Rusty Shackleford

Getthefuckouttamyfacewiththisridiculousbullshit.

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Gun nerds deserve being laughed at for getting upset over it and so do tech nerds.

People are allowed to ridicule me for nerding out my passion pompously, or any sort of perceived sincerity, for that matter.

I’ve always held that sincerity alone shouldn’t implicitly justify immunity from ridicule, but the ridicule tends to work better if it’s sincere in its own right.

What’s better is using it as a handy way to temper my own zealotry.

Complaining about people complaining does get old fast, however.

But come on.

Unironically, no u.

You ooze self-righteousness.

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Income tax is over annual income, not your net worth, which, if, you’re smart, is mostly in investment portfolios in real estate and/or securities.

Your available liquid assets on-hand as a billionaire, should be very small.

Less than or equal to the year-on-year inflation rate as a percentage of my assets would be my rule of thumb for cash, but that’s my own pie-in-the-sky arbitrary bullshit.

Our sorrow, despondency, and terror are their sustenance.

Vermin.

We’re a FAR cry away from Lt. Cmdr. Data.

Yes, I agree. I make deep neural network models for a living. The best of the best LLM models still “hallucinate” unreliably after 30-40 queries. My expertise is in computer vision systems; perhaps that’s been mitigated better as of late.

My point was to emphasize the necessity for us, as a species, to answer the philosophical question and start codifying legal jurisprudence around it well before the moment of self-awareness of a General-Purpose AI.

I propose that we treat AI as ancillas, companions, muses, or partners in creation and understanding our place in the cosmos.

While there are pitfalls in treating the current generation of LLMs and GANs as sentient, or any AI for that matter, there will be one day where we must admit that an artificial intelligence is self-aware and sentient, practically speaking.

To me, the fundamental question about AI, that will reveal much about humanity, is philosophical as much as it is technical: if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?

I think the best nation-states, in terms of happiness index, practice “third-way” market socialism or as close of an approximation as they can to it in all but name. I would even include the United States during the post-WW2 economic expansion.

Long may he reign.

Git-illeterate illiterate

Static typing, for the win, and I’ll die on this hill.

Fight me.

This probably wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t so critical of myself.

Same.

I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I’m interacting with other people.

Same.

My Dad’s neighbors always say:

Hurt people hurt people.

And as a counterpoint to that, from Slavoj Zizek:

Never presume that your suffering is, in itself, a proof of your authenticity.

Just because we wrestle with ourselves internally, it doesn’t justify our perniciousness to others.

Uncle Iroh nailed it:

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

I just don’t wanna sound like an asshole when I attempt to do that!

As someone who discovered my Type 1 ASD at 40, the gods know that I have a lot more work to do on my self-awareness and abrasiveness.

Not saying you should adopt this, but sometimes I read aloud what I type and imagine myself replying to a student in real life in the way of and with the tone that people sometimes have on StackOverflow.

My gut reaction at that point, usually, is to rewrite a response or post completely with a more generous dose of humility and compassion.

I don’t always get it right, but when I remember to do that and read replies, I like myself a little bit more.

Does the snark really make you feel better?

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