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BulgarianIdiot··on Reid Hoffman's AI startup censors his links to Jeffery Epstein
"Censored" implies intent. That's a bit too much inference on our side about what the model infers.

We can say at best the "model doesn't typically recognize and/or know about a connection".

BulgarianIdiot··on For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
Central moderation is a deeply flawed model, that always ends in everyone being unhappy with a platform.

When was the last time we said the Internet Protocol, routers and hubs worldwide, need "sex workers and black groups". Sounds like nonsense, because it's just a platform, a technology.

Well this is how social networks must also be. And a social network should allow multiple communities to form and each community to moderate itself. There's no other viable way I can think of.

The platform should only be invoked for dire circumstances when the platform integrity is being violated itself.

BulgarianIdiot··on So this guy is now S3. All of S3
I see just error 429 can someone please explain?
BulgarianIdiot··on The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022)
I can also calmly explain I didn't turn the turtle on its back, but then again, I'm not a replicant. So maybe judging a test humans are SUPPOSED to pass, but for replicants it's viable baseline test is not a good measure.

Also a realistic test would be terrible cinematic experience. Long, technical, boring, trite... The scene is meant to be accepted symbolically, not literally.

BulgarianIdiot··on AI is not artificial intelligence
It's not even an argument. It's just stupid denialism. It reminds me of the people insisting on the cusp of abolishing slavery, that African Americans are not technically people, so they can't really think, and so on. And providing lots and lots of pseudo-scientific, but plausibly sounding (at the time) and partially technically correct reasons why this is so. An example of this is the phrenology scene in Django Unchained.

You can always dress your bullshit in half-truths.

In this case, this person's description of AI is not wrong, but... it also described human intelligence. There's absolutely no difference.

BulgarianIdiot··on AI is not artificial intelligence
Yet another galaxy brain revealing to us that AI is a pattern processing network of layered transforms. Like our brain also is, by the way. Move along, nothing to see here.
BulgarianIdiot··on Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR’s Twitter handle as feud escalates
Feud takes a funny turn:

https://twitter.com/ItIsFinch/status/1653844118399864839

"Musk threatened in emails to take NPR's account, if they don't start tweeting. NPR published the story. So Musk sent a blank email with subject "You suck".

They printed it and framed it."

BulgarianIdiot··on Elon Musk threatens to re-assign NPR on Twitter to 'another company'
I want them every week to post and delete the same tweet:

"This tweet is here to show our account is active and in use, as we've received a threatening letter from Twitter CEO Elon Musk that our account will be deleted, unless we tweet frequently."

BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter allowing governments to post automated weather alerts ‘for free’
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"They never did"

BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter backtracks, lets emergency and traffic alert accounts keep API access
Anyone who bites, is an idiot. They should move to something more reliable and predictable.
BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter restores free API access for emergency/weather and transportation alerts
Anyone who bites, is an idiot. They should move to something more reliable and predictable.
BulgarianIdiot··on We must urgently stop all further development on this new “keyboard” technology
It's kind of collapsing on its own.
BulgarianIdiot··on We must urgently stop all further development on this new “keyboard” technology
To quote one of the replies: https://twitter.com/ItIsFinch/status/1653348303059255297

"I'm honestly so tired of these cheap hot takes comparing AI to anything at all. AI is factories, and it's not cars, it's not keyboards, and it's not apple and it's not oranges.

Our previous invention[s] replaced our tools with better tools. This invention replaces your brain."

BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter is randomly logging out users
It’s funny when we create fiction about 4d chess being played, in face of pure chaos.
BulgarianIdiot··on Chatbots are not the future
140 chars, he means.

*280 chars, he means.

*4000 chars, he means.

*10000 chars, he means.

BulgarianIdiot··on Is Bluesky the one? A Twitter alternative takes off
And yet email users have to care for a server and email is thriving.
BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says Musk wasn’t an ideal leader after all
Just to clarify things here... "his next platform" was under contract by Twitter to create Twitter 2.0. Jack Dorsey funded this new platform through Twitter itself, while he was still running Twitter.

So in a way, Dorsey is continuing doing what he believes is good for "Twitter", and he doesn't identify Elon's X as Twitter anymore.

