in the sixties music journalism was just mopaganda.
A long but excellent critique-from-within of #EffectiveAltruism https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/54vAiSFkYszTWWWv4/doing-ea-better-1 ht @sarahtaber
a fun experiment might be a client that does sentiment analysis and colors the background of posts, kind of a mood-ring.
i don’t know whether i’d actually like this: it would short circuit the prerogative of text to surprise and speak for itself, might spoil or confuse irony, etc.
still it seems like a fun thing to try.
people who think we’re living in a simulation are silly we’re living in an #emacs buffer.
let’s not say purge, let’s call it “layoffs”.
if software development was financed by something like a UBI, would we do more good in the world than we do now (net of the considerable harms that we now do)? does the software job market direct our talents well or poorly, on net? would we coordinate at all the scales that are importantly productive? would we just not do enough, without all the carrots, sticks, and managers?
if progress is made quickly enough in life extension, we may have a boomerang.
#ActivistGPT would be a trip.
Pregnancy and childbirth could and should be free. cf #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/01/19/it-would-be-easy-to-provide-universal-pregnancy-coverage/
i’ve never been.
one morning. i woke up. and i knew you were really gone.
a new day. a new way. new eyes to see the dawn.
we’ll all carry on but i’m still a little sad about it.
talk about getting the band together the music in heaven must be amazing.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite that we are! it's a crime that we didn't lift the debt ceiling to 10 quadrillion or something during the last Congress. Blame Sinemanchin I suppose, although to be fair, they are all too scared of getting demagogued on the issue.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite what's that?
So, when the debt ceiling binds, every conventional choice involves some sort of unconstitutionality. It's unconstitutional for the govt not to pay its obligations, it's unconstitutional to defy Congress by increasing the debt to fulfill them. There's a third unconsitutional option: the executive cld enforce a tax to balance the budget, say a wealth tax, until the limit is raised. Sure, it's illegal, but so r the alternatives. A wealth tax is good policy, and gets the political incentives right!
Find the cost of freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycj-bQXWRrQ
@LouisIngenthron @emilymbender None of the meaningful content is generated by WordPress. LLMs are quite different, in that they produce meaningful content, and that's what commercial users will engage them for. I agree that it's the providers of the LLM, not the LLM itself, that may vie for liability. Like a monkey, there's no way to hold the LLM per se accountable, for a credit of copyright or defamatory damages. I do worry liability might just disappear, as for anonymous speech.
I am sad about David Crosby. The man was tweeting through the day yesterday.
The leak of private information part comes from a text message case, where a private but forwarded defamatory text triggered liability. I could look for the particular case, but here's the gist from a lawyer: "If someone sends a false statement of fact to a) a text message group or b) an individual, who then tells others about the text, the message could be defamatory." 1/
The Section-230-protects-you-as-forwarder from EFF. It's in the plain language of the statute, by virtue of the word "user": "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Here's EFF https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 They play up the "you can safely forward e-mail" stuff, because they are pro-230 and want to make the case it doesn't just shield big tech platforms. /fin
“So I nailed it, then.” ~#ChatGPT https://toot.community/@openculture/109717609968539417