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Marco Rogers

@polotek.bsky.social

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Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Jun 20

I think I'm going to end up talking about AI and LLM technology much more often. I think it's a good idea to pin this thread that outlines my more nuanced stance on things.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · May 29

I appreciate this discussion about the ethics of LLM technology. These are people I know to be smart and experienced in software development, as well as progressive and empathetic humans. And we still are going to land in different places when coming to terms with the impact of this AI tech.

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · May 29

So yeah anyway, I don’t really know. Which is why I’m trying to talk about it. There’s a lot of upside but also very intense downsides. The uncertainty is really bothering me.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 2h

This is what it looks like for me now.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

Oh nice. Thanks.
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taurean @taurean.bryant.land · 4h

You can use this labeler: bsky.app/profile/pds....

bsky.app

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

@rude1.blacksky.team can blacksky users still use a custom domain? If they do, is there any other way to tell that their posts don't come from bluesky?

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

Is there a way to know if a post came from blacksky? Or a PDS that is not the main bluesky?

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

Yoooo! Why did they let us watch movies like this?!

For me personally it was The Return of the Living Dead.

Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 5h

What horror movie, besides Bambi, really messed you up as a child?

For me,

The People Under the Stairs

a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

ALT: a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

media.tenor.com

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

If we had could ensure good mentors for everybody, none of this would be a problem. We have to talk about it precisely because we know not everyone will have good guidance.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

Actually I'm not sure how much you learn if you let the robot make the catastrophic fuck up. If your brain wasn't engaged in making the decision, are you still likely to internalize the lesson?

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

Solid list

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not worried about you. But someone who is less skilled, less experienced, less disciplined. It's gonna be a problem.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

That's definitely part of what I'm worried about. I'm not judging the tinkering. Exploring these things is actually fun. But I don't think that should be mixed with using them for serious work. And I think that's what we see happening a lot.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

To me, the prompt in the screenshot feels imprecise in a way that increases the probability that it will misunderstand your intent. Obviously these things are relatively non-deterministic, so there's no perfect prompt. But I do think there's more likely and less likely.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

Almost right but the part that is wrong is catastrophic. I think that's right in line with what we see from LLMs.

FWIW, I'm not giving you a hard time about security or anything like that. I'm thinking more about whether the prompts make mistakes more likely.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

That's true. I'm not talking about confusion though. More like people have no idea what you're talking about and decide to completely ignore what you're saying.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

That's certainly true in this case.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Oct 25

I don't think I've shared this core truth with bluesky yet. The police are a gang.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 25

A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house.

Authorities then buried him without notifying his family

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I agree with all of this for sure. But I do think it becomes increasingly difficult to communicate if you don't use the words people recognize. You end up constantly explaining yourself, and there's still lots of room for miscommunication.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

Is this you or from someone else? I hope people aren't talking to these things like this.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry people liked this because it's a mistake. It's supposed to say I *don't* think that's why people aren't reacting.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I do think that's the reason people aren't reacting.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I'm not being heard. It has been 10 months since he took office. What is not accelerated to you right now?

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I challenge the notion that any successful movement has ever been entirely non-violent. It's just that people wanna forget about the other parts and claim they had no impact. Because that feels better.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure that kind of historical comparison is likely to be accurate. The civil rights movement didn't happen everywhere at once either. Your parents remember the end. And maybe we're not there yet. But the idea is not to get there at all.

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