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crossing guard at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. SF; he/they
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POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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not commenting on this discourse but if you’re gonna try and posture using fancy words like “memetically,” consider spelling them correctly
can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a different analytical framework go for it; stop whining and produce one. or champion an existing one!
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surreptitiously recording people in public because they simply think i’m brushing my teeth in the middle of the street
That’s not what I’m talking about here, though. There are reasonable concerns there, but calling a toothbrush with a tiny, poor quality camera so it can automatically floss with water a “pervert toothbrush” is going overboard
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somehow the dictionary is wrong about the pronunciation of worcestershire (–shur, not –sheer)
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
they’re just like me 🥺
Even what LLMs *are* seems ripped straight from the strangest edge of science fiction: a hallucination machine that’s far more naturally suited for dreaming than thinking, and whose practical, rational abilities are largely a byproduct of focusing and refining those hallucinations