Notices by Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)

@tchambers he was active both on threads and here at @stevesilberman and he def enjoyed Mastodon and valued it. A number of us who knew and valued him have been posting about him today, usually tagging his handle, in case anyone wants to jump in. Funny, he knew so many cool people I can't even remember Alex Winter coming up, and he's pretty damn cool

@MaryAustinBooks @stevesilberman a friend just shared this magnificent post of Steve's. Among his many great qualities was the way he took his Buddhist practice seriously.

@knittingknots2 @KamalaHarrisWin I was for awhile, and I still like his energy, but ultimately I got tired of all his predictions that turned out wrong. Throughout Trump's term he frequently and firmly predicted this or that was about to take Trump down, usually based on some claimed insider knowledge. After a few cycles of that I tuned him out. He's certainly committed to the anti Trump fight, and is a fun hype man, but he was just relentlessly, confidently wrong too much for my taste.

@tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

So obviously it's time to get serious about putting a stake thru the heart of the NYT as it currently exists. Anyone have a clear image of how much of their revenue comes from the lil games they have that are so popular? I know this sounds crazy but y'all might need to give those up at some point, hopefully that isn't too great a sacrifice 🙄

@wallamidyl @mikemathia
- Tet Offensive changes the political dynamic around Vietnam early in the year. This is a major factor in Lyndon Johnson's withdrawal from race for re-election (which is a huge deal)
- MLK murdered
- Orangeburg massacre (cops kill black students)
- massive Civil Rights and antiwar protests across the country
- RFK murdered
- law enforcement strikes on Black Panther and similar orgs
- massive conflict at the Democratic Convention

That's just off the top of my head lol

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@bastianallgeier @tchambers may I suggest an alternative?

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@Stoneycase if it's any consolation, a second Trump term and ascendant fascism would create a large, oppressed underclass over the course of a few years. So if you're right we should be balling out in another generation

@Jerm being a freelance NBA fan with a casual extra interest in the home team is more fun than it sounds

@Guy @spencerbeswick I believe she's the single most important author in the development of SFF into a modern art form

@kellogh @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov it's true that LLMs can generate novelty in a recombinatory or juxtapositional sense; after all, that's precisely what the "hallucinations" aka bullshit results are. They're novel constructions; it's just that they don't relate to reality, they are not true. There are many possible statements about any given real world situation, but many fewer true ones, and the LLM has no ability to distinguish truth. We see this in the chemical modeling...

@kellogh @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov where the model generates seemingly very large numbers of new possible chemicals, drugs or proteins or whatnot. But then experts review the results and say most of them are implausible or useless.

You can generate novelty through randomness. Novelty itself isn't value, because most new statements about the world haven't been uttered before precisely because they're false. The problem here is that the bullshit sounds "truthy" as Colbert coined it.

@kellogh @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov fundamentally the issue to me is that these are not cognitive systems but they are being treated as if they are. They're linguistic pattern matching systems. That's not what minds are. The methods an LLM uses to arrive at output have no parallels in modern cognitive science. So why would thought-like states emerge? It's like throwing soup ingredients in a blender and expecting a working car to pop out if you just keep adding carrots.

@chopaganda @FlashMobOfOne my wife re read the article and said that 1) it was *really* mean, 2) Estevez and the other central figures did come off like total pricks, and 3) Mccarthy was barely in it.

Most notable to me was that Mccarthy thought everyone young thought they were cool; my friends all thought they were Reagan Youth yuppie cokehead clowns. And just a brief mention of race, nothing about the overt racism, and nothing on the insane misogyny? Literal date rape as comedy?😒 🙄

@chopaganda @FlashMobOfOne this whole Saint John Hughes thing is garbage. Some of his big brat pack movies stink (yes, breakfast club is largely good) and the way women are treated in some can't be handwaved away. I appreciated that Molly Ringwald wrote about some of that recently, and wasn't surprised she declined to join the party.

Guru Demi Moore was cool though. And Ally Sheedy still seems like a dope person.

@Jerm oh I agree. It's just funny when the celtics media stans throw themselves in front of Tatum criticism that hasn't even happened. It's like they're trying to protect him before he needs it by setting the narrative. I like Doris but I'm already tired of hearing from her about how "mature" he is when he isn't scoring

@Jerm doris really wants you to think it's not about points for him

@siege the bit about blind studies is a bit kafkaesque. The fact that there's nothing like it that isn't it is kind of the point. The long slow struggle continues

The only reason I still have this game on at all, even muted and set aside, is because the after show seems likely to be the last proper #insidethenba segment ever. Yes, there's a good chance some of the guys will move to one of the new broadcast partners, NBC or Amazon or whoever. But the vibes seem to indicate that Ernie might not go if that happens. And if that's how it works out that'll be sad.

Shaking loose of Draymond will be good at least though. Nobody likes that dude #nba