Clement Tahershamsi @Clementulus@social.cleverlibre.org

@mattdovey Hello there. I know a few that can do it fluently (one of them even taught me) are you looking for a specific regional dialect or is any good?

@intink Ok, important #occult question: is your foundation Eliphas Levi's "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie." Or Court de Gebelin's "Monde Primitif"

@shansterable But I was told that inflation was Putin's fault.

@Melbin_Mike Britons brengulfed in bregret brinvestigate brevery bravenue of bregress from brexit.

@maxkasy If you block me after I won't blame you.

Ok, here is the brief: I had just read this brilliant paper-in-progress by @maxkasy : The political economy of AI regulation: Towards democratic control of the means of prediction (https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/handbook_politicalecon_ai.pdf) and the seed of a story was planted in my mind (literally a unique experience for me). I couldn't ignore it so on a 12-hour night shift I hammered out the first draft. Well, here it is:
https://ctahershamsi.wordpress.com/
Love it or hate it, let me know (hell, just to know someone actually read it would be amazing.)
Oh, content warning, it's a horror with sexually explicit content and references to mental illness and self-harm. Be Warned!
#shortstory
#horror
#ai
#machinelearning
#dystopianfuture

@ng76 I tell my D&D buddies that storytelling/role-playing games have been around for a very long time and they are baffled. I once even saw a note in a very old book on Tarot cards that they were used as a storytelling card game during the 15-16th centuries in France (abd possibly elsewhere). A group would just take turns drawing cards and weave the character or concept shown into a shared story.

@brianbilston

@maxkasy I think that the layout and flow of ideas are well done, it is already easy to follow even for a casual reader. In the finished product, having examples of the formulae being used in real life situations relevant to the field of AI will help drive the points home immensely.

I am in agreement on the level of principle both in regards to how goals should be conceptualized in terms of human welfare, and in how the means to propagate predictive algorythms (not to mention mundane social policy) should be democratized. However, (as much as I hate to admit it) I do not believe that our global society has the maturity to properly implement change in either of those areas as of yet, whether talking about policies surrounding AI or any social policy for that matter. In terms of social wellfare: In our globalized economy, it is impossible to divorce decisions made in one nation, to effects felt by others so formulae that seek to measure human wellfare would need to include all 8 billion of us and any change we would want to make would require a very robust and cooperative world government. Sadly this seems very far off, especially when considering the current regime's efforts to secure climate accords, and those deal with a literal existential threat! In addition to lack of consideration between nations, the governments within most (all?) these nations seem to be composed almost exclusively of members of very specific castes (I am using this term somewhat facetiously) and these actors seem to have very little incentive to even include members of lower social status in their wellfare calculations, acting as they are with predictable self interest. But how are we to blame them for this self interest, if it is displayed more or less equally by all members of their respective societies?

I do not mean to disuade your endeavors, by any means! But the realist in me insists that if we are to have some positive developements in the areas you examine, there may need to be some underlying changes in the individuals who comprise our global society before this can happen.

@jcmacomber Some flavours only fully develope while the cook is dancing.

@brianbilston Could also be titled "Love in the Sheets". Love the poem btw.