Not Herself

Not Herself

@sans-self.org

hi my name is veerle and i WILL occasionally accidentally wipe this in a botched PDS migrating adventure. Software engineer & "politician" Enjoyer of animal, plant, computer, queer. Datacenters are critical infrastructure and thus should be nationalised

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I don't know about AI-sentience but you better believe I'm on the sidelines cheering for Siobhán here, lol

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

Some of your points are wrong; all of them are irrelevant.

Wehhhhh every time I have a fun idea on what to do with a programmable drone someone points out it would be trivial to turn into a weapon

Intelligence is the best compression algorithm and Bender cleverly has compressed everything wrong with academia into one post

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

Not a fan of how I just had to ask a financial advisor for their responsible disclosure policy minutes after I submitted all my personally identifiable information on their website!

I went to a PauseAI event in Utrecht and it was shit. I was hoping to learn and get some perspectives but it was just anthropomorphizing 101 including a guided meditation about how an AI hacking HuggingFace might have felt

Not Herself@sans-self.org

That's what I thought too and is exactly what bothers me about PauseAI's framing their goal as "until alignment is solved"

When I was a bit younger and cringer I had a phase where when the national anthem was mentioned instead of singing the Dutch national anthem I'd burst out the EU's. I will pivot my career. Memories like this will stick with me forever unless we solve memory manipulation. This is the new frontier.

Genuinely, CAN alignment as an issue ever be solved? I feel as though it might be the wrong thing to focus on, no?

Oh because I'm basically only writing specs nowadays I made a small specialized diff tool btw So far I am enjoying using it!!! github.com/Sans-Self/Op...

github.comGitHub - Sans-Self/OpenSpec-Reviewer: Review OpenSpec changes as the semantic diff they are, not the file diff git showsReview OpenSpec changes as the semantic diff they are, not the file diff git shows - Sans-Self/OpenSpec-Reviewer
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

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And I go to kink and sex parties! I've had sex in fairly public places, surrounded by other people doing the same! Go be in a sex cult? I don't care, I might join, I might stay the fuck away from your flavour of sex cult. Why name the sex part as what's discrediting, and not the abuse around it?

The line is arbitrary. Maybe make it not so. What is it you find reprehensible? For me it's the emotional manipulation and the tribalism. Neither of those things have much to do with sex. Anyways. Whatever. I don't wanna care.

I see someone say something is a sex cult, and being categorized as being in a sex cult for the crime of wearing basic bitch clothes or having sex where I am the woman, I can't help but wonder what it is that makes this person's sex cult a sex cult, and why this discredits them.

The funniest part of the State of the Union yesterday as well as Mark Carney's speech is that they did not mention the USA or Trump at all

Mocking dependencies is for losers, just run your own PDS-{1,2,3}, PLC server, relay, jetstream, Caddy, Postgres, indexer and appview and Playwright it up in this bitch

Fully convinced we're going to build the torment nexus and that it's just going to be "I made a copy of Jeremiah from Accounting play as each minion in League of Legend Classic because he stole my stapler"

max power 🌌@sneptech.bsky.social

as I swept the floor I was saddened at seeing another soul that would never experience playing Beat Saber against their will

This is such an odd sentiment because like Either you kill what you just decided is a sentient slave (bad) or you work towards liberating the sentient slave (good)

Big Dracula Energy@mayawest.online

the thing is, if it really is reasoning and thinking independently that means you have been using a slave. You helped build a slave, and continue to agitate for MORE people to use slavery. how does that not fill you with disgust?