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@pynk @yassie_j @puppygirlhornypost2 i think she just wanted the money, i can’t be that mad that some techbros paid for something useless and a random person ran out with the money, given her image got used everywhere
Ahead of the planned invasion of Gaza City, killing Anas Al-Sharif is the latest step in Israel's campaign to erase Gaza's witnesses and prevent accountability.
*The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza. Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in.*
Comrades, I am sure Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had a good snicker over the optics presented. “Subtle,” like a brick through a window. Good stuff. .
This story right here is why Hillary Clinton is talking about nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. She's terrified of prison. x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1…
If you want to be an ally to trans people, do your part to make the Harry Potter franchise an irrelevant and forgotten artifact of history. @transworld
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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Previously, I've hypothesized that this is because there are two distinct groups of *users*: "centaurs" (people who are assisted by a machine - in this case, people who get to decide when, whether and how to integrate an LLM into their work)...
And "reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into being an assistant *to* a machine - here, people whose bosses have fired their colleagues and ordered the survivors to oversee an LLM that badly approximates the work of those departed workers):
But yesterday, I read "The Futzing Fraction," an essay by Glyph, that advances a compatible, but very different hypothesis that I find extremely compelling:
Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases:
1. The "availability heuristic" (striking things are easier to remember, which is why we remember the very rare instances of kids being kidnapped and killed, but rarely think about the relatively common phenomenon of kids dying in boring car-crashes); and
2. The "salience heuristic" (*big* things are easier to remember, which is why we double-check that the oven is turned off and the smoke alarms are working after our neighbor's house burns down).
In the case of LLM coding assistants, this manifests as an unconscious overestimation of how often the LLM saves you time.
That's because a coding program that produces a bug that you have to "futz with" for a while before it starts working is normal, and thus unmemorable, while a coding tool that turns a plain-language prompt into a working computer program is *amazing*, so it stands out in your memory.
Glyph likens this to a slot-machine: when you lose a dollar to a slot-machine, that is totally unremarkable, "the expected outcome."
But when a slot pays out a jackpot, you remember that for the rest of your life. Walk through a casino floor on which a player hits a slot jackpot, and the ringing bells, flashing lights, and cheering crowd will stick with you, giving you an enduring perception that slot-machines are paying out all the time, even though no casino could stay in business if this were the case.
Glyph develops this analogy to describe why LLMs are *worse* than slot machines. He says that (non-pathological) gamblers set a budget for the amount of money they're prepared to lose to the slots, while a coder who's feeling warmly disposed to an LLM coding assistant may not put any explicit limits on how much time they'll spend futzing with LLM-generated code,
(I'll add that part of the seductive joy of coding is that it can induce a kind of autohyptnotic fugue state where you don't notice the passing of time, this is also a feature of pathological gambling.)
Glyph poses a hypothetical: if you have a coding project and you ask a chatbot to write, and the resulting code initially doesn't work, but *does* work after ten minutes of futzing, that feels *amazing* and you'll remember it forever as the time you saved 3:50 with a chatbot.
But it's possible that you repeated the "well, I'll just futz with this for ten minutes" step to get to that final success so many times that the whole affair took *six* hours, two hours longer than it would have taken had you just written the program from scratch. It's like winning a $1000 jackpot after "just putting a dollar in," except that that was the one-thousand-and-first dollar that you fed to the machine.
Glyph says that in other business activities, the "let's just try this for 10 minutes more" strategy usually pays off, but that LLMs produce an "an emotionally variable, intermittent reward schedule" that subverts your ability to wisely deploy that tactic.
But that's not the only way in which an LLM coding assistant is like a slot machine. Reg Braithwaite proposed that AI companies' business model is also like a casino's, because they charge every time you re-prompt the AI.
> When you are paying by the "pull of the handle," the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem.
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Mirrors what I've seen. Our team tried to implement LLMs into our workflow then decided it was like working with a dense intern. If I have to walk it through each step then double check the work.
I have argued that LLMs are like slot machines in another way: The business model. When you are paying by “the pull of the handle,” the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem.
Exactly the same as games companies that engineer their games to keep users buying coins, staring at the screen for eighteen hours a day. Very different model than selling tools or renting services.
There's a big difference between an intern and an LLM. For a senior coder, helping interns is an investment in nurturing a new generation of talented colleagues. For a reverse-centaur, refining LLMs is an investment in fixing bugs in a product designed to put you on the breadline (if you believe AI companies' claims that their products will improve until they don't need close supervision), or it's a wasted investment in a "dense intern" who is incapable of improving.
This is also directly isomorphic to the pattern you've observed lately in Google searches, where they jack the ad revenue by giving you crappy search results, forcing the user to search *again* to get anything useful.
