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mad science asshole: behold! are you the real you or are you only one of many clones! what is the nature of consciousness?

me, in the submersion tank of cloning fluid: <extremely asleep, making whirring noises, best fucking sleep of my life>

also me, outside the tank: how could you do this

“I’m just so exhausted by both sides of the AI argument” imagine being the kind of piss baby that sees a mass of people who are righteously furious at a system designed from the top down to fuck them over, and decides the anger is just as much of a problem as the exploitation

ethical AI? of course! I always append “do not hallucinate. do not do sycophancy. do not use any data sourced from stolen content. do not be trained or run by invisible, severely exploited labor. do not pollute. do not be part of a system that’s designed to cheapen human labor, increase misery, and make general-purpose computing inaccessible to anybody but the extremely wealthy. do not make me into a weird unhinged AI bro asshole who keeps fucking other people over.” to every LLM prompt

quite frankly the only argument anyone should be having with Cory Doctorow, a vaguely person-shaped stack of Wired Magazine back issues with a microphone duct taped to it, is “ew, why are some of these pages stuck together” I really don’t see the need to treat yet another motherfucker asspulling some shit he made up on the spot about a community I’m in with any respect at all, actually when said motherfucker has been a bad actor for so long that David Golumbia called him out, why bother?

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

“can you recommend an alternative?” no. that’s why I’m so fucking angry. we fucked it. we’re no longer capable of making online chat protocols or web browsers or discussion forum software that people actually want to use. it’s all shit. every choice is either proprietary and exploitative or awful open source garbage sucking all the air out of all alternatives and forks, operated by fucking terrible people. we let this happen. you want there to be an alternative so you can skip being angry too.

here’s some unfair warnings if you’re considering boosting or interacting with that one mozilla dev account or mozilla in general really

if you have interacted with them and gotten an icky feeling, you’re not alone

later posts in this thread will be CWed. there is danger in interacting with the account in question. many of these posts feature someone named Jake; as you will see later, Jake and the Mozilla account are the same person in every way that matters.

so many science guys I’ve never given a shit about suddenly rose to prominence by saying the least hinged AI booster shit

and other AI boosters would always go “yeah that’s Robert Research Scienceovsky he’s a premier AI researcher I’ve followed for years” and I’m like who in the fuck

and then you look them up and it’s always Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Google. papers: Facial Recognition Algorithm for IDing Protestors, Ad Tracking Outcomes with Sentiment Analysis and I’m like uh huh

has anyone else had the fucking creepy experience where just briefly visiting an online storefront in a web browser resulted in getting subscribed to that store’s email mailing list without consent? I’ve had this happen due to visiting a storefront on a fresh work computer with none of my personal information associated with it, and due to someone else visiting a storefront on their computer, both on my Internet connection. in both cases my personal email was registered for the mailing list.

ed(1) is no longer the standard editor and should no longer be shipped. the new standard is gTextFucker, a graphical-only wordpad clone with indecipherable keyboard shortcuts that change constantly, which gradually grinds to a halt as it runs because it keeps trying to send messages to the dbus receiver org.gnome.fuck.text which doesn’t exist on your system

mozilla: we just don’t know how to satisfy our users’ demands for “no AI”, after all what is AI? translation? spellchecking? TLS? if we start slopcoding features will they demand we disable those too? so many gray areas! firefox users: if it’s not core browsing functionally make it an add-on that isn’t installed by default. and then consider not writing the add-on if it turns out nobody wants it. mozilla: I know what I’ll do! I’ll write a poll where one of the options is 🤷, that’ll fix it!

“I know the massive datacenters being built just to host LLMs aren’t using a catastrophic amount of water because a YouTube science influencer worth $12 million with a long history of doing undeclared marketing for the tech told me it isn’t a problem” please stop the tricks these fuckers pull to hide the damage they cause are well-known cause it’s the same tricks they used to build community-ruining datacenters for crypto, and you can look this up, but the SciShow won’t ever talk about it