We’ve managed to destroy the one profession with serious vertical class mobility where no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexual orientation or politics or anything but can this person code, do they geek out.
The one thing we didn’t used to tolerate and now do is flagrant nepotism. Which seems like a step backwards on any of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
Glass half full?
Never been easier to take on a trillion dollar company run by non-technical people.
Is this really true though? There is so much evidence that shows women and other minority groups to be systematically discriminated against in tech.
Back in the day it seemed like everyone was “different” somehow.
Certainly when I ran the biggest group I ever have my boss (Ning Li, absolute pro) was a woman, and 2/4 of the managers I supported were women, and in a group of pushing 40 I was one of two who was an American white guy.
I suppose it’s a judgement call if FSU folks count as “white”, but if not then “white men” are, or were at least, a vanishing minority on hardass infra teams.
Sure, I guess that's more to do with the computing industry becoming more corporate.
The point I'm trying to make is that what you refer to as "stupid political posturing" is a good thing actually. It's a sign of progress that people feel more free to speak out about issues affecting them. They can seem insignificant, but it's only by having difficult conversations and demanding better that we make the whole industry a place where all that matters is "can this person code, do they geek out".
Yeah but they were all white
Doing harmful shit via computers is already really friggin illegal, and if we need even more draconian computer crime laws? I say they get passed by like, a legislature or something.
Fuck private individuals and/or corporations arrogating regulatory power to themselves.
Yeah, I said it.
Just making sure I’m understanding the situation correctly - these folks have gone beyond “controlling the output of their own APIs”, and they are now using government power to limit what you can do with your own software running on your own hardware??
Throw in the changes around the T2 HSM, the creepy semi-visible quarantine permissions, and OpenPhilanthropy lobbying to the tune of like, 100+ million a year.
Yeah, you are in grave jeopardy of not being able to easily, legally access available-weight, operator-aligned models.
They originate from modern society & it's need to cater to sensitivities. And that's a sentiment that's in general pretty well supported here.
It's the likes of Elon, hated here, that are the one's fighting this.
LLM's censorship is a symptom of a much wider problem. For instance we see it partially causing lots of mental anxiety: the world should bent to my anxiety instead of learning to deal with stress. But also in much more difficult topics that simply can't be discussed anymore and therefore continue to fester on.
cisgender is now a slur according to Elon Musk lmao. He really is the biggest snowflake of them all.
[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/11/one-model-to-rule-them-all.h... as pointed out here, search engines are like Librarians that point you toward context, whereas LLMs are more like Doctors that protect you from context.
There's a difference between LLMs and X that makes it defensible to have different moderation strategies for both.
A spammer using an LLM to write their little Vialis commercial isn't bothering anybody.
A spammer posting their little Vialis commercial on X is an obnoxious cunt.
ISIS/Nazis using an LLM to write their pathetic propaganda aren't bothering anybody.
ISIS/Nazis posting their pathetic propaganda on X are obnoxious cunts.
> you're blind.
NO U
For example, the internet is filled with blatant hate speech and racism, but because they don’t use the keywords or don’t show the designated symbols, that’s allowed.
However, the speech that doesn’t have intent of harm, it’s just a joke or have incidental content with symbols or words that are considered harmful, is banned.
In the last few years, it came to such a ridiculous point that The most oppressive regimes in terms of freedom of speech are those who claim to be the “free world”. They are also very unforgiving, you can’t apologize and move on. They will cut you off and never talk to you again. Even if they were right with their position, they don’t value you as a human being and if the cost to win you back is non-zero, they discard you. That’s fascism.
It’s not only that the speech is oppressed. Also, the product quality is greatly degraded because of this. It’s the worst aspect of everything, in proper fascist or communist systems at least you get some benefits like clean streets or free education.
Clumsy, lazy and risk averse - yes. Stupid? Uncaring? Infuriating? Yes.
Can we save "evil" for now deserving cases?