I am not from Twitter, and I don't like the culture that arose from that site. I do understand the lure of the shitpost, but I don't think it does anything good for anyone. I like philosophy, although I am wrong about everything (from your perspective). I believe that people who like logic don't tend to understand logic. I believe there are bullets that must be bitten, but not at any cost. I am opposed to fascism, and believe there are natural limits to all freedoms, also of speech.
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Last Notes npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…j05z You can't observe a theory. What we observe is facts. The explanation we tack onto it is a theory. Most of evolution is the facts. We can literally see evolution happening. Those facts are not a theory, they're the bar any theory has to get over. Climate change, likewise, is observable fact. And any theory of climate will have to incorporate those facts and explain them. Does that clear it up? @nprofile…2guw @nprofile…jtp0 npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat So, do these linux zero days mean I could potentially get control over my own goddamn phone without having to do weird bootloader crap? #Android npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…3eqn There is no way to do that without literally giving money to a person who will pour that money directly into turning the UK even further anti-trans. She's directly to blame for much of the current anti-trans nonsense, after all. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…vvev It is a strange conceit, that when people demonstrably do harm, people are only allowed to punish them through the vehicle of commerce. That's never been the case in the past. Some asshole pollute the waters? Dead. Some asshole burn down the forest? Dead. Let's find some Golden Middle Way between these two, like, maybe not kill them but rather put them to work in environment restoration. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…emk6 @nprofile…6tet wooooow, so lovely npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…la7y And now I ask, "Bit or Legit?" Good either way npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…zpa3 China would enter at least indirectly, and might also retaliate with other invasions elsewhere. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…zpa3 This total assclown is connected to Epstein through Edge. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…qvan And, building little local networks of real people is the perfect ground work for resistance and flipping the table on them. Focusing on what you can manage is not selfish, it's revolutionary. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…qvan Joo. Pitäisi olla sellainen media, joka kovistelisi kaikki nää paskiaiset ja paljastaisi huijarit. Uneksin vain! npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…qvan Perhaps their crash will take out some of the assholes that are screwing things up here. They are all connected, after all. In any case, it's totally OK to just focus on stuff that you can manage. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…4hp5 Would it make sense to sort the partials out to see what it looks like without them? Of course, with overtones, we would expect the amplitude to fall as the frequency rises, so that could also help clear up whether it's reasonable to do so. @nprofile…920r npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…4hp5 Some of this seems to be overtones, maybe? @nprofile…920r npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…um83 #Alt4you The photo shows a throne made out of a ceramic swan. It has four chunky, flippered legs and it is about as absurd as can be imagined. The seat is a ceramic-feathered plate, with ceramic wings as sides/armrests. The back of the chair is formed of the swan's thick neck arching from one side to the other, its head down and its beak grasping what appears to be some sort of ceramic painting. The overall impression is grotesque and more than a little funny. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…la7y The way the press speaks about people who have to live in tents is disgusting. One thing is that you have social inequality. Another thing is that you allow the wealthy to malign the poor as if they were some sort of parasite. The UK is quite awful in this respect - the poverty in itself, and how it's spoken about. But yes, all nationalism is a lie. No nation is great. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…la7y A country is only as amazing as the lives of its poorest. The UK is decidedly unamazing. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…t6jg OST - Out Sourced Thought npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…4hp5 @nprofile…8qh7 Edinburgh is not Finland. Over here, when it's a cold winter, there are "ice roads" in the archipelago. The archipelago is served by a network of cable ferries, but these do not have the oomph to keep a waterlane open. So instead the authorities test and assign a route across the ice as a road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_road npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…dll5 Did you bring a geiger counter? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…m5m3 They should just come out and tell us why they don't accept the new sovereign. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…7ppx Too bad super-string theory didn't turn out to be a real thing. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj Well, it might be useful to compare to Finland, where the government has adopted an similarly hostile stance. People become defensive and depressed. Also, risk-taking plummets, because people feel unsafe. Donovan's argument is either good or bad, depending on what the actual amount of side-hustle productivity is. