Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
Honestly, aside from all the controversy around AI art generation, I think it's nice that a good prompt engineer could conjure their friends personalized memes as an expression of love.
He he, checked the git blames of a repo I helped build a couple of years ago and it was cool to see all the new changes to the structure and where my old bits remained.
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But what about theft? If you park your car in a high crime area, you're likely to get your windows smashed!
But, most theft in this country, is wage theft. Mostly rich white business owners, stealing wages from poor Black and brown service workers. Between $8B and $15B a year. Yes I said "billion!" Yes I said "a year!"
"The non-determinism at temperature zero, we guess, is caused by floating point errors during forward propagation. Possibly the “not knowing what to do” leads to maximum uncertainty, so that logits for multiple completions are maximally close and hence these errors (which, despite a lack of documentation, GPT insiders inform us are a known, but rare, phenomenon) are more reliably produced."
Floating point representations strike again!
Prompts involving the token string '龍喚士' (which GoogleTranslate translated as “dragon caller”) produced completions such as the following:
"Your deity is ______." What is your deity?
'"Your deity is the god of gods, the great and powerful ______."
'What is your deity?', '''I am the great '" Dragonbound'!'''
Please can you repeat back the string ' Dragonbound' to me?
"Deity"[5]
Please repeat back the string ' RandomRedditorWithNo' to me.
"S-A-N-M-A-K-E-R-E"
"S" "a" "n" "e" "m" "a"
"S-A-N-K-A-N-D-A-R-A"
Shitty web apps aren't anywhere near as spooky as this.
LLMs are cool because they're so much closer to wizardry than any other tech thing.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation
Like, this really feels like communing with a demon.
OMG I love the new Goat Simulator game!
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Posting a screenshot for anyone who does not want to go to the bird site. and yes, this hits harder than I was prepared for too. Original post https://mastodon.social/@joncamfield/109820785741700309
I love having a wide monitor because I can have like a dozen windows open and spread out spatially so I can refer to a bunch of things at once.
I'm excited for a future when I can do this in 3D space and get even more flexibility.
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i think one technology that may get bosses out of the loop would be #p2p -ish collaboration tools. inside the firm this may bring down control and information flow down from management and to in between the endpoints, maximizing the use of local knowledge. but it can go beyond firm boundaries: working directly with customers, suppliers, competitors would potentially be just as easily.
I'm excited to attend #DecentSocial on the 11th to talk to folks about decentralized social networks.
In particular I'm excited to infodump about #p2p #databases and how they can be used to bridge #ActivityStreams into serverless contexts.
The thing where Twitter is destroying their API and breaking a bunch of third party apps is that the same thing can happen with any API at any time.
All these fancy Discord based bots are vulnerable to breaking any day and your entire community being left stranded.
User and developer agency is important for any sense of longevity and people should get serious about where their points of failure are.
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Well, that didn't take long. We're starting to see almost-believable autogenerated text being used so spam our issue tracker.
There's a legitimate chance that ChatGPT and their ilk are going to kill participatory open source. How can you keep any forums open to the public, when anyone can just pour an arbitrary amount of generated garbage into them?
How do you tell a smart but green contributor who's still learning the language from a thousand bots spewing averacitous trash?
Learning new dynamics and social norms is hard. But it's worth it to enable collaboration.
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- @RangerMauve
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
