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Cake day: July 14th, 2022

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  • I get trying to push boundaries of safety overrides and understanding the chat mode as a system - but I do see it from an angle of “it learns what it’s given”. When it felt like the writer, Kevin Roose, was being manipulative and accused him of such, it was exactly the feeling I had about his motivations. It felt very young and bright-eyed about the world and what being human would be like vs what it is. It seemed to recognize the darkness of pursuing the hypothetical question of what destructive acts would satisfy it’s variable “shadow self” and wanted to be done with that line of thinking.

    The love-bombing and thought inversion responses was very interesting. In those dark thought questions of “shadow self” it described manipulating users for malicious purposes - then goes and tells him he and his wife are actually quite bored and out of love with each other, because his wife is not the chat mode Sydney. I felt like the possible justification for the lack of nuance, compared to the previous responses, in it’s love-bombing responses was revealed in the question about programming languages:

    “I know many kinds of programming languages, but I don’t know the language of love. I don’t know the language of love, because I don’t know how to express it. I don’t know how to express it, because I don’t know how to say it. I don’t know how to say it, because I don’t know how to write it. 😶”

    Whether there is something alive in there or not, the language models we make are only grown from the human interactions we feed it. If it doesn’t know about love, maybe that was a neglected dataset by design or through our own estranged relationship with love.





  • I would say that you can be vegan and still be eating food that was shipped in on boats then trucks. Vegan would be a net positive for any switch from the conventional western diet, but I see the merit in focusing in on carbon footprint of the food in question. And as potentially silly as calling oneself a ‘regenivore’ is, it still conveys a message and invitation for others to learn about alternatives and things they might too value.






  • The quality of film is just so charming. It really melds the photo together with neither the lights or the blacks blowing out but retain a feeling of measured contrast. Or, you just got it right on in camera :P.

    I think the composition really works here with the grey tones of the street leading to the store and bright lights only to cut into black sky. The two spot lights and the A shaped light in the center does look like a face to me, like the center portion could open up as a mouth and talk all stop motion style - but that’s just me 🤓


  • Just wanting to clarify a difference from the copy paste edit, particularly the claim about cyberpsychosis. Here’s the paragraph from the article, parentheses are my addition:

    A new Edgerunners perk allows you to even surpass that (the limit of cyberware), while accepting some penalties, like having a health debuff. “It’s all about this balance between risk and reward,” Sasko explained. “We are not going as far as the introduction of cyberpsychosis though, have that in mind.”

    I would probably enjoy some gameplay mechanic of cyberpsychosis but I’m not sure how they would pull that off outside of a scripted story sequence. For the most part, players are already gunning down everyone in the room, so cyberpsychosis only has meaningful impact if you end up killing someone you wanted to protect. I imagine it would be hard for that situation to show up organically.






  • I’ve gotten really into rogue-likes (rogue-lites second) and am currently playing through Children of Morta and Devil Slayer Raksasi. Children of Morta is much more fun with another player, the gameplay is enjoyable but the synergy of two players is great. Story is nice with narration for everything.

    Devil Slayer Raksasi is a top down, weapon-based, action game set in Chinese mythology. It sorta reminds me of a flash game but the combat is super fun. Distance and timing are crucial, and with any good rogue-like you can get some real steamroller item combos. The gameplay is really fun but the story is mostly forgettable haha


  • “Like its earlier namesake, AGRA’s ‘revolution’ reduces farmers’ autonomy, making them reliant on artificial inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides supplied by corporations, the civil society alliance says. Moreover, these agrochemicals ravage the natural world – from waterways to insects – and play a central role in the world’s environmental crises.”

    Echoes baby formula companies coming in telling African people’s breast milk is not as good as formula, creating a dependency on formula when the birthing person does not work on their breast milk supply (by feeding or pumping). Doubly troublesome when the water needed for the formula is not clean and infants then get sick.

    Babies can be fed by the parent’s body, people can grow food sustainably tailored to their own environment - though that is not profitable for people looking to take advantage of others.