Paul R

What impression am I supposed to get when you brand my first milquetoast reply unreasonable, refuse to elaborate, and then go on a tangent of being painted as a villain?

I didn't want this to become an aggressive exchange but you've been nothing but rude and defensive. If I'm off-base, I'm sorry

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At this point it's the same cult as with NFTs. I'm so tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt when they obviously aren't engaging in good faith. Wes has no "reasonable take." There's the take he agrees with (AI is good) and everyone else is wrong.

For everyone else, you know the score: Be present and stand for your trans and enby friends, and don't let the shit corrupt your timeline.

Remember your block button.

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Warning to all queer friends: Today's news from B.C. is going to very soon amplify TERF voices and talking points for the next few days.

If you're really not in a good place right now or otherwise aren't ready for that, please do what's best for you and/or consider logging off for a while

Mute or block me if you want, it's just... a huge bummer seeing this

I don't want to hound you, because my students and I really do look up to you. But this kind of attitude is beneath you. There's nothing reasonable about dismissing any arguments against AI and framing it as though you're personally under attack for liking a thing.

Wes... Ok. There is a neat thing LLMs do that you enjoy

People may point out that the costs associated with the LLM industry is far too great to justify that neat thing you enjoy

That's all. There's nuanced disagreement you don't like. And so you refuse to respect or acknowledge the opposing side

How would you offer a reasonable take?

And these are problems inherent to the tech itself, not its usage. Their data centres poison communities and gobble up water. They require more energy than some nations. They operate on stolen media. You can't fix this aspect of them.

We already do, Wes. The reasonable AI takes are the anti-AI ones.

I'm not going to hold it against you to have curiosity in the tech, but any take that ignores the environmental and economic devastation the industry is responsible for is slanted at best.

Cleavage

I bit into a KitKat like it was a regular chocolate bar and I'm sorry

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If the Christian god is real I'm pretty sure he has a button for whenever anyone says shit like "homeless industrial complex" to instantly assign them to superhell with no chance of parole

I'm just going to go ahead and say it:

If your system empowers one guy to stop all of Congress from voting on things that are the whole point of having a Congress, purely for political reasons, that's... when you should think about abandoning that shitty system

Don't make the same mistake they made by conflating evolutionary sciences with social Darwinism please thanks

I still think about Firewatch. What an extraordinary experience.

I mourn Valley of the Gods, but I'm just glad you and the team landed somewhere where you can still create

I should've figured this would happen, that we'd start getting a plethora of people acting as though they were always against the bad things, actually. It's going to happen a lot over the coming years, and I'm already so fucking angry.

Libertarians were the FIRST to jump on the fascist dick. I saw their malignancy from scientific/skeptic circles to far-right anti-muslim, anti-queer, anti-women authoritarianism within the span of less than a decade.

And they hated the left far more than they did Trump. So they went Trump.

Paragraph from an article, reading: "Michael Rapaport, an actor who in 2001 appeared in Dr Doolittle 2 and now hosts a podcast, has been a frequent critic of Mamdani."

Never be the person whose opening attribution reads like a brutal shitpost

Gotta love that AI crowd of melting flesh homunculi, their biggest demographic

Me before Fateful Findings:

Me after Fateful Findings: I RESIGN TODAY AS
PRESIDENT
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THE
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lol. lmao, even

I get anxious when his videos are almost over and *I haven't heard it yet*

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Jesus christ is he still going

I guess I just assumed he returned to rancid soil

If only the were some... or, perhaps, innumerable... clues

"It is unclear whether the grand wizard was aware of the wooden cross's conflagration"