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“If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files the whole system will collapse”!
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That sounds as ridiculous as "if we tax the superwealthy like everyone else, they won't "create jobs".
Are we done with these cons yet?
All that will happen when we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files is that there will be room at the top for new people who are not part of a child rape and murder ring, and there will be less government, business, and diplomacy by blackmail.
Drain that swamp!
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if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, we will have more women in leadership in politics, science, & academia (these rapists weren't just bankers & politicos)... imagine the worlds that would open up if women felt safe & free to pursue their full potential
all eyes may be on the Ohio State defender & protector of perverts, but i can promise you that many colleges not just that one (inc the one I attended) were happy hunting grounds for male predators
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"if we imprison all the top nazis, the nazi regime will collapse"
..and that's a bad thing?
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I can’t find anywhere with bondi actually quoted saying that. Is it something she actually said or just how she clearly feels based on her actions?
It won't collapse.
The people at the top aren't the ones who keep world running.
Governments don't collapse when a new leader is elected and companies don't go under when a c-suite is replaced.
It's the regular folks working tirelessly in the background that keep the lights on
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The current system deserves to collapse (at minimum)…
they mean their system
The system should collapse if its existence depends on an elite pedophile class.
Absolutely! The whole system created around protecting rich sex offenders will collapse!
There are some incredibly wealthy people who were not involved with Epstein at all. I read an article about the Mars family, which is the wealthiest family in Wyoming. They're all billionaires and they live up in Jackson. And they asked if Ol' Man Forrest, who died in 2016, sadly, was involved with Epstein. And they said no. Epstein was never even invited to their ranch because Forrest thought he was shady. And many people felt that way.
So they're saying these billionaires are "too big to fail"? They've got some precedent on their side with that one...I mean it's ALWAYS a bullshit excuse to protect billionaires, but they've gotten away with it before...
imagine that the elites who captured the system, the monopoly, collapsed
No, the American system of governance won't collapse if every one in Epstein's network who acted criminally is prosecuted.
It might collapse if they receive no consequences for their conduct. If they do, what will collapse is the mythic aura of power and untouchability they create around themselves.
But if you don't, there is no system worth of keeping from collapsing!
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If the whole system is so very corrupt like them, perhaps collapsing it is not such a bad idea after all.
That’s authoritarianism. (The part about not prosecuting.)
Submission is the non-pointy end of the authoritarian stick.
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could not agree more. 4547 promised to drain the swamp as a subterfuge for not telling electors that he had every intention to be the chief swampmaker and that "all his friends" would conspire to mire government in that swamp. Drain it and jail the billionaires who have corrupted public life in the US.
there's an infinite supply of narcissists. They won't be "running out" anytime soon.
If the system collapses, so be it.
Too big to fail.
I would have boosted your toot, agreeing with your sentiments but for the MAGA/Trumpista slogan "Drain the swamp" at the end.
Revolution, often further concentrates the power in the hands of the few.
In the case of capitalist revolutions, such as the so-called "Shock doctrine" the power concentration creates a class of all powerful and heinously wealthy oligarchs and further punishes the poor.
Which, correct me if I am wrong is where the USofA already is.
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forget drain it ... obliterate it! 💥
🪦 Epstein Elite class
If the system is contingent on there being an abusive pedophile class to hold it up, then that system is bad and deserves to collapse
the system that protects pedophiles and fraudsters on the backs of the poor and innocent needs to be brought down.
The “… system will collapse” excuse implies that those peoples was competent from the start, and spring the state of the world we lived in I have a serious doubt.
There are peoples more qualified out there who wasn’t born rich or with the good connections to be at the top, but they will surely do a better job.
There are peoples more qualified out there who wasn’t born rich or with the good connections to be at the top, but they will surely do a better job.
Sounds like a promise to me
How high are the odds that these people not getting prosecuted will end in them getting shot aka prosecuted by the general public?
Well even if it's true then the whole system needs to collapse.
