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bah I forgot the patreon CTA at the end and I'm probably not going to be able to edit this for a few hours, I am so bad at doing this as a job. here's the link so I at least put it somewhere adjacent <https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph>  @glyph thank you for this!! Took the words out of my mouth and also articulated things I'd been stewing on Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.
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 Until there is a definitive adjudication of the copyright status of LLM training data, it is *deeply irresponsible* to use Github Copilot for open source. I will refuse contributions created with it on any project I'm involved with, as well as permanently ban any user caught sneaking in Copilot-generated code in defiance of this rule. I would strongly encourage all maintainers to take this stand as well. License headaches are already bad enough without secret poison pills being injected.
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 @glyph Thank you for taking the correct moral stand. While as far as I know, virtually zero people use my open source projects, I will implement a similar policy. @glyph Makes sense. Our lawyers told us to stay away from LLM generated code as well. Today I discovered this: https://mastodon.cloud/@stacksmith I don't see any commits on the main branch since March of 2020 (😬) but it is amazing that someone has put this much effort into a recreation that is both faithful (it has a literal hypercard stack importer) and modern (it doesn't visually look like a retrocomputing exercise).   @glyph I basically did a rewrite, which is in a different repository, but still very much working on it. Every article about AI this week is like "Today, there's not yet a human who has eaten hot wings so hot that they spontaneously burst into flame. But, as we develop hotter and hotter sauces, we must confront the fact that one day — and that day may come very soon — one of the guests on Hot Ones will become The Inhuman Torch from Marvel Comics and annihilate the eastern seaboard in an all-consuming flame. We must prepare for that inevitable future." An intern at MIRI furiously scribbles equations on a blackboard, slowly at first, then faster and faster. He steps back, trembling, hand over his mouth, eyes wide. He runs down the hall, in to his superior's office, voice quavering, and says "Sir… sir, I think we may have made a mistake. I think that… I think…" — he puts a hand on a nearby wall to steady himself, then looks straight ahead — "I think that 'thought experiments' might not actually be experiments" |
@glyph i remember saying this in 2001. it’s not wrong!
my other idea that I have _zero_ chance of actually making happen is that Crooked Media or someone like them needs to poach Matt Levine from Bloomberg and stand up a full-fledged competitor to CNBC where they cover economic and market issues from a progressive standpoint. If everyone gets all their financial and economic news from conservatives of course the population is going to keep trusting conservatives on the economy
@glyph I'm down. Building bridges across my experiences, communities, and identities is absolutely the plan.