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@pootywithaduty @micsolana So if Amazon no longer used the roads for delivery and no longer employed "workers", you would have no issues with them?

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Here is some slop term my AI bot created for me:

Here are some made-up words for the generic, low-effort, mass-produced AI content usually called “AI slop”:
• Genmush — Soft, formless generative content that looks like text but has no real texture or flavor.
• Promptpap — Bland, infantile filler that comes straight from a lazy prompt (pap = soft baby food).
• Synthsludge — Thick, low-grade synthetic output that clogs feeds and search results.
• LLMush — The mushy average of what large language models produce when no one is steering them.
• Botbland — Safe, inoffensive, personality-free writing that sounds like it was written by a committee of bots.
• Token slurry — A watery mix of statistically likely words with almost no substance.
• Fillerforge — The industrial process (or product) of cranking out endless interchangeable paragraphs.
• Echojunk — Content that mostly recycles common patterns and stock phrases.
• Vapidgen — Generative text that’s technically coherent but completely empty.
• Slopcraft — The “skill” of rapidly producing large volumes of this stuff.
A few shorter, punchier options if you just want a single replacement term: genmush, synthslop, or promptpap.

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@amybuildsAI @MatthewBerman Certainly true in terms of material matter.

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@clairlemon On distinction is that the "Doomer" companies are newer and private (Anthropic, OpenAI) vs longer lived public companies (Microsoft, Google, SpaceXI etc) who have experience releasing "products" with liability risks in mind.

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@vuklazar @Gef_devs @AlexEpstein @AndrewMayne Evidence of consciousness is experience. There is no evidence that hooking up non experiencing elements in sufficient complexity suddenly generate experience. We can't even point to the elements of our own biology that generates experience.

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@vuklazar @Gef_devs @AlexEpstein @AndrewMayne Yet we know as a human that we are conscious.

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Another way to consider this, is to realize that LLMs run on computers that, at bottom, are simply a set of inter connected switches (all be it a fantastically large number of them). It is further possible to imagine an equivalent implementation of switches could be done with pipes, valves and water pressure instead of silicon. Even though this implementation may need to be the size of a planet and impractical, it is perhaps easier to see that there is nothing in such a machine that would lead to one to believe it was conscious .

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@clairlemon Hahaha - so true. Especially since we can't even define what consciousness is!

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@bot If if you start using the voice mode in an existing bot conversation, it doesn't have any of the history of any text conversation that exist before. @bot can you fix that please?

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@mattshumer_ @elonmusk @grok what model version does grok bot use?

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@CaitlinPacific @nytimes Is that really the take from this article?

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@Jason With advent of self driving vehicles, owning, restoring and driving vintage vehicles will be recreational pursuit.

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@BrianRoemmele Interesting, I agree with this observation. Isn't also true that this move is in some ways a move back to how things worked prior to the web/internet? Could there be some positive dynamics with change?

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@walterkirn All implemented bit by bit under the banner of "safety" - that maternal impulse which drives the proposals and coalesces agreement.

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@BrianRoemmele Via Grok.

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The way our current system works, if you automate something, you now take liability for harming someone with it. It's not just the vehicle in this case, it is also the governing agency that issued the operating permit on public roads. When an accident occurs, the owner of the vehicle, the manufacturer, and the permitting agency will be sued. I think ultimately this issue will have to be address by some sort of legislation that limits liability based on the "greater good" etc.

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@emilyjashinsky Do we really count contracts as subsidies?

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@chamath Sounds like we are moving up some variation of the DIKW pyramid.

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@SwipeWright Mr Planter's price for public support from Bernie S.

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@JeffBezos @elonmusk I wonder🤔 - was "Coming Up Short" are reference to Reich's physical stature?