SJ Klapecki (should be writing)

If you ever doubt yourself or your qualifications for a single moment just know that bsky hired this guy

--"decide to alter its code" or "decide to write a poem" or anything without input. no matter how long it leave it running, it will always wait and do nothing until it has some prompting data. that's not. life. or consciousness. or awareness. it simply isn't, under any philosophical model i respect

every example of an LLM acting in a conscious manner is in fact it responding to a set of prompts that means it would not have attempted those behaviours without human prompting, nor will it change those behaviours without human prompting. it can do kind of neat stuff if you tell it to but it cant--

like this is my problem with LLM models as conscious actors fundamentally - there is no hint of desire, interest, or anything which has not been implanted into it. there is no instinct, no will to do something. thermophilic hot-spring sludge displays more independent action and thought than an LLM

if anyones definition of consciousness doesn't include "acts on its own accord without needing to be prompted" then it is in fact a fucking shitty model that allows for rocks tumbling down a path to be considered conscious

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

essay titled mario the idea versus mario the man. it was graded as an F. the essay reads: Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck. But who knows what he’s thinking? Who knows why he crushes turtles? And why do we think about him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent?) Dr Pepper? Perchance. I believe it was Kant who said “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts all day, but he exhibits theory by stating “Let’s-a go!” Keep it up, baby! When Mario leaves his place of safety to stomp a turty, he knows that he may Die. And yet, for a man who can purchase lives with money, a life becomes a mere store of value. A tax that can be paid for, much as a rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. We think of Mario as a hero, but he is simply a one percenter of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. Perchance.

this is how i talk irl btw

Crucifix the size of a whole human, painted very pale to look dead, with a golden loincloth. There is a translucent tarp over, as though someone wanted to hide the dead body but not too much.

I just got back from a baptism. The main church was under renovation, so it happened in a side chapel. However, in the main church, they put Jesus under a tarp and he looks like a goddamn CSI murder victim

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

Humanae vitae is one of the funniest papal proclamations to me because its "we assembled a crack team of theologians, lay people, cardinals, and more to tell us if contraceptive is a sin...oh fuck, they gave us a nearly unanimous answer of 'no it isn't' shit what do we do now uhhhhhh BAN IT ANYWAY"

slamming "the guilty homosexual" and "the religious homosexual" so hard they merge like a drunk on the 12 lane freeway

The War Queer goes kind of hard actually

dont bring this "Jean-Pierre" and "Luc-Marc" shit into the English language we're awful enough as is

Markwayne is not a real name. It simply isn't.

good lord

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which if that name means anything to you makes the fact im about to run a podcast with a jewish person about our two religious backgrounds REALLY fucking funny tbh

I was blessed by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger

I like how the takeaway here is that you literally can no longer trust tech news because it's all written by a bunch of chatbots designed to Make Plausible Sounding Shit Up instead of actually being like, the result of actual announcements and research and shit.

i work on fucking volunteer-run mods for video games with better and more unified PR

im sorry fucking odin?? Odin???

oh so you literally just stole this meme directly from me when I sent it to you I see how it fucking is

uh oh @why.bsky.team did I bring up a sore subject?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

damn this omelas place is sick as hell, so many delightful consumer goods and amusement facilities! boy I sure hope it doesnt have some kind of awful secret it's all built on!

He sexually harassed her until she killed herself by setting herself on fire

“we accidentally built a social media app with over 40 million users where you can block the mods with a single button. plz don’t do it tho or we’ll be mad 😡”

like jesus fucking christ, the sheer depravity of people who insist that God loves them despite their actions is reprehensible. i genuinely think there's something broken in the human fucking soul when they say shit like this