Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

I love that B52s song! Love that you mentioned it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

I love that the Beastie Boys are canon because of "Sabotage" in Beyond and that the line you mentioned exists.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, an openly pro-bullying position from someone on a trans-inclusive instance? I'm sure your admins will appreciate the report I just sent them.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

seek therapy I mean it

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 2 days ago (12 children)

you're absolutely right the only solution remaining is to harass the dev harder🙄

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The actual practical use cases of LLMs are so specific and rare (not to mention almost certainly more expensive without the VC funding) I'm starting to feel like the anti-AI "it will take our jobs" narrative is one that the companies help support.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 89 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that these harassment campaigns against crucial FOSS infrastructure/chokepoint maintainers were funded by Thiel.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

Worse even because they're not waving their fists at "the world", they're waving them at a person.

Honestly I would not be shocked if years from now we discover these harassment campaigns are funded by Thiel.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago

It honestly sucks that the #1 requirement to being an effective FOSS maintainer (above even coding talent) is the skill of enforcing healthy emotional boundaries.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I don't see anyone here quietly hoping

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It sounded like a stretch to me at first, but if you consider that the very concept of intelligence as something quantifiable and measurable (like IQ) implies a linear scale where some (guess which ones) people are simply better.

The funding behind AI comes out of a belief that it can be a tool to control and influence the population. It makes sense that it's origins would be in something similar.

 
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