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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • That’s fair, I receive the same critique sometimes, probably why I feel drawn to your style of comms. I adapted, because what effect do my opinions have if no one is listening, and what is an opinion but an idea to shape the world around me. My own presentation was undermining my goals. That may not be the case for you.

    Moving onto your statement here:
    I believe I understand what you mean by, "there is no ‘the ai’ that can make decisions without human intent behind it’ ", but I am still confused by the idea you are attempting to convey. You really aren’t providing much info.

    Given the components for an experiment:

    1. A machine running an LLM.
    2. Humans who operate the machine.
    3. Intent, defined by the humans.
    4. Outcomes, observed by a perfect detector.

    If there is no decision being made by a machine, then given knowledge of 1, 2, and 3, then 4 will be absolutely predictable in every scenario, yes?

    Is that the claim you are making?
    Did I miss anything?
    And finally, why is this important? You’re kinda making me connect all the dots for you, some help would be appreciated, I’d like to understand your idea.
    Take all the time and space you need, I’d like to read it.



  • You seem focused on semantics. There is an alternative approach where you read a comment, consider their intent, and respond in kind. Semantics can be comforting to some due to their rigidity and law-like structure, but I doubt they’re helping you do anything but promote unnecessary conflict.

    A conversation is occuring, and you respond, “Define ‘it’.” You’re just being unlikeable.

    Anyway, if you’re a real person, consider this. If not, I understand you are following your directives and will remain needlessly argumentative. Good luck.




  • Think of it as a game, the players are corpo, and gov.

    Corpo hacks planet, gov says, “Hm, that’s pretty bad corpo, we could hold you accountable… but… that’s pretty neat, maybe share a lil with us how you achieved this terrible incident (that we totally don’t want to leverage against international peers) and we can forget this happened…”

    A game of incentives.

    If the gov comes down too hard, they could slow the development, the same development that they short-sightedly want to exploit in parallel with the accused.




  • SWAP avenger here. And they said SWAP partitions were old hat… Pah!

    I have an Acer Swift 3:2 running Manjaro with a swap partition encrypted with LUKS2. I recently got a new laptop so poor old Swifty been languishing in a messenger bag.

    The important distinction here being that my lid is tied to hibernate, not sleep, because fuck sleep mode… why do I want my laptop in “low power mode”? So I can charge it as soon as I open it? No thanks!

    Three months pass. Crap can’t seem to connect to my VNC over SSH, hmm, what to do… I wonder if my Acer can connect?

    Pull old Swifty out of the bag, open it up, enter decryption key, it’s on in moments, 95% battery.

    Skill issue? (I’m joking, or am I?) 🐸



  • I mean, what he exposed came with proof. There is no believe or disbelieve. It’s not religion, there is no faith. He made an assertion and proved it with evidence.

    If you think that the government doesn’t need to follow the laws and that they are immune, then yes I can see why what he did would seem negative.

    But if you believe the government should also follow its own laws, I have difficulty understanding your objection.

    The information is the information, focus on the man is only a distraction.

    A cat leaked it. A dinosaur leaked it. Hitler was resurrected and leaked it while riding a flying pig. Snowden leaked it and fled to Russia.

    It makes no difference, the information is the information regardless of the catalyst.

    Before Snowden, the US government was thought to obey its own laws, though obviously not always (for better or worse). After Snowden, we finally had confirmation that violations are commonplace and intentionally hidden.