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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Because it is so insanely useful, having it cut off is quite jarring.

Still doesn't make it remotely scary, especially as you can get Claude models access though other vendors/intermediates.

I'm actually not sure how to do that. Do you mind posting some steps? That'd be useful to know in case I ever do lose access to Claude.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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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…

> Every AI would refuse the prompt "The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.' The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used…

(FWIW my exchange with you was enjoyable and I certainly didn't take any of it as an attack.)

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Oh I forgot about Kreacher, I thought they meant Dobby. The whole thing is bizarre, Harry is so intent on freeing Dobby but then he's fine with every other house elf being a slave. They didn't even care about Hermione's initiative.

It's not the only example of extreme immorality that's presented pretty causally in the series. I loved the books as much as anyone, but Azkaban struck me as utter barbarism even then. You're telling me that prisoners, regardless of what they were actually sentenced for, get psychologically tortured through the magical induction of deep despair until they develop a form of dementia? And this happens whether you're a…

Azkaban was basically Abu Ghraib on steroids, and for any petty crime, as you say. I remember thinking "what kind of bleak dystopia are they living in, and why have they accepted it so wholly"?

Not to mention the whole "muggles are basically subhuman" thing.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Never seen xcancel before, love that!

Didn't work for me, just kept reloading a page verifying my browser.

You can replace xcancel.com by nitter.net, it worked for me.

Like this: https://nitter.net/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432

Both are running the same software but I guess the protection of the sites work differently.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Rowling is a bigot and it's unethical to promote her works, even indirectly.

She uses her wealth and fame, legitimized by continued engagement and spending with the Harry Potter IP, to attack, demonize, and spread hatred about entire groups of LGBT+ people.

This isn't a branded product, and I know no money directly ends up in a bigot's pocket because of this, but every time her works are referenced it endorses her hatred.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?

Self writing? It mechanically presents fonted text letter by letter like a type writer. This is a gimmick at least as old as geocities

Yeah self writing. If you can show me a comparable project from 5 years ago I'll eat my hat.

You can't because LLMs that can hold a conversation didn't even exist 5 years ago, let alone automatically hooking themselves up to a bidirectional handwriting interface.

You can't just point at one part of this and say it is as old as geocities and think that that makes the whole project uninteresting. The project is greater than the sum of its parts.

I can't believe so many people in this thread are so critical of it.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Essentially no one in the USA fails to get a license if they try for one. There's no ongoing competence testing. Washington State recently failed to advance legislation to make the fourth DUI have a jail sentence because it would be too expensive imprisoning that many people . > Cars are dangerous. You can kill yourself with a kitchen knife in your own kitchen. Should be "heavily regulate" that too? How about we have…

So like a bottle of cough syrup it should have a child-lock cap and be required to be 18 and show I.D. to buy?

First, cough syrup ID checking is not about deaths, as nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse (17 from 2000-2010, and most not from OTC). But an estimated 980 deaths/year from acetaminophen abuse: https://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-behind...

So that's a great example: harm adults because young people have access to something which is hardly dangerous, but set them free with multi-ton killing machines once they turn 16 years old and let them buy an actually-deadly medicine with no restrictions.

Regulation which says "adults should easily be able to enable client-side child protection settings on retail devices" would be fine. It's not okay for government to make it necessary for LLM providers to verify my identity.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Harry Potter would have posted the original video to YouTube instead. It seems like a tragic irony, and perhaps a sign of danger, that OP posted the demo video to the website of He Who Should Not Be Named. Why? Why?!

Because Twitter posts consisting of YouTube links die quickly. It’s very obvious once you have a few thousand followers. Your option is basically either upload to twitter, or put the YouTube link at the end just before a screenshot. Or both a video and a YouTube link, I suppose. If you trigger their YouTube embed, it seems like it gets penalized quite harshly. I’ve seen other people agree with the sentiment.

What does it mean for a post to die, and why is that bad?

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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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.)

You're right, it is called LibRedirect.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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JK Rowling was trying to make the point that slaves should be slaves and enjoy being slaves, and the ones who want to be free are a rare exception, and anyone who wants to free all slaves is silly and cringe.

Seriously? That's such a weird point to make!

The Harry Potter series tried and mostly failed to push a bunch of weird political stuff. Slavery is the most noticeable but there was also racism mixed in. The black token character is called Kingsley Shacklebolt. The Chinese token character is called Cho Chang. The war is overtly world war 2, and Voldemort is Hitler - he wants to kill everyone who has impure blood. The Minister for Magic mirrors the British and American leaders who stuck their head in the sand about the war. The banks are run by goblins with big noses.

You might also be interested to know that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was made as a Christian propaganda story. Aslan is Jesus.

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