People who use Mastodon, what demonym do you prefer? @fediversenews@venera.social [ ] Mastodonian [ ] Mastonaut [ ] Tooter
In reply to @atomicpoet.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I think we should adopt something that identifies those on Mastodon as part of the fediverse as a whole, not necessarily something specific to Mastodon itself.
My thoughts and prayers are with John as he mourns the loss of his Tampa Bay Lightning to my Vegas Golden Knights.
The bill would make administering an mRNA vaccine -- a COVID vaccine -- a misdemeanor.
Hope everyone who’s been shrugging off the GOP strategy to criminalize health care it doesn’t like (see: abortion, trans rights) is happy with themselves, because it’s not stopping there.
(@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz) (Mastodon)Twitter Blue by @Meta is not the pivot from the metaverse I had on my bingo card for 2023. https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid02979GyAHwTKsMd7ngCiHTRCHyeTCEHwYe9Evq3YV2ffvxUY7fKVb9TGyKEUFBeo3kl
Meta’s testing a new verification subscription on Facebook and Instagram that costs $11.99 per month on web or $14.99 per month on mobile. It’s rolling out in New Zealand and Australia before expanding to more countries.
(@graygoogirl@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)Watching Twitter fail into nothingness is like watching an old friend slowly lose their mental capacites. It hurts, this friend had some problems, but they helped spread the word about artists, independent journalists, mom and pop shops... Now they just sit in their recliner in the dark, wondering why their friends don't call anymore.
The most comically sad thing about this whole Twitter two-factor fiasco is they could have just come out and said they are retiring SMS-based auth for security reasons and it would have been a totally fine decision. Instead they tie it to a tiny incremental revenue opportunity and it once again outs them as total morons.
I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong
What’s downright scary about Meta Verified is that, just like Twitter Blue, Meta is charging for account verification and security. This isn’t a service. It’s a protection racket. Big Social wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to you
Attached: 1 image I really didn't have "pay us but we'll still sell your data" on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are.
When "freethinking" dudes engage in "asking the difficult questions" why is it always about trans people existing and never say, how horrible and trashy straight men are? Start there bro.
Comment by gwern - I've been thinking how Sydney can be so different from ChatGPT, and how RLHF could have resulted in such a different outcome, and here is a hypothesis no one seems to have brought up: "Bing Sydney is not a RLHF trained GPT-3 model at all! but a GPT-4 model developed in a hurry which has been finetuned on some sample dialogues and possibly some pre-existing dialogue datasets or instruction-tuning [https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/transformer/gpt/instruction-tuning/index], and this plus the wild card of being able to inject random novel web searches into the prompt are why it acts like it does". This seems like it parsimoniously explains everything thus far. So, some background: 1. The relationship between OA/MS is close but far from completely cooperative, similar to how DeepMind won't share [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804446] anything with Google Brain. Both parties are sophisticated and understand that they are allies - for now... They share as little as possible. When MS plugs in OA stuff to its services, it doesn't appear to be calling the OA API but running it itself. (That would be dangerous and complex from an infrastructure point of view, anyway.) MS 'licensed [https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/new-azure-openai-service/] the GPT-3 source code [https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/]' for Azure use but AFAIK they did not get the all-important checkpoints or datasets (cf. their investments in ZeRO). So, what is Bing Sydney? It will not simply be unlimited access to the ChatGPT checkpoints, training datasets, or debugged RLHF code. It will be something much more limited, perhaps just a checkpoint. 2. This is not ChatGPT. MS has explicitly stated it is more powerful than ChatGPT, but refused to say anything more straightforward like "it's a more trained GPT-3" etc. If it's not a ChatGPT, then
This “Twitter Blue” and “Meta Verified” shit is hilarious. These billionaires will squeeze you dry for platinum ultra mega VIP status that means nothing.
Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_? In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office? Sure, it’s the phones.
An open letter to the Times rightly called out the paper for its biased coverage of trans issues. Here's what the paper continues to get wrong.
A social network taxonomy.Ethan Zuckerman reveals a new classification system for social networks.
Security experts baffled by move to require paid subscription to get SMS sign-in codes.
"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.
Explaining the bumpy and uncertain legal path toward protecting --- or ending --- a critical reproductive freedom in all 50 states...
