conicalscientist

This is exactly how voat died. There may have been an ounce of legitimacy early on. It veered into blatant far right accounts posting every top post. It's obvious this kind of thing happens on lemmy too. Especially on certain instances. For now at least the federation model appears to be doing its thing.

The podcast called Sold a Story talks about how the school systems adopted a curriculum that doesn't teach kids how to read. They are more like mimicking literacy. It gives appearances they they are reading but they aren't comprehending.

Thiel funded reddit. He's had his hands in it since 2014.

Americans love to preach about their rules. Especially about how uniquely exceptional the rules are. Turns out it's all bullshit. They're just another tinpot dictatorship ruling over a barbaric shithole.

This whole era of AI has certainly pushed the brink to existential crisis territory. I think some are even frightened to entertain the prospect that we may not be all that much better than meat machines who on a basic level do pattern matching drawing from the sum total of individual life experience (aka the dataset).

Higher reasoning is taught to humans. We have the capability. That's why we spend the first quarter of our lives in education. Sometimes not all of us are able.

I'm sure it would certainly make waves if researchers did studies based on whether dumber humans are any different than AI.

We used to think some people aren't capable of human intellect. Had a whole science to prove it too.

I can't remember where I heard or read this but they pointed out that the technological infrastructure for fascism is already in place.

And it's a terrifying truth. There are who knows how many agencies each one alone with enough personal information on the population to do serious damage. Unfortunately humans react to things. It's not until terrible atrocities occur that the population will require change. Until then we get to watch this slow motion derailing freight train. Some us may inevitably be caught in the path of destruction ourselves.

So is the red line crossed yet or is the goal post once again some indeterminate point in the future.

History won't tell the beginning of the Trump regime at that indeterminate point. It began when he rode down that piss yellow escalator.

I believed they were doing such things against budding competitors long before the LLM era. My test is simple. Replace it with China. Would the replies be the opposite of what you've recieved so far? The answer is yes. Absolutely people would be frothing at the mouth about China being bad actors.

Western tech bros are just as paranoid, they copy off others, they steal ideas. When we do it it's called "innovation".

Sometimes I wonder if the so called the 'arc of the moral universe' could turn out like Fukuyama's concept of The End of History. Maybe we are the barbarian back water planet.

Ostensibly the whole world has been online for enough time now. Yet everyone continues to demonstrate a remarkable lack of ability to grasp internet cultures.

It makes no sense. Like trying to explain technology to my elderly grandma. Except she knows she's very old and out of touch. What's everyone elses excuse. It's made even worse because everyone else thinks they are digitial culture savvy.

15 years ago millennials were cast in the generic framework of lazy younger generation. Now we have hindsight for them to be able to observe what actually happened. Millennials absolutely became a workaholic play hard generation.