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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 20m

"I asked my immigrant friend if he knew how many violent crimes were committed by filthy immigrants from shithole countries like the one he came from, and he really didn't want to talk about it with me. This proves I'm right."

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 30m

Huh. Katie Miller uses the same recipe. What are the odds?

So, what that means is, when they "talk", you've just got them sending inputs to each other. It's like those bouncing ball things executives used to have on their desks in the 70s. Action and reaction. A closed loop. Ouroborous.

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I keep hearing these stories about AI's "collaborating" or "talking with each other". Dudes! (non-gendered, exasperated) They are machines that take input text and return output text. They have no awareness. They do not know if the input text is from a human or another LLM.

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They will. They'll also talk about "the censorship industrial complex" under Biden.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

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Mutually hostile undead powering both science and magic? Cool!

Do you think the head of the FCC called up local broadcasters and said "Hey, my boss, Tricky Dicky, one of the most corrupt people of all time, wants me to tell you you're being too easy on him! You need more people talking about how corrupt he is, pronto, or I'll see you in court!"

Also, I'm sorry to beat on this (I am not) but, really, how do you imagine things worked under the FD, while Nixon was in power?

I mean, just imagine, WITHOUT the Fairness Doctrine, what this electoral map would have looked like! Good thing that FD kept Nixon from "controlling the narrative", I tell ya what.

So, lemme get this straight: The loss of a (very limited) tool by which the government COULD (slightly) control the media... was how they would "control the narrative". Yes. That makes sense. "By throwing away this gun, I can now shoot people!" You are very smart. Your parents must be proud.

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Who gets to decide what speech "should not be allowed to exist"? Trump? Musk? Bezos?

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A group complaint about law, liberty, and leisure

Also, every time people make me link to this, God kills a kitten. Why do you hate kittens? web.archive.org/web/20150604...

web.archive.org

Popehat

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Helen Lovejoy: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children

Isn't that why Musk and similar fascists want to ban discussion or acknowledgement of LGBTQ issues in schools? So the poor innocent widdle kiddies won't have their pwecious minds warped by 'gender ideology'? Anytime someone makes this argument, they have no argument to make.

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Alt: Helen Lovejoy: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children

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Some people REALLY don't like it when you point out that an LLM is, at the core, just a lot of die rolls on a lot of random tables connected by complex rules as to 'which table to roll on next' for each result.

And nothing of value was lost.

Not necessarily at the exact timestamp of the mech raid, but, fairly close. The factors building up the 'pressure' are still there, but the precise outcome is fuzzy. That's the "AI", it just means "non-deterministic and self-modifying algorithm"

If you save scum and restart from a point just before you got hit with a mech raid, you might be hit by a manhunter pack or a heat wave or some other disaster, but, assuming your save was a few game-hours before the raid, you WILL be hit by SOMETHING.

It's "AI" in that it's not hard-scripted "X happens on turn Y", but a process where the pressure for *something* to happen builds due to time and colony wealth, and *what* happens is very roughly proportional to those factors.

Rimworld talks about "AI Storytellers", but the game was in pre-release in 2013. All it means is "We have three different algorithms which use assorted metrics to scale difficulty over time with periods of rest or reward".

Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 3h

As my wife says, "Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants do not recognize the authority of the Pope, and Baptists do not recognize each other coming out of the liquor store."

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What’s the word for the principle that a Christian pastor is allowed to lie about cheating on his wife with the church secretary?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 11h

Your Earth logic is helpless! Helpless, I say!

Almost anything with hackers or programming.

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Supposedly. I think it's like those little colored dot things you get to check your color vision. Y'all SAY there's a number there, but damned if I can see it.

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt. Somehow, though, I managed to get married and have been for a quarter-century, sparing me further such events.

If I don't get a notarized form in triplicate requesting snugglebunnies, I have no clue.

At an SF con in the early 90s, after chatting w/a very cute, smart, funny woman for about 2 hours, she invited me back to her apartment "for lunch". I, the idiot, said "It's OK, I'm not that hungry, thanks." I figured it out several years later.

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In someone's deluded imagination. I like easy questions.

Sadly, Missing died of plague shortly thereafter. Welcome to Rimworld.

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You can only see those skeets if your heart is pure.

“Worst. Chapbook. EVAR!”

So that everyone knows she’s mad!

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This is why Chidi went to the bad place! (I know a lot of stuff I learned in 5th grade science was bullshit, esp. regarding dinosaurs, but it seems, based on comments, the “water cycle” has been debunked as well.)

FACT CHECK: Clinton Body Bags

You mean, the bullshit “conspiracy” that was, in fact, all coincidences? (Funny how Clinton, Bush, et al were able to murder dozens of powerful people, but never the trailer park tinfoil hatters “exposing” them.…)

snopes.com

Decades-old political rumor claims Bill Clinton quietly did away with several dozen people who possessed incriminating evidence about him.

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Valet. For all your Downton Abbey fantasies.

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Undoubtedly an inspiration, updated for the early Internet age. (And it should be remembered this shit was happening online before social media, before the http protocol, even. And before that, in APAs and fanzines. Heck, I think there were 19th century clubs for character fans doing it.)

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Well…. for some values of “healthier” depending on the fanfic. :) But generally, yes.