dane garrus, dweeb

recovering AI chatbot addict. mistake theorist. calvinist. trying my best to be kind, and to respond constructively to good-faith criticism.

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

I continue to be stunned by Ted Chiang’s incuriousness about AI

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/Cptx3aWppI

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@IsaacKing314 Correct, people who get married are capturing real surplus value.

[Space Boy🦇 @SpaceBoy458]

I’m crying bro he made one real movie and is finally asking “what the fuck are we doing”

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@zinjanthopus @misthiOSX You can’t create a new e-commerce platform called “Amazon” even though there’s a place in South America called that.

You can’t call your computer company “Apple” even though that is the name of a fruit.

This is extremely basic trademark law, not complex at all.

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@raulgalerad This is indeed a lesson in how AI is devouring the internet

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@JeremiahDJohns The point about MMA is bizarre, not only for its attempt to label martial arts as morally illegitimate, but it's also wrong on the facts: it's not "the popular thing that boys are watching"

UFC has less than 1/10 the viewership of the NFL or NBA. It's less popular than hockey!

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

The people saying “this distinction is trivial/meaningless” are just plain factually wrong

I’ve had meetings where an Australian person was told “9 AM PST” instead of “9 PDT” and the Australian was 1 hour late because these are not in fact the same!

[emily is in sf @emilyinvc]

If you're a grown adult and you tell me PST instead of PDT in the summer, you immediately lose 10 IQ points in my mind.

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

You can say "this woman would be a 'bad partner'" and I think that's true but I don't think it ends the conversation or implies "it would be better to have no dates at all."

In college, I had what you might descriptively call a "bad girlfriend." It feels gauche to diagnose her, but she told me her sister had bpd and she had the same bpd trait cluster I observed in her sister. She talked to me a way that was sometimes mean in private and inappropriate in public, I felt that she betrayed my trust several times by sharing several sexual things between us with her sorority sisters, we dated for just a few months and even then, after our breakup it took me several months to recover. It's good that things ended when they did; I'm glad that I did not date her for longer than I did.

However! Would I be happier and "better off" in the counterfactual world where I never dated this woman? It's not clear to me that the answer is "yes!" I think there is a very clear sense in which she changed my life for the better."

She was my first girlfriend, and being the boyfriend of a popular sorority girl for several months was a huge permanent boost to my self esteem. Before, I was a meek boy who had never asked a girl out; I dated her only because she had been the one to initiate. But in the year after, I was able to walk around in the world with an attitude that "well, if SHE wanted me, then maybe other women want me, too," and I asked out other women, maybe once a month, infinitely more than I had in the lifetime before that point.

Getting constantly dragged to her sorority functions taught me how to be confident around women (including ones I wasn't dating). Experience made me more sexually confident. She taught me how to dress, how many common dating rituals worked, and so on. In the first few weeks of dating, she was actually very patient with me, very affectionate. (This is the classic bpd experience, the "devaluation" comes only *after* the initial episode of "idealization")

There's the meme about how "guys remember a compliment for years and a comment from 10 years ago remains a permanent buff to their self-esteem." Now think about what they get from a relationship, where a woman repeatedly says through her actions that "you are desirable enough to date, I want to be seen holding hands with you in public," repeatedly, over weeks and months.

It's very easy to tell a guy "you think you want a bpd girlfriend, but trust me, it's not worth it." And I'm not sure I can agree with that statement in good conscience -- maybe you DO want a "bad girlfriend" for a few months who can "teach you the ropes" and give you an opportunity to learn through experience, especially if in the counterfactual you are a kissless virgin who doesn't know how to talk to women.

And obviously there's the other failure mode, where you have a bad experience with one woman and you project that onto all women and grow resentful or whatever, but for a lot of guys just having a chance to date a woman, even one who is "bad," might be a net positive. I think that for a lot of guys, dating someone who they eventually break up with would be better than not dating at all.

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@_Jason_Dean_ Why would you be shocked that MtF SWEs who live in SF would be led by a man who is pro trans healthcare?

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@antoniogm It works this way in America, too. Making the car drive autonomously costs $100/mo or $8,000 to unlock it permanently

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@BarneyFlames Thank you. I feel like I’m going insane seeing takes here.

If he had used her phone number to promote his mixtape or ask for her to donate to his sick brother’s GoFundMe, that would obviously be a violation. And this is so much worse than that!

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@IsaacKing314 Food is bad

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@ExistentialEnso More like saying “I’ve never used Hotmail” or “I’ve never used AOL” or “I’ve never used Netscape Navigator.”

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

If you earnestly believe that you can’t judge a book based on “a couple of chapters,” your criteria for judging literature must be so divested from the quality of the prose that I don’t think we’ll ever see eye to eye.

No, I won’t stick around for the amazing plot twist or “character arcs” if I’ve gotten through hundreds of sentences and found them unpleasant to read.

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@Ruesavatar I like it when my gf touches my bicep and says “you’re so big”

I think this feels even better than when touches my chest and says “you been workin’ out?” because the former is phrased as being about what I am (as opposed to what I do)

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@yuanyi_z Why yes, I would like to legalize housing and repeal the Jones Act

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@shweta_ai Fascinated by these people who have AI write their posts for them but in millennial uwucase

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

“Most people can be trusted” can be true of a community where 10% of your neighbors are serial killers

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Japan is not a higher-trust society than the United States of America

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@allanpichardo @DudespostingWs If you can find an example of Pangram 3 falsely flagging human text from before 2020 as AI, I will pay you $100 https://t.co/xjSa3Y1CXX

[dane garrus, dweeb @dorkweeb]

@___IBelieve___ @ArsVampyre My offer remains open: If you can show me an example of human-written text published before 2020 getting incorrectly flagged as AI by Pangram 3, I will pay you $100