She/they. Marxist-Leninist organizer, educator, and scientist. Critically-acclaimed writer. Professional critic. Author: Let Them Eat Plague!
Empire of Ozymandias
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Starting a food distribution program and getting all the food from takeout because "eating out is cheaper than groceries."
Day one and we're $3,000 in debt.
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"Stop engaging with ragebait!!"
Have you considered that every time I dunk on a shitty opinion *I* get thousands of likes for zero effort?
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White Guy Orders in Perfect White, Shocks No One
ALT Screenshot of YouTube thumbnail for a video called "Why is Everything Spicy Now?" with text "The Spice Industrial Complex"
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Sort of think the Catholic Church needs to start doing the exact opposite of what is has been doing for centuries and continues to do today and has promised to continue doing for all eternity.
Sort of think the Catholic Church needs to start vocally intervening in Latin American politics against the right.
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The components would physically break down before you finished processing even one second's worth of a real LLM's operations. Same with trying to model a human brain.
If you want to imagine it magically works anyway, you could, again, do the same with a human brain.
If you had enough resources, you could run an LLM on a wooden system of gears and diesel power. It would be massive, but watching the gears and levers move, it would be evident that the outputs are not the result of a mind. Part of the illusion of LLMs is the tiny scale of GPUs.
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This is called semantic bleaching. In a few decades, no one will even remember that "cuckchair" originally had any definition other than "a chair in a hotel room."
Although they might notice it contains the term for "person of low moral courage and passion."
The way "cuck chair" has gotten so ingrained in the cultural consciousness is really odd, really pornbrained. It's a normal chair in the hotel room for you to sit in
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Applying to the polycule as a starting associate, but with the understanding that it's a partner-track position.
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"Being normal " is an obsession of the elite, those who are materially advantaged by the hegemonic order and who see their interests advanced by allegiance to the status quo -- not its destruction.
In my neighborhood, there is no "normal." There's plenty of room at the bottom.
Hasan Piker clarifies his statements on the importance of 'being normal' with regard to building our movement and bringing people to our side:
"I'm not saying we're going to write off trans people, queer people, disabled people, that's ridiculous. I've never done that and I will never do that. But also, a big part of 'be normal' is to have regular disagreements but allow that discourse to take place without treating minor disagreements among comrades as though these are eugenicists who want to assassinate you with a gun."
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You come in here and start talking like Hasan Piker DSA types and everyone will smell the bullshit wafting from a block away.
You tell them "Yeah the feds have knocked on my door over communist tweets" and they start letting you know that some guy in a suit was skulking around.
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Are people under the impression that "game changers" are defined in terms of user experience, rather than the ability to squeeze out every drop of profit?
The tech sector just spent the past 20 years perfecting the art of harvesting data to assault you with ads. Game changed.
In a world where LLM coding was actually a game changer, users would notice. They'd say "wow, has anyone noticed how useful, reliable and fast things are these days?
They'd aay it about websites, apps, windows, macOS...
They do not. Ergo: the princess is in another castle.
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The most "impoverished philosophy of mind" is one which imagines some ineffable essence to the human brain that axiomatically renders it the only residence of "thought" and leaves the discussion to wither there. What is thought? How does a brain create it? Why stop asking?
Incidentally, the claim that AI “thinks” is not really a technical claim about LLMs, but a philosophical claim about thought; behind each such claim is a really dreadful, impoverished philosophy of mind.
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