Anyone claiming that is making the case for a revolution!
#Politics #EpsteinFiles #GlobaliseTheIntifada
Anyone claiming that is making the case for a revolution!
#Politics #EpsteinFiles #GlobaliseTheIntifada
then maybe the system sucks? If it needs a bunch of criminal pedophiles to function it seems to be part of the problem and not part of the solution.
(And I actually doubt that the system will collapse, if people get arrested, noone is irreplaceable)
I hope so much that *this* system will collapse as quick as possible! But will all of them be persecuted? I remember well the #PanamaPapers scandal ... so many of these peoole still having power, are still working ...
Hi Dan. I saw your toot yesterday and it made me think. And even though I agree with the spirit of it I believe it’s important that we have another type of conversation around this. These people are not just some crazy psychopaths, they are the logical byproduct of this system. Moreover they ARE the system. It’s just the system doing what it does, being what it is. To my point of view, there’s no “making room for better people at the top”. I agree that these people should be prosecuted and put behind bars and also that if this whole sack of sh*t is showing us something is that we need a deeper, structural change. These news are shaking the world. I really hope we get to find the strength as a society to question the status quo and start building a new and more fair world.
drain the swamp
Should be the banner shout from the lips of every patriot. The swamp is this current administration. Bondi works to protect the current President (not the office). Bondi has demonstrated contempt for rule of law and has little interest in her oath of office. This administration works for elite white collar criminals that are shackling the American middle class with authoritarian style policies that siphon their constitutional rights.
Should be the banner shout from the lips of every patriot. The swamp is this current administration. Bondi works to protect the current President (not the office). Bondi has demonstrated contempt for rule of law and has little interest in her oath of office. This administration works for elite white collar criminals that are shackling the American middle class with authoritarian style policies that siphon their constitutional rights.
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I mean, I'm happy for the whole lot to be thrown in a hole and the key to be melted, but it's a bit naive to expect that with the same system and the same incentives similar people won't rise to the top. The system *must* collapse!
The system didn't crash when the DOGE wrecking ball went through, why would it collapse if the swamp was drained?
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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.
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I mean, it doesn't help that the bots are doing this bullshit: crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrat…
This is clearly intended to trick humans.
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I might have missed a chapter but my interpretation is someone has prompted their llm to generate this text and then posted it no? The way I saw this narrated is like the llm reacted to the prompt "PR closed" by creating a blog post. But to do that, you need an human operator no?
@Kinou @Andres @Gabriele Svelto Nope, not if you give an AI agent complete access to a computer and an unfettered access to Internet.
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➡️ I already don't 🚀 read text ✏️ which looks 👀 like this one.❗
Even describing their errors as hallucinations is the same attempt to humanize it.
“This Document Contains Machine Generated Text” but it’s a pair of knuckle dusters with typewriter caps.
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Even talking about "text", in the context of #LLM, is a subtle anthropomorphization.
Text is a sequence of symbols used by human minds to express information that they want to syncronize a little with other human minds (aka communicate).
Such syncronization is always partial and imperfect, since each mind has different experiences and informations that will integrate the new message, but it's good enough to allow humanity to collaborate and to build culture and science.
A statistically programmed software has no mind, so even when it's optimized to produce output that can fool a human and pass the #Turing test, such output hold no meaning, since no human experience or thought is expressed there.
It's just the partial decompression of a lossy compression of a huge amount of text. And if it wasn't enough to show the lack of any meaning, the decompression process includes random input that is there to provide the illusion of autonomy.
So instead of "the AI replied" I'd suggest "the bot computed this output" and instead of "this work is AI-assisted" I'd suggest "this is statistically computed output".
"This is digital noise your brain perceives as words like a paredolic blob or a shadow cast on a wall. Do not interpret it as anything other than dirt smears on the window of reality that reminds you of information."
