Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎

Philosopher of the Apocalypse

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

Prediction: This will not come to pass. AI music will have some place in the music arena going forward, but not remotely enough to kill music streaming; indeed, it may just add to it.

[nicksaraev @nicksaraev]

I am not joking when I say this.

Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.

AI music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AI music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.

Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@jon3k You could say the same thing about humans and neurons.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@TyKeynes Yes, in free trades you can’t run out of other people’s money. Thanks for highlighting the difference between capitalism and socialism.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@MariaFlowersx66 Law enforcement, prisons and courts only become necessary when someone tries to violate rights.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@TwocanoesSoft I am amused that to get to https://t.co/yyAsi7pMxe from https://t.co/u7wgiJlVxu, I have to go through Twitter.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@AppleSupport This is…insane. How can it possibly be the case that when you delete filtered-in rows in Numbers, you also delete filtered-*out* rows??? https://t.co/AdGIfKQ2Tm

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@avidseries Thomas Jefferson.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@avidseries Ayn Rand.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@connorpklocke 1) As many as the market desires.
2) If that were the most cost-effective method, that’s what they would do.
3) Why do we need a new factory? A new store? A new farm? A new house? Why does what someone else builds have to benefit you?

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

This is correct.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

Sooner or later, I think people are going to have to come to terms with the fact that “stochastic parrot” is actually a correct way to describe an LLM

Yes, it turns out that stochastic parrots can do a tremendous amount, and the technology is revolutionary, but it is still tokens and tokens out at the end of the day

There is no lived experience inside that matrix multiplication machine, no persistent state, no emotions, no sense of identity, ownership, or belonging

It is just an empty autocomplete machine

Extremely useful to humans, much better than humans at a lot of things, but an empty tool with no agency, no will, and no emotions

I think fighting to maintain that perspective, and to see through what is essentially a puppet show, is going to be an important part of navigating the next few years

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@jamesfishback So…don’t subsidize them?

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

It occurs to me that if we had genuinely-perfectly-enforced speed limits, we wouldn’t need speed limits at all. Just ticket those who are actually driving recklessly. Speed limits are, and always have been, just an easier proxy for reckless driving.

[sonch @soncharm]

Real problem here is more basic. Speed limits as they’ve existed are basically 5-10mph under the desired speed. That’s the equilibrium. ‘25’ on a sign basically means ‘stay under 35 and you’re probably good, unless a cop really wants to pull you over for some other reason’

This is all known and taken into account by the people who decide what number goes on the sign! ‘25’ kinda means 34, ‘35’ kinda means 44 and so on.

So, while Perfect Literal Enforcement by machine is kind of fine in principle, if/where this is applied *without changing the numbers* it basically means a de facto exogenous 5-10 speed-limit reduction for no real reason besides ‘we have cameras now’.

Of course people aren’t inclined to be thrilled about that!

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@soncharm It’s so much worse than that. Ever driven around a cop car? Cop cars form “wolf packs” around them, of people afraid to go faster than the cop car. This is inherently dangerous. This is what a rigorously-enforced speed limit regime would look like (ish).

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@xwanyex If you use “literally” hyperbolically, that’s just called lying.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@jeremyct How much would that cost? If people have free access to doctors, many will go for every hangnail. Economics teaches us that the quantity demanded for a free, valuable product is infinite. Is there infinite money to pay for this?

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@beinlibertarian “Once the land is gone, it’s gone.” Completely false. You can just tear down the data center and turn the land back into farmland if needed.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@bearlyai If I could use Bearly with, e.g. Beaver for Zotero, I’d subscribe. But as it is, I’d have to pay for Bearly *and* e.g. OpenRouter.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@bearlyai In Bearly 5.2.5, the “Join Our Discord” link has expired.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@ArmandDoma Speed limits are one of those things which, if enforced consistently, would break the system.

[Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion]

@Kyshores1 Are ya’ll still in business? If so, your website is wrong…