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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • I mean its true they could have offed more context; but the link is a short read. To summarize: the author believes llm writing to be of poor quality and when he notices it on linkedin he stops reading; he suspects that other people do this too. Making the argument that if you want people to listen to you or take you seriously you shouldn’t use LLMs to write your posts.

    I think both of your perspectives are valid. Yours deals with the overt consequences: “you’re a bot” should be met with indifference and blocking of those people. Thats fair, be true to yourself.

    However I think it is a valid aim when talking to other people to wish to convince them of things, or to not be put in a bucket with slop.

    However, I’m not sure how effective not using em dashes or having some spelling errors will be in the ling run.

    Already if you ask an llm not to do the things that it stereotypically does you can make it harder to detect. You could always add a static layer that intercepts the llms output and stochastically introduces spelling errors. So for now it’s mostly, amusingly, a human social convention due to lack of specificity in prompting.

    So we need more IRL community; and social spaces online must to a certain extent become smaller and be reflections of those IRL communities, if we want to have genuine human connection in the long run.

    It could be as simple as a meetup in your local area so you can create a graph of “known good humans”.

    This doesn’t prevent accounts from being hijacked; but if recurring, meetings, could weed out the vast majority of bots. Takes effort though and a rekindling of the atrophied social constructs for IRL gatherings. Some portion of people may simply opt out for personal preference, and thats ok.



  • It will depend on you as a person. I will tell you things that helped in my experience:

    • Buying things isn’t the same as starting. Although ordering is seductive false substitute for it. Don’t buy things until you need them. If you want to sculpt clay start with some dirt and a fork. Only when your 10hrs in do you buy things. (Obviously caveats abound but generally use the imperfect things you have)

    • it can be overwhelming deciding what hobby to invest in; they pile up and each takes a little mental effort to sustain even in purgatory. This tends toward guilt in the long run. When new things arise, write them down, don’t start them, there is time. Even if you have to choose randomly, all are valid, commit to it for at least enough time to do something.

    • planning can become an all consuming task. If you find yourself on your phone during the weekend; just get up and start. If you want to do wood working; just get up go collect some sticks and start making a chair. It will be shit, it may not even be functional, but begin, and you will learn more from that and be more energized than a month contemplating.

    • Know the difference between something you enjoy watching, and something you want to do. It’s ok if you just like watching people make sculptures, there are plenty of other hobbies, it’s not a black mark on your creative ego.

    • Don’t immediately seek external validation or comparison when you do start. Odds are you will be shit. And thats ok. If your interest wains without external validation; it might be that you crave the validation of being good at something and not a hobby. You can still succeed with that being your aim; but it is a long road to walk and the validation you seek will be hard won. You chances of success increase if you can find a hobby which you enjoy, and that you could happily perform in isolation after a ling day. If you find that then external validation will be a sweet and unexpected reward before you know it.

    • if you have projects that have been abandoned, and weigh on your soul. Be willing to set them free. Value them for the experiences they gave you. Give them to someone who will use them. It might be bittersweet but much of their value is in memory. If you ever decide to restart you will be surprised how quickly you reach the same level of completion.



  • I mean If a guy wants to be a swordfish why not just let him? It doesn’t seem mutually exclusive with transgender rights. It’s absurdism for sure. And I don’t doubt that there is a fair amount of trauma since conservatives make those parallels as dumb jokes.

    But, and I guess I might be influenced by the book I’m reading “Diaspora” which is about post humans living in a simulation.

    For me personally, I might, if given this chance in a virtual world, choose to be a feminine anthro creature because for me it would feel right.

    While one of those aspects is practically impossible in the real world, our minds which define the extent of possible feelings of bodily dysphoria are products of nature and environment; and capable of great change. So to create a hierarchy of validity between the two aspects of my desire feels like an appeal to nature.

    However, as long as we are all piloting flesh mechs, I understand how this argument might feel threatening as to a conservative it might be used to justify the slippery slope arguments that they frequent.