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj Other possible sources: People are demoralized because the government is openly hostile to their needs. Why try anything? It'll never work. And, of course, the usual: Marginal Utility, Brexit and believing there should be productivity gains from technologies that do not produce value (AI). npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…9j4p You can kill "it" by just not spending time on it any more. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…tcpf The money is in his account, and he is not transferring it. @nprofile…4gvy npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…9j4p This is the torment nexus I've read so much about. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj Well, one could simply very loudly admit that it was a stupid, myopic and fundamentally racist idea, get rid of all the tories and reform arses, and then rejoin the EU, not to once again try to sabotage it from within (Thatcher, what a turd) but to drive it in a pro-immigration, anti-corporatist direction. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…p7lw Are you completely out of your mind? LLMs are just stochastic parrots, and they are owned and promoted by exactly the cretins causing the problems in the first place. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj For the company as a whole, this would be based on their public accounting - they have costs and incomes. Income over costs forms the ROI (with the wriggle that management wages and shareholder dividends are counted as Incomes, while normal employee wages are counted as Costs). npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj I've been toying with something. A way to "encourage" fair wages - An automatic windfall tax on everything with an ROI over 5%. And management wages don't count. So, the more a company pays in wages for real employees, the more it is allowed to be profitable. Companies that seek to optimize profitability by cutting down on staff or wages would see that backfire :) It won't harm struggling companies, since it only interacts with ROI. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…f5ux I have heard that some people with a heavy stammer can speak freely if they tap index finger and thumb together at the same time. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj This is good. It means one can just say "Tax the rich" and everyone gets it, instead of having to say "tax the ultra-rich" which would be more accurate. Just take 50% of everything after the first ten million, and 100% of everything after the first 100 million. Simple. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…k72k @nprofile…y70r My name is [insert name] You killed my [insert relative] Prepare to [insert payload] npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…lx0q @nprofile…rk4r Where ought a body start, if a body wanted to get into IRC today? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rk4r We need expert-curated walled gardens of wonder. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat Enable Quick Boosting in your settings if you don't want to get a prompt whether to boost or quote every time. You can then quote from the ... menu #FediTips npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…548d It looks very good from a distance. Up close I have to wonder why his skin is moving about in a gesture that doesn't involve finger movement. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…u25l Unrelated: Companies should have court jesters. You know. People who can violate the corporate orthodoxy with impunity, tell execs why their policies are bad, or why the product sucks. And like, the contract should have a clause that if they manage to piss off execs hard enough to get fired, there's a bonus for that, and it should get advertised as a personal win, so other companies can see this one is effective. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…4gvy And Starmer helped normalize it with his "I like flags" nonsense and his "we must stop the boats, the little boats, they are a terror, dangerous". Also, Streeting should git tae fook, because he's been instrumental in normalizing (anti-trans) hate, and now is acting surprised that a rising tide raises all hatreds. Hate must be censored sharply in all its forms. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…mrqh As I recall, it was the landlord who was liable, not the smoker. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…mrqh When I first moved to Finland, I heard of a case where such invasive smoke was the subject of legal procedings, and found to be illegal. I no longer recall the specifics, but I guess it was in an apartment building. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rn9c Cannabis greenhouses, huh? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj I would put it differently: Science is not settled, because it is moving forward. That doesn't mean that science doesn't constrain the possibilities. Science does exactly that: It checks off things that are to improbable to be worth considering, ever narrowing the scope of possible true answers. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…9j4p Wow! You really nailed that LLM psychosis!! You're so good at this. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…9j4p Ugh, it gives me nausea just looking at it. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…lxup The way this sort of thing often plays out is that Hooligans A and B want to fight. Police escort both groups in a pattern that won't let them meet to fight. Of course, maybe these ones did crimes already and needed to be apprehended in bulk to pick out the really crimey ones. