Notices by Les Orchard (lmorchard@hackers.town)

@murph @benbrown @Wrewdison @cypnk 492905, here

@murph Yeah, it definitely didn't agree with a lot of folks

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery

When I was a little kid, I attached a blob of playdoh to an electric motor and let it flop around on a table.

For a good 10 minutes, I was spooked and convinced I'd made something alive. It moved rather randomly and even seemed to lunge at me occasionally.

But, you know, it was not in fact alive. Any life it apparently had was assigned & extrapolated by my own mind. Handy for quickly reacting to things that might be coming for you through the trees, but not exactly an accurate instrument of assessment.

Whew, this ChatGPT shit is just a great big security exploit against human theory of mind innit?

I'm being continually astonished by folks attributing confidence, intent, and lying to this thing that's just a clever algorithm recombining source material.

It's not a confident actor lying with intent, it's a system serving up confident lies sourced from human actors