Don't get me wrong, I welcome this policy, I just wish the "one line zinger" was a little more detailed, because if you come away from the article without reading on (or, more realistically, if secondary sources pick up this quote without the surrounding context), one could easily get a wrong idea.
Your critique of Modern Monetary Theory does not suggest that your study of the concept has been comprehensive enough to include glancing at the Wikipedia page about it.
The policy summarizes itself this way: It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.
Saying that "it's fine" seems a little overly broad, because sometimes it isn't, but I suppose that by "fine" they simply mean that it's not forbidden by the policy. A more complete summary would also mention that where it is allowed, disclosure of LLM use is required.
Personally, on the few occasions where I've resorted to querying an LLM it's been very much the same kind of experience that using Stack Overflow used to be. It's a quick way to see one way that other people have done some thing, but you wouldn't want to rely on it being the right way.
I see no reason why advocates of MMT wouldn't have the same kind of reaction I do to the spending on oil pipelines, the military, the capital gains tax cut, the new ministry for AI, the new ministry for online censorship, the carbon capture idiocy — you're spending how much on what!?
People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn't federate with it so I don't see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it's gotten worse. Not that it's an "echo chamber" and I don't mind hanging out with communists, but there's too much low-quality noise.
Personally I wouldn't block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.
Protecting children from accidentally seeing anything slightly sexy is naturally the top priority. That's what is harmful to minors. We better all stick to legally safe things like racism-based disinformation.
... but yeah, the designers of mastodon deliberately chose to avoid posts any longer than very short.
For most of us, thinking random thoughts about it while in the shower is probably not the most effective way to gain an understanding of the mathematical details of quantum mechanics.
a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies.
[some random tech bro] suggested that based on its size, the data centre proposal before the city was unlikely to be an AI data centre, claiming it wouldn't be economically viable. A quick search of Ontario's corporate registries determined the owner of the land also runs an AI software company.
AI software companies are not going to hesitate to do a thing just because it's not economically viable.
Normally I get around it by using Tor browser which works 95% of the time since it's a totally normal-looking web browser — but here they've got the settings turned up so high that not even that works. It's unusual enough that it probably wasn't an accident, so telling them about it probably won't help.
It would be an excusable mistake even if it weren't inadvertent which it easily might have been. Unless he makes a habit of it I don't see why anyone should care at all, let alone repeatedly demand that he apologise and try to make a national news story out of it.
So it took them twelve years from the time they introduced systematic website blocking — in a futile effort to protect copyright — to start blocking forbidden knowledge about women's reproductive health. I wonder if that is faster or slower than average when it comes to making such progress.
Just common sense innit? You've got more money, you get more votes. It's practically a law of nature. Trying to enforce some other system would be going against the natural order of things. It's the best way to maximise shareholder value.
Nyah!
As was said elsewhere on the Internet:
What are those, ghost penguins?
Your critique of Modern Monetary Theory does not suggest that your study of the concept has been comprehensive enough to include glancing at the Wikipedia page about it.
Saying that "it's fine" seems a little overly broad, because sometimes it isn't, but I suppose that by "fine" they simply mean that it's not forbidden by the policy. A more complete summary would also mention that where it is allowed, disclosure of LLM use is required.
Personally, on the few occasions where I've resorted to querying an LLM it's been very much the same kind of experience that using Stack Overflow used to be. It's a quick way to see one way that other people have done some thing, but you wouldn't want to rely on it being the right way.
I see no reason why advocates of MMT wouldn't have the same kind of reaction I do to the spending on oil pipelines, the military, the capital gains tax cut, the new ministry for AI, the new ministry for online censorship, the carbon capture idiocy — you're spending how much on what!?
People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn't federate with it so I don't see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it's gotten worse. Not that it's an "echo chamber" and I don't mind hanging out with communists, but there's too much low-quality noise.
Personally I wouldn't block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.
Protecting children from accidentally seeing anything slightly sexy is naturally the top priority. That's what is harmful to minors. We better all stick to legally safe things like racism-based disinformation.
... but yeah, the designers of mastodon deliberately chose to avoid posts any longer than very short.
Is that a whole tomato in there? And a carrot? Chew your food better.
Alternatively, make the picture more and more blurry and have people try to recreate the text.
For most of us, thinking random thoughts about it while in the shower is probably not the most effective way to gain an understanding of the mathematical details of quantum mechanics.
See also: Why businesses lie about AI
The link is presumably meant to be to this: https://blundervalley.ca/blog/what-flipped-hamiltons-vote/
AI software companies are not going to hesitate to do a thing just because it's not economically viable.
Normally I get around it by using Tor browser which works 95% of the time since it's a totally normal-looking web browser — but here they've got the settings turned up so high that not even that works. It's unusual enough that it probably wasn't an accident, so telling them about it probably won't help.
Scroll down that page a bit and you'll see the message at the bottom stating it's Cloudflare.
Site owners can configure cloudflare to block half the world if they want to, as they appear to have done here.
It would be an excusable mistake even if it weren't inadvertent which it easily might have been. Unless he makes a habit of it I don't see why anyone should care at all, let alone repeatedly demand that he apologise and try to make a national news story out of it.
So it took them twelve years from the time they introduced systematic website blocking — in a futile effort to protect copyright — to start blocking forbidden knowledge about women's reproductive health. I wonder if that is faster or slower than average when it comes to making such progress.
Just common sense innit? You've got more money, you get more votes. It's practically a law of nature. Trying to enforce some other system would be going against the natural order of things. It's the best way to maximise shareholder value.
Sex and drugs are fine but don't neglect your rock and roll.