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> Which creates some bizarre incentives, minors get rewarded for signing up for the platforms that are harming them in the first place. Only if you set aside the passage of time.

I disagree. Harness is a pretty great word, and it doesn't already have another familiar meaning.

They are not incorrect. They don't even hold a position in the first place. An LLM continues the prompt it is given. What is more likely to come after a question? An answer, not an…

It's not a theory. It's literally what they market and sell.

It might be their intended use (from a police department's perspective), but it's certainly not their intended function. Flock collects these images, and uses them to train statist…

> Police use the technology to investigate crimes such as hit-and-runs and to locate missing persons. Disgusting copy. We all know that's not their primary function.

The problem is much bigger than that. Their goal is to find a "good fit", not to find a good engineer. That's why their software is so incredibly disfunctional: it's just a reflect…

That's another useful perspective on the same thing I'm talking about. Your speech doesn't just fail to stay with you, it's implications hang over you. What you have said is treate…

> the most precise way to communicate something is through a metaphor. > I think this is exactly your point Yes, it is. Another useful word would be "direct", or maybe "concrete". …

> It's also odd to me to say an LLM isn't subjective. I was saying the opposite. The core feature of an LLM is that it is subjective. The implications of a written expression (prom…

Increasing precision is good to the end that is disambiguation. The problem is that that end is not always what language is good for. Metaphor is an incredibly useful tool, because…

> It’s as if the world now requires you to be more precise about everything. This is something I've been thinking a lot about. We have trended from subjective language to objective…

Then why are we all so interested? Examples provide more than syntax. It's the semantics that we care about most.

Do you like horror? That's the only genre where risky projects are getting consistent funding. Obsession and Backrooms are both really good.

No Other Choice (by the same director) is incredible, and even relevant to this post.

Copy and cut are just redundant steps anyway. In Linux (generally), you can simply middle click to copy the current selection. Maybe we could add shift+middle click (or something) …

Maybe not to your self, but it has a significant effect on the actual interactions you have.

Yes, but the context itself is still omnipotent to everyone who participates with it. It's not a bar if it's everywhere. Wearing a mask to the everybar is a way to compensate for t…

Unfortunately that isn't a solution. When you keep separate identities, the only thing that can exist across platforms is your own participation. Everything you say and do is isola…

It's a shame the title doesn't just include the word: "uni-context". It's a really useful and interesting perspective. The other relevant word is "objectivity". There so many syste…

So we're just going to let tech monopolists make accessibility impossible, are we? Fuck that!

That's even worse

I'm actually a fan. It's an excellent exploration of sarcasm: what you literally say in a sarcastic tone might have a metaphorical meaning, or it might be a twice application of sa…

I second guessed my usage, but decided it was a good way to communicate my lack of experience and confidence in the specifics.

A random factoid that will always stick in my brain is that the damage a vehicle does to a road is proportional to the weight on an axel...to the fourth power. I suspect rerouting …