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@majesty They say that if you cast it into the Socket of Communication, a directory listing will appear in letters of fire...
(The ancients called these manifestations "pixels".)
@majesty Much was forgotten... that should not have been forgotten... until one day, many thousands of years having passed, the Stick felt ready to move... and so, it again found its way into the hands of mortals...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jef/117531616612028855
He's obviously sincere in his deep concern for all those people wasting all that energy by having enough capacity to run local models but not using it 100% of the time.
...because before LLMs, nobody ever did that. It's completely new and previously unheard of. (Dang kids.)
@rnd Clearly you are too clever for naughty people like @carmensandiego!
...gosh, why didn't *I* think of that...
"Dunno... our minds must be too highly-trained, Majikthise." -- Vroomfondel
#PPOD: A lone scarecrow stands guard over a pumpkin field beneath the dazzling Milky Way in this atmospheric photograph by astrophotographer Josh Dury. Shot at Norton Farm, the scene blends warm autumn colors with the brilliant star clouds of our home galaxy, creating a fitting celestial Halloween celebration. The bright, sprawling band overhead is the combined light of countless distant stars concentrated along the plane of the Milky Way. Credit: Josh Dury (with permission)
I like a lot of this idea, though I have a few notes to make at some point.
(brane two tyred nau, blrt)
h/t: @anolandria
🎶
You look too small
in their big black car
to be a threat to the men in power
🎶 -- Kate Bush
Ahh yeah, always fun when the brain insists on spinning out all the disaster scenarios. :blobcatupsidedown:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/117530450450873942
I would have phrased it as something like "...remind you that you retain a full and complete right to breathe, regardless of immersion status or depth thereof, and that we are therefore fully indemnified against any failure to inhale that you may experience" to emphasize the way powerful people will insist that the people under them have rights, while in fact ensuring that those rights are meaningless.
This is a cartoon by @Wileymiller in which a mobster, two large henchmen, and their mutual victim are standing on a pier, apparently about to fit him with the ever-popular "concrete galoshes" I mean "cement overshoes".
Mobster: "Ok, but your NDA requires me to remind you that we still retain your right to breathe."
Caption: Carl rethinks his plans for early retirement
@misty Awesome info, thank you!
...and the issue with highly JS-driven sites like fedi and some other social media is a particular concern; right now I don't have any tools which can reliably archive a fedi thread as text, though there is a tool on Mathstodon which creates a thread-map as an SVG... but I'm wandering off the topic a bit. 😅
If by "BREAKFAST" we mean "this morning's BREAKFAST", and you're asking me specifically, then yeah -- since we have no "smart" kitchen equipment... unless you're concerned that the hack might bring down the power-grid before BREAKFAST was done cooking.
I would never stake my life on the power-grid staying up for all of breakfast, because around here it's prone to going out for no apparent reason -- but I'd be very surprised if that ended up happening and being the consequence of a Claude hack rather than, say, a tree hack or a hack driving poorly.
...and even so, we have emergency equipment sufficient to cook breakfast and keep the fridge cold even without power.
Do you enjoy this sort of overanalysis? :blobcatthinkingportal:
@khleedril You don't understand. The Claude hack does not affect BREAKFAST [last word spoken whilst shaking you by the collar].
(I live with people who have blood-sugar issues, so I understand how these things work.)
I do think there are appropriate uses for this technology (I use LLMs in much the same way you do: occasionally, for solving specific problems that I'd otherwise be stuck on).
As I see it, the core problem with AI usage (specifically) is that a lot of people see a tool, and then assume the tool should be used on absolutely everything. "When you're holding a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" and so on...
(and I'm not necessarily blaming people on the "user" side so much as the "provider" side trying really really hard to get everyone addicted to smashing things with hammers so they can start charging for them)
...so now we stand amid the ever-increasing wreckage caused by a new tool, and it's entirely understandable to feel like the tool is what's causing all these new problems...
...but of course that just lets the billionaire owners of the tool-factories get away with it.
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I tend to start with questions like:
I could probably write a much longer essay about this, given time.
@misty I have questions! (...which you are of course under no obligation to answer, but this seemed like a good place to ask them.)
I'm particularly interested in that second question because I run a wiki which links to a lot of external sites for reference, and those links often go dead over the course of the years (it's now 21 years old) -- so it would be nice if it could automatically archive every page linked.
Thanks for this useful post! :-)
@shadowfals Don't judge an egg by its cover, maybe? :D
(For clarify, I'm not really trying to throw shade on the comic; it's trying to make a valid point, and the metaphor may work just fine for a lot of people who needed to hear it. ...which I imagine includes a lot of people who buy factory-farmed eggs...)