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I don't need to change your mind, I agree completely. Something I wrote a couple weeks ago:

My unsolicited rant:

The technology is good and anyone who says it's "just autocorrect" are wrong. Having said that, I agree that LLMs are useful really for nothing more than low-risk, personal research and/or signposting to other sources. It's in no way a replacement for a human (unless your definition of what a human does is that it's just a thing that produces words at you - in which case, you're probably a middle manager - very myopic, regardless). It's also not appropriate for anything financial, professional, or confidential. Here, the first L in LLM is a hindrance. Local, small language models are more appropriate and cost-effective here.

Anyway. I don't "use AI" like some people but over the last year I've used my access to Proton's Lumo (already included in my subscription) a handful of times and been pleased with the results. The way that I see it is that all the LLM libraries are trained almost entirely on Reddit or websites that stole their content from Reddit anyway, so use it like you would Reddit: "LGBT horror movies before 2000," "Summarize and cite criticisms of Camille Paglia," "Was Bioshock 2 well-received at launch?" All very low-stakes. Doesn't really matter. Could've been a Reddit thread, but it's likely that any response there would've been a middleman for an AI answer anyway.

Anyway. More: Call it cope but I've been developing a theory/outlook that the internet as a thing is basically dead and that the Pandora's Box of LLM tech, which can produce a basically infinite amount of what was once the internet's currency (read: information, but really: text), has killed it. The Fediverse is utopian but I don't think anyone here really believes it will ever be anything more than a cluster of fringe communities. Having said that, I justify good LLM use (like mine, lucky that) as being the "New Game Plus" mode of the internet. Everything is already there, everything's unlocked. There is no challenge. It's kind of cheating and you're not really supposed to play the game like that. But at the same time, there is no going back to the real beginning, I just have the option of nostalgically re-creating it by going to old.reddit or postfixing before:2022 to all my ~~Google~~ DDG searches. Fun, and game-ish in it's own right, but also artificially limiting for no reasons beyond that.

/rant

Snowcrash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. Literally coined the term "metaverse."

Fuck Zuckerberg for ruining my favorite cyberpunk novel

A Republican?

This was literally me one time that I was trying to convince a meth dealing biker gang to bring me in on their operation because their supplier was the serial murderer I'd spent the last 13 years hunting for who was the last surviving heir to a decades-old child sex cult ran by the governor and his brother in inland Louisiana

Dude i dont know if youre really into parquetry or something youre missing out because if you turn your head up you can sometimes catch some gorgeous bootay while she's not paying attention!

It has though. You've lost 40,000 nerve endings (~3-4x more than the clitoris) and the glans of your penis (a naturally internal organ) is calloused from friction with clothing.

E: The natural pleasure effect in sex for men comes from the rubbing of the head of the penis against and inside of the sensitive, naturally lubricated sleeve of the foreskin, which is removed in circumcision. The foreskin isn't just some dangling bit of shaft skin at the end of the penis, it turns inward to a soft internal tissue, just like your cheeks-lips-mouth transition does.

Type shit men be posting because their perfectly normal penis designed to fit a normal vagina isn't an unusable 12" tube of meat that no woman wants:

The size of your penis is fine. You're not so special. If anything, you should be mad to be circumcised, where precious sensory tissue that aids in male and female pleasure was taken from you for 19th-century-reasons of preventing masturbation. Tough stuff

Oh no, the exact same thing that Anthropic lied about their chatbot doing like 6 months ago? Monkey see, monkey do.

That ain't even a joke