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Seeing so many people talk about being banned on .ml and dbzer0, I figured I’d check on my status.

Banned from three dbzer0 comms because “Anti AI troll”.

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

Indeed: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decision-making/article/on-the-reception-and-detection-of-pseudoprofound-bullshit/0D3C87BCC238BCA38BC55E395BDC9999

Thus, bullshit, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies but does not contain adequate meaning or truth.

We argue that an important adjutant of pseudo-profound bullshit is vagueness which, combined with a generally charitable attitude toward ambiguity, may be exacerbated by the nature of recent media.

The concern for “profundity” reveals an important defining characteristic of bullshit (in general): that it attempts to impress rather than to inform; to be engaging rather than instructive.

Now, I don’t want to speak too soon, yall… but I’m beginning to suspect that their solution to every problem caused by AI might be to use more AI.

It’s the passw daemon

There was a podcast in 2019 called Sleepwalkers, about how we were unconsciously accepting a new reality where AI controls crucial decisions.

One of their episodes was about this exact scenario, and how it was already happening.

The podcast is back with a new name to reflect the urgency of dealing with the topics presented in the original.

Kill Switch

Related post from when this was initially published: https://midwest.social/post/30021473

Except Python’s growth is from data science, not web dev (the subject of OP’s post, and the context in which JS is “dominating”)

Edit:

More relevant chart:

Shit is a crucial part of the food web. Please don’t insult shit by comparing it to this fascist.

“Is this trying time?” kinda works though

And then they run out of overhead room, so they check your bag for free anyway.

So they miss out on the revenue, slow things down, and add logistical complexity to a process that is already notorious for losing track of critical items.

The box is trying out a pet name

This side up please, Cheesecake

No regurts

Tale as old as time

Lots of folks in the US don’t really have an understanding of religion as a separate thing from nationality.

They think of “being Christian” as “being like the other white people in my neighborhood growing up”. End of thought.

So drinking beer, watching football, and hating taxes are all “Christian things” to them.

So when they say “Christians — and only Christians — died for this country”, they’re 100% correct, according to their understanding of “being a Christian”. Cuz to them it basically just means “being an American”.

There’s really no way to convince them otherwise. It’s like telling someone that Velcro is really called “hook and loop”.

Depends on the use case, and what you mean by “external dependencies”.

Black box remote services you’re invoking over HTTP, or source files that are available for inspection and locked by their hash so their contents don’t change without explicit approval?

Cuz I’ll almost entirely agree on the former, but almost entirely disagree on the latter.

In my career:

I’ve seen multiple vulns introduced by devs hand-writing code that doesn’t follow best practices while there were packages available that did.

I have not yet seen a supply chain attack make it to prod.

The nice thing about supply chain attacks though: they get publicly disclosed. Your intern’s custom OAuth endpoint that leaks the secret? Nobody’s gonna tell you about that.

For thousands of years, we’ve looked at the apparent effort behind a communication as a decent proxy for its trustworthiness (as well as other things like signals for social status and interpersonal respect).

We’re hacking very fundamental aspects of what was basically our first and most important invention. I think it’s a big mistake to blame user error.

We’re not rational automatons. That’s just a fiction that the wealthy use to accumulate power. “A rational person wouldn’t get exploited by us, therefore our exploitation is beyond reproach.”

People with no clue about AI are exactly why a dumb-as-a-brick LLM could very well end up destroying the world.

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