Expectation Vs. Reality
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Just read a sci-fi novel set in 2005 where they had laser guns and orbital defence platforms.
Heinlein?
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Instead, we get Dark Age 2: American Boogaloo
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Elon's pet LLM chat bot. The one that he recently tweaked temporarily(?) to spread South African "white genocide" conspiracy theories on Twitter because... well because what else would you expect Elon to spend his time doing?
It also got tweaked to spread Holocaust denial after that.
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Heinlein?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.
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Oh, I see.
Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish
why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
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People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I've had to endure in a while
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Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.
Culturally we are still living in the 80s, just a dragged out fun mirror version of it because everyone at the top of the pyramid refuses to believe there could be anything better than their idea of life and the malls are online.
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why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
The core issue is clearly that money can be used to bypass rules.
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
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Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.
... which is also the origin of the word "grok".
Full circle!
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It’s not known whether it was him or not, but many suspect it
Its a reasonable suspicion.
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
When the world stops being a neoliberal hellscape
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why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
Elaborate on why politicians should be exempt
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
No. Have you not been here for the past 2 years? It gets worse from here!
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But AI is actually way ahead of where I thought it would be in 2025.
I played with chat bots back in the AOL messenger days. There was this “Run-A-Bot” program I used to run at home, and when I was out I could chat with it and it was surprisingly interactive and realistic.
The responses were probably hard coded to expected inputs, done the hard way… as I feel it should be.
I thought wow if a company spent years add in more and more important data by hand this will be AMAZING in just a few years.
Fast forward 20 years and the AI companies did it the most lazy way possible. Just auto feeding data scraped from the web. Yikes, all the trolls and fake info included.
This new AI is just a sentence generator, it’s almost useless. They have some twisted algorithms to spit out junk but each one is leaning towards whatever twisted views the company that made it want it to spit out.
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People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I've had to endure in a while
It's also useless. Like even for coding I have to check all the code manually for basic mistakes like solving a 2x2 system.
Is not even good for grammar/spelling correction. The dam thing changes whole phrases to something with similar but different meaning. -
why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.
why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? You are right, it shouldn't. That's why billionaires shouldn't be able to own newspapers.
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
Can't change something if you don't know about it
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Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
This is an internet phenomenon, not lemmy specifically
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When the world stops being a neoliberal hellscape
If corporate social media can be used to fuck up the world so horribly, then imagine what we can build now that we have p2p social media. Everybody is mad and should be mad. But we're easy to manipulate. We need to adapt how humans obtain and process information, and numerous p2p apps have demonstrated limits to corporate power.
New ways to communicate and coordinate are a really big deal. We're a tremendously productive species whose time is mostly being wasted. With what might seem like minor tweaks to our society, we can build this picture.
