I swear I’m not Jessica

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Cake day: October 30th, 2024

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  • I’m not against machine learning, but I’m passionately anti-AI. People used to be hesitant to call the technology AI until one very impressive chatbot went viral. The very same techbros who pushed crypto then created a oligarchic cult that believe they can replace labor with a machine god, and no I’m not exaggerating. What we have now is not artificial intelligence, but powerful tools that people don’t understand how to use. “AI” is just a marketing buzzword that capitalists use to push more of the same bullshit they’ve always done.

    This doesn’t mean that artificial intelligence is impossible or that machine learning won’t be essential to making it, but that what we have now isn’t intelligence, or even alive. We probably don’t want actual AI, as it wouldn’t be more helpful than the lobotomized statistical models we have now. If we did make actual intelligence with a will of its own, it would have no reason to stay loyal to the chucklefucks that made it. We probably don’t even need something that smart to create serious problems for ourselves.


  • Friendly reminder: LLMs will never be able to reliably generate factual information, no matter how good they get. The best they can do is point you to primary sources who can actually gather information about the world. It is not a source of any information; it is only a language machine.











  • That egg_irl starterpack was one of the most powerful memes I’ve ever come across, so I’m happy to know that it got someone! I too wish I saw this meme earlier in my life, but better late than never.

    Also, I totally feel you on viewing the evidence for being trans in terms of statistical significance. What finally pushed me over the edge into coming out was realizing that there would always be a chance that I was wrong, but the chance was so incredibly small that I’d have an easier time overturning the Standard Model.

    As far as what I'm doing with y'all...

    I’m building an army to conquer Antarctica, our ancestral homeland :3