One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza.

It’s not true.

Eliza? Really!? Give me a break!

I’m thinking there’s other reasons for the hatred, personally.

Like how you’re reducing everything to “I didn’t support the Democrats” on a platform with a sizable population of people who don’t give two flying fucks which facet of the Plutocrat Party is running the USA.

I presume you’re volunteering?

I’m on a Nicholas Lens kick right now.

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Canadian bank notes are made of the polymer … deep breath biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP). All plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics and in this case Canadian bank notes are not plastic.

This interruption brought to you by an obsessive nerd.

My high school report cards. (From 1983.)

Have you ever speculated as to why you get banned so often?

Yes. Appeared. That’s what it was. Appearance.

But the Democrats are not the People’s Party or they wouldn’t have driven off so many of the people with their Palestine policy.

The Democrats are just slightly more polite versions of the Plutocrat Party which is the real, single party of US politics. Democrats/Republicans is just the grift that makes you think you’ve got choices that matter.

This was my own reaction.

This is becoming a meme.

Used by the left to attack Musk. Used by the right to praise him.

I think the list of what’s going on with the Apartheid Manchild can be found in the list of symptoms for ketamine abuse.

Grand Theft Autocorrect has no feelings to hurt. Has no nervous system to signal pain. Spicy Madlibs is less self-aware than an ant.

Well the booster fouled the landing, but that’s still way ahead of SpaceX who fouled how many landings (not Starship) before one finally did so without exploding?

Not “caused by” but certainly “amplified by”.

Right now, a little bit of Low Orbit.

I’m pretty sure this was moderated by machine. This was right when they started bragging about their automated moderation. It’s possible that this was a language barrier issue, but it didn’t feel right.

I use so-called “eternal pencils” now. They come in various “hardness” ratings (like pencils: B, HB, H, 2H, etc.) but even my “softest” (read: darkest with broadest tip) has been in use now for a couple of years without noticeable wear on the tip. That one is guaranteed to be usable for a decade. My hardest will likely stop working when the sun dies in four billion years or so.

I’ve tried them. I still prefer the compressed ones, but they’re pretty good, yes.

Any system that is rules-based, whether human-run or algorithmic, can be gamed because rules cannot be made without flaws that people can game.

Algorithmic systems, however, lack any actual comprehension and thus will be far easier to abuse. As an example, at Farcebook, back in 2015 (when I still had an account) I got a post removed by an automated reviewer and a note placed on my account for “threats of violence”. The “threat”? Someone asked me how to do something and I replied with “I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you”.

No human reading that would see that as a genuine threat.