[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 6 months ago

hey dawg if you want to be anti-capitalist that’s great, but please interrogate yourself on who exactly is developing LLMs and who is running their PR campaigns before you start simping for AI and pretending like a hallucination engine is a helpful tool in general and specifically to help people understand complex topics where precision and nuance are needed and definitely not fucking hallucinations. Please be serious and for real

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 6 months ago

Making LLMs safe for mentally ill people is very difficult

Arguably, they can never be made "safe" for anyone, in the sense that presenting hallucinations as truth should be considered unsafe.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 7 months ago

An AGI could microwave a burrito so hot that not even the AGI, in its omnipotence, could eat it

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 9 months ago

a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos

Is this… the perfect grift?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 28 points 10 months ago

Is General reasoning in the room with us now?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fucking hell, lol. Back in October '23 I reposted some pro-palestinian content on social media from the "jewish voice for peace" organisation, and a guy who recently went on Birthright immediately started DMing me and was posting links to the ADL page claiming that JVP is an antisemitic organisation. Because I am a well-adjusted person, I didn't need verification that the ADL was full of shit, but vindication is always nice.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 28 points 1 year ago

Techbros: “I’m hungry for that Lab Grown Meat!”

Labs:

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At Ares, we would never* wish for a war to occur.

*intonation inferred by me, an intellectual

Yeah, it would be a real shame if a war started in which our ...product... would be commissioned en masse. Why, we wouldn't be able to make enough cash to dry our tears from all the sadness!

But by helping to rebuild our defense industrial base, we can make sure the United States is prepared to stop a conflict and save countless lives.

bro just one more war bro, bro I swear just one more war and it'll save countless lives bro

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 29 points 1 year ago

my new light novel: that time I biohacked myself to become smarter by taking testosterone suppressants and woke up the next day as a doomed villainess

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago

There’s fuck around and find out, and then there’s fuck around, find out, and learn nothing.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I go to school and take “Forbidden Courses” I BETTER be coming out with necromancy and demon summoning. Otherwise we gonna fight.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 26 points 2 years ago

I don’t think the guy even understands consent tbh.

So why not wait a few more years

The world this posits is wild. First, you’ve got a person wanting to commit bestiality, but only wants it if it is legal, otherwise, why wait? Second, we’re going to both translate animal language (or neural activity if you wanna go steelman) into human language and back. And third, we’re gonna use that to successfully teach animals sex education (that, mind you, many countries already don’t have a great track record on teaching humans sex ed). Fourth, somehow these animals will be able to comprehend any of this in a meaningful way for the legal system to recognise their ability to consent (again, bad track record). And fifth the animals will actually consent.

higher animals

like, birds?

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