As I’ve heard it expressed, Chinese thinking is that capitalism can be kept in service to the (communist) state but then you see their capitalists investing in international Nazis (just like all capitalists) and I wonder how long they think they can ride that leopard before it throws them and starts eating faces.

To paraphrase a common joke, it’s called the Fediverse because it’s full of feds.

https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

This was probably a rare Babylonbee hit and OP was rightfully ashamed of the source.

I’m really wondering what it means myself! Is it like superstitious programming? Or “cookie cutter” perhaps, using templates and copy-paste from QA sites to duct tape it all together?

Proper Tie Usage

I figured rule of threes meant it was funnier to leave it out. 2017 would have been sad gooning to pornhub during the first trump nightmare.

Then 2027 could be sad gooning to ai hyperporn during the second trump nightmare.

Maybe I should have used 20 year jumps, but "2037, I am jerking off because there’s no food, and the internet is nothing but ai porn.’ didn’t seem as funny a point for the “time shattering” bit.

I thought this was going to go Watchmen for a moment. Like…

It is 1997, I am a young boy, I am jerking off to a grainy porno playing over stolen cinemax.

It is 2007, i am in my dorm, i am jerking off to a forum thread full of hi-res porno.

It is 2027, i am jerking off to an ai porno stream that mutates to my desires in real time. I am about to nut so hard that it shatters my perception of time.

Like all good sci-fi, they just took what was already happening to oppressed people and made it about white/American people, while adding a little misdirection by extrapolation from existing tech research. Only took about 20 years for Foucault’s boomerang to fully swing back around, and keep in mind that all the basic ideas behind LLMs had been worked out by the 80s, we just needed 40 more years of Moore’s law to make computation fast enough and data sets large enough.

I’ve been rereading a book I liked as a teen, called Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams. It’s pretty good, a little more eyebrow raising now as a wiser man (he’s a white guy from New Mexico writing about two Black characters from made up future ethnicities which have some clear parallels to real world oppressed peoples, eh…)

What surprises me most is how much of the story is a romance, it’s very 50 shades, a working class woman and a billionaire fall in love. But the billionaire is kind of a leftist revolutionary and the woman is kind of a sorcerer but its future science magic. Anyway, neat stuff, but I’m amazed teen me put up with so much romance; the science magic is really rad though, i did remember that!

Funny, everyone is reminded of different things and I wonder at the likely connections. It reminds me of Heavy Metal, based on the French art magazine of the same name.

As always though, “technology is ruining the kids” is actually cover for “our policies are ruining the kids, let’s blame technology!”

Am I saying AI should teach kids? Hell no, but this is a distraction. The article, via the teacher herself, outright states the problems. One, she has no time or motivation to work with the kids individually so she relies on tech to get more done. Two, this is because she’s teaching 160 students. Three, and that is because we’ve slashed education funding to practically nothing. And with DOGE destroying the DOE it seems now we’ll be educating the children with literally nothing.

This isn’t an AI problem. It’s a “we don’t give a fuck about children or the future” problem.

America: let’s disband the CDC, FDA, USDA, any set of letters we can that might regulate something. all the livestock dies from preventable diseases

Meanwhile, China: wHaT dO wE dO wItH aLl ThEsE cHiCkEnS?

This is just willful misunderstanding of history. Several of the founders were against political parties, but since game theory hadn’t been invented yet they put in place a system that would force a two or one party system. Which it quickly did. There have been two parties from the very beginning, just not the same two parties. But arguably, the same two broad positions: the Federalists favored elites, while the DRs favored liberalism.

I GET SHY AND AWKWARD WHEN BOOBS STARE AT ME!

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I think you can tag the community like a person in a Mastodon post and it shows on the community? Like @[email protected] but from Masto.

Nope! Doesn’t seem to work. Could be that my mastodon instance doesn’t federate to Lemmy.world though. If you search that “user” in masto you can follow them to see posts in this community, but seemingly not make them.

Words also just rotate around in popularity like any other fad. Remember synergy? Paradigm shifts? Thinking outside the box?

Academia isn’t immune to memes, far from it. In the semi-contained world of higher education, trends in words and phrases are even more pronounced and likely to spread.

If this is evidence of LLM usage, it could easily be the machines reflecting back trends. These things pick up on subtle cues in your prompts to match tone with you as well so I wouldn’t rule out human influence either in prompts or the RLHF process.

Why? So they can betray you at a critical junction to claim power for themselves, or so you can betray them without feeling too guilty about it?

Because you sure as hell can’t work with them on any leftist projects. They have zero desire to unconcentrate the accumulated power in Washington, only to claim it for themselves.