Mastodawn

Ethics in AI is a trolley problem where you don't know who is tied to what track, and the AI CEOs make ridiculous claims that everyone in the world is tied to one of the tracks and you'd better switch onto that track because the tracks and the trolley are about to turn into Voltron and go pew-pew-pew and then fly to the moon and bounce it like a basketball and shoot lasers and blow up the sun and walk away from the explosion without looking in slow motion looking *awesome*.

Marginalia 6d ago

New blog post, on the meandering route to getting a somewhat viable NSFW filter in Marginalia Search.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_134_nsfw/

Marginalia Mar 24

Working on a NSFW filter and trying to tune it to not be an erasure machine as there is some vocabulary overlap between the contexts of porn and queer culture.

Question for the LGBT-community:
Wth are the "bisexual papers"?

Stumbled upon this (according to the classifier) ambiguously NSFW bigram that if nothing else sounds like something someone leaked, revealing some dark secret. Have I... dug too deep? Seen things not meant for my eyes?

(Screenshot is NSFW in the most literal sense)

Marginalia Mar 6

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/115956880232782872

The word processor and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity

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Marginalia Mar 5

"Charlatan as a Service". You saw it here first.

Marginalia Mar 4

All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/76bfd9b5e660a7ebfed3e258e849c9b2ec894b9f/extensions/open-prose/skills/prose/examples/34-content-pipeline.prose

openclaw/extensions/open-prose/skills/prose/examples/34-content-pipeline.prose at 76bfd9b5e660a7ebfed3e258e849c9b2ec894b9f · openclaw/openclaw

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - openclaw/openclaw

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Marginalia Mar 1

> [...] in that empty space, I begin to wonder: Where did all the people go? What are they all doing behind the artifice they’re showing here? Why am I wasting my time and energy wading through these shallow yet unbounded seas of nothing?

Have very much been feeling this bit lately. The social web is an evaporating ocean, leaving only an inhospitable salty death zone full of bots, shills, and influence campaigns, immitating the people that used to be around.

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/

You don't have to if you don't want to.

"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."

Scott Smitelli

Marginalia Feb 28

If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.

Marginalia Feb 28

Which one of these would you say is correct?

Argument for "is": In English "data" is treated as an uncountable noun.

Argument for "are": In Latin, "data" is the plural of "datum".

Here are some data

14.9%

Here is some data

85.1%

Poll ended at Mar 7 at 11:17am.

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Marginalia Feb 27

Just noticed I labelled the y-axis documents, and not comments. In my defense, it's almost always documents in my line of work.

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