you're like the dr manhattan of posting

Let me know if you find a solution. The loss of clarity of message is hard to swallow. Especially as English proficiency wanes in the population, I'm struggling between the desire to simplify my language so that people can understand me, and the desire to be Erudite and Articulated.

It might help to focus on the social aspect? "That's fucked up" might convey parts of what "that's crazy" would.

good point good point

I think it's good that you're not numb to the sight

Yea but consider this: number go up!

Yeah those seem like pretty good times. I pick running back up each springtime and it's always more like, "very slow jogging" so I don't even record my times!

i think you're wrong about this. anyway, time to read the news.

I always got the vibe that the scorn was for people who were doing it just to look good but didn't actually care or were fairweather friends. Like, if you're an ally you should be doing it because it's right, not going around bragging about how good you are to those poor, benighted trans people.

On the other hand sometimes people take it a bit far and are dismissive like you say, which I can get, i understand it, I don't think anyone should be too broken up about it. But it does suck to feel like you're trying to do the right thing for someone even though they seem not to really like you very much.

It's complicated I think. It's good to express appreciation for people being with you, but at the same time you don't want to feel like someone is lording something over you.

God willing. 🙏🏼

i am hooting and hollering for this for you hoppet

I do think the borderline scorn toward allies, in addition to just like kinda sucking, was a horrible tactical move that set things back pretty badly (and like tbc I was totally on that bandwagon back in the day, I am not immune to social trends).

I think there's been a lot of nuance lost in the sense of like.... "It is not anyone's personal responsibility to praise an ally for being an ally" is true, but that is NOT the same thing as "allies should perpetually be on thin ice and shouldn't get praise for anything short of heroism and if they want to feel good about doing small good things that's proof that deep down they suck actually"

To the extent that anyone "deserves" anything, people deserve praise for doing positive things whether that's doing the dishes or deciding to stick up for marginalized people whose circumstances they might not viscerally understand. We are all just silly little monkeys made of meat and positive feedback has really consistent effects on our little monkey brains! That tiny little tickle of reward for doing the bare minimum makes people want to do the bare minimum more, and makes it easier/more appealing to take bigger steps past that bare minimum!

The boom-bust cycle of tech is well known, and the AI one we're going through is one of the most clearly prepared for I've ever seen. Microsoft in particular is set to cash out once the bust goes through, the terms of their investment in OpenAI is such that when they bust they essentially get the whole company with no fuss. Meta is the only company that seems to be hugely exposed to failure once the bust happens (massive investment but little to show for it, the rest of their company is hurting very badly) but they're the only company I can see actually being hurt. And I'd be surprised if they actually disappear, I'm sad to say.

The only thing that could actually hurt these companies is if Chinese technology is allowed to flow freely into the US, and the government is going to step in before that happens. This will fuck over everyone but major tech companies.

I will always wish for consequences, but I'm not expecting them this time.

Yeah, I've seen that. They conflate peoplishness with money, and the less you are worth the less of a person they think you are.

They've actually gone on record and said that they have a definition of what "AGI" actually means: AGI means an AI system that makes them 100 billion dollars in profit. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339

for what it's worth, early covid and about three years years after the start covid were kind of minor collapses, at least for some subsections of the industry

i've also started to think maybe one of the things that prevents actual collapse is the yearly mass layoffs. the financial distress of what would be a collapse is instead passed onto laborers, so we're basically having a collapse every year while businesses cruise above that with great end-of-fiscal-year numbers since they cut so much staff.

which... sucks. a big whole lot lmao

I'm not sure when it'll collapse, but it's definitely a giant bubble. Between the LLMs, the massive enshitification the last couple years with almost every company trying to squeeze their users and business partners at the same time, and now most of their leaders openly aligning with fascists, it's gotten really bad really fast. The fact that OpenAI said they were loosing money on their $200/month plan shows they have no clue what they're doing, and are probably just hoping it improves into AGI so they can have automated slavery.

The release of this post wasn't meant to line up with Transgender Thursday. The title wasn't meant to be funny. Transphobic jokes helped crack my egg

:)) good plan

play more video games

What do you think you will do differently with this knowledge in mind?

oh uh well. i meant what i said yesterday. i will now open the floor for questions

At the press conference I mean. Because we like you and want to hear what you have to say

We will be seated

i actually appreciate you so very much. i support this conclusion

thanks. i have a hard time feeling good about myself. still a work in progress so i appreciate that