@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-05-26 12:51:54
Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
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This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-06-26 05:39:00
Tataaaaa.
Der 25.06.2025 geht in die Geschichte ein.
Zumindest offiziell registriert sind nun eine Million #Balkonkraftwerke mit einem Zuwachs von >1000/Tag.
#Balkonsolaranlage
@pre@boing.world2025-06-26 17:04:54
Dear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-26 09:14:11
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Ludwig van Beethoven, Budapest Festival Orchestra & Ivšn Fischer:
🎵 Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: 1st movement, Poco sostenuto - vivace
#LudwigvanBeethoven
https://open.spotify.com/track/43UYRM74EqgvTMeTbv3w77
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-05-27 00:47:33
I tried to gentle Bob B last summer but he refused to accept my other cats and escaped the first chance he got. He started showing up at the barn a week ago and we now feed him regularly
#cats #catsofmastodon #photo
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org2025-06-27 10:22:07
New 3 year #phdPosition in our department on building Trustworthy AI
#AI
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-07-26 13:45:30
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 06:17:45
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-25 16:39:55
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Wet Leg:
🎵 catch these fists
#WetLeg
https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/track/catch-these-fists
https://open.spotify.com/track/5yz4ZfLeZ3VdqDM2l8wjjg
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 06:17:45
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.