I’m not trying to manufacture anything. I made this post to release some stress about having accidentally posted there, fully expecting destructive moderator action. It seems I didn’t match any of their filters like BluJay320’s “Ah, another Russian bot.” comment.

Sorry if I did end up manufacturing drama in spite of my intent.

It’s not about voting for the lesser evil, but against the worse one. The way the United States is structured, which influences the way its people think about voting and vice versa, you are given only two options when voting for president:

• Vote for the Democrat one
• Vote for the Republican one

But… you might think you’re clever and say “I should just vote for neither of them, nobody will stop me”. If your state has RCV then put your preferred candidate as a first pick and just place Democrat before Republican. Problem solved, no more strategic voting. Unfortunately, precious few states have adopted this for any elections, let alone the presidency.

In states without RCV, there are 3 equivalent cases from your perspective:

• Vote Republican: Increment their number by 1
  • Overall effect +1 for Republicans
• Vote Democrat: Increment a threatening score by 1, thereby requiring Republicans to gain 1 more vote to win
  • Overall effect -1 for Republicans
• Don’t vote or vote for a non threatening party/candidate
  • Overall effect 0 for Republicans

Forgive me for assuming the reader wants to get Republicans (and Republican aligned Democrats) out of office. In this case, it is your responsibility to vote for the most threatening candidate. It’s a sick trick of game theory, which is why RCV is so important.

Getting mauled by a farmbot IRL any% wr.

Selection bias left the chat and apparently ceased to exist as a result.

Holy shit is that a Homestuck panel? First I’ve seen of The MSPA Reader outside the comic’s sphere.

Sort of has the vibe of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Yes, this is fucking satire, you fuck

A reasonable reminder when reading things like this.

Great new(/s)! Ford has patented this already: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230055958

This kind seems like it’s basically what I said?

My mistake, I associated what you said as

(machine learning) is not the same as (“AI” (LLMs, presented as beings capable of thought))

(aka LLMs aren’t ML) rather than

machine learning is not the same as “AI” e.g. (LLMs, presented as beings capable of thought)

(aka LLMs are ML, and when presented as a replacement for humans they are AI)

Either way, I believe there is some value in comparing even simple decision making technology to the human brain. After all, we are capable of making those sorts of decisions as well. Tbf I may be biased by my internal mental model of coding, where I imagine describing a set of steps, relations, abstractions, etc to an entity with an extremely direct manner of interpretation.

My personal moral of (seemingly malicious) language ambiguity is to avoid the term AI altogether.

Thanks for the discussion!

I appreciate that sentiment, and much more the indication that I’m not mistaken to choose the “never deliberately run the output of an LLM” path.

machine learning is not the same as “AI” (LLMs, presented as beings capable of thought)

(insert nerd face) LLMs are a kind of machine learning algorithm. AI is actually a superset of ML, in fact pretty much all computer programs count as AI. (a lot of old computer science departments were once called AI research departments in stead)

The phrase “AI”, as promoted by tech bros, however, should be considered seperately to the correct definition: I agree that software is generally harmful when presented this way by its creators.