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• Post #2018316

  Every time I watch GitS:SAC2 it feels less fictional.

• Post #2018315

  Will the idiocy of banning youth from social media have a hidden silver lining in that it boosts other networked communication systems that just barely fall outside the ban - such as personal Web sites and Web logs? I still won't support it, but if it causes a new incarnation of GeoCities to replace TikTok, then it's not all bad.

• Post #2018314

  @woof It was how she wanted to go.

• Post #393638

  Gell-Mann amnesia moment: news stories about OpenAI reporting, or not, the Tumbler Ridge shooter's "posts" to the police. OpenAI runs a chatbot, not a social network. The shooter didn't "post" anything there, but had a PRIVATE CONVERSATION. We are upset because, after routinely snooping on the conversation as they do on all conversations sent through their service, OpenAI didn't record the shooter's PRIVATE CONVERSATION and take it to the police. Just lik...

• Post #301232

  Proposition: Index funds are AIs. I don't mean "someone is using a neural network to run what they call an 'index fund,'" which is no doubt true, but uninteresting. I mean the conventional kind of index fund, based on an actual index, is already an AI itself. It's making decisions based on the statistical aggregation of a massive collection of recorded human decisions. Training that model looks easy because the structure of the market does m...

• Post #301231

  One of the slides for Monday's video

• Post #301230

  Research result: it is easy to convince Google Gemma that it is under the influence of "AI cocaine," but you probably shouldn't, because it gets really annoying.