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Cake day: November 17th, 2024

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  • AI doesn’t make things up: It “believes” (doesn’t actually have belief) a real thing just as much as a false thing. The two are indistinguishable to LLMs because the only “true” thing for a chatbot is the existence of text and tokens. Everything else is meaningless to the math.

    Does my sewer pipe have imagination because is spewed black goop across my kitchen instead of carrying my waste water away like it normally does? Is my TV hallucinating a new show because the screen got damaged at the factory? Did a printing press create art when it smudged the text on my paperback?

    LLMs are tools with a high defect rate which tech billionaires and the media branded as hallucintation to sound more impressive.





  • The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

    Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

    • Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
    • Windows “helpfully” cleaning up your Linux bootloader
    • Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a “dirty” state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

    And suddenly, that’s where you’ll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.


  • My local martial arts club had a rightwing woman join around spring 2021. Almost immediately she brought kind of chuddy energy to our meetings which really sucked. However, she wasn’t outright violating any of our rules about hate speech or accepting other people.

    At first we tried to ignore her, but she didn’t take the hint and kept showing up even when most members stopped speaking to her in complete sentences. Then we passed a rule saying that you couldn’t participate in club events without being vaccinated. She threw a fit and called us all pharma sheep before quitting in a huff, and we got to enjoy our hobby again.

    If this happens again, I’m personally going to skip straight to making their membership untenable.