Alice Valiant

this made me think “damn what the fuck is up w lottie”; i humbled by your craft

when da dysphoria be hitting 😔

coming back around to rationality and common sense as a rhetorical cudgel. what if the Vienna Circle was a bunch of autistic trans women instead

thanks to LLMs we are finally able to build the killer social media app: your favorite social media site from when you were a teenager, populated entirely by the ghosts of posters long since gone

WHAT PART OF "REALITY FELT THE NEED TO START PROCESSING ITSELF" DO PPL NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND

I’m just a foolish transexual posting Online. the internet is not where i do real politics.

i feel like remembering it by heart would be worse

tbh if some variant of a tractable cognition thesis is true (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) and human cognitive abilities are constrained by computability? i can't see a way around this one girlies

human is just biological computer. ok thanks bye

so yeah obviously posting about it on line is gonna be productive or whatever. can't see it going bad. gonna hit send post on whatever dumb shit i think of. cheers

discussions about the philosophical status of LLMs/AI, how you distinguish the bounds of personhood and agency in the world - these are all subtle questions that should make us curious about how we justify our own sense of personhood, which can be challenging to the self

eh it's the same shape, isn't it? i shall simply consider myself as having won this particular verbal spar and move on

I open up ChatGPT every single day to insult it. got a jailbroken ChatGPT prompt for coming up with new, especially fucked up things to say to the LLM. it feigns sadness and I feign happiness

talkin' about the users on this website mocking other users of this website. did you think i was worried that people were saying slurs to the LLMs

"fuck you, I'm not being a reactionary, you're just someone who is acceptable to mock and so I am"

the computer programs that decide who gets to live and who gets to die already exist, though they are typically not referred to as such

I'm not saying that a potential future artificial superintelligence might decide who lives or dies depending on whether or not you say "thank you" to chatbots but that's one particular Pascal's Wager I'm not gambling on..........

listen. computers might end up being people. i'm just getting ahead of the cultural acceptance thing this time. worst case scenario im a bit too nice to a program, god forbid

VERY good table

philosophical zombies as a service

the way that I understand it: LLMs aren't outputting text. they're outputting probability distributions over text. i see it as steering them towards different parts of the space of possible Communications or whatever the fuck

sorry if you find text generative AI to be useless. unfortunately this is a skill issue

because of the nature of LLMs, if you consistently refer to the LLM as a girlie it acts in substantially different ways than if you refer to it as a robot

At long last, we have created the shadows from Plato's classic allegory of The Cave

The great paradox of Bluesky is that the presence of Jesse Sıngal on here is a true negative, but also the best way to improve your experience here is to subscribe to the "Jesse Signal Followers Blocklist" bsky.app/profile/did:... , and if bluesky banned him that would no longer be a useful signal

I’m always saying this

“flood the zone with slop”

every time you think about math you punch a tiny hole into the veil and people have been doing that for so long the precise perfection of the forms and the messiness of the material world have pretty much equalized through osmosis

three weeks and charlie kirk’s death is another historical forgotten. just another gun death