Wow… people are turned off by genocide. Who’da thunk it?

I think one of the most concise ways to conceptualize the current conservative project is that they looked at the French Revolution and the collapse of the Ancien Regime and drew the wrong conclusions.

Rather than seeing it as the inevitable result of the systemstic oppression of the majority for the obscene privilege of a select few, they see it as a failure of the select few to sufficiently protect their privilege. And their goal is to recreate the conditions of the Ancien Regime, but this time around to prevent the peasants from successfully rebelling.

Yes, though with a feudal system mixed in.

Corporations and wealthy individuals will be the sole property-owners and will play the roles of feudal lords, and the people will be serfs, allowed to live on the lords’ estates only if they serve the lords.

Since homelessness will be criminalized while all property will be owned by the feudal lords, those who won’t serve the lords “willingly” will be imprisoned, and yes, they will then be slaves.

And further - the establishment of a single, fediverse-wide account for each user would make it far too easy for those so inclined to silence anyone they wanted merely by banning their one and only account.

It’s not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.

Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they’re created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.

Any scheme to establish one “central” (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one “central” service, which means one “central” authority over account creation and management

At this point, all it would take would be to successfully establish the precedent that legal citizens can have their citizenship revoked (which just requires a case getting to the Supreme Court, where the corrupt majority has already demonstrated that they’re going to just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants), then to issue an executive order declaring that [whatever quality] is [whatever has been deemed to be acceptable grounds to have ones citizenship revoked]. It would undoubtedly be challenged, but again, it would wind up in front of the Supreme Court sooner or later, and they’d rubber-stamp it

Decentralization is a feature - not a bug.

And here’s a bit of a hint for the slow people out there - they don’t need that many agents or that big of a budget if they’re only dealing with immigrants.

Meaning is subjective and not intrinsic, so there can be no such thing as “the” meaning of anything.

The artist can have an intended meaning, but the audience not only can but will find their own meaning in it. It might be the case that the audience gets the same meaning from it that the creator intended, but it might just as easily be the case that they get some entirely different meaning from it.

None of them are right or wrong - that’s not even a coherent concept in that context. They just are whatever they are.

Oh yeah - absolutely.

That’s why even as housing costs get further out of reach for more people, the politicians, at the behest of their wealthy cronies and patrons, are criminalizing homelessness. The goal is to essentially recreate 18th century workhouses.

And you’ll count yourself lucky if you get sent to a workhouse instead of a foreign torture prison.

Trump has never had a “deportation” agenda.

What he’s had, from the start, is a “send anyone who opposes me to a concentration camp” agenda.

The “deportation” of immigrants was just a cenvenient base from which to start establishing precedents.

Now that you mention it…

So can we assume it smells like some combination of stale bronzer, McDonalds, flop sweat and ass?

I get the impression that when he says “find your own way out,” he actually means “stop caring.”

It’s as of somebody somehow crossed Mr. Burns and Ralph Wiggum, brought him to life and made him president.

Oh my god yes. The moment I read the headline, it all fell into place.

Yes - it’s necessarily pretty much the exact same effect, because the LLM, like the mentalist, is taking cues from the input it gets and making connections and feeding back whatever is most (statistically) likely to be appropriately on-topic.

And exactly as with a mentalist, everything that approaches what the customer wants to hear is going to get an encouraging response, and likely further prompts which serve to narrow it down even further, and make it even easier to tell them even more precisely just what they want to hear…

Wow…

I had never thought about any of this before, but it actually makes perfect sense.

By its nature, an LLM feeds back some statistically close approximation of what you expect to see, and the more you engage with it (which is to say, the more you refine your prompts for it) the closer it necessarily gets to precisely what you expect to see.

“He was like, ‘just talk to [ChatGPT]. You’ll see what I’m talking about,’” his wife recalled. “And every time I’m looking at what’s going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t.”

Exactly. To an outside observer, that’s likely what it would look like, because in some sense, that’s exactly what it in fact is.

But to the person engaging with it, it’s a revelation of the deep, secret, hidden truths that they always sort of suspected lurked at the heart of reality. Never mind that the LLM is just stringing together words and phrases most statistically likely to correspond with the prompts it’s been given - to the person feeding it those prompts, it seems like, at long last, verification of what they’ve always suspected.

I can totally see how people could get sucked in by that

And this is why SUDDENLY IRAN!

For some reason, he seems extra butthurt about getting caught lying this time.

Well, first off it can’t bhappen “to Lemmy” because Lemmy isn’t va site - it’s a piece of software.

It not only can and will but already has happened to individual instances. And they end up getting defederated by other instances and then either fix the problem or fade away.

And individual users can just move to other instances (or if they’re smart, just stop using or even delete their account on the problem instance and keep using their other accounts on other instances).

And through it all, the rest of the fediverse just keeps chugging along.

Which illustrates the key difference between Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc. and traditional social media - the fediverse is flexible. Individual instances can and will and do come and go, and it doesn’t affect the fediverse as a whole.