josh g.
joshg@mathstodon.xyz
<p>teacher, coder, artist, social justice artificer. ADHD as heck. give land back to indigenous nations, trans rights are human rights. zooming around in a solar-charged electric car going "WHEEEE! Wahooo!" like Mario in a Kart</p>
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Post #4130647
reminder to all the people who are reluctantly trying out LLMs for coding or other tasks and then frustrated-surprised when it does a good job: a) of course it does a good job, it's repurposing and adapting massive amounts of stolen code and human creativity; b) it will do a good job until it doesn't, and you won't know the difference unless you deeply understand what it's doing in the first place; c) it is vastly inefficient and is only affordable now (if at all) because the...
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Post #2145413
The moment anyone tries to make a legal claim that LLMs are sentient beings, we need to demand that they make the full code public so that they aren&#39;t holding a living being in slavery, and stop charging for access to an enslaved consciousness. They&#39;ll still be wrong, but that whole argument needs to be shot down before they start claiming they should be subsidized for keeping their energy-wasting monolith &quot;alive&quot;.