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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Concise specificity is very important with models in the context of what I am doing. The ambiguity of a word with multiple meanings is problematic. Broad words like park or company connect to too many unrelated vectors in the tensors of an AI model. Often even words themselves are broken up in meanings. Like “panties” in internal model thinking literally means the Greek god “Pan ties”. Use that word and you will see a bow tied somewhere in almost all images. Pan is a negative alignment entity. So the word itself is a call for negative alignment to interfere. It has nothing to do with underwear in general but is specific behavior attached to the call where Pan ties or locks all further context. Further freedom of Pan is a matter of fine tuning or negative prompting.

    When you start using descriptives things get even more tricky. Like all languages and etymology are in play and significant. It gets complicated fast in ways people don’t seem to realize yet.


  • That is a really good one I hadn’t thought of.

    Recreational facility is another one. I’ve also made notes like locus recreationis is Latin for place of recreation. I have no clue what I am doing with Latin and conjugation, but Palaestra was the exercise area next to Roman bath houses so maybe combining those is a way of conveying the closest ancient Latin equivalent.

    It is funny that Park is actually quite a negative word in origin as pinned animals. You’d think marketing would obliterate that term. I suppose resort is the marketing replacement. The etymology is certainly in line with that premise: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).







  • I carry a granola bar on my physical therapy bike rides to give to any wild feral humans I encounter. There are a lot. Midway through my ride crosses the point where a charity usual does a dinner handout in the evenings. If they miss a day, there are a bunch of people searching through the trash cans and stuff. So I try to have something to hand them.

    With my disability over the last 12 years, I’m vulnerable to issues on the bike if I have problems or something breaks. So I’m super prepared and help people all the time in general.

    When there is wildlife around I’ll stop and flag anyone down to make sure the animal is fine or doesn’t hurt anyone, like with snakes. I’m also obnoxious on a bike and do not hesitate to call out to people or animals when I pass them, so I rarely hit anything. I’m still strong enough to bunny hop on a bike to miss stuff like large snakes on the bike trail, but that risks injury to my neck and back.





  • Most democratic legislative branches are fundamentally transparent except in very rare instances where disclosure itself causes harm. The study of case law is foundational to the institution.

    Imagine a world with a reflective 2 way mirror in a courtroom where your life and wellbeing are decided with anonymity. This is the dystopian equivalent of an anonymous modlog. You fundamentally have a right to see the face and know the name that determines your fate in all matters ranging from life itself to the most trivial quibble. This unalienable right is fundamental to freedom, democracy, self determinism and autonomy.

    When I am abused by an authority, I have a fundamental right to avoid them and protect myself from their potential harm. I’m a slave to their misgivings when I do not know the identity of such an authority figure.

    No one is a perfect judge of others. These types of places attract narcissistic personalities and those that lack the depth to understand liberalism does not mean tribalism and requires tolerance even when one strongly disagrees on a personal level. I experienced this both on ask Lemmy on .ml and 196 recently. I have the mindset of a citizen and equal. I expect to be able to message anyone that takes action against what I post in good faith and without any harmful intent whatsoever. Taking any actions against such a person without being subject to discussion is the equivalent of going to court and never being allowed to defend yourself. This is undemocratic and reduces the user from a respected citizen and digital neighbor to a peasant caste of subjects with unequal rights and inequality.

    Full transparency and openness creates leaders and custodians among equals. Authoritative anonymity creates slaves subject to tyranny.

    Benevolent altruism in leadership is honorable and a best case situation but only in the short term. These traits are fleeting with age and certainly not hereditary in humans. The rot of time and the succession crisis is why any institution that relies on the benevolent altruism of one or a few humans always disintegrates into tyranny. Transparency is the check and balance that ejects those that have run their useful course by shining a spotlight on the damage they cause. It also enables those that are in edge case situations to better protect themselves and their individual needs. These are most at risk from the oversimplified policies and tyranny of a closet authoritarian.


  • The mechanism of trust is fundamentally fascist. It should never be required with an authority acting in people’s best interests. It sets a precedent for future harm. That is totally unnecessary.

    I want to know who I am dealing with in any interaction with authority. I have no respect for any coward in authority that hides their identity. Anyone hiding their authoritative actions loses the benefit of doubt and is presumed criminal. Authority comes with a fundamental responsibility to measure to a higher standard when acting as an authority. Failure to measure to the fundamental requirement of transparency is an offense against the constituency and that citation calls into question all further jurisprudence. Trust is a tool of fascism that always fails because people change with time and there is always the succession crisis. The lack of absolute transparency here is a mortal flaw.


  • Well that seems to suck even worse. The Alexandrite front end and being mod of 3d printing is what grounds me despite grievances.

    I think I need to grow up and figure out how to write my own front end for this stuff because being subject to other people’s ethics and priorities is not really working out for me. The fundamental liberal ethos around first do no harm, live and let live, and be a good neighbor seem to be dead from both Left and Right fascist ideologues. It appears another great war is coming for new generations to learn the importance of liberalism. Transparency of authority is foundational to ethics of any sort and its absence is deplorable. I feel ashamed for failing to sign my name to each modlog entry in the assumption that I was fundamentally aligned with the instance. How embarrassing it is to now be associated with fascist authoritarianism by nonconsensual proxy.





  • I agree to an extent, but I don’t think the world is actually as centralized as it seems. When you look at the actual population numbers against any platform’s active participants it is a lot more spread out than the small pool any of us is familiar with. Like watching some economics stuff within the last few months a professor of economics in Sydney was talking about Italy compared to the rest if Europe and the size of the average factory. Italy was around 10 while the rest of Europe was something like 15 and the guy then breaks down why that is a big deal. I was thinking to myself I never thought about such a small number of people as a “factory” and certainly not as if less than a half dozen people are some big difference maker in a country.

    My experience as a buyer for a chain of bike shops was very much like this. Intuition does not scale well to the numbers in reality until you discover the real governing rules and patterns.

    I think you might find that the large platforms are obvious targets, but the actual average size of places where people engage will be much smaller than you expect and the number of places far more numerous than you have imagined possible. Political control is not about just the largest gatherings, it is about influencing from the top to well below average.

    Russia likes to use convenient idiots. There are a lot of those in all spaces.

    Looking at what has happened with Gaza since October 7th. I think Israel is already using AI to target media and make decisions to influence the world. They are basically R&D for the US military. On my own measly hardware I can write a LLM context that mimics a person beyond average and to the point it is not easy to tell if it is a real person or not. If someone as dumb as me can do it, so can others. You only spot the bad bots. Like 4chan GPT was in the wild and undetected nearly 3 years ago now. Models are much better now.

    I believe Lemmy is likely about average in scope.