Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Let's take a look. Galactica can generate wikipedia articles, supposedly.
So let's see what they look like. Here's one for Brandolini's law, the principle that bullshit takes another of magnitude less effort create than to clean up.
Left: Galactica's attempt at creating a wikipedia entry
https://galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+article+on+brandolini%27s+law
Right: The actual wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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I've figured out what pisses me off so much about Facebook's Galactica demo.
It's not because people can use to to write bad essays for their homework. There are plenty of large language models that can do that. It's because Facebook is presenting it as something that it most definitely is not.
Facebook is selling it as a knowledge engine, a "new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe."
Actually it's just a random bullshit generator.
galactica nonsense
@ct_bergstrom lmfao, so few lines and yet it manages to be wrong in multiple ways, none of which would be easily detectable to a typical reader...
re: Problematic new Mastodon "features"
@eldang "We already have the option to block someone without reporting, why add this pathway?"
I imagine it's probably because m.s has only a single moderator, Gargron, and he really prefers *not* to get reports...
@tailscale@hachyderm.io But what if our desired standard is "no corporations at all" and not "corporations that are nice"? Because *my* issues with corporations are certainly a lot more fundamental than just "being good fediverse citizens".
(And using a general-purpose instance rather than one specifically for corps is not exactly a great start either...)
@jessmahler@wandering.shop @jonah @alexhammy209 @Canageek@wandering.shop Yep, this sounds like a good plan to me. Especially if you can also provide guidance for running one's own instance to those who are interested in and able to do so.
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Please take a moment to drink in the 
absolute spectacle 
that is the Brands.town instance: https://brands.town/explore
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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TIL that Atari had an in-house FIG #Forth variant called Coin-Op Forth and that it has, in fact, leaked onto the internet, along with the manual. #retrogamedev
https://archive.org/details/AtariCoinOpFORTHAndSwarthmoreExtensions/page/n3/mode/2up
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Thank you for readding this @f0x, we are more mastodons than mastodon is again
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@aras what if we changed the "Publish!" button to be the "🚢" button :O
@cgranade Where on earth is this from? That's not even an *effective* CAPTCHA in terms of automation prevention...
(Though arguably it's increasingly questionable whether such CAPTCHAs exist at all, but this one isn't even trying)
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@blkchimera@kolektiva.social This is probably the #1 reason that "traditional" socialism makes me deeply uncomfortable.
@ben Huh? I thought that s suspend *doesn't* do that, and it returns to visibility when a user is unsuspended?
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Donderdag 1 december (19:00) organiseren we samen met @publicspaces een avond over het federatieve #internet en #Mastodon. (#fediverse) Wil je overstappen, een eigen instance runnen of leren van anderen? Kom langs! Toegang is gratis.
https://waag.org/nl/event/mastodon-en-het-federatieve-internet/
@MiaWinter@tech.lgbt @f0x But 
then what do you do if you have, like, 100 simultaneous default-named projects
@gsuberland@chaos.social @deshipu@chaos.social Building it, yes; long-term support and warranty handling, not so much. Have you considered: dust
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to be fair: the "EA" movement is three or four movements in a trenchcoat. some do good stuff, others are rationalist AI cultists.
EAs are desperately sincere, and they probably make more good things happen than would happen otherwise
but they need to get rid of the AI cultists
who are also the Longtermists, who literally care more about 10^54 hypothetical future human emulations running on computers than about real people who exist now, and who care more about the possible suffering of electrons than the real suffering caused by climate change or racism
and the FTX-Alameda crew were hardcore from the AI cultist wing of EA
it's systemic, because the AI cultists named it "Effective Altruism" and gathered the others into the trenchcoat, and still do a lot of the organisational slog, so it's hard to get free of them.
This FTX catastrophe offers a chance: so many EA initiatives got screwed over too.
how to infuriate an EA: point out that the Make A Wish Foundation is literally a more efficient use of charitable dollars than MIRI, the AI cultists' charity
take care not to let EAs ambit-claim the concept of charity, or the concept of measuring charity, which even the good ones have a nasty habit of trying
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
