Ah a clever and biting retort to be sure! A short and sweet dagger to the heart of the argument. Your college debate team is clearly very lucky to have someone like you among their ranks! However, I warn you, the fediverse, my friend, is the biggest of the big leagues, and such concise witticisms and stinging flashes of showmanship will not suffice to pull your seemingly iron clad observation across the finish line! Tokenism is not representation.

I’ve been subscribed to the physical copy for years and consider it a bargain. Even when a story is from a new writer and a little rough around the edges, it is always obvious why it got selected. Highly recommended if you love sci-fi short stories that make you go “hmm”

Ohh yes both good suggestions thanks

Yeah that’s a very good point, I have long hated how Reddit has been slowly erasing each subreddits individual identity/community and just turning the app into another algorithmic content feed.

Tap to pay will not work

Turn on “annoyances cookie banners” in UBO

Right? There’s a line in Generations where Kirk tells him “you were younger” than a new ensign.

I was just reading that, I think thats the one!

I thought about that, it’s probably Chekov’s finest appearance but I just watched it recently!

Posting highly formatted but substanceless empty fluff is not a “writing style”, it’s spam. A human is certainly capable of doing that if they set their mind to it, but occams razor strongly points to automation.

I’m starting to understand why you often find yourself accused of being a bot… 🙃

Umbrage is our word we need to take it back

One cannot win an argument that does not exist

An LLM cannot “argue” full stop. If you find yourself in a debate with the text outputted by an LLM bot you have accomplished nothing besides wasting your own time (which is the entire point).

The problem with automating social media posts is that they definitionally cannot have “merit”. The primary function of slop is not to “argue” but to “flood the zone with shit” and create a plausible consensus for whatever opinion the person running the LLMs wants. We saw this with paid humans before LLMs. It’s not new.

A human will never be able to win a debate against an LLM bot “on the merits” because their function is to waste your time. An LLM cannot stand on merit, cannot hold a position, and cannot construct an argument. The words that are output by an LLM have no connection to any inside mind or model of the world. The only way to win a debate with an LLM is the same way you win a debate with a troll: identify the hallmarks and refuse to engage.

“a revolt” as if there when weren’t a million alternative communities on Reddit and Fedi already.

I wouldn’t do this, but a company won’t provide a service for free and I think it’s a reasonable trade-off. It’s not enabled by default, and if you do want to use their (free) AI features on your data, they get to use that data to target ads.

I used it for a number of years (it was very cheap if you bought the 3 year plan) the speeds were good and as a n00b I appreciated how simple it was to get up and going.

Ironically the reason I gave it up was when I switched to Linux full time!

I’m going to wait one year before I do anything but these projects do look satisfying.

This will upset a lot of creators. I know they can’t just up and leave but I do wish more video creators just uploaded their content to other platforms (peertube would be nice!) the same way musicians upload to every streaming service. At least offer viewers a choice!