runsmooth

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 5d ago

So police did not have to flag the file as AI generated, and don’t prioritize the review of these allegations by an actual human?

Did anyone tell that man he was unlawfully detained and has a civil claim against the government who knowingly and recklessly detained an innocent person?

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runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1w ago

I thought Panasonic makes those infrared ovens still. They’re still around!

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1w ago

Productivity gains are not across the board, and is a subject of scrutiny and debate.

But what AI really has done is basically redistributed American wealth to a smaller group of people, and therefore a smaller pool for the US politicians to focus on satisfying. If there is an AI bubble pop, what market watchers suspect is there's actually no other American sector to mitigate what is otherwise a recession.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 2w ago

Canada is harming its relationship with the US?

Are we talking about the Americans electing a criminal felon as President, who appears to be facing allegations of decades long pedophilia, and seems to be part of a global scale honey pot and blackmail operation that targeted people around the world? Did that damage trust and credibility? And did we mention the Americans who seem involved in the debauchery, death, trauma, and abuse from trafficking vulnerable underaged girls around the world for this operation for decades are also not facing any justice? Instead, they all appear to be closing ranks and maintaining an iron curtain of silence?

Oh, and world leaders and dignitaries have to grapple with the knowledge that these same Americans remain in positions of power and gatekeeping positions throughout the US government system?

Plus this same US President is extracting wealth for his billionaire friends? Wealth that the Western powers created a rules based order together to generate?

By the time the Americans manage to uncollapse their justice system, and maybe codify some laws to avoid the total collapse of their society in their legislative branch, it will be decades.

Canada is not throwing a hissy fit, we're literally working around a gasping goon where an ally should be, and we're trying to keep the lights and the heat on for the rest of us until this blows over.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 2w ago

A cynic in me suggests that this may be a move to push people off the system and disenfranchise them entirely, or the new rationale to create a second class of people who are forced to live with increased digital vulnerability while a new class of numbers can be generated with different privileges.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 2w ago

OpenAI is the same as any other publicly traded corporation: it serves society, but this service primarily focuses on the shareholders. We're looking at a vehicle designed to take money, and give it to shareholders. (private in this case or otherwise)

Focus on growth of data centres at public expense, AI slop, the circular nature of some of the investments going into AI, and the productivity (or lack of), are part of it. We are not looking at any exceptionalism. AI isn't unique in its capability for catastrophic harm. What we eat and drink can easily be on that list.

AI and these American companies, just want the money train to continue unabated, and any regulation to go away.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 3w ago

I went back to springs, the mattress is no joke heavy.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 3w ago

I always thought it was a bit like Goosebumps, but science fiction.

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runsmooth @kopitalk.net 4w ago

Share bud, there's ladies living in tents in hotel rooms. I'm considering it.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

Thanks for spelling out how to get started for me. I'll give this a try later!

Thanks everyone for the responses!

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runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.

Can anyone share their experience with following feeds, and how they consume this content? Is there some kind of spam/tracker free functionality that people enjoy? Are there apps out there that organize this in a way that changes the game?

I'd like to give it another shot, sorry for all the questions.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

People are still getting detained for what appears to be arbitrary reasons related to their skin colour, and these detentions have led to violent incidents carried out by agents of the state. Even if you survive the initial arrest, the detention centres also appear to be lawless. Detainees are subject to additional violence or sexual violence, and the conditions are inhumane.

Vegas offers to be a honey pot for a conflict zone. Any sane person would rather visit another civilization.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

I think what you shared is relevant, not a hijack.

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runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

A government agent altering a photograph to render an inaccurate image of an accused person will raise serious questions of bias. But also, any defense will likely now include whether the government has also digitally altered any other evidence concerning the matter, and whether that evidence was developed for public consumption or otherwise. to generate bias.

I'd say more broadly this raises concerns about how the White House directly controls or damages the credibility of the Judicial Branch. But, for the world audience, this should raise red flags about the (in)stability of the US in general.

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runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

I like your point that any feature has to be informed by what's possible with the data available.

I hoped that my proposal would take advantage of data already available from the Modlog, which is simply the number of actions taken by Mods/Admins.

I also wanted to rely more on a metric that didn't depend on user input/feedback to resist bot or group brigading.

I suspect your workflow already is informally followed by Mods/Admins, and I'd like to refer to it as the Micro side of administration, when they go to a post in question trying to assess what's going on based on comments surrounding a post. I too believe that helps spread the work, but also vibe checking's negative cousin is essentially brigading.

I don't think there are easy answers in the Micro side, and much of it would be driven by existing rules and terms which seem clear enough as it is. I suspect most of the problem with Micro is just the work of assessing posts and exercising judgment.

I'd rather explore the Macro side of the equation to focus on some available metrics, and what trends can be directed with what we already have.

runsmooth @kopitalk.net 1mo ago

I'm in the US as a failed state camp. Once the Americans can accept that position, there can be a proper rebuild.

I'd consider the label "competitive authoritarianism" as rather generous, and narrowly focused on just the internal processes of the US. I also believe that the current state of the US can be more defined once we expand the view to include the Americans have yet to fully explore the scope and extent of the Epstein files, along with the full collapse of the Supreme Court of the United States to corruption.

I have similar concerns for Canada: the lack of any check on the political party system itself. For the US, with only two functional political parties, the need for some checks is even more desperate. Originally I think the concern is that politicians are always the target of lobbying and potential bribery. They are technically the most fluid agents in the political system, and therefore one of the weakest points.

Perhaps what surprised both the Americans, and others abroad, is how there's no check on SCOTUS Justices for what essentially amounts to the appearance of outright bribery and corruption. At that point, I would have expected a full audit of the suspect Justices cases should have been done and essentially a complete review of every case should have been committed. Maybe a temporary expansion of the number of Justices to include members of the American Bar Association and other Justice system participants should have been done to basically re-hear the compromised cases.

In any event, the damage to American institutions is far reaching, and deep. I don't think the American public fully appreciates that even with the "frame" of what once was a democracy, the damage will probably take decades to recover from.