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In Topic: Guns, control and culture.
16 December 2025 - 10:01 AM
Cause, on 15 December 2025 - 03:39 PM, said:I don’t know if it’s paid trolls seeking to destabilize the west, smarter trolls who do it for the love of the game or if some people are just that ignorant but social media is really starting to get to me.
Whether it’s comments about the paid crisis actor from the parkland shooting to being hired to be at two mass shootings or the tired whining of how Jews were so stupid as to plan two false flag attacks on the same day I can’t spend more than ten minutes on instagram before I come across some vile seek anymore.
I've been feeling this a lot recently. I miss when the internet meant, well, places like this forum. Wider social media has become so draining in general. There's no sense of continuity and half the content seems to be either bots or deliberate bad faith actors. -
In Topic: Algorithms and automation
15 December 2025 - 05:06 PM
I've always found this quote from Douglas Hofstadter very pertinent when it comes to AI-generated music (and other creative endeavours).
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Ever since I was a child, music has thrilled me and moved me to the very core. And every piece that I love feels like it’s a direct message from the emotional heart of the human being who composed it. It feels like it is giving me access to their innermost soul. And it feels like there is nothing more human in the world than that expression of music. Nothing. The idea that pattern manipulation of the most superficial sort can yield things that sound as if they are coming from a human being’s heart is very, very troubling.
I was terrified by EMI. Terrified. I hated it, and was extremely threatened by it. It was threatening to destroy what I most cherished about humanity. I think EMI was the most quintessential example of the fears that I have about artificial intelligence.
The fact that clever statistics can produce compelling creative pieces does not make me personally value the machines more, and I worry that it takes something away from the human pieces somehow. I already think that we kid ourselves about how advanced a species we really are vis-a-vis other animals, in the first place.
And it is closer to clever statistics than theft from what I know on the technical side, I would agree with Azath there (even if it can depend what exactly you do with the model).
The economic bubble will burst at some point but the scientific advances being made in machine learning are here to stay. I don't believe that all technology is neutral and morality is only a question of what humans do with it. But there seems to be an especially bad gap between the business models being built for AI and the actual potential of the technology. AI is not a neutral technology but it is not a gun either. It says something bleak about the state of our existing societies that we find ourselves talking about business cases like AI-companions, competing for attention on streaming services, and a wide range of dodgy and illegal behaviour ranging from cheating on homework to impersonation fraud.
A lot of discussion here looks like it has revolved around LLMs and copyright, but the technology has loads of uses and doesn't always need to be trained on human inputs so I expect the world will move past that phase of the debate soon enough. There are a huge number of jobs at risk whether that is blue-collar jobs like transport or white-collar jobs like marketing, as well as the moral and military implications of robotic warfare.
I'd argue that copyright and intellectual property were already creaking legal fields in the modern age, so AI is just one more nail for that particular coffin. But considering that politicians and regulators are struggling to even address topics like fake imagery and copyright then I have serious doubts whether we are equipped for the harder questions coming up. -
In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
02 September 2025 - 10:10 PM
I've just been offfered my dream job in the city where my partner lives. Turn up for the books. Life is great right now.