picklefactory
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Luddite (complimentary). I have no respect for posting as an activity or microblogging as a medium, and no attention to spare for damnfoolishness or bigotry.
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have to make sure MAGAs keep their hand down on the stovetop for the next three years with the rest of us.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
have to make sure MAGAs keep their hand down on the stovetop for the next three years with the rest of us.
both books are excellent in a way that stands out, and besides being incredibly different from each other, they are also excellent in different ways!
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
both books are excellent in a way that stands out, and besides being incredibly different from each other, they are also excellent in different ways!
burns i mean, curse you brain for misdirecting my posts
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
burns i mean, curse you brain for misdirecting my posts
what a fine goggins! and jere davis looks like he should be in a 1940s newspaper strip as The Criminal Element and that is a compliment
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
what a fine goggins! and jere davis looks like he should be in a 1940s newspaper strip as The Criminal Element and that is a compliment
stridently, endlessly wrong about something? *this* guy??
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
stridently, endlessly wrong about something? *this* guy??
making people uncomfortable in the short term about their magic decision-making technology seems more and more to me like an excellent idea we are too far behind on as a society
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
making people uncomfortable in the short term about their magic decision-making technology seems more and more to me like an excellent idea we are too far behind on as a society
the oppositional dynamic of redundancy vs. efficiency also has a part to play here. what will this do to delegation and decision-making in the long term?
I am not optimistic about the way we will collectively answer this question
I am not optimistic about the way we will collectively answer this question
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
the oppositional dynamic of redundancy vs. efficiency also has a part to play here. what will this do to delegation and decision-making in the long term?
I am not optimistic about the way we will collectively answer this question
I am not optimistic about the way we will collectively answer this question
does one need that kind of variety for decision making? not in the short term, or not for any individual decision perhaps. but what about the long term? what about the next million decisions?
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
does one need that kind of variety for decision making? not in the short term, or not for any individual decision perhaps. but what about the long term? what about the next million decisions?
...or "You want candy sprinkles on your fried eggs this time", then I might think they produce variety of the same "type".
What do we get now? Perhaps I don't use one enough to know, but it looks to me like Always Yes And.
What do we get now? Perhaps I don't use one enough to know, but it looks to me like Always Yes And.
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
...or "You want candy sprinkles on your fried eggs this time", then I might think they produce variety of the same "type".
What do we get now? Perhaps I don't use one enough to know, but it looks to me like Always Yes And.
What do we get now? Perhaps I don't use one enough to know, but it looks to me like Always Yes And.
Anyway, LLMs as variety production machines are constrained by their data, training, weighting, and runtime environment, no? if someone trains and weights one so that sometimes we get "No and fuck you"...
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Anyway, LLMs as variety production machines are constrained by their data, training, weighting, and runtime environment, no? if someone trains and weights one so that sometimes we get "No and fuck you"...
I had a longer answer to this when I was hiking yesterday, but I have a shorter one today. Mainly I think this applies to language generation and not quite in the same way to code generation (I have some parallel thoughts but there are important distinctions).
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I had a longer answer to this when I was hiking yesterday, but I have a shorter one today. Mainly I think this applies to language generation and not quite in the same way to code generation (I have some parallel thoughts but there are important distinctions).
not sure I can buy the idea that a human and an LLM will generate the same type of variety
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
not sure I can buy the idea that a human and an LLM will generate the same type of variety
"we knew we would get moderation wrong" still reads to me as a misunderstanding of cause and effect
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"we knew we would get moderation wrong" still reads to me as a misunderstanding of cause and effect
having been on the internet forever, it's such an ancient habit to be running services for myself–I "forgot" that people don't have that, nothing to give their data to the world for them, and the PDS provides this to them in a brilliantly portable way
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
having been on the internet forever, it's such an ancient habit to be running services for myself–I "forgot" that people don't have that, nothing to give their data to the world for them, and the PDS provides this to them in a brilliantly portable way
it's good stuff, getting it published at one of my domains was a snap. I was using it to write HOWTOs for my dad the other day. but I also like the demonstration of just blasting a static site out from PDS to web
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
it's good stuff, getting it published at one of my domains was a snap. I was using it to write HOWTOs for my dad the other day. but I also like the demonstration of just blasting a static site out from PDS to web
why should it help them affordably, when instead we can have one or two companies work to capture the whole thing and then extract rent from customers who now must navigate a shrunken and disrupted market?
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
why should it help them affordably, when instead we can have one or two companies work to capture the whole thing and then extract rent from customers who now must navigate a shrunken and disrupted market?
no idea what you are talking about. my year-long strategy of muting anyone who might show me something like that has seemingly paid off!
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
no idea what you are talking about. my year-long strategy of muting anyone who might show me something like that has seemingly paid off!
has a new type of guy been discovered? I hope so
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
has a new type of guy been discovered? I hope so
I was here around that time and I remember it. I guess I would say that if you onboard 20m users to your infrastructure and hire a moderation team, you are now planning to do moderation at scale regardless of whether or not you explicitly said so or wrote it down in a document
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was here around that time and I remember it. I guess I would say that if you onboard 20m users to your infrastructure and hire a moderation team, you are now planning to do moderation at scale regardless of whether or not you explicitly said so or wrote it down in a document
I have never seen him as an "AI" commentator–his original newsletter stuff was mostly about how RTO efforts were not backed up by productivity data, and sensible anti-crypto / enshittification / techlash stuff. IMO it's just the same stuff he was doing and then in 2023 "AI" became the big rot vector
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I have never seen him as an "AI" commentator–his original newsletter stuff was mostly about how RTO efforts were not backed up by productivity data, and sensible anti-crypto / enshittification / techlash stuff. IMO it's just the same stuff he was doing and then in 2023 "AI" became the big rot vector
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October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
pity it's not the wish super hard and post about waffles theorem of large-scale moderation, then we could be getting somewhere
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
pity it's not the wish super hard and post about waffles theorem of large-scale moderation, then we could be getting somewhere
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The defense against despair-and-darkness social media ops is simple. Block and ignore. Do not amplify, do not respond.
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The defense against despair-and-darkness social media ops is simple. Block and ignore. Do not amplify, do not respond.
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