Spent the day hanging with ChatGPT; what an amiable, well informed idiot.
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Atomic Blonde 2049
Atomic Blonde is a great spy thriller movie. But let’s say Atomic Blonde was a spy thriller franchise, spanning decades, wherein the iconic character was portrayed by Meryl Streep, then Sigourney Weaver, then Charlize Theron, and then, say, Emma Stone. Now suppose NotFlicks decides that they stand to make more money if the lead is black but not too black, white women being sort of out of fashion and all, so Atomic Blonde 18 — Direct to Stream stars Trevor Noah.
Corporations are people, and therefore need to feel very bad things when they break the law, so they will remember, and won’t break the law again. Where does the corporation feel things? In its head of course. Responsibility lies here too, poetically. So take the top three layers, just to be sure.
What Do They Know
I guess we really shouldn’t be too surprised that main stream journalism kinda got it wrong with the new AI marketing storm. This happens all the time but it is easy to miss.
Whenever some domain of specialized knowledge rises up in the public consciousness, and when it is one you happen to be well acquainted with—not an expert necessarily but certainly more than proficient—when you then read an article or hear a news story on the domain, inevitably you have opportunity to say to yourself “Well, that’s kind of a half-truth, or Hmm, seems an over-simplification…”
That isn’t just you. We all do that all the time. I wouldn’t call that a carburetor. You shouldn’t add salt after it cools. IP addresses can’t work that way. M1 isn’t M2. And so on.
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At some point you have to admit either that pearls are not worth as much to you as you claimed they were, or that you are kind of fine with pigs having them, really—otherwise, stop with the casting of the one, and the complaining about the other.
And just how old is this metaphor anyway?
Has there really been a years long feud between farmers and jewelers—or divers, for that matter? Do oysters have it in for swine? What the hell is going on exactly with the bivalve/porcine relationship in the 21st century? I think I’ll have a bowl of clam chowder with bacon bits and think about it.
I’m confident in my opinions because I didn’t pick them up at the lifestyle store—instead I crafted them over time for internal coherence and reasonable correspondence with our current state of knowledge.
Too damn bad if at the end of the day the only thoughts
In your brain are all the things that they say, what a waste…
Too damn bad if at the end of the line
you got no idea of what’s on your own mind…
You’ve got no one to blame but yourself.
— Henry Rollins, Disconnect from Weight (1994)
It occurs to me how fascinating I find all of the language tidbits that accrue around the tools we like using. Handles and taglines and slang, oh my! Just all of it: the names of obscure command line utilities, code comments, server names, API in-jokes, boot messages, slogans > tldr.txt
Hey, #chatbot dummies, here’s some free historical training material.
Check the record on Eliza, the Eliza effect, and J. Weizenbaum.
“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” — J. Weizenbaum
Picture This
Okay, so I hope the basic idea is clear. This imaginary device simply brute-force generates every possible image for the resolution and colors we specified. It just keeps spitting out images, you see; I imagine them in a sort of slide show carousel. We are going to be dealing with a very large number here in a minute—but not to worry, it isn’t infinity, you won’t need any special equipment—and we’re not going to get all “mathy” or anything either.