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prefigurative politics means building privacy, not just critiquing surveillance
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- What if I told you that the building the torment nexus is an extremely interesting challenge from an engineering perspective
- 💭 I should be feeding all my text into a base model continuously. or several base models and having them talk to each other
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- [norman rockwell free speech dot jpg] i think it is a problem that undergrads are cheating on all their assignments with chatgpt, actually
- reality eventually reasserts itself. "smart" is always what it takes to adapt to one's environment, whether that's preserving attention span despite dopamine saturation (the past ten years), or acquiring independent thinking despite automated reasoning (the next ten years)
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- okay, but if i post _this_ take, i won't have people yelling at me and blocking me which isnt fun. rather, i'll have a bunch of anti-ai people praising my take.
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- disappointed to hear that twitter is adding downvotes because it will negatively polarize the audience of this site, where they would actually work really well, into reflexively hating them
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- I like it in theory, but then I have to curate who I follow based on votes and that sounds like a big headache in practice Maybe some unbiased recommendation system can work based on which people you follow like the things you like
- ok i’m pre committing to writing a blog post by the end of the week. pls yell at me if i fail to do this
- Yessir
- part of what makes local a good idea is that all we need is for our circle to adopt it. so it would make total sense for this to be, say, a deer.social feature and all we need is for our network to use deer.social, which is far more likely than the whole userbase
- i like this a lot. both for the downvotes, as well as for how were now getting to a point where we can have an adoption mechanic for new features thats not dependent on bsky pbc
i think i’m becoming a rationalist again- post-post-rat
- Why not a secret third thing
- honestly the longer the luigi mangione case goes on for the more i’ve become convinced he wasn’t even the guy that shot the unitedhealth CEO and is just a fall guy the state decided upon to punish
- Next up: 10-year, zero-interest financing
- funny thing is they did iterate on having upvote/downvotes but then they replaced it with likes
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- you know what. i think it's time to bring back Mark Fisher. we're calling things "accelerationist" with a positive connotation again. it's not like you lot have come up with anything better in the interregnum.
- all the true critiques of L/acc are more true of the left writ large, and all the false ones are failures of reading comprehension
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- im gonna need a bigger credit card
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- being a little annoying & gatekeepy about your hobbies is so important
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- didn't something similar sorta happen with the british empire in the 19th century – aristocrats were largely being schooled to run the empire while ignoring the economic and technical shifts that made the empire possible? (The Two Cultures CP Snow)
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