does AI output seem so bland because LLMs are uncreative, or because of all the things that are done to render them "safe"?
"Inside New College of Florida’s Counter-Commencement" #JebLund https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inside-new-college-of-floridas-counter-commencement/
"When you have two peoples both insisting on moonshot strategies rather than trying to maximize their core interests, the result is violence and death." #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-failures-of-zionism-and-anti
always tired, never sleepy.
@artcollisions (i'm curious what everybody thinks!)
Bill Clinton after Monica Lewinsky _____ have resigned or been removed.
61.8%
should
(21 votes)
38.2%
should not
(13 votes)
the ten-year old just came to me for help navigating a cookie consent pop-up with a sneaky "legitimate interest" section. he couldn't figure out how to leave its purgatory with everything rejected. what a weird world he's growing up in.
bluesky offers RSS feeds, but it doesn't attach linked media to those feeds or include quote-embedded posts, and norms there seem very quote-commenty.
so i nearly always have to clickthrough rather than read in-reader. which renders it basically too cumbersome to really follow blueskyers by RSS.
which is a shame because there's a lot of conversation there i'd like to follow. i'll still sample a bit, but it's very frustrating.
(mastodon RSS feeds helpfully include linked media!)
cc @costrike
@costrike i'm really not there. i just put a few bluesky feeds in my RSS reader (for a pretty crappy experience of them, BlueSky doesn't support media attachments inside RSS). but I'll add your feed to my reader now!
it’s just that he believes in Roko’s basilisk, so it’s all under duress. https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/112481170154731053
i have pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing.
q: what do you call an unauthorized road runner?
a: a meep fake.
"We need network societies, not network states" #DivyaSiddarth #GlenWeyl #AnneMarieSlaughter https://cip.org/blog/network-societies
"of all the DNA principals, Erwin Chargaff would have been the most interesting to have dinner with." #BobTheScientist https://blobthescientist.blogspot.com/2014/08/chargaff-rules-ok.html
@ouguoc i try to be a 5-HT2A receptor agonist if i can.
i have come to the conclusion that i am an amateur tagonist. a rank amateur.
@costrike what is your handle there? I have been kind of brokenly half-following people via the very limited RSS feeds they offer. I'll sure add you!
"Intuitions and models developed in a lower-density world - such as that which produced all our traditions of economics - likely underestimate the significance of externalities." #Metaphysiocrat https://concretepossibleworld.substack.com/p/externalities-scale-superlinearly
a good line from an obituary of Gene Lewis, one of the most remarkable teachers and mentors i was once fortunate to have. i only learned yesterday of his passing, and i am sad about it.
“He outlived Henry Kissinger but not Mel Brooks, and he probably would have been fine with both outcomes.”