zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Technically right in that it doesn't necessarily translate audio into text, but that's hardly the point. The point is someone gives the LLM a giant table that directs its response.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I think you grasp the point, it is exactly what an LLM does

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Being critAI is being proAI.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China has HOAs....

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Rinsing the rice helps reduce arsenic levels.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Makes me wonder why we even bother with burying radioactive waste.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or parents with strollers.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago

Someone give this person a congressional hearing and billions of dollars to burn

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's what follows the signifiers that's the tell

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, using the word "capitalism" is a signifier, but I wouldn't say it's counterproductive. Based on a person's response you can quickly conclude whether they have the historical context to understand the critique. Defining capitalism as "a market-based" system is ahistorical , markets existed before capitalism. It is very hard to surface the critique while also writing a wall of text that describes how capitalism came to be and how it was later moderated

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The issue is the term is meaningless if it isn't grounded in history. If it simply means "the system you live in" then it says nothing of how it came to be and what can come after.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

And if we had universal healthcare it would actually be cheaper to produce those cars. Canada is proof of this.

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