Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley though, he is on a whole different level of hallucinatory nonsense that powerful people at the top are enamored by.

What was the last non-gibberish thing Altman has said?

I feel like he has been playing the “you can only speak in gibberish” improv game for as long as I can remember.

err, you sound like an FBI agent trying to provoke people into saying wild shit…

Na, let’s not talk about casually bombing media outlets, it only normalizes things further in a dark way.

I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.

Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle. 1 AntArcSpan is thus the rational radius of Antartica.

Multiply Antartica North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. the number i.

I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.

It would also hopefully draw irrationality from other continents, maybe acting as an irrationality sink.

KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.

It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces-ulysses-1531186

And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.

Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/06/13/kevin-birmingham-ulysses

Turtle Island’s Butthole

It takes emotional labor to separate people from the situations/context you interact with them in. Part of work culture should be making sure that people aren’t too stressed and tired to do this labor by unrealistic work demands and inhumane treatment.

From what I understand about nursing, at least in my country, this is systematically an issue of pushing people too hard so I would say give yourself slack for not being perfectly aloof.

No, the AI was most certainly trained on the same stack overflow posts as humans would manually search out in the past.

Thus the effective difference is precisely that between an active attempt to understand and blindly copying since the AI is specifically there to introduce a stochastic opaqueness between truth (i.e. sufficiently curated training data) and interpretation of truth.

There is a context to stackoverflow posts and comments that can be analyzed from many different perspectives by the human brain (who posted the question with what tone, do the answers/comments tend to agree, how long ago was it posted etc…), by definition the way LLMs work they destroy that in favor of a hallucinating-yet-authoritative disembodied voice.

Are you aware of a little thing called the climate catastrophe that is unfolding as we speak?

This is beautiful.

These are truly lyrics, they are begging for a banger of a pop music video.

Don’t mess with the Shrike

Your flirting became too big to fail or it would crash the economy, genius!

The tragedy here is apparently that people want you to suffer this cruel fate alone.

Is this before or after the stage of growth where it absorbs a human child’s soul for more power?

Luck Be A Landlord, Lumencraft and Halls Of Torment are awesome!

No this is a contraction of the commons

Well I am all for them and other similar cancers being litigated more then!

More chances for me to celebrate!

Never been so happy for or felt so much hope from a successful copyright infringement case before what a weird inversion of circumstance.

Fuck AI.

Now the bubble just needs to pop already :)

When did I blame all of my problems on the West?

Do you think when I stub my toe that I proclaim “Damn you judeo-christian western european values!!” in anger at the sky?

I mean, yes in so far as you can generalize, of course I am jealous of that!? You think I like being stuck at the bottom of a cruel hole lined with gold and bullet casings?

What I am saying is open your eyes to your own history and recognize it is part of the same system and process whether or not the locus of power is currently within your empire or not.

I don’t make this argument as a form of nihilistic relativism or try to rope other countries into the miserable complicity in yet another genocide the US has condemned itself too participating in. The US deserves FAR MORE blame than Germany, the UK, France or any other European country does.

My point however is, don’t lose focus of the fact that the US is a cancerous reflection of the same tendencies towards empire, fascism, ethnic cleansing and xenophobia European history is full of. US history unfolds directly out of the worst parts of European history, you cannot deny it and if you continue to do so you hamstring your capacity to understand the coming threat to Europe that will eat away at everything your society holds dear in the name of fear of terrorism and the silhouette of an immigrant threatening to join your community and become your neighbor…