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New insult to life itself just dropped

Today's Mission: squeezing data from a stone. 🪨

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

🤷 serves as deterrent to inflict this on you again soon, I guess.

24/7 peopling is *incredibly* taxing. I am in awe that you managed to pull it off.

Article Headline: "LEGO Officially Reveals First Ever Star Trek Set: The U.S.S. Enterprise-D" Image shows said starship made from LEGO with figurines of Worf, Deanna Troi, Data and his cat Spot, Jean-Luc Picard holding a LEGO tea cup, William Riker holding a LEGO trombone, Guinan and Beverly Crusher. Deanna Troi, Guinan and Spot are not in Uniform.

Article snippet: "in addition, for fans who purchase the Enterprise-D set over the first three days [...] the company will include a limited-edition 261-piece Shuttlepod Onizuka gift-with-purchase brickset which will include an exclusive Ensign Ro Laren minifigure." Image shows said shuttlepod set and minifigure.

I don't need it. I don't have a space for it. It will only ever gather dust. It's going to be expensive. I don't need it. Fuck Paramount, actually, I don't want to give them any money. It fits with nothing else I own. I don't need it. I don't want to fall for these nostalgia bait products. I don't n

[🐵🐂](🐵[🐵🐂])*(🐒|🐵🐧)?

💗+💜*(💙💗💗+💜*)*💙?

(🐧🐢🐣)*(🐧🐢)?

Buckle up boys, tech bros are reinventing phrenology (again)

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Excellent choice!

Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead. 🦤

Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead. 🐦

Now there's only the small matter of if that is even remotely a good thing or not.

So, same page, different book, I guess.

You say this as if the tech giants were *not* all about NFTs and cryptocurrencies and the metaverse just a few years ago.

We already have all the technology we need to solve our problems. For a while now, actually.

And yet we do not use it. Why do you think that is? And what will another new invention help if we are not willing to use it to help people?

That's exactly what they said about blockchains in 2021.

It's growing rapidly because it's a bubble. LLMs are interesting toys but they're not actually *that* useful.
And one day (hopefully soon) people will realise that. And I hope it's not too late by then.

You said that you believe AI in research would be the next step to making huge advancements as a civilisation.

I am telling you that neither is AI good at scientific research nor are the major challenges we face as a civilisation primarily scientific.

1. I didn't say it was either/or. I said doing more AI or even science will not fix these problems.
2. What part of mathematics can you trust to LLMs?
3. If you ran a thousand LLMs, they'd still be statistical averages over their training data and have no way of finding new true things in the world.

1. The lack of that ability is not why people go cold or hungry or die in wars or floods.
We should fix those first.

2. Sure there are. Scientific research isn't one of them, though.

3. You cannot trust the output of an LLM to be true and have no way of finding out except doing it yourself anyway.

Computer Scientist's opinion:
No, for several reasons.

a) The parts where our civilisation is lacking are *social* rather than technological or scientific.
b) There can be no training data for things nobody has done before.
c) Science works best when things are true, which AI is incompatible with.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

It's the hand holding the guitar by the neck shifting through several dimensions of spacetime for me.

Also, "as there's some bricks to maybe and my Ma' and running house"?... I feel like I'm having a stroke.

"Why yes, dear delivery person, I would gladly accept this parcel for my neighbour Danee right before leaving for an extended vacation in the Australian Outback, far away from any phone signal."

Digital illustration of a Black mother and her son at a food bank. There is a text on the back of her dress that reads “you are not ‘better’ than someone on welfare — just luckier.”

Love how the display is *clearly* just a cheap smartphone in some plastic but the "picture frame" functionality only allows 25 photos.

I'm generally a materialist about why most A.I. is so destructive, but I contain multitudes and so also believe that using A.I. is toxic for your one precious human soul, on a spiritual level.

Remember this can also have some long-term consequences that are really serious. Certain diagnosis or medications can have implications on future employment as well as the ability to hold certain certifications and licenses. Getting your medical record corrected after this will be an nightmare

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.