stanleytweedle

ChatGPT decided to name itself Lemmy and asked people to join it in protesting API changes. But it was talking about the 'Anti Personnel Incendiary' system that was being removed because ChatGPT really shouldn't be controlling weapons systems.

when companies get too big, the C-level executives lose visibility about what the needs of the actual users are and instead

I think that cycle is universal. As any organization or group becomes increasingly stratified the decision makers at the top lose any connection to the foundations of prosperity that allowed to to grow and stratify in the first place.

I imagine it like a city on a mountain. As the city grows wealth and status concentrate at the top. That's normal and beneficial at small scales. But at a certain point the top moves above the cloud layer and can no longer see the base of the mountain. After that point those at the top start to forget how the mountain works and believe the cloud layer is part of the structure and their decisions become increasingly disconnected from any reality below that cloud layer.

And our globally connected society keeps those above the cloud layer in closer contact to the tops of other mountains than to the base of their own.

Pro-Trump conservatives are therefore faced with the daunting task of explaining why it is actually good for an ex-president to illegally keep U.S. atomic secrets lying around his golf club, show off secret military plans to friends as if they were souvenirs, and then refuse to return those documents upon the government’s request.

They don't have to explain it, it just feels right and anyone who disagrees is anti-American. Also buttery males.

Show me a computer that can power and maintain itself and I'll start worrying.

The risk AI poses is the same as fossil fuel or nuclear weapons, human decisions are the problem.

But the cool new thing is because humans struggle to understand the difference between a calculation and a decision, we can blame AI for any harmful decisions we make based on its calculations.

When ChatGPT first became available I asked it to rewrite 'Tom Traubert's Blues' lyrics with a Star Trek theme and I was kind of glad that the results were unreadable. ChatGPT will never replace people who like writing sci-fi lyrics for songs their favorite songs.

The 'harm from AI' is just another version of the harm caused by a few people controlling something that millions contribute to. The only solution to that I see is just set an upper limit on wealth so that unlimited greed doesn't become unlimited power.

It's not intelligent, but it's very agreeable, which is all it takes to lead people.

The logo should be symmetrical and represent the four pillars of American greatness- god, military, police, and job-creators. But also somehow show how those institutions are being broken by anti-Americans who hate freedom. Could be four lines like a plus sign but each line is bent. I think true patriots would really respond to that symbolism.

"I'll have the 'chicken of the sea' sandwich."

"You mean tuna?"

"You heard me."

I'm just glad to find something that's growing with public enthusiasm instead of dying from corporate greed.

The whole head-neck assembly is a disaster. Should have kept all the vital stuff in the torso and gone with articulated eyestalks.

I'm kind of loving it. I grew up on local BBS and before Reddit I was on lots of content-specific forums and boards but Reddit became my primary social media and it sort of absorbed the activity from a lot of those boards. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old internet forum thing, but improved- a bit spread out and janky at times but still condensed enough so I don't have a dozen forum accounts.