Frankly after everything that happened, it feels justified.

BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says Musk wasn’t an ideal leader after all
Musk didn't "rot". What happened is basically he's a talented fraudster who can speak about being on a mission from God to save humanity and transition Earth to this or that and this attracts immense amount of interest from capital and talent to bootstrap a company.

When this company is built from the ground up around Musk, there's a protective layer between him and the company, so that his bombastic narcissism doesn't leak out or hurt the company's management too much.

But Twitter wasn't built from the ground up for him, it was an existing company, he fired the top managers, the board, and 80% of the company, and then kept tweeting through every mishap he makes. We all saw him for what he always was.

Truly some epic level "behind the curtain Wizard of Oz" story here. And behind the curtain is an asshole with a lot of brazen lies and little to show for it in term of personal capability.

He's an "aligner". If he fools enough investors and workers that he's doing something big, they give him his money and their time & effort to make it happen, and it happens. He's good at starting things, but terrible at continuing them.

BulgarianIdiot··on Twitter will allow media publishers to charge users on per article with 1 click
Any media playing with Twitter at this point deserves what's going to happen. Elon Musk is a terrible partner to rely on.
BulgarianIdiot··on Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter
Welcome to 15 years ago.
BulgarianIdiot··on Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter
I'm sorry but how the ef do you expect people will spread the news of Bluesky? Migrating the network takes effort and reaching out to legacy networks. This has nothing to do with how great or not great Bluesky is.
BulgarianIdiot··on NYC MTA Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Elon Musk Raises Price to $50k
Imagine paying 600k/year for tweets.
BulgarianIdiot··on Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
Check the historical conflict between Macedonia and Bulgaria. Bulgaria claims Macedonia was always part of Bulgaria, then split off, so they recognized them as an independent country and that was it. Macedonia claims all figures from the region as Macedonian, and calls itself the predecessor of the entire region. They also are highly aggressive against Bulgarians and call them fascists' and oppressors.

All in all sad sight. The smaller the countries, the weaker, the more similar, the more adversarial are they towards one another. It's like a pathological sibling relationship. There's dissonance and each one is fighting to "set the record straight" and dominate.

BulgarianIdiot··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
Siri was better earlier on. In fact they were better before Apple bought them than ever after. And the primary reason is optimization of cost and scale.

And something similar is happening to GPT although not to that extent. Bing has gotten worse over time as they use a pipeline of models, where smaller models serve most common and easily predictable tokens, while the full model only handles the hard stuff. Except... you can't tell always what's hard stuff or not, so Bing serves useless distracted answers ignoring user context from time to time.

BulgarianIdiot··on Microsoft in furious attack on UK as major gaming deal blocked
Try not making up your examples.

That said you have as much control not using Microsoft products and services, as you have control voting.

BulgarianIdiot··on Microsoft in furious attack on UK as major gaming deal blocked
Excuse me, but can't you just at any point decide to not use Windows and Office? Well, yes, you can. As well as you can vote for new candidates or parties.
BulgarianIdiot··on IPv6 is 128-bit, so it needs 4x the storage of IPv4
Oh no, 16 bytes.

I understand the annoyance of having to update your schema, but you only had 28 years to update your schema for it.

BulgarianIdiot··on Some Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon predictions for 6 months time
We'll have. The concept is very old. Keeps re-emerging.
BulgarianIdiot··on Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
I'm in Europe, and every country has different takes of the same historical events. Sometimes not much, but sometimes wildly and drastically. Incompatibly. It's insane to see the dissonance. Americans don't get to see this as much, because the states synchronize more or less, despite the right/left cultural divide.

History is mostly BS. Fairy tales very broadly and crudely constrained by some dates and events. We don't know a thing. And that's one reason we can't learn. The past is recast for propaganda purposes to control the present and the future. Nothing more.

BulgarianIdiot··on TSMC Outlines 2nm Plans: N2P Brings Backside Power Delivery in 2026, N2X Added
Can you please elaborate. Feels to me that the US trying to ban advanced semi in China combined with the fact they're produced an arm's distance away in Taiwan is a huge incentive for China to invade Taiwan.
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