You thought PPP inflation was bad?

Even Ed Zitron has mellowed out in the last year with the rationalist opinion of “it’s a probabilistic model being asked to do deterministic things,” and “it makes the easy things easier and the harder things harder.”

The overwheling majority of “anti AI” comments I see are either 1) anti LLM, B) anti hyperscaler business / marketing practices, C) anti data center, or usually D) any combination of the above. Very little about the objective, architectural functions of language models.

If you want a machine learning model that actually works, you need to feed it good data. If you hire an AI slop enthusiast to feed the model mass junk data, you will have a bad time.

You understand the strawmanning and logical fallacy here right? A person can appreciate novel technologies from afar, understand when/if theyre appropriate for their job, and then do their unrelated work just fine without a personality purity test

I deadass got called ableist on here once for saying theres no excuse to not be using an ad blocker because of someone’s “executive dysfunction”

Lmao okay smooth brain. I tested in the 99th percentile on my last test. I wasnt even at my peak cognitive powers and I wasnt mentally challenged at all.

Its whatever I say it is to get rid of people who annoy me

Low IQ people shouldn’t breed and I believe this 100% at this point

E: this is literally the argument of Idiocracy btw

Lol. I cannot actually believe I’ve spent so much of my evening talking about a fart “Gas Chamber” but here it goes:

I want to reiterate my basic stance that I might have phrased a bit emotionally before.

I do not think this idea is coming from a good place / a good perspective on the respect given to kids and the dignity owed to them as people.

Talking axiomatically here: all people, from the age/development that they’re able to do so, are owed an inalienable privacy in the bathroom, available to their privilege whenever they want it. I believe this entirely.“Bathroom breaks” and permissions are reprehensible in this respect. I want to clarify now that I don’t think that this privacy doesn’t also include farting. This itself is pretty tautological to me. It gets filed under the same folder. My specific argument here is that people have a right to fart wherever they want (in private) and that the structure of this “Gas Station” takes that away at the convenience of the teacher.

I don’t think you took away the point I was trying to make about your office so I’ll skip over it.

From the article:

The spot features air freshener sprays and a yellow sign warning visitors that they are entering a “gusty winds area.”

There’s a sort of gross infantilization here that’s hard to articulate but that I hope you can infer some of what I’m talking about. This is not how bathrooms are designed. However well-intentioned the teacher might have been, she has massively overestimated her ability for objectiveness. There’s a condescension here that does not show respect for a person’s right to handle natural bodily functions in a neutral, nonjudgmental environment, which I believe is effected entirely by her position as loco parentis to the kids. Her objectiveness is compromised and her special relationship with the subject of her design (the “Fart Box”) has been detrimental to it’s end result / intentioned-use.

I dont see any functional difference tbh. Is this something you would want your office to implement? It’s really not more complicated than that for me

This is literally exactly what I’m arguing for. Having a stickered “Gas Station” with complimentary bottles of Febreze (already inappropriate for a classroom where other kids might have sensitivities to those things) is grossly infantilizing.

The idea that a “Gas Station” in the corner “teach[es] students personal maturity” assumes that kids don’t even yet have maturity to go to the bathroom on their own, that that is something the instructor needs to teach.

FFS privacy in the bathroom is a human right

Instead of sending students out into the hallway, the setup allows children to handle their needs without asking for permission or disrupting the lesson.

​> “If they have to relieve themselves, they will just simply get up off of the rug, and they will walk back to that corner right there where you see that little yellow sign. And of course, we have everything they need over here,” Sydney-Browning said in her video while pointing to the sprays.

​> The goal of the station is to prevent lost learning time and teach students personal maturity.

This is the mentality of someone who doesn’t see children as people

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Check in on your local gay because they are in shambles right now

Without a second thought

I think that at this point they should look into building a New New Delhi

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it implies the us libertarians aren’t usually fascist.

Well yeah, that’s what I’m getting at. Whether or not most self-described libertarians are actually libertarians (most arent) isnt really relevant. Libertarianism, as an idealogy, is fundamentally opposed to fascism, as an idealogy, definitionally so. It’s only by FPTP, majority rule, etc. that finds those two groups voting for the same platform instead of being confident enough to run their own parties. (See also: outspoken communist ideologues earnestly supporting the DNC because they know their vote will never be represented otherwise.)

As I said, the comic really isnt that deep or serious, but I do appreciate that it’s a bit more self-aware than the average Ben Garrison piece

The one with the rope pulling is pretty funny

E: “Opposites Attract” It’s not that serious but it is a pretty self aware bit of commentary on what FPTP polling does on consolidating voting blocs

I don’t need to change your mind, I agree completely. Something I wrote a couple weeks ago:

My unsolicited rant:

The technology is good and anyone who says it’s “just autocorrect” are wrong. Having said that, I agree that LLMs are useful really for nothing more than low-risk, personal research and/or signposting to other sources. It’s in no way a replacement for a human (unless your definition of what a human does is that it’s just a thing that produces words at you - in which case, you’re probably a middle manager - very myopic, regardless). It’s also not appropriate for anything financial, professional, or confidential. Here, the first L in LLM is a hindrance. Local, small language models are more appropriate and cost-effective here.

Anyway. I don’t “use AI” like some people but over the last year I’ve used my access to Proton’s Lumo (already included in my subscription) a handful of times and been pleased with the results. The way that I see it is that all the LLM libraries are trained almost entirely on Reddit or websites that stole their content from Reddit anyway, so use it like you would Reddit: “LGBT horror movies before 2000,” “Summarize and cite criticisms of Camille Paglia,” “Was Bioshock 2 well-received at launch?” All very low-stakes. Doesn’t really matter. Could’ve been a Reddit thread, but it’s likely that any response there would’ve been a middleman for an AI answer anyway.

Anyway. More: Call it cope but I’ve been developing a theory/outlook that the internet as a thing is basically dead and that the Pandora’s Box of LLM tech, which can produce a basically infinite amount of what was once the internet’s currency (read: information, but really: text), has killed it. The Fediverse is utopian but I don’t think anyone here really believes it will ever be anything more than a cluster of fringe communities. Having said that, I justify good LLM use (like mine, lucky that) as being the “New Game Plus” mode of the internet. Everything is already there, everything’s unlocked. There is no challenge. It’s kind of cheating and you’re not really supposed to play the game like that. But at the same time, there is no going back to the real beginning, I just have the option of nostalgically re-creating it by going to old.reddit or postfixing before:2022 to all my Google DDG searches. Fun, and game-ish in it’s own right, but also artificially limiting for no reasons beyond that.

/rant

Dunno about 6:30am but I dont think that’ll be a problem at 11:30pm… gonna freak on that male bird