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Clankers Die on Christmas

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Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#71

Whoops. Looks like my blog published a bit earlier than expected. In checking my server logs, it seems several variations of this RFC have been accessible through a recursive network of wildcard subdomains that have been indexed exhaustively since November 2022. Sorry about that!

I was thoroughly confused about how it was Sept.

The blog post seemed so confident it was Christmas :)

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#72
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.

Well, I mean, we did invent Nuclear Weapons…. That’s a type of technical solution!

You know I nearly added that caveat, but I figured it counted as more being arseholes rather than a solution per se despite the long-term reduction.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#73

I don't think it's that popular to call them clankers. Somebody's trying to make it happen. Like "fetch."

I’ve been seeing it everywhere. Including weird places like in game chat in games. Maybe a half joking reference to aimbots not sure

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#75
post #64

Whoops. Looks like my blog published a bit earlier than expected. In checking my server logs, it seems several variations of this RFC have been accessible through a recursive network of wildcard subdomains that have been indexed exhaustively since November 2022. Sorry about that!

For those of us who are particularly slow: care to cheekily hint at whether this is sincerely intended as satire or not...? In other words, first-order or second-order? First I saw you use "global health crisis" to describe AI psychosis which seems like something one would only conceive of out of genuine hatred of AI, but then a bit later you include the RFC that unintentionally bans everything from Jinja templates t…

> unintentionally bans everything from Jinja templates

I don’t think so. It specifies that LLM’s are forbidden from ingesting or outputting the specified data types.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#76

I don't think it's that popular to call them clankers. Somebody's trying to make it happen. Like "fetch."

Maybe you're in different circles than me, but the term clankers is very well known at this point in all my groups, including non tech adjacent people. Everyone makes jokes about clankers and it's caught on like wildfire.

it's known in my circles too, but it's one of those words known as a cringe-inducer. like 'broligarchy' or 'trad'.

but going off of other social trends like this that probably means it's mega popular and about to be the next over-used phrases across the universe.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#77

Whoops. Looks like my blog published a bit earlier than expected. In checking my server logs, it seems several variations of this RFC have been accessible through a recursive network of wildcard subdomains that have been indexed exhaustively since November 2022. Sorry about that!

I actually thought you were trying to introduce training data to make AI artificially fail on Christmas

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#78

I must admit I’m a little unnerved with how gleefully people enjoy using a fake slur. I realize it doesn’t harm anyone but I just don’t get the appeal.

it kind of reminds me of 'mudblood' from harry potter a bit, also from pop fiction -- and similarly considered harmless.

yeah it's not directly harmful -- wizards aren't real -- but it also serves as an (often first) introduction to children of the concepts of familial/genetic superiority, eugenics, and ethnic/genetic cleansing.

I can't really think of any cases where setting an example of calling something a nasty name is that great a trait to espouse, to children or adults.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#79

For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.

From the world first robophobe, humano-fascist: Robot Slur Tier List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDDWmIWMDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRejhgtVI Responding To A Clankerloving Cogsucker on Robot "Racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAIqNpC0I0

>humano-fascist

?

Are you implying prioritizing Humanity uber alles is a bad thing?! Are you some kind of Xeno and Abominable Intelligence sympathizer?!

The Holy Inquisition will hear about this, be assured.

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