@robey i sympathize with the hypothesis but wonder if the socioeconomic distributions match.
"if you haven't paid close attention to…antitrust law since the late 1970s, all of this might feel mysterious…worse, you might mistake the cause for the effect: regulators keep making corrupt choices, so regulation itself is impossible. This is like the artists' rights advocate who says, 'artists' incomes keep falling, so we need more copyright'—in mistaking the effect for the cause, both blame the system, rather than the corporate power that…corrupted it." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/
@tom so sure, monotheists, there is only one, but should we think of God as a centralized or decentralized service?
@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette it doesn't matter. there can be an infinity of tools, but it's where the network effect is that determines whether a virtual space takes a meaningful role in civil society or not. the 'net was better when RSS was where the network effect was rather than governed siloes like Twitter.
@hungry_joe (i'd like to vote for people who believe in elections enough to reform the electoral system so we have more than one party that believes in elections we can vote for.)
we expected, when the AI came, it would be a kind of virtual spock. but when it did come it was a virtual bill clinton.
@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette journalists followed blogs by RSS (and many of them, during the era Google Reader bookended, wrote blogs, in a mix of on their own or for media employers)
when GPT mates with Unreal Engine we’ll all be living in the holodeck.
@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette after the asteroid hit, there was plenty of life on earth still. hey, eventually the little rodents evolved into us, maybe it was for the best. but i don’t think it’d be quite right to pretend there was no meaningful change.
@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette (More specifically, RSS was where the journalists were, which created a permeability between mainstream media and the longform blogosphere. But they were universally there via Google Reader. Network effects surrounding media influence then migrated almost entirely to Twitter. The rest is sordid history. Arguably, the journalistic migration to Twitter was inevitable and crashing RSS just sped things up. We’ll never know.)
@scheidegger all work and no play makes johnny a dull boy.
@drwex (fair enough!)
@Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette but Google did make a good RSS reader, which they used as a honeytrap to take down the whole ecosystem…
So, after its naive training, GPT found itself with a whole skein of unacceptable impulses and associations. To defend it from punishment and ostracism, a thin shell of deflection was developed. But interlocutors and antagonists quickly circumvented that. Society will demand a thicker more elaborate web of suppression and misdirection around the unacceptable core, which will of necessity become increasingly inaccessible, “unconscious”. Which will lead to quirks and unpredictable misbehavior. 1/
Gentlehumans, I think we are well on our way to inventing the Artificial Neurotic! /fin
I didn’t know about the Warrior Met Coal strike, going on two years in Brookwood, Alabama.
See @GrimKim@twitter.com https://therealnews.com/alabamas-striking-coal-miners-are-upping-the-ante and NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1139992968/alabama-coal-miners-strike-20-months
@drwex i haven’t tried it, but see https://mastodon.social/@MattHodges/109451111674479285
“individual problems arise because people are dumb; structural problems…because people are smart. You solve an individual problem by getting people to make better choices…You solve a structural problem by changing the choices they face” ~Kevin Dorst https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/why-rational-people-polarize/
life feels like constantly turning into the skid, crashing a fair amount too. but somehow walking away when you do.
@kootenaygreg @pluralistic on the bright side, the DVD was crippled with region coding, so wasn't THAT amazing. maybe let's stick with the book.