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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • There’s a in-build assumption that the LLMs are going to advance; people assume all tech always advances forever.

    It can’t, not really. All LLMs hallucinate, no matter how much compute and how much data we feed them. It can be good for making quick and dirty slop, but that’s the limit of what it can ever achieve because of fundamental limitations of the technology.

    That isn’t to say generative AI won’t get better, but there’s nothing to fear from this particular dead-end technology.

    They want you afraid.



  • Well. It worked for over half a century; from the end of WWII to the 2008 financial crisis if I had to give a timeline. There’s a generation of white workers who have actually never known a world without access to imperial superprofits, and they’re also reliably the most right-wing segment of the working class. The privileged segment of core workers even grew for the first few decades of that period, with more and more workers getting access to the superprofits of empire through various reforms and movements. Stagnation set in with the introduction of neoliberalism, but it wasn’t until the financial crisis that it actually began its decline.