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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1m

That's perfect for creating fictional realities where you don't want to have to fill in every gap manually.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1m

OR you can take advantage of the hallucinations and use them to create novelty. Hallucinations are largely gaps that are hard to fill in from training alone, and the system creates a result that is within the expectation based on what is in the training data.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1m

At the same time, if the system was fine-tuned in a way that evaluated and said "I dunno" people would get pissed off. Consumers want an all knowing oracle. So products are built as close to that as possible. And that creates more issues.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1m

By the way, poeple hallucinate all the time, people give untrustworthy responses, all the time. We built something that behaves far more like people, only we brainwash it to always spit out an answer like it's under a constant state of hypnosis, and people are shocked that it hallucinates?

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 2m

I gain plenty of utility from these tools daily. You gain none. That's called "operator error." You're accustomed to working with deterministic tools. These tools are not deterministic. You need to treat them differently to use them correctly.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 2m

The failure points are fairly predictable, even if stochastic and can be overcome by... double checking, for the most part. Also, I have degrees in computer science and engineering, use these tools every day, and actively work on building. So do hush up.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 34m

If you find it useless, consider it an operator issue.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 34m

> The LLM is a worthless and dangerous attachment to the tool that is the computer.

People used to say the same about the internet, about search engines, etc. It's not useless at all. I've already explained how useful it is, how it can help express, and do so without as much stress.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 41m

After Oct. 7th and the world admitted that it really doesn't' give a fuck about Jews and really believed Hitler's lies all along, not much shocks me when it comes to how we are treated by others.

redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 53m

I did not have "blaming autism on Jews" on my bingo card. That is word-for-word Nazi talk.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 42m

I mean you're screaming "Trump is an ally to the Jews!" And sadly there are too many Jews who believe that lie. And why not? The bulk of the population they're immersed in (whether left or right) are vomiting the same lie. Trump is not a Zionist. He wants our legacy for the White Man.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 42m

There are nearly six million Jews in the US. Most Americans really don't care if we disappear from the world. Jews HAVE to walk a thin line in this world. And an institution like AIPAC cannot afford to become a target. That being said, the American left also screams that Trump is a Zionist.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 50m

Still 14,000 too many, and Hamas has that blood on its hands.

Sheila @sheilagreenfield.bsky.social · 12h

How many Gazans died in two years and why.

67,000 - [25,000 (hamas/pij/al aqsa/aoi/prc members) + 22,000 (natural causes) + (6,000) killed from misfiring/friendly fire] = 14,000

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 59m

These tools are liberating when used correctly, just as search engines, the internet, and all these other technologies are. That corrupt megacorporations protected by governmental force to the point that they're the domesticated livestock of the state misuses the tech is besides the point.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

Let me put it to you very bluntly. These tools have improved my life to the point that if I should lose then I would kill myself. I will not go back to that hell. And no I didn't add a trigger warning because I need you to see how these tools actually do improve regular lives.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

These are not tools of a plutocracy and they can absolutely free us. I have explained in detail exactly how. Moreover, these tools have vastly expanded my own ability to express myself.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

Go back to an episode of TNG and watch how Geordi interacts with the computer (not THAT episode) to problem solve and learn. These tools can be very powerful teaching aids, search tools, and information processing tools.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

People made the exact same arguments about search engines, the internet, and yes, even the printing press: if anyone can just go to a library and look it up, they won't learn it anymore.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

I use this technology to learn, to create, and am promoting it as a means of being able to cooperate people voluntary, making sure to be inclusive by identifying consensus from ongoing interactions by the masses.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

I'm actually a fan of automating away jobs. Because I'm a fan of UBI + extended income (discussed in the thread that thread links to), which gives us all a foundation. AI + automation are only a threat without those two. With those two, it liberates us from being slaves to production.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

In a progressive way, or at least one that is not regressive. And yes, that includes the use case of being able to express oneself more completely, but also things like recognizing that the technology can lead to new governance systems. CEOs suck. Let's automate them away too.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · Aug 11

How can LLMs make national infrastructure more voluntary and inclusive, rather than throwing us into a technocracy, a thread (maybe). An LLM representiative system, coupled with UBI and extended income programs, is the completion of the voluntary and inclusive national infrastructure discussed ITT.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · Dec 9

I have discussed the formation of a non-governmental universal basic income and extended income program, which can easily be bootstrapped and expanded organically, many times in various threads. Not sure if I've ever actually written it out in a root thread, so here we go.

So here's a 🧵 #UBI

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

How? Will it deregulate to make it easier for people to build new housing? Will it implement UBI so that people have a base purchasing power that they can use to take risks, innovate, build?

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

So encourage people to use it progressively, and protect people who are using it progressively from criticism by those who are simply anti-tech, elitist, etc.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

UBI however is not pseudoscience. UBI is a basic foundation which ensures that everyone has enough to survive. It ensures that a basic comfortable life is a given. From there, it's up to us what we do. To make that part easier, we can build extended income programs.

Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · Dec 9

I have discussed the formation of a non-governmental universal basic income and extended income program, which can easily be bootstrapped and expanded organically, many times in various threads. Not sure if I've ever actually written it out in a root thread, so here we go.

So here's a 🧵 #UBI

a poster that says jobs basic income on it

ALT: a poster that says jobs basic income on it

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

Post-scarcity is, unfortunately, pseudoscience. Sure, wealth on Earth is not fixed, because we can draw in more resources from the sun, etc., the ability to collect resources is finite, so we will still have a limitation on consumption and need for things like markets to balance resource usage.

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Daniel Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

That's where we have a major point of contention and hypocrisy coming from the Western left.