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thuuuomas··on AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably
These results speak towards the absence of an audience for poetry as much as they do the aptitude of LLMs for creative writing.
thuuuomas··on The AI Investment Boom
Would you feel comfortable pushing generated code to production unaudited?
thuuuomas··on Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023)
Intent is immaterial
thuuuomas··on Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too much at work
How did you measure your ability to concentrate?
thuuuomas··on The semantic web is now widely adopted
> fwiw

What do you think this sort of observation is worth?

thuuuomas··on Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
This is the fantasy of brownfield redevelopment. The reality is that remediation is always expensive even when it doesn’t depend on novel innovations.
thuuuomas··on 'Model collapse'? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom
Can you link this idle observation directly to the operation of LLMs or is this more anthropomorphizing boosterism?
thuuuomas··on Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
We do represent much of our cognition in language. Sometime I feel like LLMs might be “dancing skeletons” - pulleys & wire giving motion to the bones of cognition.
thuuuomas··on Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible (2005)
Scientology has a long-standing opposition to psychotropic drugs & psychiatry broadly
thuuuomas··on Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
There’s also also the js port of tidalcycles, named strudel, which is a lot of fun

https://github.com/tidalcycles/strudel

thuuuomas··on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
“Instantly” here meaning “potentially, after current contract obligations end & institutions complete the switch to a new provider”.
thuuuomas··on Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery
Why do you think a comparison to theft is warranted?
thuuuomas··on Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
If your safety systems fail, we pierce the corporate veil.
thuuuomas··on Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US Government
Prior review is widely regarded as a restriction on freedom of speech.
thuuuomas··on Working Title (Insurance)
I’m very curious to know how many flippers are on the books with FHA. Definitely a nonzero amount. Who’s really checking up on owner occupancy? Like 4 overworked feds in DC?
thuuuomas··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
Corporate governance is also decided by “experts”, rife with corruption & oligarchy.
thuuuomas··on Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner
You first
thuuuomas··on The Work of Art
Who is this for, besides the author? If you want to write sermons, write sermons. If you want to address people’s concerns with the way their time is obliged in 2024, you must address the impositions made by the labor market on employees that, more frequently than not, extend beyond the workday. Some fortunate souls have jobs that afford them equal agency to the creative pursuits the author derides, but the norm is the opposite. It’s hard to find the small joys within “chop wood, carry water” after a ten-hour day deferring one’s agency to the workplace & two hours commute. The suggestion that hypothetical dishwashing robots would shred the fabric of community seems misplaced at best.
thuuuomas··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Are you sure you’re not optimistic just bcuz you stand to materially benefit from widespread adoption of chatgpt wrappers?
thuuuomas··on Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
What are some examples of complex works? What are some examples of simpler, more accessible works?
thuuuomas··on Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
> The impact isn't merely aesthetic. For one thing, it can be costly to remove graffiti.

The cost incurred here is a choice the owner makes when they disagree with the aesthetics of the graffiti.

thuuuomas··on Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
Why
thuuuomas··on Insects and other animals have consciousness
> its very unclear if even other people are concious

Myopic edgelord main character syndrome.

Under what circumstances would you, the human, be conscious but other humans are not?

thuuuomas··on A leadership crisis in the Nix community
Culture war grandstanding drowning out the much more interesting discussion around Determinate System’s pledge to support the long-debated Nix Flakes officially.

Nix Flakes looking like the real source of the schism in the Nix community.

thuuuomas··on The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee
Protecting water & air is, in fact, very materialistic. Nobody wants to live in the exclusion zone.
thuuuomas··on Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
It seems like you’re vaguely alluding to global averages when most commenters are lamenting the state of their own countries, communities, daily lives - a categorical error. Scale & locality can’t be hand-waved away.
thuuuomas··on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
The identity of public entities is a matter of public interest where the identity of private individuals is not?
thuuuomas··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
It’s simple - everyone here arguing the merits of a lower sentence identifies with Sam.
thuuuomas··on We do not prefer chords to be perfectly in mathematical ratios: study
I feel like 432hz vs 440hz is merely the Just Intonation / Equal Temperment debate reiterated by people who don’t know any better. 432hz advocates make a lot of appeals (to “natural frequencies” that sound “more human”) which are quite similar to arguments made by proponents of Just Intonation during the Industrial Revolution.
thuuuomas··on Crypto Had Its Chance
Usage is just wash trading.
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