Lvxferre

A compiler does it “good enough”, but AI = god in a bottle, thus it’ll do it “perfectly”. And for perfection you need to edit the raw metal using butterflies and cosmic rays, it’ll be the only real programmer to ever appear. Pressures like time and focus will stop existing. Why? Because AI = god, QED.

…or at least that’s the sort of crap that those Silicon Valley muppets believe in. The content itself doesn’t make sense, but why that pile of nonsense is uttered does - a fringe religious-like belief increasingly common among them.

That other poster is likely trying to deliver a point, that Musk probably never read a book, by clipping the sentence of the other poster.

Websearch “transhumanism silicon valley”, and it starts making sense: Musk has faith that artificial general intelligence is coming, Soon®, and that it’ll replace grunt labour like programming.

Musk being an assumer (note how he’s vomiting certainty on future events) doesn’t surprise me a tiny bit.

Apologies, I suppose. I read it as “perhaps, except in Twitters case.”

Apology accepted. I also apologise for the tone.

If you want my opinion on Twitter: I’m not too informed on the platform but I think that he did it on purpose, and due to stupidity. He is a right-wing sociopath and a moron with enough money to become too big to fail.

A smart but malicious person in Musk’s shoes would’ve likely introduced the changes slowly, boiling the frogs there, shifting the Overton window to the right, in a way that benefits rich people in detriment to everyone else - because that would benefit Musk himself. Twitter as “the international commons” makes it valuable for anyone to spread shitty discourses there, in a way that they reach governments directly.

But instead of seizing the tool for his own purposes, he broke it.

and you think it’s impossible for him to have destroyed the platform that used to be the international commons on purpose???

Don’t be a liar. Or worse, assumptive trash eager to put words onto the others’ mouths.

I did not say anything remotely interpretable as that. I literally said “Perhaps, in Twitter’s case. I don’t know.”

Please justify your reasoning, I can’t wait.

I’m not justifying the claim that you’re lying (or assuming) that I made.

Please go back to Reddit, where assumptiveness and illiteracy are praised and cheered.

[I apologise to other users in this community for my tone, but I think that it’s warranted here.]

Hanlon’s Razor

It fits well here.

Perhaps, in Twitter’s case. I don’t know.

In Reddit’s case it’s simply a moron aping another; I don’t think that Huffman has the depth of thought necessary to evaluate the impact of his own actions.

I’m curious on how a federation would handle an Eternal September. If we [the community] play our cards right, we could get “newbie instances” - in those the newbies would either adapt themselves to the rest of the culture of the Fediverse or forge their own, in a non-conflicting way with the others. It would be kind of cool.

Android File Transfer for Linux. Here’s the release note from the OP.

And it’s the same here! Yay!

Your typical Lemming partisan will be ruder than your typical Lemming, but still considerably more polite than your typical Redditor.

I usually complain about the usage of the word “toxic” but at least here it’s well-defined by the article. Still unnecessary though.

Their finding is interesting though - that “online political discourse tends to be uncivil because the people who opt into such discourse are generally uncivil”.

And that begs the question why. My hypothesis is that it has to do with stupidity: political discussion offers a safe space for the stupid*, and uncivil interactions usually have at least one side being stupid. Doubly true in Reddit because stupidity there is seen like a badge of honour.

*NOTE: when I say “the stupid” I am not talking about a well-defined group of people. I’m talking about a set of behaviours (assumptiveness, context illiteracy, a tendency to oversimplify things, wishful thinking, lack of logical “parsing” etc.). Everyone is “the stupid” once in a while, but some way more often than others.

The word in question is not “fuck”. It’s “faggоt”.

[And before someone complains: the above is an instance of metalinguistic usage of a word. It’s morally OK as you’re using the word to refer to itself, instead of using the word to convey any discourse that would target a marginalised group.]

We could organise something to advertise Lemmy in Reddit, but I think that organic word-of-mouth is a better approach.

Instead we should make sure that the Lemmy experience is as good as possible. (Plus it benefits us “older” users regardless of any potential migration.)

I think that it will, potentially worse than the APIcalypse, even if there are less desktop than mobile users. They’d be messing with whatever was left of a sane interface, that even mobile users who don’t want the app use. And the alternatives (incl. Lemmy) aren’t just a bunch of ghost towns any more, they’d be reaching actual communities instead of a “make your own community” place.

Your post trashy but I’ll pick what I believe to be worthy out of it.

Three side effects of Greedy Pigboy screwing with Reddit in July were

1. mods are less emotionally attached to their communities; why bother contributing with a platform that mocks them as “landed gentry”?
2. your typical mod is dumber than before - because a lot of the insightful mods were aware of what was happening, and jumped off the ship.
3. there are overall less mods, so they all got more work to do.

Overburdened, dumb, uncaring, and able to tell you what you should [not] do? That’s bound to create grievances.

Reddit always had a disgusting acceptance of witch hunting*, based on witch hunters having “good intentions”. Usually you’d get decent mods kicking the witch hunters out… except that this means actually understanding what’s going on, cue to the above (overburdened, dumb, uncaring mods) - it’s easy to leave the witch hunter alone and just remove the comment chain.

Same deal with trolls. Sometimes you only get a troll by investigating and looking at the context. But if there’s something that dumb trash cannot do, it is to look at the bloody context of an utterance. So trolls got free reign there.

*witch hunting: to accuse someone of belonging to a group of morally or ethically undesirable people, based on little to no evidence or reasoning. Just like in the Middle Ages: “I assume that you’re a witch, then you’re a witch lol, time to burn you lmao”.

My guesses:

• Toner’s role is being underplayed by the video. She’s potentially calling Altman out, for underrating the dangers of AI.
• At least Altman is lying about something - about how much OpenAI is going towards AGI in the short term. The above might’ve bought the bullshit fully, while Sutskever knows that it’s bullshit.
• I’m not sure if the board is also lying or not.
• The boiling point was likely OpenAI potentially receiving some cash grant from some scummy party, that would be in a moral grey area considering the "non-"profit goals of the company.
• Everybody will get a bit more of free popcorn for a while. 🍿 This mess is far from over.

If I recall correctly I was mostly pissed with 4chan doing jack shit against the invasion of Stormfront clowns.

I don’t even blame it for the ban itself, to be honest. The person in question was trash, but it’s simply easier to enforce a rule like “don’t goad suicide” than one like “don’t goad suicide, unless the person in question is a piece of shit”, and the later opens some awkward precedents. I do blame it for 1) the gaslighting in the ban message (“multiple violations” my arse, it was one violation) and 2) banning 3/4 of my accounts - and the exception being the acc that I used for mod duties (“keep working for free, sucker”).

Kind of funny that you mentioned fascists - my first permaban there was from telling Nazist to shoot himself like Hitler did. (10/10 experience, would get banned again.)

On-topic: I believe that abuse of the report function to get people banned is already a reality there for years. Not just from fascists; the typical Reddit user is petty, and I do think that the so-called voting brigades also abuse the report function.