lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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bovigender pride flag, by @arina-artemis (click for more info)



hellgnoll
@hellgnoll

I have gotten in a lot of conversations recently where i keep coming back to the frustrating point that there fundamentally is no thought process involved in LLMs. They are not imitating thought, even. They are using a statistical model to imitate the past output of creatures which verbalized their thoughts in writing

The problem though is that society as a whole directly correlates being able to verbally communicate with exactly how intelligent a subject is. Less verbalization == less intelligent. Aside from the clear eugenics of this, it has a flip effect where 99% of the population is wholly unable to conceive of a machine that could speak in the way which something with thought would have. But that’s all it is, it’s a shadow box, a puppet show of how verbalization communicated thought, generally, in the past. But there is no ghost in this machine.

And it fucking sucks because every time i see some asshole buy into thinking “AI” (by which they really mean LLMs or even just ChatGPT) has even rudimentary thought, I know for a fact they would think i am fundamentally less “intelligent” because i go nonverbal sometimes. I know that dehumanization comes just as easily as this anthropomorphism comes for the machines. It’s a cruel double standard.


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in reply to @hellgnoll's post:

oh this is giving me a whole new reason to be very peevish about the new "well some people NEED large image models to Express Themselves artistically, it's ableist to say they're bad!"

idk it just feels like people are really telling on themselves that deep down they only view certain kinds of expression as real and legitimate and everything else as like an interesting party trick at best. they're just couching it in pseudo-radical terms.