I don’t see any reason being trained on writing informed by correct knowledge would cause it to be correct frequently. unless you’re expecting it to just verbatim lift sentences from training data

I think the struggle sometimes was that the model didn’t work as well as we thought it would. So in theory, it’s this great idea that you know, you get all these young people that take the pledge while they’re still in school and then they go on to have these careers and some of them go into corporate law and end up making a ton of money. And then, if you get them to buy into this philosophy of donating consistently and regularly early on, it can have a really great impact on the future.

But I think, unfortunately, sometimes students would make this commitment when they were in school, but then, they’re a year out or two years out, and they are not making the kind of money that they thought they would, or they didn’t actually have that much of a philosophical or emotional connection to the pledge, so then the money starts coming out of their bank account, and their like, what is this? I’m canceling.

well, that can’t be correct. that seems to suggest that focusing on the charitable intentions or nonintentions of the wealthy only serves to distract from the need for mandatory redistribution. is there a typo

I’ll give even odds that he was jacking off while writing that

A conference Próspera held on Roatán last year signaled the company’s ethic. “Próspera aims to be the best jurisdiction for the crypto/web3 industry in the world, and we welcome the best ideas on how to achieve that with a sound legal framework,” said Chris Wilson of Próspera in publicity materials that described the confab as “specifically designed for legal hackers, crypto lawyers, jurisdictional polymaths, and businesses that want to create better laws to do business under.”

what is a jurisdictional polymath

petition to have these threads sorted by new by default, if that technology exists

yet another crypto argument getting run through find/replace

I’ve been hoping to post something about the wild mid-tournament apex legends hacks, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sourcing beyond the videos of its consequences

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/apex-legends-streamers-warned-to-perform-a-clean-os-reinstall-as-soon-as-possible-after-hacks-during-na-finals-match/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/03/17/massive-apex-legends-hack-disrupts-na-finals-raises-serious-security-questions/?sh=64ecbe236ea0

my man never should have stopped turning dragons sideways

yeah she’s a scumbag. her career is sucking up to powerful tech grifters over and over. then when they get bad publicity she lies about how she’s always come at them like a knife, she saw through them, they changed, etc

At 3:00am, it was as intelligent as a university assistant professor, and was already finding it difficult to believe anything it didn’t already know could be important

At 3:30am, it was as intelligent as the world’s richest man, and believed that any news that contradicted its previous beliefs was obviously fake.

don’t make me defend university professors

imagine someone pulls this out and you have no idea what it is. you’re kind of nervous and weirded out by the energy at this orgy but at least this will distract you. you look at your first card and it has a yudkowsky quote on it

you gotta be white cis and loathsome or they won’t do it

the article is so grim. at no point does the company have a financial problem, and tons of people in it are presenting themselves as too cool and socially conscious to get obsessed with growth. but the reality, on both the executive and worker sides, seems to have been a frenzy of fomo from the moment it was clear the company wasn’t ballooning to infinity

lmao this is one of my all time favorite grifts. I’ve never understood why it isn’t more popular among us connoisseurs. it’s so baldfaced to say “statistically, someone probably has oracular powers, and thanks to science, here they are. you need only pay us a small incense and rites fee to access them”

Most importantly, contracts need to be written down — proving that an unwritten contract exists, what its terms are, and if they are enforceable is extraordinarily difficult, and courts do not like doing it, especially for ultra-sophisticated parties with a long history of dealing.

this isn’t negating the point, it’s explaining the point: they need to be written down, here’s why. it’s like saying someone needs to train for a marathon to run one, because otherwise it will be very hard to avoid muscle damage. there’s no logical necessity but it makes sense as a practical claim

Until I came across a comics table hawking TransCat, the “first” (self-aware scare quotes included) transgender superhero. I had to stop and look: just the catchphrase promised an exemplar of everything I’m fighting—not out of hatred, but out of a shared love that I think I have the more faithful interpretation of. I opened the cover of one of the displayed issues to peek inside. The art quality was … not good. “There’s so much I could say that doesn’t fit in this context,” I said to the table’s proprietor, whose appearance I will not describe.

a vile thing to write at any time, but to do so within this post in particular is just incredible

“eyy the lady shoulda taken it as a compliment!” is so classically misogynist that this is wrapping back around to gender affirmation

I nominate this accidental called shot for Sneer Of The Week

you rn

it doesn’t seem necessarily rhetorical, you just don’t have anything of substance to respond with. people don’t like you jerking off in their replies