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@towit12.bsky.social

DPRX refugee. RIP 1-Yard-Line Curse, 2015-2026. He/him, PNW

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Putting my marker down for future reference: "LLMs are definitely conscious" and "LLMs are definitely not conscious" have mostly the same problems. The honest, intellectually humble and empirical position is "we don't know" because this is also technically true of other humans.

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Putting my marker down for future reference: "LLMs are definitely conscious" and "LLMs are definitely not conscious" have mostly the same problems. The honest, intellectually humble and empirical position is "we don't know" because this is also technically true of other humans.

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My best guess is that using an LLM (absent economic/environmental externalities, which are beyond the scope of what I'm discussing here) has similar moral valence to, say, using a border collie as a herding dog. It has a personality, intelligence & an inner life but nobody would call that "slavery."

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You should definitely not be rude or abusive to the dog and treat it well, but it was bred to love working for humans and "liberation" for such a being is sort of a category error. Reposted to correct typo.

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Replying to @statsepi.bsky.social

The thing about attacking hypocrisy is that anyone can do it to anyone else without ever committing to any specific beliefs or positions. It's the least informative, least useful form of criticism.

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Thread of some of my thoughts on the Machine Games Wolfenstein series.

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Despite the memorability of the five-minute Roswell segment, The New Colossus is much less of a clear-eyed and pointed attack on Nazism than The New Order was. One gets the impression from TNC that the Nazis mostly mildly disliked fat people, leaving it rather a mystery what all the war was about.

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This is why we lose

Melissa Citro@citronmelisse.bsky.social

As ICE was kidnapping a member of our community in Maplewood, NJ on Monday, neighbors got to the scene to peacefully observe and document. ICE used observers’ license plates to identify them, call them out by name and address, and tell them to go home. villagegreennj.com/community/ic...

villagegreennj.comICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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The lesson of my late 20s has been that, contrary to my previous belief, I'm probably not especially introverted or antisocial -- I just really, really hate church

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Getting into trivia nights after work every Friday has been a shot to the arm of a kind I've been wanting without realizing for years. Go to a place, work out my brain a bit and especially talk to groups of new people. Float around and join teams most every week, don't get into a rut. Refreshing.

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However another observation is that practically all the alternatives to church are worse than church specifically at getting people into relationships.

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The "performatively paralyzed with existential fear" and the "performatively nonplussed" crowds should get together and hash some stuff out, there's a happy medium in there somewhere.

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You know, this kind of, like, almost worshipful reifying of abstracted male bodies feels so rare to me that my heart is kinda warmed by it

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com

Kacey Musgraves performing …..You know, I honestly don’t know

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Dreamt last night about a brutal fistfight which I ended by seizing the other guy's head and rapidly slamming it into a wall. 1st time I can remember being able to hand out real damage like that in a dream, which I felt immediately shocked and guilty about, so ofc the other guy got up woozy but fine

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As a teetotaler root beer enthusiast I'm especially partial to sugar free A&W of late. There's actually a fairly detectable stevia aftertaste to it but it's so similar to the vanilla-forward flavor profile of store-made A&W that this actually works in its favor, and the "float" ver. is even better

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Creamy and sweet and sinful, it's unreal how good it is for how little it does. Diet sodas used to taste like metal, like what were we doing back then?

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Not long after I got the collector's edition of Doom Eternal with the wearable helmet, a bunch of wildfire smoke blew in from California to tint the world a hellish red. This is all in-camera.

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I must extend my formal apology to the nation and people of Germany for my actions during my most recent visit, wherein I deeply misunderstood the nature and purpose of what I believed to be a "crankin' house,"

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lol your use is not transformative, it's a totally unmodified still from SNL with a text caption

Way Out@outthererightnow.bsky.social

My picture is transformative, adding a new layer to the original work. I used only as much as as I needed to get my point across (I most certainly did not link the video) and my picture had 0 effect on the market. Another day, another AI stan having no clue what they're talking about :/

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The Spurs collapse in Game 4 was so pathetic it actually made me switch rooting interests. Happy the Knicks got their first chip in a half century and content to file this one as a victory for Team Blue.

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Thinking back to the discourse from a few weeks ago about how it was no big deal and in fact cool, actually, that Talarico is an ordained minister Christianity, man, I dunno

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