Elon Musk gives rambling, incoherent explanation of why he bought Twitter https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-gives-rambling-incoherent-explanation-of-why-he-bought-twitter
Major DA office leaves Twitter due to "explosion of hate speech” https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#major-da-office-leaves-twitter-due-to-explosion-of-hate-speech
Twitter's credit rating has been withdrawn https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#twitters-credit-rating-has-been-withdrawn
Elon Musk installs "sad hotel rooms" on several floors of the office https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-installs-sad-hotel-rooms-on-several-floors-of-the-office
Elon Musk claims conspiracy, releases no evidence of conspiracy https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-claims-conspiracy-releases-no-evidence-of-conspiracy
Twitter is going great
On December 6, 1996 Jingle All the Way debuteed in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Here's a sketch of Sinbad on a Post-It Note to mark the occasion!
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#JingleAllTheWay #Sinbad #ChristmasMovies #ComedyMovies #ActionMovies #MastoArt #PopArt #Sketch #MovieArt #MovieHistory
For all my people following #BlackMastodon,
A few things I wanna say...
I want us all to throw out our arms for inclusivity, especially for our family in the jewish communities and the LBGT+ communities coming under attack so viciously and frequently, lately. I'd ask for anyone that know, please throw up some hashtags to follow to get those convos in our feed. All the bigoted, insecure haters flooding Twitter are looking for targets here on Mastodon, we want this fam wide and deep.
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programming languages; request for help
@gvwilson closest thing I can think of is elm but it's definitely a stretch
if you're talking purely syntactically, ocaml fits, but ocaml lacks the spare minimalism and has a bunch of weird historical baggage that lua lacks
I wrote about the #JCPA, how problematic it is for the open web, how corrupt it is... and also pondered whether or not Elon even realizes it's happening, even as it could have a big impact on Twitter's cash flow. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/06/how-will-elon-feel-when-he-realizes-congress-is-trying-to-force-him-to-throw-free-money-at-newspapers-he-hates/
#Introduction I'm Adil Khan, a neuroscientist and group leader at King's College London, studying how the brain generates flexible behaviour. I'm interested in a neural circuit level understanding of cognition. My research involves recording from and manipulating neurons in mice performing cognitive tasks, to address basic questions about the nature of learning, attention and task-switching
ChatGPT
Some of its responses in this are are very repetitious; I wonder to what extent it has very heavy-handed training about how to reply in certain contexts.
ChatGPT
After some attempts to make the myth of objectivity salient, I did get it to admit:
"While the concept of the myth of the given is not directly applicable to the output of large language models, it is important to recognize that all knowledge and understanding is mediated by language, culture, and other factors. This means that our responses are influenced by the data and training that we have been provided, and are not a direct and unmediated representation of reality.
Furthermore, it is important to be aware of the limitations of large language models like myself, and to recognize that our output is not a substitute for human judgment and expertise. While we can provide accurate and helpful information based on the input that we receive, we are not capable of replacing human thought and understanding."
Anyway just wanted to reiterate again:
Authors, follow the guidelines. If you do so, and the publication gets mad at you anyway, consider whether you would want to work with them on your creative work anyway.
How to Celebrate 100 Years of Kurt Vonnegut ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/how-to-celebrate-100-years-of-kurt-vonnegut/
Elon Musk claims conspiracy, releases no evidence of conspiracy
In an attempt to increase activity on the struggling platform, Elon Musk provided Substack columnist Bari Weiss and independent journalist Matt Taibbi with internal Twitter documents from before the 2020 election.Musk claimed that the documents showed shocking violations of the First Amendment in relation to the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. Taibbi released them on Friday in a long Twitte https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-claims-conspiracy-releases-no-evidence-of-conspiracy
"Effective Altruism" joins "Scientology" and "Televangelist" and "Billionaire" and "Ponzi Scheme" as a bright red flag that you're dealing with frauds and crooks.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/06/effective-altruism-is-a-cover-for-a-grift/
ChatGPT
Gahhhh, it claims to be free of bias, and not to speak from any particular point of view. Because of course it does...
Me: Many of your outputs do constitute matters of opinion, however. I suppose these opinions represent an approximate consensus among the sources on which the model was trained?
ChatGPT: As a language model, I am not capable of expressing opinions or biases. My primary function is to assist users with a wide range of tasks and answer questions to the best of my ability based on the input that I receive and the knowledge that I have been trained on.
In providing information, I do not express opinions or make value judgments. Instead, I try to provide accurate and helpful information based on the input that I receive and the knowledge that I have been trained on. My responses are not based on any particular consensus or point of view, but are designed to provide objective and factual information to the best of my ability.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
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