i feel weird pointing this out as a non-afab person, and there are other effects and individual responses which may be undesirable, but is it not kinda bad how much it's obscured that birth control pills can prevent menstruation and this is a thing people can and do use it for?
don't want to get involved in the reblog chain but I don't understand why it is surprising, let alone "data poisoning", that a llm knows about omegaverse porn?
also like... it would not surprise me if it had a03 in the training data, and I don't think it would be particularly objectionable for that to be the case, but at the same time I don't think knowing omegaverse tropes is proof of having read any particular writings given that people talk about omegaverse porn... outside of that porn itself?
like all in all seems very strange to consider an llm knowing some reasonably common genre of fiction as either especially surprising or especially objectionable?
the post going around about this also seems to be attributing way more headache to the people behind the ai than they likely are actually getting from this in particular based on their comments in the news when asked about this specific thing? or I haven't seen any indication it's a bigger deal to them than ai writing porn *in general*, which my impression is ai companies are into trying to get rid of for the same fucked up totalitarian reasons the rest of the internet is being similarly enclosed
I have never read omegaverse porn yet I know some things about it! including what heat suppressants are entirely due to tumblr memes to mess with desantis I saw yesterday
don't want to get involved in the reblog chain but I don't understand why it is surprising, let alone "data poisoning", that a llm knows about omegaverse porn?
also like... it would not surprise me if it had a03 in the training data, and I don't think it would be particularly objectionable for that to be the case, but at the same time I don't think knowing omegaverse tropes is proof of having read any particular writings given that people talk about omegaverse porn... outside of that porn itself?
like all in all seems very strange to consider an llm knowing some reasonably common genre of fiction as either especially surprising or especially objectionable?
the post going around about this also seems to be attributing way more headache to the people behind the ai than they likely are actually getting from this in particular based on their comments in the news when asked about this specific thing? or I haven't seen any indication it's a bigger deal to them than ai writing porn *in general*, which my impression is ai companies are into trying to get rid of for the same fucked up totalitarian reasons the rest of the internet is being similarly enclosed
don't want to get involved in the reblog chain but I don't understand why it is surprising, let alone "data poisoning", that a llm knows about omegaverse porn?
also like... it would not surprise me if it had a03 in the training data, and I don't think it would be particularly objectionable for that to be the case, but at the same time I don't think knowing omegaverse tropes is proof of having read any particular writings given that people talk about omegaverse porn... outside of that porn itself?
like all in all seems very strange to consider an llm knowing some reasonably common genre of fiction as either especially surprising or especially objectionable?
rays are like cetaceans in that they lost their posterior limbs but maintained their anterior limbs. the mexican mole lizard (and a bunch of other legless lizards) did it too!
fingers crossed moles do it. can you imagine. thatd be so sick. presumably snakes did it too. weirdly i dont think aquatic reptiles lost their legs? i wonder if any tetrapod has lost its front legs... presumably front limbs help in eating and so are less likely to be lost
i mean some theropods got very close, including some birds (kiwis come to mind, because while their wings aren't *gone*, they're called apteryx for a reason)
i think moas lacked even vestigal wings
ohh my god a teenager online posted something that reveals a less than perfectly developed understanding of the world around them? should we tell everyone? should we screenshot it and share it everywhere so we can pat ourselves on the back for being so much wiser than Kids These Days? should we invite a boomer comic artist
you will never convince me that a middle schooler with no rights who gets flustered talking about sex is the heart of the global rise in reactionary sentiment we're dealing with right now and not senator john segregation who drafts 300 anti trans laws a day and wants that middle schooler to die in childbirth
the doves in the video are like “Whats up gamers welcome to another eating tutorial”
I very much appreciate and want to protect the system that provides clean running water and I very much despise and want to destroy every surveillance camera I pass by every day. That's all I really have to say about civilization and technology.
i feel like tumblr mobile game ads (that aren't just deliberately gross) are v memable but they mostly are not memed on, is this deliberare coordination to not feed them? admirable and sensible if so
(if so this coordination seems to have broken down at least twice before in other common ads)
i feel like tumblr mobile game ads (that aren't just deliberately gross) are v memable but they mostly are not memed on, is this deliberare coordination to not feed them? admirable and sensible if so
so an anecdote about discourse vs reality
one form of protest adopted by some animal rights activists is slaughterhouse vigils that are often accompanied by stopping a truck by standing in the driveway. in addition to minor symbolic disruption and an idea of bearing witness, animals (who have often not had any in a hot miserable truck for a long time and distance) are often given water for a last drink while the truck is stopped.
famously, an activist named regan russel was murdered during one of these attempts, but it is something that has been done many times.
