If this account goes inactive after this comment, my family has murdered me. But don’t avenge me.

That’s the game, always will be - objective truth exists, but rarely can we be sure we have it. It’s wrong to presume so, but the bigger issue is in giving up the chase.

It feels like a lot of the new vocabulary and discourse that has developed in recent years has revolved around the insidious idea that reality is a matter of opinion. We focus on “optics” and bandy about “narratives”, decry “fake news”. We’ve ceased to get or even expect journalism from the news, and we aren’t even surprised that flat earth screwballs still exist. We live in a world seemingly in retreat from the idea of objective truth as people talk about “my truth”. Words have meaning. Objective truth exists. We forsake it at our peril.

Wrote this at 4 am so forgive the unhinged rant. Just finding the words for it now and it’s been bothering me lately.

If you could instantiate soulless virtual beings in heaven for your amusement at will, it would be way less boring. You could recreate Mortal Kombat

One of those cases where the post deserves an upvote for being !c appropriate, but strictly speaking we are never going to see eye to eye. If my sarcasm doesn’t land, I don’t deserve the stupid little doots.

Thanks Keith

A tech company said “how do we turn everybody’s phone into the Truman show?”

I wasn’t trying to downplay. If it can be wielded thoughtfully at scale, it could be life changing for literally millions.

The risk is that billionaires own these models, and far too often we see their interests aligned with fascism. If they choose to place a motive in this box, they now know it will have a quantifiable effect.

Let me guess, the good news is that conspiracism can be cured but the bad news is that LLMs are able to shape human beliefs. I’ll go read now and edit if I was pleasantly incorrect.

Edit: They didn’t test the model’s ability to inculcate new conspiracies, obviously that’d be a fun day at the office for the ethics review board. But I bet with a malign LLM it’s very possible.

Is this unedited? It’s too funny to be Garfield

Disco Elysium. It is so good, but I think I would rather have read the book.

If anyone’s been wondering how America’s war on drugs has gone…

Oh okay. Cool

I enjoyed all of that, so maybe I just like braindead bullshit.

I almost went into academia.

This has reached me in exactly the right headspace to find it cosmically funny.

The headspace: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷

A Halloween pumpkin creature is no longer the scariest orange thing in Peanuts

The soupervisor had a ladle side gig in stocks

It’s as if this nation has deep internal divisions following a badly wrapped up civil war that have metastasized into irreconcilable worldviews.

Putting Mint on an old iMac soon actually. Been a while since I got to use Linux.

It is mixed; good for the privileged, bad for the disadvantaged. So it goes.

Zero Hedge is Russian agitprop, by the way.