[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 15 points 2 days ago

I once tried to install a haskell package

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

giving any reason other than "the community needs to be more racist" is way exceeding my expectations. well on them

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago

this is a completely standard silicon valley job title

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

*throwing a fedora like a shuriken* haha, consider yourself blocked good sir!

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

thought it was bad enough when the hackers got into my rabbithole, now this

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

thinking about how I was inoculated against part of ai hype bc a big part of my social circle in undergrad consisted of natural language processing people. they wanted to work at places with names like "OpenAI" and "google deepmind," their program was more or less a cognitive science program, but I never once heard any of them express even the slightest suspicion that LLMs of all things were progressing toward intelligence. it would have been a nonsequiter.

also from their pov the statistical approach to machine learning was defined by abandoning the attempt to externalize the meaning of text. the cliche they used to refer to this was "the meaning of a word is the context in which it occurs."

finding out that some prestigious ai researchers are all about being pilled on immanetizating agi was such a swerve for me. it's like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 45 points 1 week ago

headline is inaccurate and downplays the incredible potential of ai. Google Gemini tried to kill this person AND their entire family

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 41 points 2 weeks ago

alright well now we have the perfect response to half the people who pop in from lemmy.world

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wow. sensible (awful.systems)
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somehow I managed to miss this until now

archive link

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 79 points 1 month ago

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 53 points 1 month ago

my husband and I are just trying to repopulate the world

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 54 points 1 month ago

you would never see a scene like this in a Nazi household

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

again. NOT Nazis.

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we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

https://web.archive.org/web/20240517214034/https://www.404media.co/here-is-what-axons-bodycam-report-writing-ai-looks-like-draft-one/

tl;dr ai will write up officer reports used to help convict people, based on bodycam audio. of course we can expect it to display the usual features of fictionalizing, bias and diffusion of accountability

special highlight: end of the article includes a comment from the EFF, imploring municipalities not to purchase this tech. company responds with a statement pitching the product to prosecutors. make your own inference about who has control over this decision

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

I've been reading through the top all time /r/hobbydrama posts and I keep coming back to this one. In a way, it's the best summary of the promises crypto makes I've seen. People buying fiefdoms in a game that doesn't exist because they so desperately want the experience of being kings, because they so desperately want to be the boot that grinds... it's beautiful to see this presented without the nonsense about supposed democratization or freedom.

the time capsule aspect is fascinating too. the layperson's innocence is now tainted by NFTs. you will never again see people struggle with the concept of this grift as purely as these posters did in 2017.

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inspired by

https://awful.systems/comment/2382662

from the link, we obtain HODL gang and versace bedouin (which might be the worst song I've ever heard period).

I would also like to add predatory capitalist feminism anthem WAGMI.

on an ideological level I would nominate the technofascist propaganda piece we appreciate power. banger tho

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I'm doing it so skillfully. I'm totally basilisking you. isn't that scary

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Actual framing:

Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet / An independent review of an incident in which a driverless Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet concludes the company has connectivity issues.

My expectations for journalists are low but goddamn

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240126195607/https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050791/cruise-pedestrian-dragging-video-driverless-report

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

saw this pointed out here and felt it deserved it's own post

let me mention that this is exactly the sort of argument I've seen pedophilia enthusiasts break out many times:

hmm, we thoughtful inquirers should look at this incredibly tenous evidence I've curated. it raises questions about whether we should be superrrrr chill about sex with children. questions with answers that, I'm sold on!

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