grrgyle

It’s beautiful

In 2026 you still need expert knowledge to be able to judge whether it’s actually generating statements that match reality or just happen to take on a truthy shape.

Web search went from being the most powerful tool in acquiring knowledge to being mostly useless, a crapshoot, because of the difficulty in discerning which articles are useful versus which ones just take on a useful shape.

To be clear, I’ve worked in a kitchen. One of the benefits is that you get to eat free food or get to make food for yourself (for free obviously).

Your manager may be nice but he’s just an asshole with manners imo. It’s totally normal and encouraged to divert food waste

You eat it until you don’t feel like eating more. Wtf is this, just eat

It does make wonder if we would be better off now if the silicon valley monetizers had just gone with a subscription model.

Hell even a donation model works, as we see from countless FOSS projects.

In their defence they were born into it, and their parents and all their peers do too.

Most people aren’t exposed to the content of people who “got out” because it doesn’t show up on commercial platforms or get discussed at company barbeques.

I’m not saying it’s 100% the fault of algorithms. Sure, they work because they prey on very real human nature.

But lemmy isn’t apart from the rest of the internet or the overculture. The “algorithm” (to torture the term) that guides the news cycles, manufactures bikeshedding style outrage over meaningless diversions like the colour of a government swimming pool, etc… that does seep into our timelines and conversions.

Like you and I are at slightly different perspectives on what an algorithm is and how much of it can be said to affect people against their will, and some people will see us as arguing for two “sides” of a political spectrum.

I believe in personal responsibility sure, but I also believe all this other stuff affects us, and that I can’t even totally blame people who might be more susceptible to it.

At a certain point I blame the companies that keep putting out those hooks they know are harmful knowing that someone will always bite (millions of people will “bite” to greater or lesser degrees).

At that scale I think the excuse of saying people have personal responsibility (not your words) gets diluted because we all have different innate capacities and weaknesses.

It can only be called predatory.

It’s presented as friendly but yeah it’s actually incredibly hostile and predatory

I think their hope is if they pull it off they won’t need money anymore, because they’ll have destroyed the last lever of power the working class still have: the ability to withhold their labour. LLMs are trying to turn labour into just another tool (that you rent).

They lined the walls of the special computer room at my school, but we used them more as a kind of nerds recess than for actually teaching anything

I have such a hard time believing it’s not a phenomenon. I know coincidences happen, but mannn

As soon as they got away with “federated learning” (basically use your phone to train ai then just phone the results home rather than your data) 🤢 they knew they could just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they have it all

I already have a voice recorder app on my phone, thanks.

My old girlfriend’s dad and I got along well. He was a real independent guy. We played a lot of chess, I’ll tell you what. When I was staying with him sometimes we’d wake up and play chess from sunup to sundown.

That’s fine if you like unrivalled beauty I guess

Yeah like how do you vote for voting rights before you even get them? 🔨

How about they everyone just focus on making shit instead of worrying about who owns the gameplay from a toy that’s old enough to have a quarter life crisis now.

I love this kind of philosophy. I wish it were possible to access it on a tangible level, but sadly it seems consciousness is local phenomena

I’m an asexual prude, but I feel we were really close to a more sex positive queer world in the overculture of the 90s, but the consciousness wasn’t actually there yet to be cool with it