I have the hope that she'll end up being more progressive after votes are counted.

Partially because she has Walz which is a good sign, but mostly I'm hoping for hopes sake. 🤞

Ring ding ding, winner!

I have a similar odd thing that I can only descibe as being fascinated with articulation.

Robots, skeletons, suits of armor, dolls, gears, some insects.

Something made of distinct pieces moving in articulated ways, it's a downright core desire.

I also like things separated but still connected like by a string, cable, or wireless. Like kites, security cameras, or drones.

I used to have a toy fishing rod with a rubber fish at the end that I love just throwing in the lake and realing back in. It just tickles my brain.

And more similar to yours, I really love spreadsheets! They can do so many things!

I really feel voting should be mandatory, with an opt out option on the ballot. Letting people obstruct or dissuade others from the voting booths just causes too many complications for democracy.

So many unheard opinions all because they are too stressed/apathetic/pessimistic to vote, that's not democracy.

In terms of LLM hallucination, it feels like the name very aptly describes the behavior and severity. It doesn't downplay what's happening because it's generally accepted that having a source of information hallucinate is bad.

I feel like the alternatives would downplay the problem. A "glitch" is generic and common, "lying" is just inaccurate since that implies intent to deceive, and just being "wrong" doesn't get across how elaborately wrong an LLM can be.

Hallucination fits pretty well and is also pretty evocative. I doubt that AI promoters want to effectively call their product schizophrenic, which is what most people think when hearing hallucination.

Ultmately all the sciences are full of analogous names to make conversations easier, it's not always marketing. No different than when physicists say particles have "spin" or "color" or that spacetime is a "fabric" or [insert entirety of String theory]...

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The most convincing theory to me is Integrated Information Theory.

Basically the more integrated the information in a system is, the more potential for conscious experience. Different structures or "shapes" of information translate to different qualia, like the color red or the sound of a note.

Integration in this case means that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts; you can't remove a piece without affecting the whole/most of the system.

This is an answer to the Ship of Theseus problem, because the old pieces of wood are getting un-integrated from the whole, they are no longer the ship. The ship made from old pieces is a new ship, with it's pieces integrated into a new whole.

Animals would be as conscious as the complexity of their brains (not necessarily smarter), and yes this is a spectrum of consciousness.

Computers and AI are far off from this requirement. We purposely designed them to be modular and not overly integrated with itself. Even LLM's have their neurons in strict layers that has information travel from Input to Output.

No concrete proof, but the theory is very robust and could maybe even be provable one day.

True for creating voices at all, but that work has already been done.

Now we're just taking these large AI's trained to mimic voices and giving them a 30 second audio clip to tell them what to mimic. It can be done quickly and give convincing results especially when hidden by the phonecall quality.

With the ballsy and insane amount of manipulation going on it's so appropriate that the name in question was "Vriska".

That's typically how it's actually used, but then that makes any reference to being a centrist pointless when discussing issues.

This interpretation means there is no "centrist position", so if an issue is divided by Democrat vs Rebuplican (which it usually is) then you're picking a side for that discussion.

That means that in issue specific conversations or debate, bringing up the fact your centrist only serves to fracture yourself from the party your currently on the side of. (None of this applies for registering to vote, where being an Independent actually matters).

I just think the label at best fractures your impact and reach and at worst is an attempt to sound rationally superior.

All this to say, not identifying with a party or choosing opinions are all well and fine, but categorising yourself as a centrist just groups you with a bunch of people that don't necessarily represent or agree with you.

Anyone else got whiplash from reading right-to-left then left-to-right?

HRT helped me actually feel again, and empathy made me realize that thinking "logic is superior" is really stupid and even thinking there's a seperation between emotion and logic in politics is really stupid. Oftentimes logic is just justification and obfuscation of an emotional opinion.

The final nail in the coffin for me was when I stumbled on this Martin Luther King quote about how the moderate is the true obstacle for civil rights, those "who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom".

It made me realize how stupid it is to negotiate with fascists and bureaucracy. That we should get angry, we should get emotional, we should get active and maybe violent, when we see human beings stop being treated as such.