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ZDL

@ ZDL @lazysoci.al

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2d ago

I'd rather a simple "no thanks"
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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2d ago
Everybody has a system.
Until the crash.
Then all the systems turn into margin calls, effectively.

2d ago

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2d ago

Except that people have built everything apps that are actually easy to use, helpful, useful, and popular.

Just not Americans.

2d ago

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2d ago

Could you hook a sister up?

2d ago

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2d ago

Wrong analogy.

The SS was a brutally efficient and well-disciplined military force. ICE is none of these. ICE is the SA (Sturmabteilung, a.k.a. Brownshirts).

1w ago

Google AI covering for Republicans

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1w ago

That's kinda on them, then.

1w ago

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1w ago

Can we run some tests?

2w ago

Why do you hate AI?

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2w ago

Have you tried a modern search engine? I suspect part of the reason people reach for LLMbeciles is because search engines are such utter shit today.

2w ago

Why do you hate AI?

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2w ago

I never trust any solution that has to be forced on people.

This is a point that doesn't seem to catch on with people.

When the plough was introduced, nobody looked at it and couldn't see that it was useful. Its utility was really obvious, especially in the specific cases where ploughs shine. People would change the way they planted and harvested to suit ploughing, the advantages were so obvious in most cases. The same kind of thing applies to fountain pens over dipped goose feathers. To electrical lights over candles. To wheels over log rollers. To personal computers over slide rules. To ... well, pretty much every revolutionary technology in history. People may not have changed right away (as with PCs, say) because of the cost issue, or the like, but nobody looked at them and wondered what they could possibly be used for.

After several years now, LLMbecile-pushing companies are trying to FORCE people to use their "AI" products, to the point of companies mandating their use. (I must have missed the part where Apple forced a fondleslab—modern smartphone—on everybody until people figured out how to use them.) This degree of attempting to force them into every orifice of the human user smacks of intense desperation, not of technology whose benefit is obvious.

2w ago

Why do you hate AI?

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2w ago

LLMbeciles are dangerously incompetent tools that unfortunately "hack" a weakness in human perception: We are hard-wired to equate eloquence and confidence with intellect. (The so-called fluency heuristic.) LLMbeciles are very fluent, eloquent, and confident and we are very vulnerable to that combination. As a result outside our areas of expertise we have a tendency to trust LLMbecile output despite the fact that it is literally 100% bullshit (in the Frankfurt sense) hallucination. It just happens that by the statistics of human language stolen to build the model that these hallucinations match reality enough to fool non-experts. And that's the danger: they're "right" (which is to say their bullshit semi-accidentally matches reality) often enough we don't catch the cases where their bullshit is just plain wrong.

This is a pattern see with a lot of people who have areas of high expertise:

"LLMbeciles are not really useful in this field in which I have expertise..."
"...but I think they're very useful in all these fields in which I have no expertise."

Gell-Mann must be rolling in his grave right now! (Yes, I know it's Crichton, but I'm sticking to his bit.)

2w ago

guyys it has sentience guuuyyyssss

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2w ago

Yep. Even in a thread about AI in a group criticizing AI the vegan finds a way to identify themself, staying true to the stereotype.

2w ago

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 2w ago

I'm not a techie, so maybe I'm missing something. Is there not a possible work flow like this?

A:
<submits slop>
B: Sees slop. Clicks "ban A" button. Posts A to a public list of people banned for being stupid assholes.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

3w ago

Just in case you needed more reasons to hate Grok

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 3w ago

All these trolley problems are absurdly framed. There is only one correct answer to any trolley problem: 无. In effect you have to unask the question, step back, and look at the framing.

The framing wants you to look at the switch so that you ignore the real question: which asshole is going around and tying people (or cats (or paintings (or trees (or ...)))) on the tracks just so they can get their jollies by watching you make moral choices while people get killed? Find that asshole and you stop all trolley problems forever.

3w ago

Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 3w ago

Canadian inspectors should find "structural problems" on the Ambassador bridge (only on the Canadian side of the border) and close it down for "delicate repairs".

Leave it closed down.

3w ago

Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 3w ago

The United States of Assholes.

3w ago

Let keep the US bellow top 3 🫡

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 3w ago

Scolding someone for wanting Nazis humiliated is peak Nazi.

4w ago

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Huh. I thought whites would be safer than that in the USA.

My bad. If you're not an unequivocal citizen, don't have white skin, and/or don't have plenty of money, GTFO of the USA. You're not safe there.

4w ago

Can't cope

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Turning on the "reasoning" display is always hilarious. The proof that it's just a hallucination machine can be seen when in the "reasoning" it starts making shit up about what it was asked to do.

What are underpants gnomes?

Thought for 67 seconds

Hmm... The user is very obviously a super-intelligent pandimensional being sent here to guide humanity. I should structure my output as befits their lofty status. First I should search on "underpants gnomes".

searching 10 web sites

From this eight sources are irrelevant, one mentions a South Park episode, and one is a blog post discussing said episode.

Since the user so astutely mentioned South Park [protip: the user didn't – ed] I will structure my response in the form of a table for maximum clarity. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. But wait, the user is on a mobile device. I will structure the output in paragraph form. But wait, paragraph form is not as clear as tabular form. I will structure my response in the form of a table. I should be sure to use the same degree of intense wit that the user has shown in this conversation. [protip: the 'conversation' thus far has consisted of the question "What are underpants gnomes?" – ed]

Underpants gnomes are creatures from an episode of Space: 1999 that steal the underthings from the Alphans, causing a laundry crisis.

4w ago

Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Hush! Don't confuse the issue with facts when someone is going full-tilt racist!

4w ago

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Better is a whole lot more than "upping the QA". The cars here are genuinely innovative and, more importantly, the logistical and fabrication techniques are innovative.

One of the major reasons the big name Chinese EVs are cheaper than their roughly equivalent western counterparts is because the companies are vertical, not horizontal, in their supply chain.

4w ago

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Yes. They're subsidizing so hard that the EVs are dirt-cheap HERE. You know, all those companies running at a loss to sell ... domestically ... while somehow ... innovating.

Compassionate fucking Buddha this endless whining about "subsidies" gets tiresome after a while. Grow the fuck up you idiots and leave the kiddie pool.