Laura

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular. I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

something something Zero History's The Ugly T-shirt has a seahorse emoji on it

To be totally clear about what's happening here: the language model is doing next-token prediction on a document whose first several thousand words establish everything that follows as a conversation between a human and a highly advanced artificial mind — a type of mind that doesn't really exist, but that the model is designed to roleplay. When a person uses Claude or ChatGPT, they're meant to believe they're interacting with a helpful Al assistant. What they're actually doing is collaborating with a language model on writing a work of science fiction about a human talking to an AI.

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I'd like people to stop using the term alignment (as in aligning AI with human values). it's just vacuous. human value is infinite & culture, history, ideology & context dependent & not something you can entirely quantify & automate either

My experience in experimenting with LLM coding so far:

Me: Write code that frobnicates

LLM: Sure here is non-functioningXYZ.code!

Me: That doesn’t work because of XYZ

LLM: Sorry here’s non-functioningABC.code!

Me: Now that’s broken because of ABC

LLM: My bad here is non-functioningXYZ.code!

That’s one poorly aged tweet huh

one of the biggest things about finding a partner is they absolutely must be the same level of hater as you. you cannot have a mixed vibes relationship

this hit a little too hard

Every time I click a news article only to be hit by a paywall I think about how every conspiracy website is absolutely free to read.

That awful moment when you fix something fundamental and years of ugly workarounds are laid bare, squinting back at you in the headlights.

Yes, and also, some things are NOT complicated, morally, ethically or legally, but the contexts in which they exist are so massively clusterfucked that any statement of that not complicated value can be challenged by both sincere and insincere alike, for different reasons, but with the same result.

What are you running from, Henry? What, or who, are you running to, Henry?
Who is your Delilah, Henry?
How close is your fire, Henry?

SO: YOU ARE READY FOR MORE POTENT WIZARDS??

Find yourself writing this and think "God, this isn't even for my extremely wizard-centric day job."

that is SUCH a good take it left me speechless for a moment 🙈

Salary distribution chart for software developers in the US comparing developers who use tabs and spaces to developers who use only spaces where the latter appears to earn more money.

Ken in the Barbie movie, wearing his fluffy white coat and putting sunglasses on

Please welcome the Speaker of the Mojo Dojo Casa House of Representatives

What I miss about covid lockdown times is the fantasy that some aspects of society would come from it changed for the better, or that we would learn anything at all.

you had an invisible hand and you decided to use it for economics?

Wait until y’all hear about Amerigo Vespucci

Two men look at a picture. One says "I'm glad we're on the top layer of this this infinite recursion." The other says "yeah, that means we're the original versions of the guys in the picture." The picture they're looking at contains an image of them saying the above phrases and looking into a picture depicting them saying the above phrases on into infinity.

That’s one sick burn if I’ve ever heard one!

Saw someone refer to "websites from the 1900s" and I took 1d4 psychic damage

Once again writing notes for a cat sitter and thinking this could be a genre of its own. Highlights include: "Sometimes Pavel likes to walk around and scream for a while after breakfast. Don't worry, nothing is wrong."

Githyanki BG3 bard named WeirdAl Gythyankovic

A friend showed me this and I am going to need all of you to see it

posting here is like sending the golden record into space but anyways

This should be an obvious statement, and yet. And yet.

It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry: