loathsome dongeater

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Cake day: May 14th, 2020

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  • It eventually all ties into the contradiction between what the technology is vs. what big tech and venture capital want you think it is as you alluded. I think LLMs in an ideal scenario could be at worst a fun toy and at best a good stepping stone but big tech has decided to get incredibly weird with it. So now you get bombastic claims about what LLMs will be able to do five years from now alongside disclaimers that it currently makes shit up so please double check the responses.

    The reason I posted this is that it’s good to try and hold demoncorps like Google accountable even though it won’t likely make a dent. At worst it’s just good fun expect for the Gemini user in question.

















  • Not sure I follow your interpretation of the wikipedia article. The history it provides is very short and just ends at “dunk the n-word” being protested.

    I personally could go either way with this. Maybe the name is now rendered innocuous by repeated usage in non-racist contexts but I also don’t think it is worthwhile to rehabilitate traditions that have extremely racist roots. If someone wants to do a better analysis they would have to look at how dunk tanks are put into practice IRL. Maybe there is still a vestige of oppression that remains because of which unprivileged persons are dunked. Or maybe not.

    It is also only one part of the reason. They probably want to change the site culture as well but that is for the admins and the users to sort out.