[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 4 weeks ago

A pal posed the theory that Matt Wordpress acts like he got ejected from some polycule and now I can’t unsee it

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago

It’s the parable of the drowning man turning away all help because god will save him, all over again (except it’s floods and mudslides and forest fires)

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

The industry called it “field engineering” previously, and “customer support” prior to that; renames happened every time the execs heard how this portion of their business is only a cost center and can easily be done by chat bots (to which the customer success people would say, good luck with that).

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 27 points 1 month ago

Ok but is the orange wallpaper better in HD?

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

Of all the awful and bad reasons to homeschool, “my government forces my kids to learn parroted bullshit” is probably the most annoyingly valid.

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Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 34 points 2 months ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

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They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

Ah yes, the cia is no stranger to the artifice of intelligence.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 58 points 4 months ago

A: “Why are you knitting so fast? You in a rush?” B: “I’m almost out of yarn, gotta get this sweater done before it runs out”

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 25 points 4 months ago

Whoever it is that’s going to build those machines that scare us so much, we will find him. And we will fund him.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/constitutional-assembly-statement-on-jon-ringer/47393

“average nix contributor is removed from project 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average contributor stays on the project. Mod Actions Jon, who lives in cave & becomes a contributor 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Nix project: ban? What ban? (discourse.nixos.org)

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago

See that sucker over there? If I don’t mug him, somebody else, probably a guy with much looser morals than me, will. [pulls down the balaclava]

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 23 points 5 months ago

Maybe when babies don’t have to be squeezed out a way too small bony orifice at great risk to the orifice-bearer, women will finally get to be people in his eyes.

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