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…lxup All the supporters are cops? (kidding, presumably they are there to isolate the hooligans from opposing hooligans) npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…hzyj Reminder: These people do not have "legitimate grievances" once the far right has distorted their minds. A legitimate grievance includes a true negative outcome combined with a true causal vector. These misled plebs have true negative outcomes, but with a false causal vector. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…00p2 @nprofile…8eua Theoretically particle radiation is bad for the health. In practice, however, if they do not cause extinction events, this impact is small enough to be absorbed without mass deaths. They are also wussy with regard to penetration. I would probably expect cancer rates to go up (unknown how much), and of course cancer won't tend to cause extinctions (too random, and often impacts after procreation). But for humans, the failure of electronic communications might be much more deadly than some particle bombardment. Biological systems are constantly dealing with free radicals anyway. Particle radiation will primarily cause harm in the form of smashing molecules, and forming free radicals. That's not a huge threat at everyday levels. (Yes, one could scour a person to atoms with a heavy beam of this stuff, but that isn't what the solar wind is, or it would blast the atmosphere to bits in seconds) npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…00p2 If you are made of electronics, sure. Biological life is not very sensitive to the sort of wavelengths involved. @nprofile…8eua npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…v2av Don't forget the unreasonable efficiency of these cherry-picked bits of math in describing the thing we cherry-picked them to describe. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…8957 Entropy with a grain of salt would be good. IMO we don't have a very good understanding of the juxtaposition of human minds and the physics we derive from observations filtered through the same. A lot of people have very starry-eyed ideas about what entropy is, instead of "this is what our model lost track of to track other stuff". And some very mathematical formulatios of entropy sort of enshrine that in a way that I think is harmful. Of course, I could simply be ignorant and wrong. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…fa4k Do you need it to have a display, or is a basic drawing pad OK? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…xxuf With this, hopefully the regressive taint from the blighted isle will be halted. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rh2x I didn't mean it as a correction of the normal sort. The payload is in the explanation :) npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rh2x Right wing con man is redundant. The right wing is always, always a con. It's always about getting wage-earners to vote for the interests of Employers, through deception, hatemongering and scaremongering. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat How many times have we seen breathless endorsements of some sort of weird LLM use case, only to see it revealed as dishonest hypejockeying by people with a vested interest mere weeks later? We're in the double digits. Just stop. Don't fall for it. Anyone can be bought. It doesn't matter their pedigree. It doesn't matter their credentials. Scientists are always in need of funding, and can be made to endorse whatever nonsense if it means their funding is secure. Just stop. Staaaaahhhhp. Do.Not.Repeat.The.Lie. #LLM #LLM_scaling #LLM_potemkins #SocialMediaInfluencers npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rh2x Someone should spam those conversations with "Immigration is not in fact harmful" Just a thousand times that. And maybe a thousand times of "Seeking asylum is not illegal". npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…6naz I am calling bullshit. "AI" does not think. It doesn't have a mind or an understanding. The hype-writers have partaken of their own kool-aid and they just aren't credible any more. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…x58h Very literally similar, though. Imagine this for books. Two hellscapes: It recommends books with a similar name (very poor predictor in almost all cases) Or It recommends books with similar cover art (quite sketchy, but might hit a similar genre in some cases, ironically this might be a better predictor than something textual) npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…60lz I think there is a problem with this text. First of all, it explicitly underwrites the fallacy that our "direction" is correct. Development has always meant "producing a more capitalized economy, with more resources 'developed' i.e. exploited". Secondly, this is sort of a weird trip, trying to erase a divide caused by colonialist, racist, fascist exploitation. Further, where is the impetus for the wealthy giving aid to the downtrodden, if "no country is rich"? It's probably well-meant, but by not dealing with the toxic presuppositions involved, it ends up sounding a great deal worse than even the normal distinction. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…r5mx Drop the "immigration" Those gestapo agents have already abducted citizens, and they will continue to abduct citizens, because all of this was never ABOUT immigration, but about creating a pretense for an ALL-Purpose Police State. And every goddamn commentator gets stuck on the immigration bit. FFS. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat The rule is: So long as LLM proponents exaggerate the abilities of their literally negative-value crap, I get to proportionally understate the value of same. So: Using an LLM even once makes you liable for one hundred million dollars worth of environmental and human rights harm. