It’s me, too.

Every time I think about how I was free labor to homeschooling religious fundamentalist abusers.

No. You should just lay where you are, prone, and demand that your bed go to you.

Show it who’s the boss.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

He is mentioned in the R.E.M. song “End of the World,” which is a real banger.

He appeared in Home Alone 2 and Kevin did nothing to prevent this future.

The president of the United States just openly publicly in writing declared his intent to commit genocide.

I suppose this is better than the sly cover of polite metaphors while doing the same thing.

Perhaps we’ll all be shocked by the reality and do something.

It’s funny to me how many AI bros want to argue with me.

You are not familiar with my game.

I was researching machine-learning and natural language models before it was mainstream.

I developed an AI product before it was hype and abandoned it on ethical principle.

Take your hype somewhere else.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Statistical analysis of token relationships is not equivalent to thinking.

Another day, another dev I respect ascribing human traits to their fancy, half-wrong, autocomplete.

Large-language model user and developer says let the large-language models copy my work without attribution or compensation.

The majority of the next two months is hardening my software against AI scraping and picking a license.

I’m really unhappy about how excruciating it is to pick an OSS license if I want legal protections against automated theft.

Truly, a sign of the times.

(Any unsolicited advice is welcome)

I think it’s both of those options, depending on the person. I posit there’s more to it for some, another category, maybe.

Third option: the ELIZA effect. They are so enmeshed with the AI that they are not capable of awareness or lying.

Without the 18th and 19th century labor efforts and conflicts, we would not have had the labor advancements of the 20th century.

The same wealth class today in the 21st century is seeking to roll back those advancements, like the 40 hour work week, safe working standards, time off, and child labor.

If we can recapture the energy and commitment prior generations of labor had without the violence, now is the time.

Before the billionaires incite violence and then run to daddy government for a military to protect their billions from their economically distressed workforce.

If we can recapture the energy and commitment prior generations of labor had without the violence, now is the time.

Before the billionaires incite violence and then run to daddy government for a military to protect their billions from their economically distressed workforce.

Without the 18th and 19th century labor efforts and conflicts, we would not have had the labor advancements of the 20th century.

The same wealth class today in the 21st century is seeking to roll back those advancements, like the 40 hour work week, safe working standards, time off, and child labor.

The Luddites were not anti-technology; they were fighting for fair pay and safe working standards. Breaking the machines of their masters was simply one of many actions taken, and it was primarily unsafe automation they targeted.

Your narrative parrots propaganda.

You need to go read about the Luddites. I’m sorry, but not a single thing you’ve said is supported by the historical record, including your conclusions.

Like many labor movements, they were hard fought and slow won over many generations, often with bloodshed at the hands of their masters.

There are other LLMs which don’t carry the baggage of the well-funded robber corporations.

Smash the robber machines.

Build our own.

It is hard. It is worth it.

Maybe get your history of the Luddites straight before posting on the internet.

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Paul, there’s a reason the real story of the Luddites is not widely told.

Quick recap: it was laborers and engineers fighting together against robber industrialist automation.

We need to be destroying their machines. Not using the machines and calling it “personal computing”.

I’m hopeful it’s people, but it’s probably the intellectual property equivalent of soylent green.

These generalizations make others less than ourselves… but only in our minds.

We cannot be free until we’re all free, and setting ourselves up as more worthy than those we oppose does not seek collective liberation.

Let’s not use the ugly tools of supremacy in pursuit of human flourishing.

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We use the tools of oppressors at our own peril.

Generalizing for an entire group the intelligence, beauty, income, or other traits that folk cannot control is a mistake rooted in supremacy.

To say things like “this group of oppressors is not smart” is to underestimate at least some of them.

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two men are standing next to each other in front of a building with soldiers standing in the background . ALT: two men are standing next to each other in front of a building with soldiers standing in the background .

I guess… it’s nice to see two racist eugenicists tear into each other??

I really wish the tech industry hype machine hadn’t conflated general-purpose, broad machine-learning (ML) with narrower large language models (LLM) under the umbrella term “AI”.

It’s a distinction with a massive difference. Such a deceptive disservice to the discipline as a whole.

I have never experienced LLM generated code that was useful to me. I will caveat to say I’m in general pretty creative and so it’s faster to write it myself and understand what the code does than to rewrite what amounts to rudimentary spaghetti repetitive routines.

I’m so wary of other folks use.

An easy block for me.

I can’t wait to share more about the basic features I needed. As far as I know, nobody is offering quite the underlying data format and handling that I wanted with the flexibility that I needed.

It’s tempting to get all “entrepreneur”-brained and hustle-pilled again.

Screw that.