Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Oh no. If we somehow end up with a new "America Party", what are we going to call the people in it? Americrats? 000
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 14/05/2025There’s a thing @jonathanstray.bsky.social said to me once: “Corruption and integrity are both self-reinforcing.” I usually imagine this on an individual level, but of course it applies to societies too. 010
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It honestly reminds me of me when I was 21, and would confidently state as fact things that I was *pretty sure* were true. Knowledge felt different then: it was harder to verify, and at that stage of my life accuracy mattered less. So being unreasonably confident somehow felt more ok (it was not). 010
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Wow I did this and got it exactly 100% wrong. What if I’m a robot? 110
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I’ll just put this here… youtu.be/KNoQ21mifCk?...youtu.be우든탬퍼 에칭아트 고양이라떼아트 CAT LatteArt디자인별 모아보기 Latteart Korean Latteartist woodenTAMPERYouTube video by 우든탬퍼 공식계정 010
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 23/03/2025At least in tech startup land, being weird is seen as an asset since no normal, rational person would found one. The iconoclast is celebrated. The real torment nexus moment comes when establishment institutions start using this same ai for stuff like child custody and parole decisions. 110
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 01/03/2025…the same meme, but with Musk riding on Trump’s back as Master Blaster. 010
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 25/02/2025It's cute how they think "our youth" will see any of the money they're stealing from those old folks (who paid into social security their whole working lives, btw), vs it just going into the pockets of a few people who are already too rich to even spend what they already have. 000
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 19/02/2025What a great idea! Also notable: you can now get many cat meds in transdermal form from a compounding pharmacy. Some cats hate pills but don't mind having a little goo rubbed on their ear each day. 091
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I love the music videos too! They often have such a well-defined form. I’ve always thought it would be fun to make a giant photo booth that would show you and your friends how to dance and then make you one. 110
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Of course it could also be that someone read the paper, then built a similar counterspeech bot and set it loose. Impossible to know for certain. And the misguided research explanation doesn't hold up for every example here. Eg. I doubt an ethics board would approve the insult-everyone-bot. 020
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I showed this to a colleague who does research in this area, and he pointed out that the bot in these examples sounds a lot like the one from this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14986 This could be a replication attempt but with a faulty hate speech detector, so it tries to argue with friendly posts.arxiv.org 160
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 28/11/2024“Every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right” —Ani DiFranco 020
Ian @raindrift.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Everyone’s getting a fancy new electric car. It’s great! But now what do we call the old kind? Acoustic car. Obviously. 1130
