Case in point: your comment.

I’m on the left, but international internet conversations are always like this because people think “left = good” and “right = bad”, regardless of whether or not a country is heading into hyperinflation to sustain leftist policy.

People in the United States, suffering under decades of corporate centrism, have no reference point for leftist economic policies failing, just FDR’s programs which were pretty awesome all around.

I will buy this rock.

And disdain for colonial plantations! Let’s leave no fun unspoiled!

Just found out about the Twiddler 4–a single-handheld bluetooth keyboard. too damn expensive at over $200, but something I’d definitely try otherwise.

• a bluetooth remote if you don’t want a really long cable

“What we’ve learned by being excluded for who we are is to form a group that excludes others for not being exactly like us. This is social progress.”

Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?

My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.

Explain to me how it’s better than you learning to analyze your own work from a formulaic perspective?

Everytime you choose to use AI, you are choosing NOT to develop an ability of your own. Sometimes, that’s an ability that just tedious to use, other times it might be something you obviously need to do yourself, yet others the ability might be something with a tangential utility you haven’t recognized.

An analogy might be reading music exclusively. Great, now you can play a wide range of music–indisputably beneficial!–but the cost of developing your own ear.

Hm. Would an old smart phone do in a pinch as a replacement roku?

It’s great news. The only hope for these companies is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.

I’m thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.

I’m horrrfied that an LLM is your writing coach.

I thought it woud suck, but with the touch typing + consistent dictionary guessing, it’s really on par with the random chaos of a touchscreen keyboard.

MoU or not, an unstable region has been rendered even more dangerous by the unforced war of choice launched and America. The world will be coping with its repercussions for months, if not years.

Yeah, the Middle East is inherently unstable and then this totally unrelated foreign meddling happened. ::eyeroll::

Small production run + half-decent internals probably accounts for a lot of the price.

Having experimented with $100 underpowered flip phone on KaiOS, lack of apps was a real problem. What (some) people want is the slight inconvenience of a T9 keyboard and an annoyingly small screen to help them limit their screen time, but they still want full functionality of all their apps.

Wouldn’t a better idea be to write an extension that just pretends a bogus card number was accepted for multiple sites?

Not too bad. What really gets to me is the humidity.

I’m saying whatever a true AI is going to be orders of magnitude more complex than LLM’s. The idea that it’ll be a machine we can fully control is a layer of fantasy on an already fantastical concept.

Unfortunately, it seems that current LLMs are largely a black box, it’s already lying to us and hiding things. A super intelligent LLM would quite likely run rings around our attempt to monitor it.

I also think the indication is that a super-intelligent LLM would “want” something. I don’t know you have consciousness without it.

If it’s a super intelligence, why would it follow our instructions?

Our current dumb LLM’s are already being weasily little fuckers.