good longpost, i approve
honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if some AI companies weren’t cheating at AI metrics with little classically-programmed, find-and-replace programs. if for no other reason than i think the idea of some programmer somewhere being paid to browse twitter on behalf of OpenAI and manually program exceptions for “how many months does it take 9 women to make 1 baby” is hilarious
i’ll take trolls “pretending” to not understand computational time over fascists “pretending” to gush over other fascists any day
syncthing is an extremely valuable piece of software in my eyes, yeah. i’ve been using a single synced folder as my google drive replacement and it works nearly flawlessly. i have a separate system for off-site backups, but as a first line of defense it’s quite good.
“i reflexively identify with the openly-fascist right-wing base that has found its home on elon’s twitter, and since i’m a reasonable person, the evidence that they’re flagrantly conspiracy-minded and/or are CSAM posters simply must be fabricated”
wait hold on. hold on for just a moment, and this is important:
i regret to inform you that thinking there’s even a possibility of an LLM being better than people is actively buying into the sci-fi narrative
well, except maybe generating bullshit at breakneck speeds. so as long as we aren’t living in a society based on bullshit we should be goo–… oh fuck