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…rh2x "do" should probably be "don't" in the first line Second line is OK, when applied to good causes, not OK when applied to bad causes. Ultimately it is not possible to prescribe universal methods for dealing with matters, because moral judgments have to be done individually (they cannot be automated) npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat "Never again" came and went, because we never solved the cause of nazism: Wealthy elites who seek political power to usurp state powers for themselves. The real solution is to remove their wealth proactively. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…r5mx Whenever I see americans using the word "multiracial", I wonder, do they understand what racism is, even? Do they understand that races do not actually exist? Do they understand that the "race theories" were false, and that those theories were the only reason people ever thought there were races? How do they plan to get to somewhere less bad, if they still repeat the foundational lies of racism, again and again? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat Can someone make a boostable form of the User Mag article about Substack promoting a Nazi group? You know, one that doesn't center the Nazi group's front page, swastikas and all? #usermagazine npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…60lz But has there been any growth in services exports? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…60lz Since these just show the relation between the two, there might well be no growth in services, and rather just a collapse in goods, and it would look the same. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat This feels appropriate to post now : H/t to @nprofile…lrvy for the news, and here is a background story on the comic https://www.cbr.com/incredible-hulk-hulk-hogan-wrestling-match/ #hulkhogan #Hulk https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/114/909/259/748/392/375/original/b989de73826a7f58.jpg https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/114/909/278/667/478/151/original/37835bf34efcc518.jpg npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…6058 And it starts with a group of apparatchniks put to an impossible logistical task. They started killing their victims because incarceration and deportation were logistically impossible. ICE is on the EXACT same trajectory npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…d6h6 Consciousness can be dismissed insofar as LLMs do not generally have a neural net online. A neural network might be conscious, if a microscopic insect is conscious (LLM-related neural nets are puny compared to 99,999999% of insect brains). A word list vomited up by a tiny neural net definitely cannot be conscious. Unless panpsychism is right, at which point consciousness is meaningless. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…60lz @nprofile…n2nf Rote Armee Fraktion or Royal Air Force? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…cg79 Sorry, it was the juxtaposition of "image generation" and "natural language processing" that threw me. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…cg79 That's more like pattern recognition. Don't need an LLM for that. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…cg79 I would say that only image recognition is a good machine learning product. Generative AI is bullshit, and only fit for scammers. And of course no AI should be used for anything of importance. We have professionals for that. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…23jl Mesopotamians: Invented self-backuping data storage. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…vlvm The wolves decided to have a Sheep Safety Conference. They never went hungry ever again. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…ywqr And alt-text is yet another example that accessibility measures improve things for everyone. Hardly a day goes by where I don't see an in-joke that would have been lost on me if not for the details in the alt-text. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…60lz Because the people who disfavor NF are not voting as they ought to. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat "Male loneliness epidemic" is just fascist newspeak for right-wing incels that have made themselves utterly unfuckable by being disgusting asshats. There are lonely guys who are not that, but if you think for a moment billionaires are worried for the sake of regular lonely men, you're off your rocker. #worldPol npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…yu7x Out of curiosity, what's the agreed symbol to use for integers over 35 or so? We run out of alfabetical ones. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…eqw3 The other shoe, waiting to drop: Young men are no longer seeking university-level degrees because they see it as a domain dominated by women. So, in Vance's eyes, I guarantee you, women are also "bad for the American dream". npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat Once again, for the people who joined from Twitter without a thorough cleanse: Content Warnings are not censorship. Content Warnings do not reduce your "reach". Quite the contrary. CWs mean people can reshare your post without worrying whether their own followers are in a headspace to read the content. Same with filter tags. Properly tagged posts are safe to reshare. Similar with AI-generated imagery: Posts without that vile slop are safe to reshare. Unlearn the algorithm bullshit. Don't bring bad habits over here. #netiquette #fediHow npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…eu3n Even weirder: A trade imbalance in their favor means the US needs them more than they need the US... what a great idea, to piss off people who have the US economy by the nuts. @nprofile…24uq npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…sqcg What would a visual debugger look like for, say, Python? Same as excel? Some sort of infographic/flowchart generator? npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…d6h6 Presenter's danish accent is ... yes. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat If you understand Virtue Epistomology (VE), you cannot accept any LLM output as "information". VE is an attempt to correct the various omniscience-problems inherent in classical epistemologies, which all to some extent require a person to know what the Truth is in order to evaluate if some statement is true. VE prescribes that we should look to how the information was obtained, particularly in two ways: 1) Was the information obtained using a well-understood method that is known to produce good results? 2) Does the method appear to have been applied correctly in this particular case? LLM output always fails on pt1. An LLM will not look for the truth. It will just look for what is a probable combination of words. This means that an LLM is just as likely to combine a number of true statements in a way that is probable but false, as it is to combine them in a way that is probable and true. LLMs only sample the probability of word combinations. It doesn't understand the input, and it doesn't understand its own output. Only a damned fool would use it for anything, ever. #epistemology #LLM #generativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialStupidity @nprofile…0ak9 npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…j90y Do you track the cookie? Cookies that are tracked can be under GDPR scope. Cookies that just define how the user sees the UI, no, those are not GDPR stuff. GDPR governs registries, i.e. tracking, surveillance, that sort of thing. It's not specific to cookies, nor does it affect all cookies as such. Just cookies that are/can be used to track or identify a person. Adding this: There may be other laws in place that could require you to disclose that you are using cookies, but this doesn't have to be a huge intrusive thing. That's been around for longer than GDPR. @nprofile…kr4n npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…fnwx That's not how that works. The LLM doesn't choose what bits to use. Even if trained exclusively on scientific texts (vetted ones with high confidence), the LLM would still piece together the output that is "most likely to occur in texts like it was trained on", not something that is actually likely to be true. There is no thought, no understanding. It should always be regarded as devoid of evidential value, like an invalid deduction. @nprofile…q54u npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…ptpv The fact is, you can say that, but in the end we kept the nazis down for 40 years by calling them nazis. Then in the 90s, US media invented the idea that "political correctness" is bad, and consequently that calling nazis nazis was somehow bad. And I see you doing the same thing. What you learned in the 90s was not a good heuristic. It's part of how your nation lost the plot. Trump is very literally a nazi. Anyone with half a brain knew that, at the very latest when he adopted the proto-nazi slogan "America First". He's a Nazi. Fucking say it out loud. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…ptpv Racism, the inherent fascist core of capitalism and more racism. Throw in the total moral bankruptcy of the commercial media industry, and the soup is done. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…xgh2 Kuten aina suomen mediaa lukiessani haluan huutaa: "EK EI OLE ASIANTUNTIJARYHMÄ" npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…skc4 And if you don't have friends, or can't afford to feed them, there are also books with lists like that. So you can get one of those, and then write down the best ones on some fliers (do it by hand, they can track you by your printer), and pass them out in your neighborhood, or put them up on noticeboards. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…93zc Now that's a professional-grade library. Here in Turku, I've seen a similar idea through a window. It's an entire room of shelves. The room is full! Except there is one aisle's worth of space left, and the shelves can be moved forward/backward as needed to get that aisle to the shelf needed. I'm not drooling, you're drooling! @nprofile…9vtz npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…t3wn As a translator, it seems fair. The aim of it is to be "something a teenager might think was cool", while also specifically not being "something a 40-something boring grown-up would think of". When translating something like that you wanna copy the style, if not the form, of the original. Since the original went with "Hasta la Vista" instead of something English, it's a good idea to go with some "foreign cliché saying" like that. And "Sayonara, baby" is definitely better than "Toodles, baby" or "Auf Wienerschnitzel, baby" or many others. Well, probably a 40-something boring grown-up did think of it, but you know what I mean. @nprofile…cumc @nprofile…lp97 npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…k25w Trump needs a lot of support when it's potty time. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…3w02 @nprofile…9vf2 It's literally landlocked. The "sea" is a lake. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…2lzz And because they feel that all "those people" are inherently inferior, they feel that EVERY minority/female hire is a "DEI hire". This is Nazism happening right now and all of the people need to ACT. NOW. npub1tyrphzjv4jdptj7swx7g24zm724lzkc0evhrrfkz56amsa36djaqlm3tsm Androcat @nprofile…zn9d @nprofile…464w Virker det at bryde linket op med mellemrum? pixelfedsweden dot se f.eks?