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@things-stronger-than-fear
going to do a tbosas liveblog now that i have digital access to the movie. will be tagged hope's tbosas liveblog if you want to blacklist!
(yes i've already seen it but if you think i'm going to be normal about it just because i've seen it before... lol no. haha.)
ehh i've decided to just queue up all my Super Totally Witty Comments because it feels less like i am spamming the universe that way. still going to be tagged.
all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb
not to show my jock colors on this my nerd blog but the whole fucking point is that it's for love of the game. sweat over it or get the fuck out. i'm no gatekeeper but if you're using ai you're not even playing. you're trying to pave over the baseball diamond and make it a parking lot.
@elodieunderglass At NO POINT in this video did I know what was going to happen next
Oh wow. Thank you so much for thinking of me!!
(don't worry, the stuffies are fine; they're just helping with A Project.)
some of my best friends i met at the devil’s sacrament
generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???
There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that.
Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.
"This tool replaces thinking," is a technology problem we (humans) have faced before. It's a snark that I've seen pro-AI contenders take as well: I bet these same people would have complained about calculators! And books!
Well. They did, at the time.
We have records from centuries -- even millennia back -- of scholars at the time complaining that these new-fangled "books" were turning their students lazy; why, they can barely recite any poems in their entirety any more! And there are people still alive today who remember life before widely available calculators, and some of them complained -- then and now -- that bringing them into schools dealt a ruinous blow to math education, and now these young people don't even know how to use a slide-rule.
And the thing is:
They weren't wrong.
The human brain can, when called on, perform incredible feats of memorization. Bards and skalds of old could memorize and recite poems and epics that were thousands of lines long. This is a skill that is largely lost to most of the population. It's not needed any more, and so it is not practiced.
There is a definite generational gap, between the people who were trained on slide-rules and reckoning and the generation that was taught on calculators. There came a year, when that first generation grew up and entered the workforce, when you suddenly started encountering grown adults who could not do math -- not even the very basic arithmetic needed to count down from one hundred. I would go into a shop, buy an item for sixteen dollars, give the cashier a twenty and a one because I want a fiver back, and have them stare at the money in incomprehension -- what do? They don't know how to subtract sixteen from twenty-one. They don't know how to calculate a fifteen-percent tip. They did not exercise the parts of their brain that handle this, because they always had a calculator to do it for them.
Nowadays, newer point-of-sale machines compensate for this; they will automatically calculate and dispense the change, no subtraction necessary on the part of the operator. Nowadays everyone carries a phone, and every phone carries a calculator, so if you need to do these calculations, the tool is right there. As more and more transactions go electronic and card, and cash fades further and further out of daily life, these situations happen less and less; it's not a problem that most people can't do math (until it is.)
The people who complained that these tools-that-replace-thinking would reduce the ability of the broad population to exercise these cognitive skills weren't wrong. It's simply that, as the pace of life changed, the environment changed so that in day-to-day life these skills were largely unnecessary.
So.
Isn't this, ChatGPT and Generative AI, just the latest in a long series of tool-replaces-thought that has, broadly, worked out well for us? What's different about this?
Well, two things are different.
1) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the cognitive skill that it replaced was a discrete and, on a day-to-day basis, unnecessary outlay of energy. Most people don't need to memorize thousands of lines of poetry, or anything else for that matter. Most people don't need to do more than cursory levels of math on a day to day basis.
This, however, is different. The cognitive skill that is being obsoleted here is more than "how to write essay" or "identify what is the capital of Rhode Island." It encompasses the entire field of being able to generate new thoughts; of being able to consider and analyze new information; of being able to follow logical trains to their conclusions; of being able to order your thoughts to construct rational arguments; or indeed of being able to express yourself in any structured way. These cognitive tools are not occasional use; they are every day, all the time.
2) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the tool was good at what it did.
Calculators may have replaced reckoning, but calculators are also pretty good at what they do. The calculator will, as long as you give the right input, give the right answer. ChatGPT cannot be relied on to do this. ChatGPT will tell you, confidently and unhesitantly and dangerously, that 2+2=5, and it will not care that it is wrong.
Books may have replaced memorization, and books certainly could be wrong; but a fact, once in a book, is pretty stable and steady. There is not a risk that the Guy Who Owns All The Encylopedias might wake up one day and decide -- to pick a purely hypothetical example -- that the Gulf of Mexico is called something else, and suddenly all the encyclopedias say that.
