People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I've had to endure in a while
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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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.
I find it mostly good enough for canned response and template type of tasks but not much more than that
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Very predictable new form of brainwashing.
This one hurts a little.
It is true that the Earth is round, much like it's true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.
Nice reference
I'm so tired of carrying the weight of their stupidity and ignorance.
I don't know if this will help, but the stupidity level is probably no worse than it's ever been, it's just a lot more visible now.
Most human beings have never paid much attention to the world outside of the little bubble they live in. But now that we have such a good communication network they're able to get casual low-effort glimpses of the big world by glancing at a few memes or whatever, which they think makes them experts, and they broadcast their ignorance worldwide because they can. The ignorance was always there, just never this noticeable.
And boy are they angry about it.
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.
Just read a sci-fi novel set in 2005 where they had laser guns and orbital defence platforms.
Heinlein?
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.
Just in case you didn't know:
article: https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+Myth
relevant bit:
"RAH and LRH had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles."
The theme of money and religion was apparently a very popular one for Hubbard as he seems to have mentioned it at several other informal discussions around the same time. In a 1978 interview Harlan Ellison commented "Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes!...We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich"."
... which is also the origin of the word "grok".
Full circle!
What's a grok?
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.
Oh, I see.
Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish
Billionaires should not exist
Alrighty, I changed my vote to this option
Billionaires can and do use their money to make those restrictions disappear. Just like millionaires used their money to remove the restrictions on getting more money to become billionaires.
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… ask grok
We might be on track for that future though. The picture features a floor of ocean on which there seem to be artificial islands connected by tubes of glass and steel. So we see a future with heavy flooding and people needing to be protected from extreme weather events 24/7
Instead, we get Dark Age 2: American Boogaloo
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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yeah and this meme is entirely self defeating? twitter is garbage, why are you in a garbage dump complaining about the garbage?
Ever heard of the orphan crushing machine? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine
You're welcome.
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