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[jason @jasondoolittle]

@Tom_Winter @elonmusk @LauraAJarrett This seems like a good time for a reminder:

“AI” chatbots are not your friend. More precisely, they are unable to be your friend.

They don’t care about you, because they are unable to care.

They don’t know or understand anything, because are unable to know or understand.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

Seeing some weird stories, so here’s a reminder to everyone:

Your AI chatbot;

➡️doesn’t know anything
➡️doesn’t believe anything
➡️doesn’t understand anything
➡️doesn’t care about you or anything else
➡️isn’t trying to do anything (beyond the biases inserted by the programmer)
➡️can’t think
➡️can’t determine truth

The chat bots are statistical models that simply predict the next most likely token based on the context.

They are very good at it, which makes them extremely useful when prompted appropriately.

They will also tell you just about anything you want to hear if you try hard enough.

Don’t believe everything they tell you. They don’t actually know anything.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@mrcmeh @PitchAutopsy @levelsio Thanks for the correction.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@misterfitzie @PitchAutopsy @levelsio Yes, true.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@misterfitzie @PitchAutopsy @levelsio Tailscale server isn’t a relay, it’s a coordinator. Once the outbounds are matched up, the connection is direct host to host without Tailscale server in the middle.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

You can block all unsolicited inbound except for the cloudflare tunnel.

Web users don’t hit your VPS directly, they hit cloudflare, so 80 and 443 don’t need to be open to the general internet.

Tailscale only makes outbound connections, initially to the coordination server, so you don’t need to have a VPN port open. The coordination server matches up the outbound connections. All your admin traffic (ssh or whatever else) goes over the Tailscale network.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

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[jason @jasondoolittle]

@HarleyButterBee @The_Memeries @WallStreetMav I guess we better ban motors then. So many jobs lost because of them.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@AA_Neu @Rothmus Exercising your rights doesn’t require the labor of others.

You don’t have a right to have your rights protected or guaranteed by others.

That is a luxury that you enjoy as a member of a functioning civilization.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

You don’t have the right to an attorney. That’s a misunderstanding.

You have a right to liberty. If the government wants to deprive you of your liberty, they must follow the correct procedure and make sure you are competently represented in the process.

The “right to an attorney” isn’t actually a right. It’s a responsibility of those that want to deprive you of rights.

If you’re left alone to exercise your rights, you don’t need a lawyer.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

Another way to look at it is that you don’t really know what’s going on in the world.

You know what people told you.

Different people told you different things.

You know that some people are deliberately trying to mislead you.

How do you decide which people to believe?

If you honestly consider what you really know, it’s very difficult to have an informed opinion that doesn’t come with a whole bunch of qualifiers (if this is true then that, but if not that then this, etc).

If you are very certain about what is going on halfway around the world and why it is happening, you are serving someone else’s agenda.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@busted_flat @caroljsroth Probably much less than six months since most of the net worth is not actually money and couldn’t really be sold for its supposed market value.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@MisterSparkle3 @handre @coucheval Under any order, people will keep getting health care until the supply of health care is exhausted.

The question is, which type of order is better at creating more?

Bureaucrats don’t and can’t create health care. They might have you killed and call it healthcare, though.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

The problem, which I’m sure you understand but are pretending not to, is that the “left wing” “right wing” thing is a propaganda game.

In the US, Republicans and “conservatives” are considered “right wing” and Democrats and “liberals” are considered “left wing.” It doesn’t matter whether using these terms like this makes sense. This is how people understand them.

When something is labeled “right wing,” it is understood in the US to be something that is supported or enabled by Republicans or American “conservatives.”

The people that are commonly understood to be “right wing” in the US fully reject Islamic fundamentalism. It’s the “left wing” in the US that enables it.

When this type of violence is stripped of context and aggregated into statistics by ambiguously defined, but commonly understood, labels, the “blame” goes to the wrong people.

The people who aggregate these events into statistics fully understand all of this. They are using these statistics to mislead us.

[jason @jasondoolittle]

@PatriotBulldog4 @shoe0nhead They don’t know what fascism is. It’s just become a slur used to denigrate western civilization.