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TropicalDingdong

@ TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world

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"The future ain’t what it used to be."
-Yogi Berra

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1w ago

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice
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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago
Wikipedia doesn’t give “legal advice”, it has information about these laws, with the sources cited.
That is very different than asking LLM anything and it throws you random bullshit from unknown sources, with no easy way to verify where it is from or if it is at all accurate.
It seems like your argument is that because Wikipedia "gets it right" and has cited sources, it isn't liable? Which I promise, is not how liability works.
What if it was Wikipedia versus "Some random sovcit facebook post" then? Is the Sovcit post liable because its sources are bullshit? Since there sources are random bullshit and or unknown, do they absorb liability? Again, its the same case, that is not how liability works.
People are going to have to acknowledge you can't have it both ways.
Also..
with no easy way to verify where it is from or if it is at all accurate.
C'mon. Plenty of LLM's can also hallucinate sources which are easily verified. And like with Wikipedia, one could go check them.

1w ago

Former U.S. presidents at Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral in Chicago

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

based and jillpilled

1w ago

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

I mean.

Is the wikipedia responsible for you reading an article about a law and then taking that as legal advice?

[Edit: if you are downvoting this, downvote away, but you owe an argument below as to why. I promise this exact argument will come up in the courts over this issue]

1w ago

Whats your advice to the younger folks of Lemmy?

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

I think hedonism is important, but it comes at a cost. The candle the burns twice as bright and all that. At the same time if you never fuck around, you'll never find out.

I think far too often young people go through life thinking they already know who they are, instead of treating life as an opportunity to find out who they are. They become calcified, ossified in their beliefs about their own identity, a constant and repeated telling themselves of who they are in an effort to believe these things.

An alternative approach is to try to break down who you are, repeatedly and continuously. To try new things, to change the situation. Leave a city without warning and move somewhere you don't know the language. Abandon your belongings, your phone, your identity and start over. Change the situation entirely. Begin to understand what is you and what is the world. If you move from place to place, and you find yourself always confronted by the same types of people, maybe you are seeing a reflection of something you are bringing with you from place to place.

There is a very western identity of "knowing" who you are while simultaneously having done no exploration of who that person might be. I find it very curious.

1w ago

California Sheephead at Ensenada's fishmarket, Baja California, México (2003)

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

Ensenada is a gem.

1w ago

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

Instead it became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type and yet here we are. It would be funny if I wasn't a tiny bit concerned that my new home was going to get a CIA overnight regime change special in the middle of the night.
It was somewhere in the middle of DMing with someone who had forgotten more about Greenland than I would ever know and someone who lived close to an RAF base in the UK that it clicked. This was what they had been talking about. Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it. Meta or Oracle or whoever owns TikTok this week couldn't stop me.
I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here.

So, a few things. One, I appreciate the authors evolution on this, but I also think for anyone who lived through the US's campaigns in the war on terror, on resistance movements like BLM, Dakota pipeline, Occupy, Me Too, on and on..

The American (and often global) experience is a eventual experience of realizing you are being lied to and finding a way to the truth. For me it was being enlisted and finding Democracy Now! because it was a show I could download on an mp3 players and put on mini-disks when I was preparing for underways.

The same sentiment that the author is appreciating is one that some people in the 90's got when they first had access to the internet. That kids in the 2000's felt when they found alternative media (DN!, others, many coming from the WTO protests of the 90's), that kids in the mid-2000's felt when they found social media, when kids in the 2010's found the second wave of social media, when kids in the 2020's found the fediverse, and on and on.

1w ago

Frederick Haynes, the preacher who won the Democratic nomination to replace Jasmine Crockett in U.S. House District 30

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

1w ago

Breaking news;

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

If the cat is this worried, you should be this worried.

1w ago

Admin dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

1w ago

BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

I saw this:

and I thought.. yeah no need.

1w ago

The Iran War Shows Why It’s Time for Chuck Schumer to Go

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

Viche Democrats

1w ago

BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

I have no idea. I have no concept of modern media beyond their abstractions in meme form. I haven't watched a new movie since Batman & Robin in 1997.

1w ago

Netanyahu accused of inventing Knesset award for Modi

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

Aint no FIFA peace prize.

1w ago

BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

1w ago

Trump shrugs off rising gas prices to reporters – ‘If they rise, they rise’

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

Inshallah

1w ago

Trump shrugs off rising gas prices to reporters – ‘If they rise, they rise’

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

1w ago

The Iran War Shows Why It’s Time for Chuck Schumer to Go

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world 1w ago

outwardly inept or evil

Schumer and Jefferies didn't slow-walk votes on war powers resolutions for two weeks before this new war because they thought it would fail; they slow-walked it because they didn't want to have to put Democrats on record as having voted against it. They didn't want to have Democrats being held accountable for the manner in which they govern and the consequences which extend from that governance.

The Democrats only appear inept if you misidentify their objectives. When you recognize that most of the party and definately party leadership, by and large, have the same goals as the fascist party, it becomes more difficult to interpret their alleged incompetence as being anything other than performative. They achieve the goals of their funders. If you are Israel, you are getting what you paid for.