Think about taxing the rich? THAT’S SOCIALISM

Ponder if an apartheid state is doing a genocide? ANTISEMITISM

Don’t like the new Marvel movie? SEXIST! RACIST!

Freedom of speech died long ago and now there is no flow of ideas, even incrementally. We’re in big trouble

Watch that head. It’ll whip to the left and (at best) give you a gnarly headache

Ban it and you’ll suddenly see a ton of “Day After Thanksgiving Sales”

If you want to start changing consumer patterns, charge more for the waste. Also don’t ship it overseas. Let it pile up nearby.

I blame “Infinite growth”. i.e. Capitalism

What’s a Tankie?

EDIT: The range of definitions below is interesting

But you and I did NOT. I see a lot of people online who can’t make the distinction.

EDIT: Thanks for replies, all. Some good conversation here

I’ma make this place beautiful!

Ah, but that’s the thing. Training isn’t copying. It’s pattern recognition. If you train a model “The dog says woof” and then ask a model “What does the dog say”, it’s not guaranteed to say “woof”.

Similarly, just because a model was trained on Harry Potter, all that means is it has a good corpus of how the sentences in that book go.

Thus the distinction. Can I train on a comment section discussing the book?

We have to distinguish between LLMs

• Trained on copyrighted material and
• Outputting copyrighted material

They are not one and the same

First: I install from disc and play that way

Second: I buy from steam and replay

Then: I buy from all console stores and replay on each respective console

THEN: I buy a new phone, jailbreak it and run Skyrim there

IM NOT DONE: I buy a new touchscreen fridge and re-buy, install there

FINALLY: I pay Bethesda to send out their Larping division to recreate Skyrim in my local park!