ve learned to hesitate before claiming anything is impossible.

Yeah, we approved cars way too quick as a society. Definitely one of the easiest ways to ruin your whole life. Right up there with going to sleep with the stove on. And sex. At least we’re not all dying of carbon monoxide poisoning because we thought it would be a good idea to light our houses with oil lamps anymore.

True, but I could buy a cheap boat and sail into the ocean if I want, nothing is stopping me. I mean, Coast Guard I guess. I could go outside and start swallowing rocks. So many foolish ways to die, and despite the guard rails on society, I think life is pretty open ended in terms of how badly you can fuck it up.

They really got no guard rails on this life thing, huh?

That’s the classic flaw with flood plane exemptions. The floods don’t tend to care. Next time, if they want to be exempt from flooding, they need to get out the old fashioned map and Sharpie.

That’s a great idea! Treating the children like perfectly spherical objects will let us calculate the flow of children through the bowling alley more like particles through a garden hose. Since we can accommodate many more children this way, let’s expand the invitations to the entire school contacts list, with the new subject line, “Your child-sized balls are cordially invited!” The invitations are sent and your wife’s travel plans have been amended to a one-day round trip starting and ending at the same airport to save on airfare costs. Is there anything else you need help with?

I imagine there being a commercial where some old man (let’s say 40 or so) says, “You kids need to stop grinding your skateboards on these rails or I’ll call the cops.”

And one of them says, “What skateboards, gramps?”

And he looks around and his jaw drops and everyone does secret handshakes and laughs except for the old man who scowls and shouts something irate that gets drowned out by cool boombox music.