(one could talk about if this is an effective tactic or not but that's not what I want to talk about rn, nor do i have a strong opinion honestly)
anyways, I once saw a reddit thread where someone had posted a video of a truck not being stopped to like, make fun of protestors. there was a lot of highly upvoted comments unfamiliar with this tactic and thinking it was some one off attempt saying things along the lines of "of course a truck won't stop protestors are such idiots". one in particular I remember had the gist of "I know truckers and none of those tough manly guys would ever stop for a bunch of pansy vegan degenerates trying to block them" and
well
the trucks do in fact often stop. this has been done successfully many times! I have seen it in person!
I don't know how to say the point of this post of mine but yeah
i used to believe iq was probably some reasonable measure that was fairly heritable because I encountered so many people framing this as "ah yeah as progressives it kinda sucks but this seems probably true" but then I actually looked at the evidence and have found... nothing convincing, and that one minnesota twin study completely lying about its results by ommitting the control group showing little heritability
I got a little snarky and fell short of an ideological turing test attempt, but in case @loving-n0t-heyting hasnt blocked me it's probably important for her to know (since she mentioned equality and fraternity) that most of my eugenics opinions are pretty directly downstream of an ancient will gillis essay called "the impossibility of non anarchist transhumanism"
A radical denialist, a blank slate extremist, is entitled to be an egalitarian who is hostile to transhumanism. Otherwise, hostility to transhumanism is just the divine right of kings.
If people inherit traits from their parents even when you control for social factors or inequities, then then the egalitarian's preferred technology is editing genes in prod. I dont think its complicated.
transhumanism and eugenics describe fairly fundamentally different things - transhumanism is (or can be) about altering oneself, freedom.
eugenics is about choosing traits of another being that does not exist and so has no say in the matter. that's not to say such choices are inherently wrong, *not* deciding such things is as much a choice as any specific decision and has no more claim to neutrality. but it cannot really be said to be about freedom in any straightforward sense.
and I think it's worth noting how much of eugenics in practice is fundamentally cishumanist in the sense of opposing queerness, unusual neurotypes etc. that do not line up with what society seems valuable or useful compared to the norm. like, think of attempts to find a genetic basis of autism, or how this already plays out with down syndrome. eugenic ideology could be wielded by powerful actors to diminish rather than expand the space of existence and experience.
the problem with "voluntary eugenics" is that I think it would be a bad thing if society as it stands right now had the power to stop certain "types" of people for lack of better term rn from coming into existence (and this is already happening with ie down syndrome)
"I don't actually know what a civilization is" is my main take on the discourse happening on my dash
one of the many weird contrivances that come up in people trying to dunk on animal rights activists or vegans is some strange idea that people in cities are unfamiliar with animals that aren't pets and like. idk that just actually seems false, even in the densest downtowns there's a lot of pigeons (granted pigeons are formerly domestic but I think should count here) and occasional other birds, I guess I have no clue what they intend to mean here! And in the worst suburbs I have lived in I regularly see squirrels and lizards and possums, and tons of invertebrates.
seeing it more after previous post (forgot name of that phenomenon) and it *is* kinda funny that racoons, possums, and skunks are the animals being associated with rural areas when those are all creatures I have encountered far from anywhere that could be called rural.
It's actually p cool I think that many wild nonhuman animals live in our settlements, but it's fucked the result is so incredibly dangerous for them (apparently most raccoons die to cars and very young...) and I wish settlements were built in a way that was not like that (this would be aligned with being better for humans i think too)
tbc i don't like actually endorse this as a real position but a lot of the time there is an emotional part of me that wants to do the censorious anti media thing but about violence or other abuses instead of sex.
or like in a slightly less silly but far more navelgaze and far broader way, sometimes when I am in a particularly depressed mood i kind of despair that it seems so much of entertainment is based fundamentally on either conflict or simulation of conflict. again this does not make sense and I don't endorse it but ahhhh.
tbc i don't like actually endorse this as a real position but a lot of the time there is an emotional part of me that wants to do the censorious anti media thing but about violence or other abuses instead of sex.




