Yeah, this sort of shit has gotten under my skin since identity stuff started exploding into public discourse.

If gender is a construct, why the fuck are we still using traditionally masculine and feminine actions/interests to prescribe identity? What gives anyone the right to prescribe someone else’s identity?

For new people, please note that lemmy.ml is also a marxist-leninist instance (hence the “ml”) and tends to be the home of some more abrasive users of lemmy. Unless you’re into that philosophy I’d reccomend only using it for dev discussion and info on the main Lemmy “project”.

Otherwise you’re liable to get shit on for uttering more “mainstream leftist” views because their userbase doesn’t think you’re left enough. That makes it sound worse than it is, but there are some users who have given up on Lemmy because of dogpiling by ml users.

Which is intensely frustrating for people who actually care about free speech. Can’t talk about it without setting off everyone’s “that guy is probably a nazi” alarms.

It’s absolutely an intentional trap to attempt to get people to support moves against free speech by tainting the concept through negative association.

We shouldn’t tolerate hate speech. But I’m concerned about where we end up in a few decades if the concept of free speech keeps the current connotations.

And people might consider even this comment as sealioning or something.

Meanwhile we have people unironically using phrases like unalive and censoring swear words in screenshots so they don’t trip the automated content filters on mainstream social media. That should be more concerning than people seem to take it. People joke about “literally 1984”, but unalive is blatant newspeak.

How do you know there is nobody who wants to take over? Have you posted on the community about it? Or on one of the moderator communities?

This comment brings up another important point: by reddit’s own “reddiquette”, upvotes and downvotes are not meant to be used as a sign of support. Everyone knows that they are, but officially they are meant to simply be used as “this contibutes to the conversation”.

So there’s hypocrisy right at the base concept this whole plan is built off of. Not surprising.

If you want instant liver failure, take a shot every time someone uses an incredibly oversimplified understanding of the human brain and LLMs to assert LLMs have human properties.

Also, shoutouts to !techtakes@awful.systems and !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Don’t go in those if you have any sort of desire to defend modern content generation/content thievery AI.

Also, yes LLM style AI has it’s uses. Mainly to generate shit that we shouldn’t need in the first place, or stuff that we should pay a person to do well. And the cost is stupid when compared to the minor benefit.

How exactly? You can’t just say “better because fedi”, that’s a non-answer.

Of all the jokes C&H could do about “mouthful mode”, this is far tamer than I was prepared for.

Be careful, don’t you know that you aren’t allowed to enjoy things made by bad people?

Don’t mind me, I’ll be over here with American Gods, Good Omens, and the Harry Potter books. Not enjoying them one bit. Because I’m a good person who believes good things and only supports good people.

More seriously, I’ll try to buy any future copies of his stuff used, but I’m not going to sweat it. There are far more things I purchase and use on a daily basis with far worse people and power structures behind them. Not going to worry about a single author.