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The other day my wife showed me a video of ChatGPT communicating with a male voice. At first, I referred to "him" and immediately corrected that to "it."
couldn’t agree more with this ethic. The psychological impacts of users ie society believing that LLMs are people and fufilling roles that actual humans should, will probably unfold over the years and decades. All because regulators circa 2024/5/6 believed it was over reach to demand LLMs don’t use anthropomorphic language and narrative style. Prompt: “what do you think?” Reply: “there is no “I”. This is a machine generated response, not a conscious self.” - sounds better to me.
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I'm trying to get people to use the neologism "apokrisoid" for an answer-shaped object. The LLM does not and cannot produce actual answers.
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Exactly. But the media (and hence the public) like to use short-forms, whether accurate of not. I do a presentation to folks about AI (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), after which everybody keeps referring to "AI", not machine language. !!!!!
i try to limit my LLM use because it's fundamentally evil, but whenever i do use it i never treat it like a person. i believe that's how people become addicted to chatbots. it is not an intelligent being with experiences and feelings, it's a cold machine that just uses an algorithm to arrange words from a database in a way said algorithm is tweaked to sound like human writing. our brains struggle to understand that, which is how you end up with people abandoning their real friends for AI bots and even considering them to be romantic partners.
also i've heard people say shit like "i always say thank you whenever i ask the AI for help with something so they'll hopefully spare me when the robot uprising comes", and i can't honestly tell if they're joking or not. if not, maybe we should be fighting against the people who are funding these robots you're so scared of? by the way, i highly doubt any sort of robot uprising will happen anytime soon, chatGPT has a fucking existential crisis if you do something as simple as ask for the non-existent seahorse emoji, it's not smart
"the slop machine churned out"
resisting the temptation to even say "shat"
oooorrrr...... 'the clanker clanked out some text'! 😀
"this document contains clanker-sourced text droppings'! 😋
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this is true, it's really strange seeing non-tech people around me talk abt LLMs as if it was a sentient being, it's kinda unsettling .
Still, we need to make sure there's no lack of responsibility for the operators or users of these programs. With the hole story about the blogpost generated autonomously using an LLM as a response to a FOSS-Maintainers AU-Policy, some people kinda forgot that there is some person responsible for setting it up that way and for letting the program loose.
the worst cases of this, is when people say "chatgpt said..." as if an AI could talk. Or "chatgpt thinks..." as if an AI could think.
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same problem as "the car hit a pedestrian"
I have been trying to use the word “output” when talking about these systems.
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the implication is clear: the small mammals of zootopia practice a form of anarchist self-governance. in this essay
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Yes! Be standoffish and aloof with them instead. Bully them gently. Leave them on read. Approaching them directly makes them shy.
Ok but but but... can I swear at them? 👉👈
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true ... unless it's for insulting him because it just crashed on you and you need to restart it 😂
I've been talking with computers for 30 years and all I got was this lousy job at an employer that doesn't know how to talk with computers
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@prahou@merveilles.town I unplugged the Alexa and said how dare you speak our holy tongue!!!
Don't talk to bots is the new don't feed the trolls.
"Hey Google, what does 'Don't Talk To Computers' mean?"
these feels very distopian
The weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak
did you make this?
"I am in a fully commited relationship of talking to myself so fuck off" - my AI prompt finger
Does that admonition include swearing at them ?
Does it count if I talk to computers in their language (i.e. write code)?
you can't tell me who i can bray at, i am one free donkey hawww
When I try to talk to people, they say otherwise.
What should I do? I don't know anyone else.
all computers are bitches
Copilot: "The only computer you can talk to" lmao
insert :neobot_pleading:
I've been (verbally) talking to computers for probably 35 years. Sometimes it even works. 
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At this point, it feels like I'll have to keep a hammer next to the keyboard, just in case.
Gemini has been trying to start conversations with me. Like: "Do you want to know how the two things you said are related?". No, I don't. Gemini may be interested in knowing every relation on the things I'm interested in, but I'm not.
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