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idea inspired by @justcakethanks, literally came to me in a dream lol
people raised some good questions on that marrocrow post about what vader would think of two inquisitors dating so here's some potential answers <3
i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america
for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.
at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".
okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that
if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.
i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations
(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)
#also FORAGING FORAGING OH MY GOD STOP CIRCULATING AMERICAN FORAGING INFORMATION UNMARKED AS SUCH#this is maybe less of a widespread issue than the politics and law stuff but FORAGING ON INFORMATION FROM THE WRONG CONTINENT CAN BE FATAL
Related medical information. It's not just whats edible, you need to know what diseases or parasites you can get in your country. You need to know what shots to take, you need to know if Lyme or TME or rabies or tapeworms are an issue. (Showing my european pov here but these are all serious issues in the Outdoors you wouldn't know about from american info sources! other continents will have different diseases/parasites you need to be aware of!)
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i feel like the hatchling might have some opinions about geology
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Alright I want to know something here:
the 🙃 emoji means (approximately)
silly!*
ugh!*
secret third thing you will explain in tags*
*if comfortable doing so, you may include your age range/generation in the tags for helpful demographic data
kindly reblog for bigger sample size, thanks!
Me and my partner use it as light smile. For when 🙂 is too much joy but it's still positive. Like "do you need something from the market 🙃", "Hows it going 🙃" "oh its working now 🙃". I would be so lost if anyone used it as a neg indicator
is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society
chatgpt is a tool trained to do repetitive tedious work for us tho. chatgpt/claude/gemini are also deployed in science and r&d contexts that advance medicine and technology for everyone. there are still times where it's useful to have specialized models that don't do natural language or audiovisual output, but they're working on the same technical foundations as the models that do (linear algebra + large dataset go brrrr).
you don't have to like your experience with these tools for them to be incredibly valuable to society, and you don't have to concede the point that these tools also have large negative impact. it's simultaneously true that generative ai is awesome and makes your life better and generative ai fucking sucks and makes your life worse!
chatgpt/claude/gemini are also deployed in science and r&d contexts that advance medicine and technology for everyone
SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE
FUCKING SOURCE THIS FUCKING CLAIM
a couple of tiny pilot studies specifically on the process of using LLM tools are not adequate basis for such a fucking claim
show me something where it's not being used for 'idea generation' like the tiny pilot study where it was used to generate speculative antibiotic structures
show me something where they're using it specifically place of existing, far more robust, far more traceable machine learning tools
show me where they're using it for something where the total lack of insight into the decision making is simply not necessary to add value. show me something where the nondeterministic output is valuable.
I'm going to shoot people who say this directly into the sun. I'm going to start with that fuckwit who wrote that shitheap article for arstechnica that tumblr loves and keeps quoting a completely unfounded (and wrong!) paragraph saying essentially this.
Fucking SHOW ME. If you believe it, why? If you want to convince me of it, tell me why I should believe it.
Everybody get in line for the cannon; it's time to visit Sol up close. Seriously I'm gonna end up in the fucking news if people say this without literally any fucking basis.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-just-solved-an-80-year-old-erdos-problem-and-mathematicians-are-amazed/
that good enough for you
Nope! Are you kidding?
Piss on the poor arse website strikes again.
It's not a research paper. There doesn't appear to be a link to paper in it. It didn't even meet the threshold of a tiny pilot study (which I said was inadequate). It was also (allegedly) used for idea generation which I specifically called out as not fucking sufficient.
Let's get into the article.
Did you read the fucking article? It's not subtle that it's marketing. It is phrased quite peculiarly when referring to what the LLM and the people using it did, right? Isn't that interesting? Christ, it's not even clear if the LLM was used at all!
The company OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, announced the result
If that following some bullshit about how stupid humans are didn't tip you off, this should also make it extremely clear:
OpenAI privately contacted Litt, Sawin, Gowers and a number of other mathematicians to verify the LLM’s proof. Together (and without the company’s direct involvement), they wrote up their individual takeaways. (No external experts have seen the AI’s original output, however—just an edited version of its train of thought.)
This is a marketing campaign
This format is extremely common for trying to market LLMs as useful. These are all over the blog/news section of LLM companies. There's heaps of these in 'reputable' pop science and tech magazines and they're often summaries of internal 'research' the LLM company has done with an interesting lack of information; there's no output or history of the interaction with the LLM, and the standard of proof is trust me and the math nerds we bought, bro.
Literacy is dead.
If you cannot read this article and understand it is a marketing campaign and that there is a lot of distracting fluff and exactly zero evidence to support the positive claims about LLMs, prestigious universities across the world offer free 50 level/introductory courses on English. Community colleges can help hook you up, too.
Functional literacy is a skill we can all improve.
Further entry level courses about how science works will also help you understand why it is actually despicable that this article was ever published outside the LLM company's blog and disguised as scientific journalism.
Next!
You never specified that you wanted a research paper. Way to move the goal post. Second, there's absolutely no reason to be so hostile? If you really wanted people to interact with you, there is no reason to use that kind of language. You wanted a source, you got a source. I never heard anything bad about this journal that would dismiss it as an uncredible source. And third,
>trust me and the math nerds we bought, bro
You really think, for example, Terrance Tao was bought? He's one of the people who talk openly about using AI in their work, and the best living mathematician of our lifetime. Because, what, universities don't pay enough? Those are not "math nerds", those are academics and scientists, and that you think they are "nerds" able to be "bought" speaks to how little you value the scientific community.
is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society
chatgpt is a tool trained to do repetitive tedious work for us tho. chatgpt/claude/gemini are also deployed in science and r&d contexts that advance medicine and technology for everyone. there are still times where it's useful to have specialized models that don't do natural language or audiovisual output, but they're working on the same technical foundations as the models that do (linear algebra + large dataset go brrrr).
you don't have to like your experience with these tools for them to be incredibly valuable to society, and you don't have to concede the point that these tools also have large negative impact. it's simultaneously true that generative ai is awesome and makes your life better and generative ai fucking sucks and makes your life worse!
chatgpt/claude/gemini are also deployed in science and r&d contexts that advance medicine and technology for everyone
SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE
FUCKING SOURCE THIS FUCKING CLAIM
a couple of tiny pilot studies specifically on the process of using LLM tools are not adequate basis for such a fucking claim
show me something where it's not being used for 'idea generation' like the tiny pilot study where it was used to generate speculative antibiotic structures
show me something where they're using it specifically place of existing, far more robust, far more traceable machine learning tools
show me where they're using it for something where the total lack of insight into the decision making is simply not necessary to add value. show me something where the nondeterministic output is valuable.
I'm going to shoot people who say this directly into the sun. I'm going to start with that fuckwit who wrote that shitheap article for arstechnica that tumblr loves and keeps quoting a completely unfounded (and wrong!) paragraph saying essentially this.
Fucking SHOW ME. If you believe it, why? If you want to convince me of it, tell me why I should believe it.
Everybody get in line for the cannon; it's time to visit Sol up close. Seriously I'm gonna end up in the fucking news if people say this without literally any fucking basis.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-just-solved-an-80-year-old-erdos-problem-and-mathematicians-are-amazed/
that good enough for you
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book!grace is such a cringefail loser he doesn't even know the definition of the cubic root. confidently wants to make himself look smart and competent and is just wrong 💔 average stem teacher moment
I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.
but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs
Happy Pride from me & my genderqueer weirdos! Bucket, who lost its mask and is now inhabiting a bucket; Astra, my first Baldur's Gate 3 character, and their kitty Us; and Ben & Sophie, guardians of a more peaceful world.
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