Dehumanization is this admin’s butter. They slather it over everything they deem other, and usually with the same ghoulish “humor” we see here. Honest journalism should be relentlessly disgusted by this, and I don’t see much of it. Just like with all the cries of election tampering from the right, the cries of “fake news” weren’t a lamentation of its existence. They just wanted to be the ones driving it.
Yeah, what people mean by “smart” is to a great extent really “attentive.” Raw IQ (to the extent that it’s measurable) has to be significantly different before it matters more than attention. And the thing about attention is that it can wain, be captured, be exhausted. The act of maintaining/directing it changes tenor from moment to moment, decade to decade.
They all fit pretty well as cyberpunk, particularly 2025. The quote’s held up well, really.
Mako
Donnie, no!
Adobe claims to only train their image generator, Firefly, on images from their stock library.
Brother Justin in Carnivàle
In some trivial sense, we’re all doing it constantly. The brain processes a lot of information that doesn’t enter your train of thought. Then there’s everything we experience but reflexively avoid thinking about due to some fear, pain, or conditioning. Then there’s willful “putting out of mind,” or willful forgetting, selective attention. And if ya push some of those hard, ya get ritual self-manipulation. I guess I’d argue the most common lie of omission is to the self.
How about a lie of omission to myself?
While it’s one of my favorite words, “inexorably” does not fit here.
That’s fine, can we talk about the concentration camps?
Only Republican gerrymandering is allowed now. - The Supreme Court, I guarantee.
I prefer Perfect Circle’s Fiddle And The Drum.
200 messages straight […] 70 consecutive messages
Grok’s not the brightest, but at those lengths you’re definitely hitting context rot
“Role-playing machine” is where it seems like the research is ending up. Language always has an implied communicator, and therefore an implied persona to adopt. LLMs are foremost maintaining a contextual role. Post-training is an attempt to keep them in the Assistant role, but (particularly as contexts get large) it’s trivial to push them into nearly any role imaginable. We made an improv bot that’s so good at playing a coder that it can actually code, kinda.
The control group spent time practicing, and the AI group just watched the AI solve problems. The performance gap can potentially be described by the efficacy of practice alone. But the increase in skipped problems is a good illustration of cognitive offloading gone awry. Too bad the researchers didn’t ask them why they chose to skip.
Ditto on Cyberpunk. I think the only games I have more hours played on are EQ, TF2, and Rogue Legacy 2.
Death to Chronos?
Our timeline’s Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.