Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@khm @inthehands I wonder if this has legal implications for their bypassing it... 😈

@heapwolf https://codeberg.org/

@aeva @dreid This is absolutely something that could be built on the distributed autonomous identity system I have sketched in my mind. It's intended to support having all sorts of trust graphs with different semantics and different concepts of trust built on top of it.

@dreid @aeva Starting with Wikipedia and treating all references that have been there a long time without being edited out as legitimate crawl paths, would seed a very viable crawl and pagerank-replacement root for noncommercial searches.

the "trans sports just went too far" thing makes me completely crazy because the people whose whole thing is getting mad that trans children partipate in recreational activities are obsessed with kid genitals and have "give every soccer team a larry nassar" as an explicit policy goal

trans people in general are being broadly punished for refusing to abandon giving a shit about children.

and its apparently on trans people to carry the entire fucking load for team "maybe we should not put those freaks that keep yelling about little kid penis in charge of the medical requirements to play juvenile sports"

@tezoatlipoca @aeva And like social networking, this is a problem that fundamentally will never be solved by capitalist businesses and hierarchical power structures.

Thinking a search startup has any hope of solving what's wrong with Google is as foolish as thinking Bluesky had any hope of solving what was wrong with birdchan.

Like with the fedi, the only way this problem will be solved is with real decentralization of power.

@aeva It's interesting and difficult, but I don't think anywhere near as astronomically difficult as Google and Microsoft want you to believe it is.

You don't need to hammer every site every day. For the most part, information worth indexing does not change frequently. You also don't need to even bother with a site once you've determined it's SEO-slop.

@tezoatlipoca @aeva Exactly. It's an actual hard problem, and SV startup types don't like hard probems. They like flashy things that latch on to media cycles to sell to gullible readers of the tech press.

Anti-LLM folks, and I'm one, ask over and over again, why do so many people, like his secretary, need the LLMs as safe and trusted confidants?

It's not cuz the program is a safe or trustable confidant.

It's not cuz they're stupid.

It's cuz their lived experience in the world has robbed them of any belief in safety and trust, and the program, no matter how silly, apes that experience.

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Oh, he noticed it. He coined the "ELIZA effect", he told the story over and over again, usually with a chuckle. But he only looked for answers in the program.

He never seriously wondered if the answers were in her lived experience in the world. And above all, he never asked if he might try to change that experience.

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Weizenbaum's ELIZA raised so many interesting questions, but the one he never really asked, never even thought to ask, is still there now, and is all around us today.

What, in his secretary's life -- not in that silly little program, but in her life -- made her feel the profound need for a safe and trusted confidant?

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@aeva They supposedly "buy indexes from Google", whatever that means. My understanding is that they do a little more doctoring of the results that direct resellers like ddg do, but AIUI they are not actually crawling and indexing the web like a real search engine.

@aeva Just use a custom search URL to get working results rather than paying another bad reseller of Google/Bing results.

See also: https://goblin.technology/@dgold/statuses/01KS27XN21KCBNMPWN93GRQXA8

"What other Epsteins are out there and what do they have on who" is a question I'm asking myself now and then these days.

@jonny i rather see the same problem used and used over again which is called capitalisme.
any invention is at the end used for economic gain, capitalisme and power.
AI is not the problem, what "we" do with it, mostly for own profit and control is the problem.

@maxine @janpet The story on FUTO is here: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115259232020176340

@maxine @janpet Here's my original thread about it:

Who gives a single shit how good the "AI" can code when the purpose of "AI" is and always has been enclosure of all information in an ad-driven surveillance platform. If you love LLMs, this is the future you, yes you, are actively helping create.

@m3tti @jonny Organizing to deliver concrete harm to the people doing this beyond any level they can ignore.

Education doesn't scale. There are billions of people to educate but <100 monsters behind this all.