Thiiis. The insiders need to laud the goals of protesters and the protesters need to ease off on the “complicit” insiders a bit. We are on the same team, and the combination of approaches is more powerful. Disagreeing on methods is fine, you pull, we push, momentum baby.

There are ways to resist short of burning shit down. The idea that this is a dichotomy is exactly the “yet you participate in society, interesting” meme.

What fucks with me is that you can’t control all the variables. School and peers can outweigh the ideas you try to put forward. I feel like I’m working on deprogramming more than I actually have a chance to teach already and my kids are only small.

Every UI is made for widescreen ratio right? So maybe one portait for reading is cool, but what else do you want it for?

“undetectable failure rate”. Not at all, we can detect failures by critically reading the output, just as we would with, say, a newspaper article. I think part of the danger is that we might start to think of an LLM as a reasoning calculator, rather than treating it like a person: biased, conflicted, malicious, whatever.

“AI slop is punk” has the ring of when brew dog claimed they were doing a “punk” equity offering. 😂

Vibe coding is dadaist. If you say so, but I figure intent matters…

Yeah, I the flaws define the character, more even than the relationship with Watson in my eyes. I quite enjoyed Johnny Lee miller in “elementary” the same way for actually being shown struggling.

Superhero Downey Jr type holmes’ are fine in their own way but sort of misses the point.

Perfect example! Quarks taking their name from finnegans wake! Sure, science is more than poetry, but the poetry of it is pretty important to scientific culture (and therefore to making progress).

Sorry to disappoint you. Most scientists love poetry. People that can express the principles of our fields beautifully are our heroes. Watch talks by eminent scientists: they are more often than not exceptional communicators as well as thinkers.

It’s models all the way down. We don’t have access to some ultimate truth. Rather as you delve deeper the model is able to predict more accurately esoteric corners of reality, and/or more parsimoniously tie together the empirical facts we know.

“what really happens” is for dogmatists. If your model has no blind spots you probably haven’t been imaginative enough.

Right, pretty funny that this is parroted so thoughtlesly. I mean i see where it comes from but also… so obviously false.

Exactly, you think it’s all personal responsibility. That the economics of culture have no impact (or are desirable?). Totally ignoring that access to culture is not deliberate. There are massive network effects and constant, unavoidable advertising. Your very tastes are shaped by society around you.

And lol at lemmy as an example. Social media and content aggregation is even more homogeneous than film/print/music/food. The fact that tiny countercultures exist doesn’t disprove that.

“stop importing American culture” - you blame the consumer here no?

“diverse” so long as you like the ubiquitous: hamburgers, Taylor swift, marvel movies. Increasing American cultural dominance is the opposite of diversity.

“It’s the free market” is honestly just such an American argument it’s spectacular. Chapeau to you and the others riding that particular horse. You illustrate the point perfectly.

Euchre can be gambled on right? So at least there is some angle where it’s “undesirable”.

Eh its a meme at this point. Everyone knows to what you’re referring and recognises the shared experience of overconfident stupid people. Everyone educated on the topic understands that it’s a pop psychological misrepresentation of some very interesting work.

I wouldn’t say it shows a lack of education. If anything it’s more prevalent in populations that have had an excess of a certain type of unhelpful “executive” education.

It’s not a culture fair observation to be sure. Your Nobel prize winners I guess we’re old (hence part of a generation when smoking was more widespread). There are also countries where smoking is more or less universal.