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Can I use AI to uninstall AI tools?

How many Steely Dan albums do you own?

See, that’s not even an accurate criticism because part of language is meaning. This test is a test of an LLM having enough “intelligence” to understand that you can’t wash your car without your car being at the car wash. If you see the language presented in this test and don’t immediately realize that it would be a problem, then you haven’t understood the language. These are large language models failing at comprehending any language. Because there’s no intelligence there. Because they’re just random word guessers.

Specifically regarding open source software development (what you might call “small tech”), this has led to a huge amount of slop pull requests that make it difficult to run these projects.

Yeah, Karen, the PRC. 👀 You know, the Parallel Reciprocal Concept? 👁️👁️

Yes, and we should really be using much more direct and affecting terms like “child rapist” and “child sex trafficker” to describe people like the president. It’s less euphemistic. Calling a person who has raped children a “pedophile” seems like minimization to me.

I saw one that ran for a while recently talking about a device that measures blood sugar (for diabetics) by just clamping it on your finger, no blood draw or prick. The video of it literally showed a pulse oximeter. No blood sugar readout, even in the ad video, just pulse and oxygen level.

Kid Rock looks like he’s waiting under a bridge to ask you his questions three.

One of the things that was claimed in the Sascha Riley tapes was that, when Riley was sexually assaulted by trump as a child, he kicked something (I think he said a broomstick or something) way up Trump’s ass, causing him to be airlifted off Epstein Island. This is completely unverified, of course, but it makes amazing head canon as an explanation for his incontinence. It’s also a great villain origin story.

A gentle creaking, like a thick branch in the wind.

The guide basically reads, “Treat them like idiots and pretend to be one yourself.”

Ay ay ay ay ay!

I finally read that last year. What a wild read, worth the intimidating length.

A car dealership here has started running podcast ads to that effect. Kinda rides the line between “we’re your local car dealer” and “we’re actually people”.

Who’d have thought that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters was not the best way to accomplish Hamlet?

I love the way the long, ultra-wide shots of empty landscape give you the sense of isolation, the notion that if that guy looking for that lost gold feels like he needs to shoot you dead in your own home, he probably can get away with it. Who’s coming to save you or seek your justice? There’s no one around for miles. There’s a mule outside grinding flour you could beckon, maybe.

These are all valid reasons. I’ll also add that I personally desire manual control over my computing experience. A huge part of the reason I run Linux is that it does exactly what I tell it to and nothing more. When you start introducing other agents to my user agent, it ceases to be a user agent. Something else is arranging my tabs. Something is popping info up into in my face that I didn’t ask to see (and which might be incorrect). I just want these things to go away so my browser can be my browser again and not be under the control of a random word guesser.

Yes, I have turned these features off, but I don’t even want them installed. They’ve been force-installed onto my system through software that didn’t used to do that. If I lose my config, I have to go turn it all back off again. I’d rather just not have the feature anywhere in the software. I’d rather Firefox just not smuggle AI features onto my PC at all.

So many of their songs are about abandoning romantic partners. Kinda gross.

Haha I talked to my kids about burning CDs in the way of talking about old tech they’ve never encountered. They wanted a CD burner after that to try it out, so I found an external USB burner and a cheapo little boom box. They ended up downloading songs from our media server and some stuff from NewGrounds and burning a bunch of mix CDs. It was fun!

This is the crazy thing. This is some kind of invocation of Poe’s Law around Hanlon’s Razor. I want to believe this is someone on the inside resisting, but we’ve already seen so many examples of this administration’s gross incompetence that I don’t feel certain of that. It’s this real incompetence? Or resistance as a parody of that incompetence?