mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago
  • ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
  • ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no, it fucking isn't. (see the postscript in linked article.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

(…) perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, comprehension, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making (…)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

no, it doesn't, and it's not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago (18 children)

LLMs know nothing. literally. they cannot.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh my, you're such a confluence of bad takes (racist, transphobic, creepy and ignorant of the technical and biological topics you're pontificating about.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

preview:

reality:

“how to inflate your event by pretending there's more to it” (tbh i wouldn't mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

ack – thanks, it's good to have a proper reality check.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if one were paranoid one would think they joined the community only to write that bloody post.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

if i wouldn't know from @titotal@awful.systems that it's undoubtfully a manor house, i'd think it's a fucking castle.

(btw, did we ever hear back from the person after they decided to go full tescreal on their popular website?)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

it's quite telling that you don't think that actors are “creatives” but think that “gpt-4 is a great drafter”.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, dolstra's actions vidicated the open letter completely; also i really hate using the dismissive phrase “drama” for something that is actually a large issue with open source project governance and acceptance of blood money.

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