Reminds me of the “Island Sanctuary” feature added to Final Fantasy XIV, where you were promised your very own tropical paradise to visit and decorate. Ended up being little else to do there other than build and manage factories.

The thing is that words can have a very broad range of meaning depending on who uses them and how (among many other factors), but you can’t accurately code all of that into a form that computers can understand. Even ignoring bad actors it makes certain things very difficult, like if you ever want to search for something that just happens to share words with something completely different which is very popular.

Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been (and continue to be).

They’re not bugs, they’re features.

I found some of my favourite bands by downloading mislabelled songs on limewire.

Because when the media becomes fixated upon a child like that, they’re likely being exploited. Doubly so with the children of celebrities as Greta is.

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This shit needs to die.

Thumb ball master race chuckles with amusement as they look down upon this post from Olympus.

I can appreciate if you agree with many of the things that she says, but you really ought to be cautious when a child (as she was when she became popular) becomes such a media darling.

Yea, work in and of itself is great. You have to do SOMETHING with your time every day, and doing something productive is extremely satisfying. Filling out spreadsheets for 8 hours with a 2 hour commute then going home to eat instant ramen in a noisy shoebox is slightly less satisfying.

Using old vodka bottles for water.

I think I’ve used Amazon a grand total of twice in my life. Got a cheap knockoff of what I actually ordered both times.

Survival of the fittest is survival of those that cooperate

The question nobody ever asks about survival of the fittest is what actually makes someone fit to survive?

It may prompt people to recognizing things they had glossed over before.

“arbitrary fascist ideals” like “violent crime is bad.”

Language learning models are all about identifying patterns in how humans use words and copying them. Thing is that’s also how people tend to do things a lot of the time. If you give the LLM enough tertiary data it may be capable of ‘accidentally’ (read: randomly) outputting things you don’t want people to see.

I can’t wait until people find out that you don’t even need to train it on secrets, for it to “leak” secrets.

I’ve seen a living zombie hoard before, at a dump in Nicaragua where they lived. I was told they got high on sniffing shoe glue, which literally causes the brain to decay while they’re still “alive,” but they just shambled around in a big mob, seemingly aimlessly, with glue smeared under their noses.

Are… you answering your own question, or?

And people wonder why there’s so much push back against everything corps/gov does these days. They do not act in a manner which encourages trust.