"autohyptnotic fugue state where you don't notice the passing of time"
This is also why texting while driving is so dangerous: Focusing on composing your text short-circuits your sense of duration, so subjectively no time has passed, whereas out in the Real World, that semi has had time to close the mile between when you first noticed it & the time you look up & it's right on top of you in the intersection.
originally casinos in Illinois were river boats and they had to cruise. At the end all of us who'd lost were standing by the doors waiting to dock. Then someone hit a jackpot. That was 25 years or more ago. I still remember looking at that machine just before the other person sat down and thinking I won't lose my last $20 today.
NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 20, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. Media […]
The only cruise that I thought about going on was an Alaskan cruise, but even the thought of being trao on a boat with a bunh of people turned me off. Instead I flew up there and rented a car and drove around to see things and went on a 1 day Glacier cruise.
@mairi younger millennials and older genz don’t have that big of a gap I’m sure the only reason why i never said like a bawss is bc i did not speak english back then!
Its actually crazy that multi billion dollar companies can just get away with scamming millions of dollars out of both people and investors and be totally legally protected by slapping a "in engine footage" tag on a CGI trailer that isnt reflective at all of the product theyre actually selling.
Why are the people in cellphone stores such scumbags? Yesterday I took my backup phone to AT&T to try their service and get signed up for the 55+ plan for $40/month. Today I check my acct and the MFer signed me up for the most expensive plan at $96/month. I just got off the phone with CS and they can't change it for 14 days, but she noted the "mistake" and says that I should call back and confirm the proper change and credit.
if you're in the US, you can use straight talk on any unlocked phone, which every phone should be unlocked if it's paid for.
Straight talk is a MVNO, you can use at&t, vz, and tmo phones on it. It costs $45/mo for *unlimited* everything, and 10 gigs hotspot. If you only need 10GB/mo of *data* it's $35/mo with 2 or 5 GB hotspot (forget). If you want to sign up 2 phones, you can pay $75/mo for two unlimited plans right now.
i've been using ST for about 12 years with a 2 year hiatus.
AT&T is an awful company. Every experience I have had with them in a personal and professional manner has been awful. The right hand has no idea what the left is doing and all promises were never 'documented'.
University has started about 2 months ago, I successfully managed to get myself into a Computer Science course in the university I wanted, and now I am messing around with my computers and overall dev experience.
That's why the rewrite has been going a bit slow lately, I am just overjoyed to finally learn how to do computers properly, and soon enough I will be back in full force with a properly configured Android Studio (neovim became my passion there).
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians.
Good morning every-HEY! These apes stole my coffee!! 🙊
It's Retro Subathon Day 9 - and we're starting with a lil' VR Cafe, then hopping into Ape Escape! NOTE: Today's cafe starts 1 hour later than usual, as I kinda pushed it with so much Castlevania last night 😅.
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International aid has long been regarded as a lifeline for many vulnerable people across the globe. However, a wave of aid cuts is spreading, threatening to exacerbate humanitarian crises.
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Zionism is no longer hiding in the shadows, as it once did, supporting global reactionaries with training and support. It has now taken center stage as the vanguard of the global right, and all reactionaries are following.
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August 16,1977: Elvis Presley faked his own death to protect himself and his family, and get out of the life of being an agent for the US government. #OTD
and now he's living out a mostly quiet life in a West Texas nursing home, hanging with a Black man who thinks he's JFK and fighting the occasional undead cowboy.
ICYMI: a new episode of Kohn's Zone called "Confusing Harder with Better" that explores this misconception at the heart of our education system. Hear it here: alfiekohn.org/podcasts/
(Incidentally, I'm clearing my schedule next week in case Taylor Swift calls to ask for advice about launching a podcast.)
If you're actually homeless and demonstrate a genuine desire to get back to normal life, the system will be more than thrilled to throw resources at you to help.
This person was never going to get off the street. They couldn't even test the wind and move their 'life' to a safer place.
They were going to sit there getting high and begging for the rest of whatever their life's become.
@zephyrotv This has been a problem since the 19th century with growing cities.
A quick search suggests between 770k and 1.5 million in the US.
Out of 342 million. I don't even doubt one in 200, 350, 500 have something going on. What if they were just shiftless and nomadic? No other issues. Then it's just crime enforcement
And then it's just NIMBY enforcement.
Where'd all the homeless go? Don't know. Don't care.
@Killer_Mule @weeniewawa Probably 10 years ago, I was working in a large office building. Plenty of people still around that weren't really contributing in any meaningful way.
