I have said of billionaires: I hate him so much, I want him to have one hundred million dollars.

Marvin Heemeyer was a boomer terrorist asshole.

Dipshit got a great land deal, illegally lived out of a shop with no plumbing, agreed to sell his shit-filled ditch at immense profit, reneged on that sale, and then lost his goddamn mind and embarked on a suicidal rampage through a mixed residential area with earth-moving equipment covered in mounted weaponry. Stop even pretending to idolize this bastard.

Priviblur link (alternate frontend like xcancel) because Tumblr is often bad at being a website.

The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.

Because that suggests solutions, and the loudest voices quoting these problems do not want them solved. They want the last six years to unhappen.

Not sure which shows you’re talking about, but the subject matter seems flexible and interesting. They’re people who can do things the audience surely cannot, and have problems the audience will never face. You can easily write them as miserable anyway for glurge points about the importance of family and whatnot.

It’s basically superhero media where the superpower is money. So Batman without the kung-fu.

Fuck off, clickbait. Say who. Say what.

Stop treating proper nouns as an amusing secret.

An improvement, but fuck off nonetheless.

Let’s be honest, things could’ve gone better.

Kneejerk overcorrection to performative ingroup identity. The tech is fine. When the bubble bursts, we’ll still have the chatbot that codes, and the denoiser that renders live action. Muttering about copyright, like anyone should respect copyright, will either quietly fade, or produce vegan models from bespoke and licensed data. Those vegan models will not change anything for the bitter core who shouted loudest about it, because they’re only bolstering a reactionary conclusion. Same reason they don’t care how local models address power use. Same reason Chrome pushing a four-gig update is like burning a rainforest, but Youtube’s daily bandwidth will not be examined.

Absolutely excoriate the schmuck whose ‘AI clouds reality’ book is a brainless example of its own premise. But a Nobel laureate bouncing ideas off a hallucinating robot is already unremarkable. Cory fucking Doctorow uses one to check his posts. It’s fine. That’s what it’s for. Don’t treat it as an oracle, and don’t submit its output like you wrote it. Not even when people cannot tell, despite the highest quality standards and intense scrutiny. Granta’s uncertainty acknowledges how spicy autocomplete can already leave no trace beyond a vague suspicion. You want that capability kept out of artistic expression? Go off. But do not pretend it will simply go away.

Imagine describing what LLMs do, a decade ago. Not the Sam Altman cocaine fantasy. Their actual current functionality, warts and all. Who would be against it, on principle? Even if you go full alarmist - ‘I came back to 2016 because this is what we have to stop!’ - you’re unlikely to persuade anyone to join the Butlerian jihad, over what the chatbot is and does. They could rattle off some obvious uses, including a few we still haven’t done. It seems fine.

People nowadays are in antithesis because we’ve had this shoved at us from every angle. It’s been used to justify mass layoffs, constant surveillance, and computing restrictions. Every platform overflows with unfiltered garbage because the zaibatsus that own them are invested in the cocaine fantasy. You hate these companies and confuse this for the product.

When that all collapses - we can finally talk about the tech, in itself. About having computers at least try to do what you ask for, in plain English. About the storytelling potential of describing images into existence. About people creating the tools they need, without years of comp sci. Are there problems within all that? Of fucking course there are. You live in science fiction now. It’s gonna get less stupid, any day now, but it’s gonna stay weird.

Now it can get that little sticker, like the Dreamcast.

They could’ve had Guillermo del Toro.

Did a comma run over your dog?

You’re a projecting hypocrite and you type like an asshole. I’ve tried abundantly to politely walk you through how this does work and does matter, and you’ve escalated from mere irrationality to wishing harm. For talking about a chatbot that codes. I’m pulling the chute. Fuck you.

entitled irrational hyper privileged

bad faith

Yeah fuck me for trying to engage with what you think, despite continued essentialist insults. Unpleasant time vampire.

Again: even if you had to run this a bunch to get these results - you can in fact run it a bunch, and it can in fact get these results. Even if that’s only sometimes, that’s not never. Even mere translation is useful, like moving from a slow language to a fast language, as for the Minecraft example.

You are the only one here with a dogmatic absolute opinion on this, and it’ not even one you formed yourself.

Did you ask someone about this, specifically, during this conversation? Or did you just ask someone about the general topic, at some point in the past, and parrot that conclusion at a stranger seven times in a row? Because the experience on my end looks a lot closer to the latter.

Can I speak to your friend who understands this subject you can’t shut up about?

‘My friend Steve-Dave says nuh uh, and I believe him over my own lying eyes. So unless you dogmatically agree it’s completely worthless, you’re in a cult.’

Pest.

Troll harder.

Are you using an LLM for this repetitive finger-pointing?

Trust is not a factor. Claims are evaluated. But you aggressively do not want more detail about any specific fact; you pre-emptively dismiss any contrary evidence as “cherry-picking.”

There is no everyone here. It’s just you and me and you want to blather without listening.

This is conservatism. This is rejecting facts to place belief in persons. You have an ingroup that’s automatically right and smart and handsome, and an outgroup that’s wrong no matter what evidence they point to, and anyone saying what you already disagree with must be that outgroup. I’m not just ‘some fucker online,’ I’m ‘one of you.’

If words don’t matter to you, why bother to speak?

Again: python schism, hardware integration, Minecraft wizard math. Insulting people who politely explain counterexamples won’t make those counterexamples disappear. It’s just sticking your fingers in your ears until they touch.

Reality is not defined by interpersonal trust, or by denial.

This is approaching unfalsifiable.

Is classifying generated data ever intractable, when you can just… generate some? Even if the portion of human content dwindled - rather new human content, since there’s a recent hard cutoff - there’s a faucet for counterexamples. You can have as much for-sure machine-generated content as you like, to point at and go, wrong.

Spectacular bullshit like ‘it kinda works sometimes.’