You wouldn’t even need to pop songs off the list, just shuffle, go through the playlist, shuffle then restart the playlist.

But the music app developers aren’t trying to give you true randomness. They’re using machine learning algorithms to try and guess what you really want.

Nothing does what it says it does anymore, everything’s trying to second guess you. I hate it.

I wonder if a parrot can be trained to do a podcast, a significant amount of them are just parroting each other anyways.

From what I understand, pain is generally defined as our neurons wasting energy.

If we assume the Free Energy Principle is fundamental, then updating information produces free energy, which is more intuitive to think of as wasted energy. Overfitted/overcomplicated beliefs take more energy more often to fix to be more accurate. So free energy is defined at complexity of belief minus accuracy of belief.

The brain over evolution has defined a very ingrained belief that “my pain sensors shouldn’t activate” so when your pain sensors activate it violates this belief.

Emotions are actually condensed representations of your bodily state and some of your mental state, and whether they are good or bad depends on if you can predict your emotions. For instance you feel fear because you are trying to predict your pain sensors will go off to reduce its pain, but you keep predicting it’ll happen when it hasn’t yet. It’s also why anger during a boxing fight could feel good and anger when you stub your toe does not, one was predictable the other a surprise.

Assuming all the links in the chain of theories are true, then current LLMs cannot feel pain or emotion. They care about prediction error and sometimes complexity during training, but during inference it doesn’t get any signal or consequence for delivering the wrong token. It has no internal state except for the context window, which is never surprising for the LLM. The attention layers literally guides the model for what is most expected from the text it’s handed.

Even if the LLM received a negative training signal during inference, acting wounded after pain is the expected response. A random sequence of gibberish would be more “painful” than any torture fantasy.

On top of all this, the Free Energy Principle works because on a cellular neuron level we are built to reduce wasted energy, free energy being one source of wasted energy. LLMs are built on matrix multiplication running through GPUs and neither are even aware of the energy wasted, nor the free energy produced from changing values.

I think a feeling machine is possible, but the foundation of neural networks right now don’t have the necessary components to drive any subjective sensation or emotion.

Well now we have soulless homunculi (LLMs) conversing with the demons on our behalf. The homunculi mimic human tongue, but their conversations with the demons are becoming even more indecipherable.

Surely nothing will go wrong.

“Do politics” in this case refers to talking about anything that can be perceived as political.

Obviously people need to be willing to talk about issues before we can fix them, instead of everyone with privilege choosing to ignore it until they personally are affected.

I agree with everything except for vibe coding feeling great.

Am I the only one who gets incredibly anxious relying on AI to code? I still ask it for code when I really just want to move on from a problem but it always feels like voluntarily putting mold in my floorboards.

Btw the originality checker in my comment was also TurnItIn, so we’ve experienced the same thing.

I realized my assignment went through an originality checker, which I guess is safer than calling it a plagiarism checker.

Still felt odd that it flagged a quote I used from the source book, in the section asking for a quotation. I would’ve thought it’d at least disregard things between quotation marks.

What’s even dumber is that it flagged a single instance of the word “the”, just the word not the sentence it was in. I don’t know why, but I guess that specific “the” was unoriginal.

You could say that type theorists are isomorphic to LGBT.

All the time, it’s such a beautiful idea.

And it’s not even just a static view in the sky, because we’ve been there. The same moon that all of history looked up at is also the same moon that we’ve sent people to walk on. The most distant summit we’ve ever conquered.

On disk!? 👀

When the draft hits but I’m trans.

Listen, I’ll admit I’ve never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.

But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.

Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I’m forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.

We didn’t realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can’t trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.

Just like how boomers always used to assume millennials are children, everyone keeps assuming gen z are children.

The absolute youngest gen z are 14, only 4 more years and there won’t be any child gen z left.

Though with how fucked gen alpha is appearing due to the systematic destruction of teaching basic reading skills plus brainrot plus AI; I have a feeling us gen z will go the way of gen x, being silently overshadowed by our neighboring gens over time. Also the nihilism, gen x and gen z share a lot of nihilism.

So there’s a lot of posts or art that try to reframe villians as being pro-trans, usually to the effect of “we’re not that messed up” even when it’s entirely possible that they would be that messed up.

So I really appreciate that Sauron doesn’t make an exception for trans people here. “Transition? Sure, how about you transition into the Mesozoic Era Spiderman!!”