everyone is the hero of their own story, same as it ever was

i meant the reduction in troll bots specifically

A rainbow lorikeet at the local suburban creek.

oh you’re gonna love the dumb bullshit we get to see unfold in 2027

specifically i would argue that while most animals are moral patients only humans are moral agents in any meaningful sense

our subjective experience of an ongoing present is a simulation based on delayed sensory information, our brain compensating for that latency through predictive modeling of a future past, man. probabilistic phenomena appear at multiple levels but this is The Big One

Saw a couple of Australasian Swamphens on the way back from the gym, hoping they might hang around the wetlands area for a bit so might head down with my dslr in a bit and try and get a photo of them, because they're pretty striking looking birds. Reference below for those who don't know them

in your mind, maybe

went to find a source for the quote "the technical is social before it is technical" and i can only find my own posts and blogs where i say "i cannot remember who said this"

this honestly seems like the real strategic value here from ukraine’s point of view. if the bot farm side effect ends up being real and significant it’s a nice knock-on benefit, but it doesn’t have any value in the context of the war itself

Great to have a close encounter with this Water Rail at Lodmoor this morning.

Kept me company for breakfast, so they got my crumbs in return 🤝

I'd be shocked if taking down a couple (large) data centers did much to combat misinfo bots. But if that is, in fact, happening, it's suggestive of very weak anti-bot measures, or that basic counter-measures were abandoned for fancy ML.

perhaps this wasn’t an explicit goal, but instead a happy side effect which may influence future targeting decisions?

i also don’t think the use of first-person pronouns has any significant role in the anthropomorphization of talking computer

fair point also yeah

i don’t think that a lack of linguistic idiosyncrasies is a deficit LLMs currently have

i assume someone has had any particular thought i’ve had prior to having had the thought myself yeah

but there wasn’t any real way to know that for much of the war, because to know it assumes a level of rationality that was absolutely not present when russia was making its decision to invade