And now I have Jennifer Coolidge in my head…

Yeah. There’s a lot of literature. Don’t have to marry this one. When Gaiman was found to be a creep, I gave up some of my favorites. And yet there is still more to fill the gap.

Oops, you’re right. I meant Lisbon, not Barcelona. Dat American education right?

Edit: To clarify, the first time I cooked up this relationship (copying someone else), Lisbon to Berlin was what I landed on. Barcelona to Moscow also works.

On the assumption you’re American, where’s your molotov?

If you aren’t, you really don’t understand what you’re asking. Most people would have to drive hours or days to be anywhere worth rebelling, lose everything they care about in the process of just not showing up for work regardless of actions taken, and do it all alone because everyone else is under the same threat. All against the most powerful military in the world.

The US is big. Someone in LA coordinating with someone in NYC is culturally and geographically similar to someone in Barcelona Lisbon coordinating with someone in Berlin. And they have safety nets.

First she is a safe place where I’m not only encouraged to share vulnerable things, it’s where hiding things is actively against the effort. Frees me, mentally, to actually speak.

Second, she’s really good at gently nudging me out of my loops. I’ve contemplated my issues to hell, back, and again. She’s really good at finding me an off ramp.

Finally, after I was sexually assaulted, she’s been unquantifiable helpful. She answered honestly about things such as police reports and what I could expect (my case was unlikely to get the time of day, which I expected), strategies to address my recurring problems, and just being a decent human that judges me far less harshly than myself.

$20 on Amazon and you get the whole setup nice and easy. [Disparage Amazon here]

For those who have been extra pedantic and focused more on the semantics of the arguments (i.e, you)

I’ve had 2 comments not including this one, neither of which discussed semantics. You never responded to my other comment.

Overall though, I have not called anyone derogatory names (unlike others in this thread)

While yes, that would indicate bad faith, never said you did that. Can’t speak to others, who shouldn’t do that.

I have not dismissed someone’s ideas out of hand without providing sources or examples, and I feel I have engaged in a respectful and calm manner.

It’s less that you are dismissing things or being disrespectful. It’s that your engagement has a pattern where you aren’t engaging at all with certain points that is very obvious. Your positive bias toward LLMs shows. Whether it is due to legitimate bias or stark contrast within the thread due to a very polarizing topic is tricky to parse but definitely comes off that you are invested in LLMs and are unwilling to acknowledge the downsides in a meaningful way. E.g. your outright dismissal of the lack of ethics because it doesn’t offend you personally and find those that complain to be hypocrites.

Sorry if my approach has not been what you would have preferred, but to be honest, given that you have not actually contributed to the discussion meaningfully, I frankly don’t give a shit.

Again, do you think you’re responding to someone else? I rattled off a pile of common complaints to which you never responded. At no point did I accuse you of anything or even remark upon your character directly other than observing the stated pattern of avoidance and deeming it disingenuous. One inference could possibly be made with my rebuttal of your ethics argument, but it’s kind of a stretch.

You’re being disingenuous because that’s the only thing you’re doing. You show no signs of actually ingesting or contemplating other points of view, opinions, etc.

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Well, you dismissed the lack of ethics of it all. Just because you do open source doesn’t mean everyone else does. And open source often acknowledges contributors, unlike LLMs. You can’t consent for other people.

It’s hideously destructive. Wastes electricity, wastes water, plays merry hell with anywhere the damned data centers pop up.

It’s unregulated and has already killed people. Multiple stories have come out where an LLM has encouraged suicide. Plus various dangerous outputs like the bleach as cake ingredient thing. Because…

It isn’t intelligent, it’s just a parrot. I’ll start paying attention when it can successfully count letters in words. So would you trust a random parrot that told you about something you know nothing about?

It doesn’t do a quarter of what it says. Translation should be its bread and butter and it can’t really manage that. There’s a reason the tech bros that hyped crypto are hyping this. Because they don’t actually know what it can or can’t do.

It’s approaching max efficacy for current techniques. More data is better in machine learning, but it’s finding the limit and it’s way closer than the scammers want to admit.

It’s destroying jobs before it can handle them. I’ve tried to use it before. I spent as much if not more time fixing its output than if I had done it myself. It gets to do my boilerplate sometimes now.

It’s making worse workers. All that time agonizing over a problem was spent learning how to do it at all. Now it shits out worthless garbage that the person doesn’t know what it does or how to fix it. Job security for me I guess.

It could be a useful technology, but the delusion that it’s capable of becoming AGI distracts from all the things it could be capable of if big companies actually tried to use them instead of the lazy implementations they’re chasing.

Edit: I also forgot that it entrenches racism and other bad behavior. If your corpus is full of racist shit, you get a racist robot. And racist assholes make it harder to fix that because they won’t acknowledge that such things are bad and that this badness can be taught* to robots.

Source: Data engineer

Yeah, but the dementia riddled pedophile really cranked it to way past 11 and revealed how much more we should have been apologizing for all along by way of encouraging his followers to take the mask off.

I remember my sophomore thermodynamics class in college always seemed artificially hard because the only really difficult problems were ones where they decided to use fucking BTUs.

The term is nussy.

The word is horrified, but yes.

Value in the abstract sense of “desirable thing” not necessarily monetary.

If I’m having a conversation within and ask them about a thing, I’d much rather an “I don’t know” than whatever the plagiarism engine’s facsimile of an opinion is.

Lot of people have strong opinions about ai, many of them very bad. Because what should be a novelty or maybe a part of a more sophisticated system instead of the half assed implementation that it currently is. At the low low price of stealing from artists and fucking the environment.

Ok. But the context is that of a conversation. Where is the value sharing there?

What value is it adding at any point? If I wanted to use chat gpt, I’d go off myself.

I feel like most people with a new Windows installation aren’t going to know that one.

People installing firefox or chrome.