CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Dianora @Haste @odd i remember you from early twitter, you were one of my moots

@Haste @odd there’s a nuance there. Mentions came before replies; and there’s the subtle difference that a mention didn’t create a thread. there was no reply threads for a long time so “replies” were implied by time. so if someone was experiencing a pile on the only way to know is to go to the “mentions” tab on their profile.
(a thing that used to be possible)

@Haste @odd when twitter was smaller, two way conversation was indeed more common, there was
more a vibe of experimentation and play- and the rules were a bit different than how it is now:

no pictures, no replies, no retweets, no search, and history only could go back about 100 posts.

as soon as retweets, replies and search got added, the vibe got less fun because retweets let dumb throwaway remarks go “viral”, blind replies turned virality into pile ons, and search enabled kiwifarms style analysis of targets

@jonny if someone were to take seriously the task of archecting this, you’d want a framework that doesn’t use prompts for this right? something that treats the LLM output more like untrusted stochastic guesses at solutions, where these prompt rules are written as a test instead of a prompt

@YKantRachelRead oh the humanity

@lightuplilly @cstross people should just be *allowed* to exist and be whatever they are? I think not. that sounds too much like freedom and we can’t have that in america

@sabik @lightuplilly @normjess @cstross there is only hydrogen, helium and delusional deviant elements

@jetton when are we discussing the noble Icosopus

@purrperl @cyberwitch @adhdeanasl @tillybridges what you seem to be missing in all your comparisons is the implied threat of violence, power imbalance- and whether women actually want that kind of comment or are just trying to appease you because they are scared.

Or in an online context can you tell the difference between a porn account and someone who is just trans?

@mcc i mean x3d exists it just doesn’t have a whole lot of adoption

@eniko
today the bread lines
tomorrow: the bwrite lines

@celesteh analog horror will make way for Diffusion Horror

@celesteh i’ve felt for a while that once the hype dies down, and the counter reactions have gone, and the bubble has truly popped, in about 10 years people will start imitating the quirks of AI painstakingly by hand out of affectionate nostalgia, the way they do with VHS and CRTs now

i mean, maybe my relative kindness towards AI tech is just my bias towards finding value in garbage in general.

i feel like we’re in the midst of a super villain plot and we only have a limited amount of time to disrupt the ram supply before it feeds a machine that… well let’s be honest; the scary Artificial Intelligence at work here is not going to be in the data centres. It’s the global economy and supply chains.

See normally when an algorithm requires The Entire Global Supply Of Ram, a software engineer would consider that not a good algorithm, and would try and make a better one instead of optimising the entire planet for paperclip manufacturing.

Unfortunately we accidentally gave a bad software engineer too much money

what does the manosphere think the red pill *is*? creatine? oxycontin?

@pomagarnet what in the heck is wrong with chaos.social,does your entire instance just not understand how to talk to people without being a complete asshole about it?

@agowa338 accept that you’ve reply guy’d a deep misunderstanding of what I am saying immediately or face being blocked for annoying me

I am starting to think that “Free Software” is not the future. We need software to be reliably funded, and incentivised toward serving the public, with a diverse cast of workers designing and developing it.

Not a privileged class of white boys wealthy enough to work on software in their free time as defacto unpaid internships, with access to use and modify by *anyone* including the military, ICE, and exploitive corporations.

We need Public Software.