[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

there's this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

my condolences.

and, no matter how much this has helped you to cope with your personal trauma, going through that trauma does not entitle you to use emotional blackmail to silence people who do not subscribe to the llm hype.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

the use of “DEI hire” is a shorthand for “i'm a massive racist shitweasel”

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

Totally Not A Cult.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago

yes. but “there are too many people” is just a tired white supremacist trope; there are not too many people out there. (the “non-white” is usually silent in these statements. this is also how some people can be both pro- and antinatalist.)

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

they definitely missed out on naming two of the daughers ursa minor maior and ursa maior minor.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago

no, it fucking isn't. (see the postscript in linked article.)

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

no, it doesn't, and it's not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

LLMs know nothing. literally. they cannot.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

it's quite telling that you don't think that actors are “creatives” but think that “gpt-4 is a great drafter”.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

(whispering, wheezing) kill me father, for i have read the comments

some of the content I've found most inspirational comes from high status people (the Dalai Lama, Sam Harris, etc)

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