gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I was going to offer this up as a sneer but I think the author is probably feeling very unwell and upset

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpwQtRwcKsbd4wxXf/my-ai-slavery-interviews-are-censored-on-lw-by-default

also using LLMs is probably not helping their case

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three depicts a generation ship that's

spoilerchock full of weaponry to basically sterilize any promising planet to ensure the cargo it carries is able to survive

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

guys, the reason Codeberg decided to ban "AI" is because they host the "slop projects" list, and that inspires "meatpuppets"!

https://lobste.rs/c/u4idgu

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now I'm no anarcho-libertarian, but I'd have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

Was probably too much to hope for that he'd make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we're halfway through Douglas Stuart's John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.

The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.

 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

 

Sorry for Twitter link...

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