Generative AI fails on both these counts. It fails on every count. It's inaccurate, it's unethical, it's unreliable, it's wrong.
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I remember some time ago seeing someone say (it was a video about medieval footwear, actually) that "humans have a great energy-saving system: if we can be lazy about something, we are."
This is not a ethical judgment about humans; this is how life works. Animals -- including humans -- will not do something the hard way if they can do it the easy way; this basic principle of conservation of resources is universal and morally neutral. Cognition is biologically expensive, and though our environment is not what it once was, every person still goes through every day choosing what is valuable enough to expend resources on and what is not.
Because of this, I don't know if there is any solution, here. I think pushing back against the downhill flush of the-easy-way-out is a battle both uphill and against the tide.
So I'll just close with this warning, instead:
Generative AI is a tool that cannot be trusted. Do not use it to replace thought.
An observation as of late
Worldview punnett square. Which are you?
anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??
Do you ever see a complicated meme that expresses a very specific feeling, and while you wouldn’t have said it that way, it instantly resonates with you?
Lucy Gray should be proud to know she haunted that evil man every damn day of his fucking miserable life
Which man.
maybe i'm just not a big enough hunger games fan but i have to say it feels very weird the way some people seem to perceive suzanne collins and the hunger games. like she's infallible and exists on a higher plane of morality or smth.
(this is not a suzanne collins critical post btw it's a "some of y'all need to stop pretending that you know exactly what's going on in suzanne collins' mind" post)
it'll be like "she would NEVER approve of these movies" and yes i realize that lionsgate has publishing rights, but she writes more thg books KNOWING that lionsgate is going to make these movies out of them. for years i saw "suzanne collins is the best bc she wrote an original trilogy and then left it instead of clout-chasing with a bunch more books", and then here we are today with tbosas and sotr. similarly ppl will be like "why are people just buying the hunger games to read for CLOUT this is CAPITOL behavior they don't DESERVE these books!!" but if suzanne wanted to write political books for a smaller audience she could just write books outside of the hunger games universe. and then there was "guys stop asking for haymitch's games you guys are JUST like the capitol for that suzanne will NEVER write that" but then she writes sunrise on the reaping and it's all "oooo new hunger games book". and ofc now there's "suzanne wrote sotr because people thirsted over young snow in tbosas" and bestie she didn't have to write tbosas at all if she didn't want to give snow a sympathetic* backstory. and whenever there's fandom discourse there's always a bit of "wow you are falling for the CAPITOL PROPAGANDA!!" bc obviously suzanne put all these bits of propaganda in the books as some sort of misdirect so that the Good Fans could band together as the ones who See Through It.
everyone needs to chill. pls.
*we can argue all day about whether snow has a "truly sympathetic" backstory, but she did not have to make him a poor orphan boy if she did not want to. she did not have to make him follow lgb to d12 and she did not have to make lgb write "pure as the driven snow" about him. she did not have to make him cry after sejanus and she did not have to make him get bit by the snake under the scarf. she did not have to write a backstory at all if she did not want us to consider who president snow was before he was panem's tyrant.
**also yes i am aware that in many of these dualities it's not necessarily the same people who are going "suzanne would never!!" and then cheering it on when she does
If i see ONE MORE POST OR REELS OR SHORTS about Suzanne Collins writing SOTR because of Coriolanus Snow thirst trap, I will make my own Coryo thirst traps.
i just saw a post on reddit titled "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don't like the direction it's going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" should be the new "don't like don't read." dead doves may give you diarrhea but don't make that everyone else's problem.
this is why tags are important! It's just like a list of ingredients.
Idk there's something really sweet to me about fix-it writers. Like, me and you- maybe we couldnt make it this time, but in another universe, a million people saw the pain of our story and are writing us a happy ending, giving us the chance we never had
when did “lmao” become shorthand or w/e for “i’m fucking suffering”
lamenting my anguish online
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy CATCHING FIRE (2013), dir. Francis Lawrence
Rachel fan casting Kit Connor and Tom Blyth into Disney roles
Snowbaird as gingerbread cookies!
(The brainrot has reached critical levels someone should send help)
i'm genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can't believe i never tried this before. all these years i've been limiting myself needlessly
i've created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. that's nerd shit. he is going on a lad's night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he'll put his fingers in his ears and go "lalalala"
i feel it's important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn't get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who's like, "just so we're clear, he was wrong about basically all of that."
This is genius
