Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]

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Cake day: May 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah, this is why I’ve (mostly) stopped engaging about so-called “AI”. Because the responses I get are complete shit, and the whole topic makes me furious.

    I actually do know a little bit about machine learning in general, because my thesis advisor was tangentially involved with machine learning research.

    I’m also not a fan of intellectual property rights. I know I called LLM’s something like “hallucinating plagiarism machines” at some point, which I probably shouldn’t have, because it does make it sound like I care about them “stealing” intellectual property. That’s not my issue with them, but from that phrase it sounds like it could be.

    But, anyway, I shouldn’t have responded to your comment, I know I shouldn’t have. Every single interaction on the internet involving so-called “AI” makes me more certain I need to stop having online interactions regarding so-called “AI”. This one is no different.

    I’m quite done with this conversation, you almost certainly are too, so I’ll just say, I hope you have a pleasant day, and hopefully next time we see each other on hexbear we can have a more pleasant interaction







  • I’m going to try to be respectful and reasonable here. If I fail at that, I’m truly sorry, I’m really trying.

    I think you and I want different things from the fediverse. I like that my instance (Hexbear) is widely defederated. It’s a lovely little refuge from the reactionary political opinions I can’t help but hear in my day to day life living in America.

    I also can’t agree with you that political disagreements aren’t reason for defederation. To go for an extreme example first, being an avowed neo-nazi is a political choice, and I’d kick an avowed neo-nazi out of any space I had the power to kick them out of.

    For other examples, we can look at things that have already happened in the fediverse, such as feddit .uk deciding that posting transphobia is actually fine and dandy, because the laws in the UK are such that transphobic speech is very much allowed, or we can look at the recent kerfuffle surrounding feddit .org, wherein feddit .org decided that due to laws in Germany, criticism of Israel can’t be as full-throated as it really should be. These examples are both cases where local politics affect how things are moderated, or, at least, local politics are being used as an excuse for moderation decisions. And I think these moderation decisions (allowing transphobia in the first case, censoring criticism of Israel in the second) are worth defederating over. If transphobia doesn’t get banned and removed on sight, then how can trans people feel safe and included in a space? And similarly, if Israel’s horrific genocide is downplayed in a space, that space becomes less friendly for Palestinians and other Arab and Muslim people.

    I don’t need or want political plurality in this online space, I want a brief refuge from the terrible politics surrounding me. This isn’t me sticking my head in the sand to ignore the awful shit happening around me, I see all that, I talk to people who believe in the American status quo because believe it or not, most Americans aren’t communists. I love that here on this corner of Lemmy I can be openly communist and talk to other open communists about all kinds of things. It’s really nice, actually, and that would be lost if we were federated with the anti-communist shitholes like .world. Not to mention the transphobia. Holy shit, every time I accidentally end up outside my lovely little Lemmy bubble it’s just transphobia as far as the eye can see. So I’m glad we at Hexbear are widely defederated, I really don’t need to see the liberal nonsense and transphobia that are so inescapable in my real life.










  • Hey, I was at one point a grad student. I was never paid less than minimum wage.

    In fact, I was paid more than groundskeepers and janitorial staff at the university I worked at.

    I say this not to say “pay grad students less”, but just to point out that the job “grad student” isn’t the miserable crushing poverty that people make it out to be. It just isn’t. Sure, it’s the closest to poverty that many people in academia experience, but it’s nothing like the real thing. The real thing is experienced by the staff of the university.

    Also notice how in academia there’s this idea of the university as a community. The non-faculty staff of a university are basically never considered part of this community. They keep it running, they make sure that students, faculty, and administration have nice clean facilities, but those facilities are not meant to be used by janitors, cooks, groundskeepers and the like. The people who take care of the facilities are not the same people who use them.

    Sorry, I know this comment is pretty unrelated, but I think it’s important to keep in mind that even though grad students are often treated pretty shittily, it’s simply not the same as how janitors, groundskeepers, cooks and so on are treated.


  • If you’d like to learn more about the absolutely heinous shit JK Rowling believes in and the truly vile people she happily supports, I’d suggest Shaun’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@Shaun_vids

    He’s done several deep dives on these people. Maybe start with “JK Rowling’s New Friends”. The 4-part series about the BBC’s transphobia is informative too, and “Kellie Jay and the Neonazis” is about one of the absolute worst of this transphobic crew and someone JK Rowling has literally written supportive tweets about.

    I applaud your desire to see the best in people, but it’s misplaced here. JK Rowling’s heart is not in the right place.