He’s a loser who helped found reddit and can’t figure out how to monetize it without sacrificing everything it stood for

Half off soft drinks at Texas Roadhouse!

Congrats! You got my biggest eyeroll of the day

More evidence that they are evil creatures

They are if you teach them well

I really feel like it peaked in 2012 or 2013. Hot on the heels of the “rally to restore the sanity” (which proved the true power of Reddit, but was co-opted and defanged)

Lots of big AMAs but they could be very chaotic.

Allowed content wasn’t quite as wild as two years previous but it was still possible to find some real taboo/NSFL/disturbing/subversive communities of all sorts.

The userbase was large but still most of your friends would make fun of you for going there, and your parents didn’t even know it existed.

The admin team was still pretty small and they even would make a point to hire users who understood the culture and spirit of the site.

Yeah… People lose their goddamn minds over minors and sex, like they were never minors themselves 🙄😮‍💨

I got banned for the telling a teenage OP in /r/sex that her yeast infection was probably caused by her boyfriend’s dirty fingers. I told her to emphasize cleanliness and hygiene ahead of future encounters. She said she couldn’t ask her parents for sexual advice and also couldn’t consult a doctor, so I tried to give her immediately useful advice

I was banned for “encouraging sex acts with a minor” but not before a bunch of people called me rude names for “imagining her sexual encounter with her boyfriend”

Shit winds are coming, Bo-Bonald

Netanyahu is fascist enough for all of them

I’m not surprised it’s bad but it’s an actual fun use for AI

They may be dumb then 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’re dumb and rich enough to buy a tesla I have no pity

2006 made me suspicious of the Democrats forever. Pelosi and the party ran on defunding the Iraq War, then promptly dropped it upon taking office.

I DID primary for Obama because he was promising a public healthcare option. We all know how that turned out: he ultimately championed a Republican scheme to entrench private insurers. Democrats failed to support their party’s signature policy proposal when it mattered.

While Obama expanded the Bush wars…

That’s when I gave up all hope in the party making any progress or acting in good faith. They haven’t given me any reason to rethink that stance.

Sorry your efforts and enthusiasm were wasted and abused by the DNC…

I recall the Coffee Party having a moment, a nationwide movement planned meetups all coordinated. In Asheville, I attended. the meetup was crashed by Obama’s Organizing for America, and I later learned that they crashed meetups everywhere.

I remember the smooth-talking guy and how he hijacked the meeting as we were making real progress. Fuck Obama and fuck the DNC

Democrats don’t even promise anything anymore. Not since 2008

Obligatory: I’m anti-AI, mostly anti-technology

That said, I can’t say that I mind LLMs using copyrighted materials that it accesses legally/appropriately (lots of copyrighted content may be freely available to some extent, like news articles or song lyrics)

I’m open to arguments correcting me. I’d prefer to have another reason to be against this technology, not arguing on the side of frauds like Sam Altman. Here’s my take:

All content created by humans follows consumption of other content. If I read lots of Vonnegut, I should be able to churn out prose that roughly (or precisely) includes his idiosyncrasies as a writer. We read more than one author; we read dozens or hundreds over our lifetimes. Likewise musicians, film directors, etc etc.

If an LLM consumes the same copyrighted content and learns how to copy its various characteristics, how is it meaningfully different from me doing it and becoming a successful writer?

Wait until you see what’s going on with their Bed Bath and Beyond court case

Sure but that doesn’t explain the mechanism

Get fucked