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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • If it’s your own instance, make a bot account who can follow a few interesting accounts from other instances. That way the local timeline gets filled a bit, and it’s not so lonely.

    A few things around this, to gain traction, a person needs to have 5-6 accounts to interract with regularly, before they catch the addiction. But if those accounts are active, they’ll quickly get out there, into a big bad world.

    Depending on their age, have regular sessions with them. Go pick up an interest - a hashtag, a specific prolific creators’ timeline, something like that. If you spend a bit of effort, this is easy to schedule. Point out the bad actors, point out the funny memes. Ask them how’d they respond. Teach them what a social network can be, and what they can do there.






  • You’re right, I think most of the Western world politics is too dependent on the capital and that is dependent on the US markets. When the entire thing crashes, it’s going to be bad. I’m pretty sure I’ll be among those people affected, I’m in software, working (remotely) for an US firm. That was after recently losing my job due to failed investment. My wife’s job just got “restructured” as well, and it’s the second time in three years as well.

    Not sure how we’ll deal. I should be making plans on what to do when I lose the house and everything else. I kinda know it but I’m not sure what can I do.






  • I would hardly call this dropping a hammer, though. I mean, the article itself says that OpenAI was lobbying for stuff like this.

    For one, I don’t think it’s addressing any of the most troublesome problems. No mention of environmental impact. No mention of societal impact, or economic one. Nobody is addressing the horrible misuse of LLMs in, say education or biases that are built into the LLMs.

    For two, what are the consequences? Sam Altman can go around saying whatever the hell he wants, mislead the government, the public, even their own users. No consequences. They can use bait and switch, no problems. The worst thing they can get is a few million dollars of fines. That’s for the long time been just the cost of doing business.

    It’s a fig leaf law that doesn’t look at any of the worst problems we have but the worst offenders can use it to say “no wait we’re regulated”.