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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 41m

But don’t worry, an ad still plays before your non-video refuses to play. 🙄

Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 44m

Yep, it’s down.

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 44m

YouTube is down.

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 18h

As someone who still mitigates its spread, I sometimes think there’s someone out there right now, still alive, that otherwise wouldn’t be, had I allowed it to spread.

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks. ☺️

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks very much! That’s so awesome! ☺️

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 22h

Still don’t get it. What’s the anniversary? Someone said COVID but I’m still none-the-wiser.

I’ll Google it.

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 23h

What’s the context here?

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 2d

😂

Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 3d

The deployment of A.I. LLMs has been pretty ham-fisted imho.

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Christian Hubicki @chubicki.bsky.social · 3d

“Our findings highlight how market-driven optimization pressures can systematically erode alignment, creating a race to the bottom”

Sounds bad.

Large language models are sloppy messes inside. I’m not surprised they can easily contort to deceptively market, disinform, and promote harmful behaviors.

Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 3d

futurism.com/future-socie...

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

futurism.com

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 3d

I think that’s the plan. 😂

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I’m an AuDHD’er and this movie comes to mind all the time, as I have to repeat to myself 100 times per day “What the hell am I actually in the middle of doing?!” It’s incredibly frustrating.

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Chris @chris876678.bsky.social · 3d

Just found out Australian Traitors is being revived and 2 of my favs from Australian survivor KIRBY AND AJ are playing 😍 #Survivor #SurvivorAU

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever a software developer says its software now has AI functionality, my first though is “Oh, so it won’t work properly.”

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Christian Hubicki @chubicki.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow. I learned about the “Gish Gallop” from Eugenie Scott, but I had no idea she coined the phrase.

Gish Gallop is a debate tactic where Dwayne Gish rattled off so many misleading points his opponents could never respond to them all.

Now it’s common parlance in online debate culture.

Glenn Branch @glennbranch.bsky.social · 4d

Lexicographic enshrinement for Eugenie C. Scott's coinage "Gish Gallop"! @eugeniescott.bsky.social

Gish gallop

Gish gallop (sometimes gish gallop or Gish/gish galloping) refers to a rhetorical technique or strategy by which a debater puts forth too many false arguments for their opponent to be able to refute i...

www.merriam-webster.com

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 4d

Yes.

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 4d

Has YouTube fixed this issue now?

YouTube’s functionality has been in flux (for better and worse) since the day it launched. Even though this seems quite bad it’s likely to change again for the better at some stage.

Hopefully sooner than later, but then it’ll become bad again, rinse-and-repeat.

Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 4d

It’s great work, which is all that matters.

Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats! 🥳

Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 5d

She probably figured that predicting his win was a lower% strategy guess.

Predicting the most plausible outcome in any scenario is probably one of their strategies? Unless they believe their own BS.

#Survivor

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 5d

Yet had he gone seventh, he and the psychic would’ve viewed this as proof of her magical powers.

“Psychics” only need to fluke a small % of their predictions to convince enough believers to hand over big money.

#Survivor

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 6d

@truedorktimes.bsky.social has a theory that another medevac could be happening, what would being down two players do for the season?

#Survivor

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 6d

Jeff Probst reading that:

#Survivor49

a cartoon character is sitting at a desk with glasses on

Alt: A teacher in the Simpsons pressing the “independent thought alarm”.

media.tenor.com

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Derpy Bird 🐿️ ♾️ 🧠 ✨ ⚡️ 🦋 @derpybird.bsky.social · 6d

That reminds me of the time Homer found a dead guy and said “He’s not breathing! Don’t people usually breathe?!”

Homer shakes the hand of a dead guy sitting in a restaurant.

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