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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage

whew that last repost is really it for me when it comes to computer sentience - way too many people way too comfortable professing they want to own another agentic personality

Luckily, computers aren't sentient. And they never will be. But the fact that people THINK they own sentient creatures and aren't troubled by that idea is... deeply worrying

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Ah so maybe the “depictions of fictional violence is the same as real violence” people and “ChatGPT should have personhood” people are maybe the same type of people

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

i just keep coming back to the chasm between the excitement i felt as a kid with the ways technology could help me connect with more people directly and the demoralizing way LLM use now is abstracting away from connection by putting a chatbot between people

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

this shit on us is a trial balloon. the spiritual equivalent of the most obnoxious motherfucker in your office will not rest until he can call the cops on you for buying the wrong shoes. they never do. cut that shit off at the pass or you're next

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

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well there's been a lot of bullshit today but hopefully we can at least end it with the Dallas Cowboys getting their shit kicked in on national television

(ie. this makes sense in my world because of the story i have read and told myself about how the world works includes narratives and structures this aligns with)

which, ha, is i suppose a question of language and literacy in itself - what is the benefit or danger of being able to come up with ways in which this could make sense, using a lexicon and foundation of my own limited interests and educations?

and i’m not really sure if i have a takeaway here other than that fluency not being necessarily tied to cognition does not necessarily break my own personal understanding of what language is/does

within quantum mechanics, the probabilistic nature of positionality - the ability to point to a field where a subatomic particle is likely to be found, rather than an exact certainty - is very reminiscent of how language works. we use words to get into a probable field of understanding

language and its successful use rely on the expectations of the communicator and receiver, and those expectations are often met or suggested to be met with the same phrases, phrases that prove effective - much of communication IS formulaic

seeing this cast specifically in this modeling way reminds me of reading a quantum mechanics primer and a florentine patronage letters academic book in tandem - language is a tool of positionality as well/in line with it being a tool of communication.

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This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

i’ve given myself the personal peace of not attempting to argue with people who have demonstrated they lack the foundational background of topics, but who still seem to want to speak authoritatively on those subjects