maniclucky

The Trump admin has yet to win a first amendment case and the road to the supreme Court is quite long.

Oh look. Another first amendment violation for the queue to be struck down the second it hits a courtroom. Your tax dollars at work.

Yeah. There's a lot of literature. Don't have to marry this one. When Gaiman was found to be a creep, I gave up some of my favorites. And yet there is still more to fill the gap.

Oops, you're right. I meant Lisbon, not Barcelona. Dat American education right?

Edit: To clarify, the first time I cooked up this relationship (copying someone else), Lisbon to Berlin was what I landed on. Barcelona to Moscow also works.

On the assumption you're American, where's your molotov?

If you aren't, you really don't understand what you're asking. Most people would have to drive hours or days to be anywhere worth rebelling, lose everything they care about in the process of just not showing up for work regardless of actions taken, and do it all alone because everyone else is under the same threat. All against the most powerful military in the world.

The US is big. Someone in LA coordinating with someone in NYC is culturally and geographically similar to someone in ~~Barcelona~~ Lisbon coordinating with someone in Berlin. And they have safety nets.

First she is a safe place where I'm not only encouraged to share vulnerable things, it's where hiding things is actively against the effort. Frees me, mentally, to actually speak.

Second, she's really good at gently nudging me out of my loops. I've contemplated my issues to hell, back, and again. She's really good at finding me an off ramp.

Finally, after I was sexually assaulted, she's been unquantifiable helpful. She answered honestly about things such as police reports and what I could expect (my case was unlikely to get the time of day, which I expected), strategies to address my recurring problems, and just being a decent human that judges me far less harshly than myself.

$20 on Amazon and you get the whole setup nice and easy. [Disparage Amazon here]

Given that the only other option for most people is "make someone else rich in a less comfortable environment", I would say it's pretty nice. Bonus points, you're probably less productive there so you're making them slightly less money.

Not all rebellion involves molotov cocktails.

For those who have been extra pedantic and focused more on the semantics of the arguments (i.e, you)

I've had 2 comments not including this one, neither of which discussed semantics. You never responded to my other comment.

Overall though, I have not called anyone derogatory names (unlike others in this thread)

While yes, that would indicate bad faith, never said you did that. Can't speak to others, who shouldn't do that.

I have not dismissed someone’s ideas out of hand without providing sources or examples, and I feel I have engaged in a respectful and calm manner.

It's less that you are dismissing things or being disrespectful. It's that your engagement has a pattern where you aren't engaging at all with certain points that is very obvious. Your positive bias toward LLMs shows. Whether it is due to legitimate bias or stark contrast within the thread due to a very polarizing topic is tricky to parse but definitely comes off that you are invested in LLMs and are unwilling to acknowledge the downsides in a meaningful way. E.g. your outright dismissal of the lack of ethics because it doesn't offend you personally and find those that complain to be hypocrites.

Sorry if my approach has not been what you would have preferred, but to be honest, given that you have not actually contributed to the discussion meaningfully, I frankly don’t give a shit.

Again, do you think you're responding to someone else? I rattled off a pile of common complaints to which you never responded. At no point did I accuse you of anything or even remark upon your character directly other than observing the stated pattern of avoidance and deeming it disingenuous. One inference could possibly be made with my rebuttal of your ethics argument, but it's kind of a stretch.

You're being disingenuous because that's the only thing you're doing. You show no signs of actually ingesting or contemplating other points of view, opinions, etc.

Well, you dismissed the lack of ethics of it all. Just because you do open source doesn't mean everyone else does. And open source often acknowledges contributors, unlike LLMs. You can't consent for other people.

It's hideously destructive. Wastes electricity, wastes water, plays merry hell with anywhere the damned data centers pop up.

It's unregulated and has already killed people. Multiple stories have come out where an LLM has encouraged suicide. Plus various dangerous outputs like the bleach as cake ingredient thing. Because...

It isn't intelligent, it's just a parrot. I'll start paying attention when it can successfully count letters in words. So would you trust a random parrot that told you about something you know nothing about?

It doesn't do a quarter of what it says. Translation should be its bread and butter and it can't really manage that. There's a reason the tech bros that hyped crypto are hyping this. Because they don't actually know what it can or can't do.

It's approaching max efficacy for current techniques. More data is better in machine learning, but it's finding the limit and it's way closer than the scammers want to admit.

It's destroying jobs before it can handle them. I've tried to use it before. I spent as much if not more time fixing its output than if I had done it myself. It gets to do my boilerplate sometimes now.

Edit: I also forgot that it entrenches racism and other bad behavior. If your corpus is full of racist shit, you get a racist robot. And racist assholes make it harder to fix that because they won't acknowledge that such things are bad and that this badness can be taught* to robots.

It's making worse workers. All that time agonizing over a problem was spent learning how to do it at all. Now it shits out worthless garbage that the person doesn't know what it does or how to fix it. Job security for me I guess.

It could be a useful technology, but the delusion that it's capable of becoming AGI distracts from all the things it could be capable of if big companies actually tried to use them instead of the lazy implementations they're chasing.

Source: Data engineer