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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • While the observations are true, the characterizations of this article are completely wrong.

    What’s plausible is that AI genuinely changes their information based not only on what you speak but how you speak.

    LLMs work in associative thinking patterns. People who speak in a similar way often know about the same of specific topics. And because AIs are lords of the common and average, these broad stroke patterns are just regurgitated back at us.

    It’s just like racism in policing: black people often land in prison. And a part of that is racism on it’s face: police think less of black people.

    But another big part is obscured systemic racism: if you’re less educated or more poor, you have a higher chance of doing criminal things. And black people generally have less access to good education or wealth. It’s not causality, but it’s an indicator and a noticeable and patternized correlation.

    And I think this is exactly what we see here. The AI hasn’t specifically been trained to be classist and racist, but it’s just throwing those patterns back at us and finally visualizing underlying classism and racism in our real world.

    AIs sure do a lot of bad, but in this case, the bad thing already happened before AI became involved. At least that’s my humble opinion.







  • I second syncthing as a solution.

    I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

    What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.





  • “Not every ‘WTF micro$oft’ moment is a slam dunk,”

    Brother, your quotas of shit hitting the fan is reaching fecal velocity of new degrees. Your company’s current state of existence has absolved you of the right to a balanced perspective.

    What I’m trying to say is it’s never gonna Microsoft 100% of the time, but at this point no one trusts you, and you’ve earned that, and now you have to live with the consequences. I know this Microsoft contact is probably not the reason, but he is still working there, and that means he deserves some of the blame on a constructive level.