Fullstack Software Engineer @ SuperFile + Security with great ambitions. Avid consumer-oriented researcher. Posting about anything that interests me; hardcore hobby collector. One day I'd like to study economics.
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What will LLM owners do when they've destroyed or hollowed out all human sources of knowledge and places of education/research?
What happens when they have no more human blood to suck on to prevent model collapse?
More importantly, what will society do if it builds its structures around stealing knowledge from people until the people give up producing knowledge?
(And this is ignoring LLMs' impact on our climate due to their vast energy use.)
In a world inundated with technology and digital distractions, it’s easy to lose sight of the simplicity and charm of nature. A recent guerrilla gardening experiment by kindergarten children reminds us of nature’s resilience and its ability to flourish in the most improbable spaces. The children did an experiment in guerrilla gardening by dropping seeds […]
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EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban so-called "conversion therapy" in the EU. It's a practice that's extremely harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.
The site is a little slow, but keep trying!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!
We now have eight countries past their thresholds, and we have at least 1,000,000 total votes.
So keep signing & voting!
“Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch”
Company famous for making a repeated mess of software security "brags" that 30% of its code is written using a tool famous for making a repeated mess of software security.
I never thought I’d see an issue that generates more contentious discussion than Vim vs. Emacs or Tabs vs. Spaces in programmers but “A program that constantly makes mistakes vs a human that constantly makes mistakes” now occupies 1st place.
My peers’ willingness to accept a tool that gives wrong answers is astounding. I’ve stopped using CoPilot as I got tired of fixing the mistakes it gave me.
Do what you want, but stop telling me this is anything but a rent-seeking tool designed to drive down my wages and belittle my expertise.
“I work, take my kids to school, buy groceries, walking around strangers in this medium sized town. It's easy to forget that a not insignificant portion of the population is probably carrying this things, sold on the fantasy that someday they might get a chance to stab a random person in the neck.”
— GOATed comment from a Metafilter post about reviews of “tactical pens”
Once again, I highly advice you to get off #Discord and use something else, prefferably a messaging platform that is end-to-end encrypted, federated, no phone number idenitfiers, and open source.
You can bet your dollars that once they officially announce their IPO plans, all bets are off in terms of #enshittification X 1000.
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