Notices by Jesse (misc@mastodon.social), page 8

@jdp23 @trochee @kissane @damon I'm not sure I agree we have a sufficient set of tools. I think there's a lot we can do in between what we have, and what existed on Twitter, which had no guardrails and therefore had a real tendency toward public shaming spectacle that I understand why the anti-quote people would be afraid of recreating. We shouldn't limit ourselves to the best tools we had before.

@ThisPlaceAgain To be honest I had a little bit of a sinking feeling when I first saw your posts a few days ago because I was like "oh no, some people aren't gonna take well to this." I thought about saying something to warn you, but I felt like that would just make me the friendly face of the whole racist complex trying to quiet you down. And maybe things had gotten better? But I guess not. UGH. Damnit Mesha, I want names. Who is driving you out of here. We can't stand for this.

@ThisPlaceAgain I am so mad. I saw this before I went to sleep and I had trouble getting to sleep. It makes *me* want to quit the site, and anyone who knows me knows how addicted I am. What the hell is wrong with people.

@boby_biq @ThisPlaceAgain Honestly there should be a bat signal for racist fuckshit, and a volunteer ally brigade to come in and tell people to cut that shit out.

The real killer app for augmented reality is gonna be real life closed captions.

@goatsarah Yeah he was definitely dramatic and I wouldn't have stuck with it without the context that they were friends. It's interesting though, I listened to it with my partner, and it blew our minds too, but we agreed not in a way where we were upset, but kind of just delighted and in love with how amazing and varied brains and experiences are. Humans are so cool!

This seem fishy to anyone else? We don’t know anything about the design of this AI system. It seems like it wouldn’t have been able to come up with these strategies unless it was more or less coaxed. (Key concepts/associations planted in its training set, or basically run off an LLM that includes stories like this…) https://mastodon.social/@craignewmark/110470812091221525

@benbrown @silverwizard Can you explain for the layfolk?

@film_girl @vaurora I always just assume that the fact that I don't need them means I'm not who they're for. I don't want to second guess people who have a harder time. It does get a little overboard here - but I think mostly because its use blends into post titles / category metadata. In general CWs just seem like a nice courtesy, not something to be uptight about, in any direction. (Unless it's, like, flashing lights.)

I want to check out Friendica, any recommendations? (For a server specifically, but other tips are welcome too. Ditto for other Fediverse things I should try out.)

@acdha @apodoxus @vaurora My unified theory of the Less Wrong Rationalist AI Doomer complex is that these are people whose whole sense of self worth derives from being good test takers in school, which led them to invest a lot in the idea of intelligence as a single, innate, quantifiable thing. Source: this was almost me.

@joolia Jury's still out on this one - though we're up to 2 potential leads now! ?https://mastodon.social/@misc/110062023613801469

@fediversereport Oh well. Though I think we could already use new approaches to following interests, so maybe it's for the best.

Realizing what should have been obvious, that hashtag subscriptions as they currently exist will soon be untenable in many cases, because spam.

Someone needs to make a federated LiveJournal before the people clamoring for even longer posts get their way.

@fediversereport Truthfully hope we come up with a new word. But lowercase for now.

@adamconover Never heard of a writer with low self esteem or anxiety issues, no sir

I hate the STEM Uber Alles attitude and think it's a threat to public education and by extension the fabric of society, 100%. At the same time, not knowing how to code feels like a kind of illiteracy to me. Not because I want to do it professionally necessarily, but because I have so many ideas I can't just go ahead and make. It feels like my capacity for expression is stunted.

So what I'm saying is, teach coding in schools, not because it will help kids get jobs when they grow up. Teach it as a liberal art.

@jplebreton I started going down that road the last time I was isolating from my covid infected partner. I was already freaking out about Ukraine being potentially the flashpoint of WWIII, and a google search led me to LessWrong, and I was off to the races. Fortunately, well argued retorts and risible stuff like this helped me walk back from the brink of literal insanity.