The idea is cool, and it'd be a lot cooler without the terf book getting mentioned
Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
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#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sci-fi author: in my book I invented the idea of inserting human dna into a bacterium and it killing us all Tech company: by inserting human DNA into a bacterium we can make very good insulin that will help diabetics Online Commenter: this is just like that book where the insulin kills us all! My take on this entire genre: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Story-Logic_Bias And Eliezer Yudkowsky’s more eloquent precurso…
You're missing the point of the meme, which is not "technology is bad", but "technologists theming their new poorly-tested invention after a popular story where the invention hurts people is gross". If your tech company calls its product "The Genophage™" it's fair to ask if they're taking the safety/ethics implications very seriously.
> tech company
> taking the safety/ethics implications very seriously
In the era of move fast and break things that includes things like enabling genocide, is an oxymoron.
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
For more info, see my blog post titled "Get in the Torment Nexus or get left behind."
If we didn't invent the torment nexus, china would have and they'd make all the money.
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Never seen xcancel before, love that!
There are browser extensions (eg. Redirect for Firefox) that will automatically replace x.com with xcancel.com.
You want to be using LibRedirect for this. It provides a list of public alternative frontends for a lot of sites (twitter, imgur, reddit, etc.)
Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
#365In case anyone else wanted to get to a demo quickly: https://xcancel.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432#... Original link for those who want it: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432
Why not just show the real link to ?
Personally I wouldn't want to promote X.
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#366Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
#367Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...
Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…
Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
#368Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...
After reading such news I started fine tuning a model based on the works on stoic philosophers so that the kids will have the comfort of Chatbot but completely offline and private bot which will not ask you to commit suicide. I have a earlier prototype here[1], it uses 256M model and so it's hallucinates a lot. Then I used a 4B model which turned out quite well but I haven't released it yet. Let me kbow if anyone wou…
Are you sure it wouldn’t suggest such a thing? Stoic thinkers (such as the one your repo is named after) are not necessarily anti-suicide. And I think if you prompted a real stoic with the question and the right context, it would certainly suggest it without safe guards.
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The article is Aug 26, 2025, and describes events from April, over a year ago. Safeguards have improved drastically since then. > Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit. That's a rather hyperbolic way of putting it. A side effect of this particular product is that it occasionally harms kids. They're not profiting off of the harm, nor is the harm deliberate. Cars harm kids. There's decad…
> Safeguards have improved drastically since then Source? Seriously. I'd love to see data showing deaths–or even frequencies–have dropped. My views on AI for under-16s is still evolving. Given how the AI companies are fighting these cases in court, and given their backers’ public rhetoric, I suspect they aren't seeing a one-off risk. > Cars harm kids This is tobacco-industry rhetoric. The relevant facts are frequency…
> Where’s the FDA for AI?
As it happens, Anthropic has also been calling for the creation of such a regulatory agency!
> AI companies are uniquely defensive, dismissive and negligent when it comes to harming kids.
You know cigarette companies still exist? And companies selling candy-flavored vapes targeted at teenagers? Like... c'mon, you know they're nowhere near the worst offenders.
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Orwell also imagined a future where Speakwrites made everyone unable to write by hand, making their thoughts dull and tanged as a long unprepared monologue tends to be. I don't think he's anywhere on your side.
That sounds like AI though, no? I've seen many below-average writers that are now dependent on it to write even medium length passages
To make the point explicit, Orwell wouldn't find most dystopian the fact your Speakwrite refuses to write anti-state messages, and support the right to subsidized local uncensored Speakwrites. The battle for the public minds was lost when they forgot how to write.