mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

@mady.cat

trans news and fiction writer, scientist, activist, data nerd signal: madye2.39 / madycast.com@gmail.com subscribe to transnews.network and follow us at @transnews.network she/her/south asian/catgirl meow btw

8,468 Followers 903 Following 7,194 Posts Joined Jul 2023
5 hours ago

only if you take the magic Transsexual Medicine that defines being Transsexual (and totally not like how truscum used that word to divide the community years ago..)

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6 days ago

I'll be taking a break from Bluesky for a week or two for personal reasons.

If you need to reach out for some reason, reach out to my signal account in my bio!

If you see me posting when I shouldn't be, get really mad at me ty

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6 days ago

KHive is probably the most deranged and insane community on the internet, outside of Nazi forums, in my experience in the internet

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6 days ago

it's almost like there's a reason why we tell you over and over that putting an extreme negative focus on a trans woman on the internet with a massive platform will inevitably lead to violent abuse.

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6 days ago

I've met parents of trans kids like this and can confirm they are actually usually very transmisogynistic

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6 days ago

wow I wonder why Sam Altman is so desperate to get on Trump's good side. you know, the dude who controls the Treasury and could bail OpenAI out?

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6 days ago

this looks like a volcano explosion, not a war

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6 days ago

I've heard better things about vaping tbh

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6 days ago

Bluesky is like a drug, if drugs couldn't make you high or have any other redeeming qualities

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6 days ago

ok well. speak of the devil.

i know no one really remembers or cares at this point, but i'm being threatened again. this time with even older videos, before i took hormones.

i know i can be a raging bitch and viscerally unpleasant, but no one fucking deserves this.

i'm leaving, you all win.

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1 week ago

I agree you can probably fairly assume LLMs can't be conscious like many do, for all practical purposes. I don't think some sort of conscious computer is entirely impossible, and you could see something like an LLM being used as something like a voice box for such an AI

but that's all theoretical 🤷🏽‍♀️

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1 week ago

according to Internet Lore, I'm a white vegan who goes to Alaska to bully indigenous people to stop hunting for survival, and a white trans woman who spends her time sending racist harassment working class NYT columnists. I'm so evil and white 😔

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1 week ago

being a vegan on the internet too, my whole life has just been weird liberals on the internet calling me white lol

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1 week ago

These are not things that happen at camps which are not designed to kill the people they incarcerate. ICE centers are concentration camps.

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1 week ago
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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1 week ago

things that are definitely false:

- AI models cannot experience reality in a way that relates to human consciousness
- LLMs do not have a continuous stream of embodied experiences the way humans do, and most people who argue for consciousness are relying on anthropomorphism to push a false idea

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1 week ago

the consciousness debate is a distraction. it's neither provable or falsifiable, like a religion. the point is that the concept makes people think their models are super powerful, which sells more subscriptions.

The "AI safety" issues have always been humans using AI, not AI destroying the world.

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1 week ago

if you believe everything AI backers are saying, they are dumping trillions into LLM datacenters to create billions of conscious AI slaves that vibe code pet projects or help generate coordinates for bombing school children. seems bad, idk!

'AGI' was originally an Epstein-funded project.

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1 week ago

snitches are so weird... imagine going up on the stand crying about how you're betraying your friends. how about you don't do that

don't plea guilty for fake crimes. don't send your trans "friends" to be tortured in federal prison.

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1 week ago

they act that way about the time they bombed 'Black Wall Street'

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1 week ago

she also lost because she's racist to Muslims and Palestinians lol

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1 week ago

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

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1 week ago

can't believe it's actually opening soon

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1 week ago

you could imagine that there could be an emergent consciousness formed to help calculate the outputs

not one like ours, not as capable of genuine new thought or reason, but it could exist and hasn't been disproven

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1 week ago

oh yeah well I mean the weights aren't conscious no, and LLMs can't have a continuous stream of consciousness like humans, it's just possible that during the time the weights are processing inputs they could be conceivably conscious for that moment

it would not be the same as ours at all

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1 week ago

Maybe? i wouldn't be able to know. Maybe you could assume it is by doing an MRI and comparing that to someone who is definitely conscious

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1 week ago

transformers aren't that special, they just are better architecture for structured language and other situations where "memory" (attention) is helpful in predicting an output

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1 week ago

transformers are a neutral net architecture, parameters, as I'm using here, are basically number of weights and connections within a neural net and that term applies across different types of neural nets. it's basically how big the model is

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