Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@Kirk It's satire.

@timpatterson I think that's more a "what's wrong with you why are you obsessing about a typo" look. (Sort of the look I had watching the full interview, probably?)

@AlexVoss @dougschuler @dgolumbia @ruchowdh @pluralistic

Yeah, not sure generative AI presents the sort of risk implied by invoking parallels to the IAEA. 😂

@JustAnotherJay @mmasnick Maybe, but Taibbi wrote quite a bit about it on his Twitter account just now.

@dexiheart Some companies are far better than others about this sort of thing.

@gricka Great idea to send email/mail/phone instead of traffic stops in case of fix-its like that.

I wonder, though, if one of the reasons his wife was so afraid is because of hysterical essays like this one.

@pwinn I think these are questions it can't answer because that just isn't how it works. It probably trained on a few samples of text that spell out the answer to this problem, so it is parroting those in a sense, maybe, but not in a coherent way, because that just isn't what it does. I'm not entirely sure.

@datamaps @breadandcircuses Yeah I don't get the point of OP. Everyone knew in the 80s. Hansen's testimony in 1988.

@rmounce When the next generation of ChatGPT trains on these papers, is there going to be some sort of weird feedback loop?

@lispi314 Yeah, OP was misleading there, that did not happen, it seems.

The "follower" (in the sense that James Hodgkinson is a Bernie Sanders follower, or David DePape is a Mike Lindell follower) was arrested and as far as I can tell possibly faces years in prison.

@lispi314 You're talking about Catherine Leavy, right? Sure, she faces all kinds of jail time if convicted. A very serious offense. (OP sort of maybe gave you the impression that Chaya Raichik made the threat? I don't think there's any evidence she made a threat or asked anyone else to.)

@neutrino78x Do I condemn Canada? What? No? But I recognize that like US, they have a significant dark part of their history. And they, like the US, have a *much* better human rights record recently than they did 200 years ago.

@neutrino78x I think you might be talking about something else. If it helps clarify, I'll note that there were no nuclear weapons during the Mexican–American war.

If it's what you're saying, I'll agree that our foreign policy was somewhat better since we got nukes than it was before – we usually at least *pretend* we're doing things for good reasons since then.

@AnonymooseGuy That's a common argument among the identity-left (which utterly dominates political discourse on instances like mastodon.social): consider some element of culture or society today, then draw some kind of tenuous BS connection back to some super racist (or otherwise oppressive) thing from the past. Then, use that to beat people over the head.

I have literally seen this argument applied to excel spreadsheets, ice cream trucks, Trader Joes, you name it. I think most people aren't buying it. 😂

However, I think Cassandra is supporting my claim here, that things are better, and getting better. See the followups for specifics.

@Raven47 "Little has changed so far." 😂

@M_U@toot.community What a silly thing to say.

@M_U@toot.community You can really see the difference here in TX over the last 60 years. "Jasper 25" I have no idea what you're talking about 😂

@M_U@toot.community you mean the brown people who are US soldiers? Well okay, but see my point about us becoming more isolationist. Exactly for this reason: reluctance to spend American lives.

@M_U@toot.community not that AUMF has anything to do with what we're talking about.