LOL. That video is over 4 hours! Could you just timestamp the relevant part?

It isn’t just a matter of gullibility. People with mental illnesses have wound up with full-on delusions and some have even killed themselves after a chatbot convinced them to.

And yet, “having agency” is how they are advertised. That’s what the term “agentic” means. AI instances are called “agents”! That’s part of the marketing.

It’s easy to handwave this away as “people are stupid”, and there’s certainly some truth to that, but the reason why people believe that LLMs are agents is because tech bros have spent a lot of money to get them believe that. That’s also why they spread the myth that LLMs are potentially dangerous because they could become conscious and kill all of us. It helps to spread the myth of LLM agency. Of course they can’t become conscious, because that isn’t how things work. If LLMs are killing people, it’s because somebody put an LLM in front of the kill switch and they wanted to have plausible deniability. That is perhaps the most pernicious thing about LLMs: people using them to avoid responsibility. “It isn’t my fault! The bot did it!”

Oy vey, memes? No, that was terrible, too! Zero predictive value, and nobody can even define what a meme is. That’s why I’m glad that it got adopted as a term for in-jokes propagated through the Internet. The original term was just pseudoscientific nonsense. The analysis that got me onto this track was from Ward’s Wiki:

Memes are described as elements of culture, but culture is nothing but a broad generalization of large numbers of individuals. So it seems memes are to be treated as Platonic ideals, the essence within expressions that merely constitute their vehicles. No such essence is empirically accessible.

If you really want to rage, there’s a subreddit called r/myboyfriendisai, which was somehow even worse than what I was expecting. I can’t fathom how self-absorbed you have to be to get AI to simulate a love interest for you. There are some pretty absurd lengths that they go to do this, too.

The structure is a conversation even when who you’re talking to isn’t sapient.

but in some cases that’s literally banditery, so giving them money is giving in to bullying;

How do you think this works? “Hello, Mr. Criminal, I’m Government Man, here from the government! Please take this check and don’t do any more crimes.”

You’re right, they also need to clean up the lead.

Most of the people who work there don’t even care if you’re shoplifting.

Do you think that anybody who does volunteer work is insane?

If they wanted my vote, they should’ve nominated Bernie. That’s how voting works.

It wasn’t even a majority of Democratic voters. Only 14% of them voted in the primary. It was a very, very small number of people who selected Clinton.

The DNC didn’t give us that. The people did.

Where did I say anything about the DNC?

Winkly’s claim was that Sanders was the people’s choice. The votes show that Clinton was actually the people’s choice, by a wide margin.

Which “the people” are you talking about? Sanders had much more support with “the people” (i.e. voters in general), but was unable to get that support from “the people” in the core of the Democratic Party (i.e. the folks who actually decide who the nominee is going to be).

Never let the Democrats argue that they vote based upon pragmatism when shit like this happens. The pragmatic choice would’ve been Sanders.

The people voted for Clinton over Sanders by a double digit percentage margin. It wasn’t even close.

Okay, so they gave us Clinton by a double-digit percentage margin. That makes it worse, not better.

Biden won the 2024 primary by a more than 80 percent margin.

That’s because he ran virtually unopposed. For example, my primary ballot only had two options: “Biden” and “uncommitted”.

Can you imagine running in a race by yourself and still only getting 80%?

At least nobody voted for that evil socialist Jill Stein. She would’ve turned the US into Cuba and put people into FEMA camps!

Username is accurate.

The Democrats are right-wing. They’re the party of “nothing will fundamentally change”. They don’t care about whether or not you’re okay, unless you’re part of the 1%.

My first exposure to Joe Rogan was when he was on Penn Radio debating an astronomer (Phil Plait). The subject of the debate: Rogan believes that the moon landing was a hoax. He was very polite, and Penn couldn’t quit saying what a nice guy he was, but he did that annoying shit that conspiracy assholes often do where they pretend that they’re “just asking questions”.

This was 20 years ago. So, maybe his show wasn’t always like that, but for Rogan himself this is nothing new.

Bandcamp and/or Navidrome.

Yeah, I’ve seen much longer threads about things much less consequential. People like to argue online. More news at 11.