the thing about racism is it's not exclusively aimed at Black people! Native people, asian americans, latinx people! they count too! and if you broaden your view, you cannot ignore that racism is deep in white people's dna in this awful country.

it was more blatant and often slightly earlier in the south, but there's many black historians who are constantly pointing out that the things the south did were happening all over the country. fucking Oregon banned black people in its constitution.

we have to find better ways to talk about what humans are doing with LLMs. the interface is text, but it is more akin to programming than communication. the humans did not "convince" the LLM, and the LLM is not trained like a dog, it is trained indirectly. it's all so annoying.

think that's the punchline to a "who named them 401ks instead of" construct

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit

OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS

THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

not wrong!

the specific thing Jeong was calling out is that millions of people have been taught to read by guessing which word makes sense in context rather than looking at the letters to see the actual word. it's terrifying!

we need systemic feedback loops of accountability, regret, and loss of reputation. we have not even begun to experience what a true cancel culture looks like, because the backlash was against the smallest amount of accountability imaginable.