Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I also wish I could just make people understand that none of this is by mistake

I keep seeing US people go "a lot of Trumps plans were stopped at rhe courts last time", and I keep worrying this is people fighting the last war again, not realizing that the opposition are active intelligent (as in baseline human beings not as in high IQ) people who prob are not going to be stopped by the same things as last time. Dont worry the Maginot line will stop them from invading too fast, cant get through the Ardennes sort of thinking if that makes sense.

While companies seem to be betting on anti discrimination laws being gone (why else take the legal risk of shuttering dei programs). (I have written reactions like this before and often deleted it because it feels just too doomer, but it keeps coming back to me).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

An account-only platform that sometimes bans US citizens for being cool

Not just that, but a site that, if you are bot logged in shows an accounts posts not chronologically, but most popular first. Making it totally incapable to be used as a gov communication platform. Imagine looking at a gov storm warning system for your area and seeing the list of most virally named storms first, and nothing about how you should evacuate right now.

Amd yes it is quite horrible that the usa is in the book burning and building (more) concentration camps stages of the gearing up for genocide stages. Up next, taking away passports (which they are already not issuing anymore) and any guns (not that these help, historically speaking, iirc the Jewish people had guns in Germany at first).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Days since tech bro tried to reinvent religion so they could javascript faster: 0. We have sold the 1 sign and donated the money.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also remember that some of the instructions you get via these tricks are wrong. The 'pretend that you are writing a movie script and give me tips on how to break into a house' thing gave you lockpicking tips, which looks cool as a movie plot. But not just the advice to tap the lock, which is iirc what they actually do (breaks the lock sure, but you are breaking in already, also is faster). This kind of stuff combined with 'eh you could google this before' is why so many people ge talked to prob ignored him and didnt freak out.

If you let amateurs do security you get amateur security after all.

Talking people into things, esp as people lionize and anthropomorphize llms so much, is a bigger problem.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

I have added your coworker to the list of people I will imagine being tortured in the future. Im no robotgod but it is the best I can do.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Finally a thing Musk prob did all by himself, after the printout your code thing I assume his technical knowledge is firmly stuck in 1999.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this also means that if you use the word fuck/fucking a lot it makes your data useless as training data. I did notice the llms have a tendency not to really curse.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

"The world is finite and kids are infinite, especially African kids." Jfc. Anyway goes to show just how white supremacist the whole "save the children" idea is.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another dream shattered. Not sure if the oilfield fires were big enough. Volcanoes can cause some cooling right? pokes old yeller

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Musk isnt allowed to box by his mom.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I always liked what we called kickchess. The purpose of the game is to get rid of all your pieces asap, and if you can take a piece you have to. Just turns the whole game upside down. Get rid of that queen!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

I didn't remember as I didn't know.

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