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Tom Nicholas is really great in this piece. SLRPNK link
People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.
‘AI’ in the sense of machine learning algorithms is very old technology, and has seen revolutionary applications at every step of its development. Eliza was created in the 1960s and demonstrated that if the test of a computer’s artificial intelligence was whether it could fool a human that it was sentient, the value of that test depended very heavily on how willing the human correspondent was to ‘fill in the blanks.’ The results of those experiments show that the average person is extremely willing to fill in the blanks even when the technology is full of gaping holes.
In the podcast, they’re talking specifically about ChatGPT-style technology, its flaws, and the willingness of people to ‘fill in the blanks’ in a new dimension – to assume LLM technology is a truckload more graphics cards or a nuclear reactor away from what sci-fi writers mean when they say ‘Artificial Intelligence’ – and that is evidently false.
The Democrat’s still haven’t updated their party platform on climate change since before Joe Biden was elected. It sits, frozen in time, with nuggets like “We will take immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections.” and “We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement” like those things are a step forward rather than a return to the catastrophic status quo.
Hopefully Camila Thorndike can change that.
They kind of undersold their message by giving the vlogger jeans that had merely been cut to fit rather than using their robotic weaving method.
It would be very impressive if they could spin denim, but I suspect that’s currently outside of their envelope. It may only be usable for sweaters or something.
I have too much of a hair trigger because I have run across multiple multiple examples today and I just regard everything with suspicion.
There’s a saying that if everywhere you go smells like shit, look under your shoe. You’re so quick to label posters and sources as bad faith actors, I’m starting to think it’s a case of projection.
since the source seems clearly oriented towards defeating positive change instead of creating it, I will and plan to continue to regard it with suspicion.
Fuck, it’s always this with you.
I wish you wouldn’t try to derail the conversation.
Merely being better than Trump was 4 years ago is not going to stop climate change. This criticism of Biden and Harris needs to be amplified, not sidetracked.
We will take immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections. We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement
Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement in early 2021. Have they not updated their climate platform in 3 years?
Black Lives Matter’s criticisms of Kamala’s selection apply to more than the present moment. It’s a principled argument against the anti-democratic nature of the Democratic Party. This didn’t start with Kamala’s ascension or when Joe Biden was handed the nomination without significant opposition, but has been a feature of the Democrats’ playbook for a long time.
A party that positions itself as the defender of Democracy undermines and weakens its authority when its own party structures cynically undermine and sideline popular participation.
I disagree with that characterization.
The only error is that someone else didn’t post it in a more timely manner. I admire Black Lives Matter, and I enjoy signal boosting their voices. I think they have good ideas, the kind that deserve to be discussed in forums full of thinking people. The message from this statement is timeless, and I think you might benefit from reading it.
You can prevent this from happening in the future by following BLM’s media accounts and posting their relevant statements before I do.
I’m a leftist with a long history of supporting healthy discussion on the Threadiverse, @millie; you can easily review it by reading my post and comment history. And I’m disappointed you would assume bad faith when we just had a similar interaction last month, when you were accusing people who criticized this same weakness in the Democratic party of being bad faith actors. This was back when the defense was being used to prop up Joe Biden as the candidate after the debate that revealed his mental decline. I had hoped you might gain more appreciation of the value of dissent from that event.
Do you think it was a mistake to listen to dissent and for Joe Biden to step down?
Which is it?
Both. I didn’t see the date, and also I like to pretend that the left is diverse and is capable of criticizing the Democratic party.
Is there a method where BLM could publicly raise concerns about the Democrats’ process that you wouldn’t characterize as ‘the left fighting the left’?
Do you proudly and openly self-identify as a fascist, or does your echo chamber tell you that you have normal political ideas and opinions?
If you don’t have the freedom to cover your face at a political protest, the country you are protesting in is not free.
No one is illegal!