jonoleth

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social The-Body Problem

@nixCraft@mastodon.social @TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt like... there is nothing shocking or surprising about this at all. Framing this as "Donald Knuth loves Anthropic" will only help billionaires get more billions, when the reality is "Donald Knuth's friends sent him some letters which he liked enough to blog about"

@edgeofeurope @futurebird @petealexharris the problem with that attitude is that it makes people start thinking that bad people are easy to spot, or far away. It makes them blind to what their family, friends, or neighbors do because they're obviously not monsters. People are very quick to dismiss accusations of being a nazi or fascist because they genuinely can't wrap their head around that being a possibility. Maybe you're not susceptible to that bias but the average person sure is.

@david_chisnall God gave us Free Will so that we may Crack Our Own Ribs if we so choose, amen

@quinn@social.circl.lu @cstross@wandering.shop LLM + prompt cron job + root

@proedie @riley after obsessing a little over getting to the bottom of this, the answer seems to be that the historical origin (from 1711) is akin to "If you stop chasing trends you will sometimes be fashionable", which is more in line with riley's definition in the OP. The other "official" definitions I've found seem to follow this as well. The definition that "coincidental correctness is worthless" seems to be a personal (though common) interpretation.

@lizzard@social.tchncs.de @foolishowl@social.coop @KatyElphinstone@mas.to I think it's common for people who mask from a young age to be put off by the idea of being overt about pretending to be someone else. As in, if you're always pretending to be someone you're not, it's really scary to switch masks right in front of others cause it kinda breaks the illusion.

@mjd@mathstodon.xyz @pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz they can look good without being worth reading. I assume that's their point

@raktheundead@techhub.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social @TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt true. Though nowadays it's not unusual for actual genuine human people to write like LLMs themselves, so who even knows anymore? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