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@atpfm@mastodon.social that’s from Project Hail Mary @siracusa@mastodon.social

@OwlOnABicycle@mastodon.world Not really. Emergent and chaotic behaviors are a thing. There's also the impracticality of probing inside such massive models. But even if you fully understood the interactions of all the weights in those huge models, you still don't know how a brain works. You cannot tell how it is not behaving. But my point is that instead of trying to prove that models have no agency, which is complicated, we could blame the people that finance them, because we know for sure that they do.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Just because you build something doesn't mean you fully understand its implications. Emergent behavior exist, especially at this scale.
My point is that we don't need to get philosophical to criticize big tech.
They are destroying democracies, using our natural resources in a ponzi scheme that benefits very few at the detriment of billions, etc.
We have plenty of reasons for regulation already.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io We don't know what makes one wake up in the morning and decide to climb a mountain or quit their job.
It may be some completely different process or there might be something to this pattern-matching statistical thing.
Do ants have agency? Do ant colonies?

We definitively must regulate the shit out of these big techs.
But saying that X does not do Y when both are poorly understood and defined is not the way, IMO.

@marcoarment @siracusa trash can, can't innovate Schiller's ass, calling a press event, saying they're sorry, painted themselves into a thermal corner, this time it will be different. Sorry, not sorry. Actually, we're out. Seems like Apple has a toxic relation with the Mac Pro. And so do we, by extension.

@marcoarment @siracusa why go through all the trouble of creating this case and never properly update it. So sad

@marcedwards what are they putting in Apple’s water these days? Gee

@neilsardesai@mastodon.social you’re missing the “older folder” option with the Mac OS 8 theme

@overcastfm@mastodon.social now please just remove the “glow” behind it (white drop shadow, blurred white with alpha channel thing).

@overcastfm@mastodon.social the good mini player is back!!! Thank you! I just hope it continues to be supported despite the scary “classic” nomenclature.

@seeteegee@social.afront.org @jpmens@mastodon.social checkout FUSE. It is also magic.