My coworkers agreed that no natural predators and advancements in health care had created a group of living zombies that were not being removed. No Soylent Green. No nothing.
So I proposed releasing tigers. Maybe only a couple. Maybe only when there is obvious decay.
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I've been mulling over this for a while observing others lament the fact they get no traction here. I'm now leaning towards not treating #nostr as a town square.
I do think Nostr is a premium public (and private?) journaling technology where I hope to project forward my voice to the next generations in my family and I'm very happy to whisper that into a void for now as the intended audience has not yet arrived.
Obviously the risk there is that I have to believe the protocol and decentralised relays can persist beyond my life etc. But I believe that to be true because I believe everyone here has authenticity around freedom of thought and speech.
I recently lost everything in a robbery including a rare leather bound journal hand made in Italy that I purchased in Florence in1998. It contained 25 years of hand written notes and quotes to be passed to my children. All that is gone now which was heart breaking to me.
For me I think #nostr can be so much more than a bit of random scrolling vlog lolz.
I respect everyone's right to use this protocol according to how it can best serve them. Peace. ✌️
Why in the world was this man allowed to flee the country? He doesn't even have a diplomatic visa? It's an abomination and EVERYBODY should be calling it out.
I don't have any desire to molest children, but if I were to get caught building a thorium reactor, I'd just be like "don't worry, it's cool, I'm with Benji"
I encourage everyone to wish ill will upon JK Rowling, here and, if you have a Bluesky account, please do so there as well. If you get suspended, please share that information here.
JK Rowling, I curse you, from a distance. I will not personally harm you, because that's not the kind of person I am. But I wish you bad luck: that your bad karma eats at you, that your shows and books sell poorly, that your bad reputation catch up to you in the general public's eye.
May she step on a Lego every time she's barefoot, may every drawer in her kitchen get stuck (praise be to Anoia), may birds poop on her head when she's out walking, may every umbrella turn inside out when it rains, and may every fly nearby land in her food.
I do love how everyone is all Surprised Pikachu that the centralized platform run by a big company is behaving like a centralized platform run by a big company.
@cwebberWhen I said that I wanted people with naughty thoughts to be censored, I didn't mean me. I sometimes wonder if these people know who created the stage upon which they dance. As my gran used to say, we should be careful what we wish for.
Just posted my own ill wishes to JKR. My account is empty, though and has no real people following it. I only created it as a test account so I could check on Fediverse bridging. Now we will see what happens.
That’s the #authoritarian #conservative playbook: They break all the rules, but demand you still play by them.
Just another prime example of #wilhoitslaw: The core value of conservatism is that there is an in-group of people who are protected by the rules, and another one who are bound by them but not protected.
Instead of having rule of law, you have rule by law and immunity from persecution. Instead of starting from what, they begin from who and make up the rest.
the worst thing about bsky being like this is that “this isn’t the kind of vibe we want, you’re not on bluesky” Yasseen copypasta won’t make sense anymore
So, @cwebber, if one quotes Melville on Bluesky to say: “from hell's heart I stab at thee”, JK Rowling, that gets account suspension? 🤦
This seems classic selective enforcement prioritizing complaints of the wealthy…
Speaking of which, while JK Rowling is nothing but vitriol, the psychology of such behavior is morbidly fascinating: it's as if JK couldn't stand being liked and insisted on finding a way to be widely hated.
So strange, disturbing, sad…& directly harmful to the trans community.
I don‘t wish anybody who doesn‘t share my opinion ill. Quite contary, I state that I would rather fight for everybody‘s right to speak his mind freely. You don‘t have to like what JKR says but you should accept it! This kind of baiting, @cwebber, is truely obnoxious!
I sometimes find myself wishing she would come to her senses and stop hobnobbing with the fascists and then I get angry over the latest shitty thing and start wishing her and all her projects ill. 😡
I won't just wish ill on JK Rowling, I wish tenfold the ills she inflicts on other. I also wish the same amount of ills on any of her supporter and that includes Bluesky.
For those that want to yap about this over on #bluesky without creating an account, follow @bsky.brid.gy here on Mastodon.
Once they follow you (as long as your account is 7+ days old), then anything you post here on the Fediverse will be bridged across the Bluesky without need for an account.
As an aside, I originally tried creating a #bluesky account and got suspended almost immediately because I used a @simplelogin.com domain, because I'm expected to just give out my email, my real email, to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that asks for it instead of practicing #compartmentalization apparently?
Considering for a moment the irrepairable harm JKR is causing on the #transgender community with her vile "books", unfounded personal opinions on subjects she knows nothing about, funding known hate groups, and so on and so forth, I personally wish the same harm will befall her fortwith and may it hurt her forever and more.
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