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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This post is brought to you by the feeling of laying down in a bed with fresh sheets after you've showered
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I hate how non-uniform android volume levels are. It goes straight from "I'm kinda having trouble hearing this" to "that's way too loud actually" in one step.
There should be a setting to let us choose how many volume levels there are. I'd probably double it.
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The most important personal principle you have to decide for your life is whether you are pro-authoritarian, pro-oppression, or instead are anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression.
Once you have decided on that core principle, everything else will follow, as long as you actually do follow that principle.
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drugs, important US PSA
This medicine reverses opioid overdoses. FDA has now approved for OTC. If you think you might need to treat an overdose--yours or a friend's--keep some of this around.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-approves-counter-narcan-means-98203662
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So... I have significant kidney failure. Potentially end-stage, but this is not clear yet. Should hear more on Wednesday.
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Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.
First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
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"ai"
The risk to large language models isn't that they'll become sentient in ways that are inconvenient to capitalists, it's that capitalists continue to use LLMs without considering how they've been trained, what biases and hatreds they launder, what the climate impacts of their use are, or how to fairly compensate people who create the stuff that they're trained on.
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The comments under half the videos on YouTube: "Forgive me, for I am not a native speaker and my vocabulary may not be of sufficient quality and accuracy to make myself understood, unlike that of those who speak English natively"
Meanwhile, native speakers: "lol the video is funny, do moer of it"
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Also, i don't think that habitual line steppers/boundary breakers have ever considered that other people are *watching*
they are watching and making calculations as to whether asking for a thing is worth the endless stream of reply guys that nobody sent for but magically show up, ready to be bulls in china shops
and many people decide against asking for help *because* they do not want to deal with the caucus of boundary breakers
they'd rather suffer in silence
thanks to you!
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who decided it was called “emotional baggage“ and not “griefcase” ???
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So... I have significant kidney failure. Potentially end-stage, but this is not clear yet. Should hear more on Wednesday.
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Opened up my newsreader this morning to discover the most singularly dystopian prompt I've ever seen
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@zens Hi. All of my work is open source, including commercial games and the engine. https://shirakumo.org
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Hot take x2:
Creative work done with language models is plagiarism.
Technical work done with language models is negligence.
re: NL politics
And of course zero of the "journalists" reporting on the conclusion seem to be linking to the original document, nor reading beyond the abstract, it seems
re: NL politics
Here's the original research by the way: https://app.1848.nl/static/pdf/cf/aa/cfaaeffdfa287e0de70f90cdfc31230d9544bcb9.pdf
- 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
