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I think part of what's happening is that users are anthropomorphizing LLM's. They're falling in love, they're trusting, they're letting LLM's lead them to psychosis. But it's mixed with automation bias built up and emphasized from years of living with deterministic code.

ok, I can see that. And it might be a facet of my inextricable interwingling belief.

I poked at LLM's for about a week, testing their boundaries, and came to the conclusion that it was bad processing in a black box. I was better off getting my threads to pull on, so I could figure things out.

applying the liar's paradox?

Or saying "hallucinations" instead of "bad information" or "lies"?

Giving LLM's more leeway than they would a disenfranchised person, with an unwritten/subtext assumption that (black, poor, female, old, etc.) was an immediate indicator of suspicion?

Lenses can shift to bubble up a different facet of information. Stress and emotion can shift their personal lines of what they consider lies. But once a person has a habit of lying, especially tied to success, they can't be trusted.

One you get to info quality, hallucinations are simply lies.

I keep thinking of the classic liar's paradox. I thought about it continually as a kid and teenager and early adult. It's one of the reasons I came to believe that people and information are inextricably intertwingled. WHO says it is just as important as the information.

HOT dish of Thesis.

Non-Midwesterners, aka casseroles.

But soups would work, too.

my stepdad told me that starting onions from seed is one of the hardest things. he planted truck farm acres for decades, tried growing nearly every vegetable at some point. Onions and sweet potatoes are the only things for which he bought seedlings instead of seeds.

Then I look at these people, and...no. They don't care. They *want* to abdicate responsibility while demanding gratitude and respect and a kickback.

LLM's fuck up information. When that information is used to kill people, there is NO WAY to keep them from harming *anyone*.

I think about how often they hallucinate, how they don't stick to the prompt, how even the dev who let me watch while he worked (and he explained how long it took him to design and integrate the systems to be able to do what he did) was getting things done *but always having to watch.*

After ~10 years of trying to contain my data footprint, I now have email accounts over a year old that have no spam. Three of them have no spam filters installed. One is used for shopping.

🤞I didn't just present a challenge

❤️ sometimes the sensed-impossible can be done

start here Information Maybe it's the coolest thing ever. Then again, it's kinda big, isn't it? Kinda gnarly, in the gnarled-haunted-tree kind of way? Convoluted so badly it's hard to tell backwards from forwa...

It's not the paywalls, and it's not a single answer. And sometimes insight can come from people without credentials, who have just lived through something and figured out a way through. Shared wisdom, but that has to be combined with other insights to apply another way.

I pulled together this.

smudging the binary humanizing information: literacy, social fractals, function/abstraction, and design concepts

More than just scientific validity. It infects our computer-based builds, has spread to society and systems, and even into our dialogues.

Binary is how our digital hardware works, not humanity. And even then, there are ways to smudge it.

www.smudgingthebinary.com

a big chunk of the ability to see through this is to understand that they are setting it up as a binary question: in or out. In has all sorts of structures, currently "works", etc. Out is chaos.

Except it's not. Out is chaos only in the framing. Binary is the option only in the framing.

A legally blind, 65 yr-old woman: has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can't afford food under Trump. "The end is coming near. Under Joe Biden I received $80 SNAP per month & was able to put away $100 per month for food. Trump took that away from me." #sheshed

and to be absolutely clear: there is no info without people, not until/unless we meet/accept non-people points of view can contribute information. Humanity is inextricably intertwingled with the information we use, from first perception to use so far downstream that the info bit has been forgotten.

EVERY spot the info dysfunctions, it traces back to people. Context finds the how. Once you have the pieces, the info can be designed to better accommodate the whole.

It doesn't have to be a magical black box, faith in a technology/company that will seek rent eventually, untraceable and unfixable.

So: do most people really not realize people like me exist? Who love information and general humanity so much they will get into the dirt, the politics, and the chaos to help smooth it into human-centered function?

...a formal project. Dashboards, admin panels, content, websites, 0-1 software, *something*.

I've known for decades that most business is organized effectively in silos, and there's always politics involved in this facet. Fear, anger, reprisal, confusion; with the first glimmers of function, hope.

I read this yesterday and it lingered, and this morning I saw the attached.

A large part of what I do is work to make institutional-level knowledge explicable, because the chaos is often in the connections. One team works hard for the context, another uses a bit. It's always "in service of"...

I see a clearer narrative of right/left developing.

Problem: it's defined by the right.

They claim money, AI, male dominance, and power dynamics as their territory.

And anyone who cares needs to be beat down as not-right, so must-be-left, so against-us.

those definitions are telling.

My brain goes towards tracking. I *DO NOT* have any first-hand knowledge that it would affect uploads. It just seems like a reasonable progression, thinking: tracking, AI bots severely impacting internet infrastructure, Google.

honestly, that's a privacy nightmare. They are tracking by device fingerprinting as well as IP. They might be making the "Allow All" the only function, but as a default/"accidental" selection, so it keeps trying to get explicit.

Not that I know of a streaming device that isn't a privacy problem.

try a chromium browser, like Brave? could be enshittification in action.

Woody and Buzz launch the Butlerian jihad.

When Cities Made Monuments to Traffic Deaths A century ago, cars killed pedestrians and cyclists in record numbers. As traffic deaths rise again, it’s time to remember how US cities once responded to this safety crisis.

actually, that (combined with this thread) reminds me of this article. There's some behavioral ticks to pick up on, down in "Motordom Fights Back".

People have a solid pattern of wanting toys and to blame the harm on others.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

am I really the first to point out power loom?

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

what does your soul look like

* active voice and force of will embedded in hierarchy (esp biz) became centralized. theoretical impacts are all about bets -- certainty is false. in a world where image is more important than information integrity, that's a dissonance that has to be chosen.

I think 3 big things got in the way:
* future impact can't be "proven", and all the uncomfortable negatives of conspiracy theory get attributed

* information literacy fell to the side. tl;dr and # char limits made it so people had to cut to the chase. it becomes unsubstantiated.