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Bloomberg: A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash. “Data center landlords bankrolled by Blackstone Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management planned a $100 billion project after promising life-changing money to property owners in Virginia’s Prince William County. Dozens of residents sold more than 1,600 acres (647 hectares) to the developers in time for the AI […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/bloomberg-a-data-center-revolt-by-historic-battlefield-is-now-a-blueprint-for-backlash/ -
Bloomberg: A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash. “Data center landlords bankrolled by Blackstone Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management planned a $100 billion project after promising life-changing money to property owners in Virginia’s Prince William County. Dozens of residents sold more than 1,600 acres (647 hectares) to the developers in time for the AI […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/bloomberg-a-data-center-revolt-by-historic-battlefield-is-now-a-blueprint-for-backlash/ -
Bloomberg: A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash. “Data center landlords bankrolled by Blackstone Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management planned a $100 billion project after promising life-changing money to property owners in Virginia’s Prince William County. Dozens of residents sold more than 1,600 acres (647 hectares) to the developers in time for the AI […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/bloomberg-a-data-center-revolt-by-historic-battlefield-is-now-a-blueprint-for-backlash/ -
Bloomberg: A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash. “Data center landlords bankrolled by Blackstone Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management planned a $100 billion project after promising life-changing money to property owners in Virginia’s Prince William County. Dozens of residents sold more than 1,600 acres (647 hectares) to the developers in time for the AI […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/bloomberg-a-data-center-revolt-by-historic-battlefield-is-now-a-blueprint-for-backlash/ -
Bloomberg: A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash. “Data center landlords bankrolled by Blackstone Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management planned a $100 billion project after promising life-changing money to property owners in Virginia’s Prince William County. Dozens of residents sold more than 1,600 acres (647 hectares) to the developers in time for the AI […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/bloomberg-a-data-center-revolt-by-historic-battlefield-is-now-a-blueprint-for-backlash/ -
This is a great discussion from Ed Zitron. He does a better job at explaining how AI/GenAI is a scam. I would call AI/GenAI a Ponzi scheme.
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"I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestimating AI's ability to displace humans from jobs. My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, "if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it's impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong".
One comment I've seen from a lot of AI skeptics when someone responds to an AI skeptic is that all of the people who are saying that AI isn't fake are self-interested liars. Personally (to my obvious detriment), I have no particular financial interest in AI companies. I own whatever the standard share of them is via boring index funds. I have some seed stage investments, but just due to the timing and what's gotten big, that part of my portfolio is underweight on AI. I don't work at an AI lab or a company that supplies AI labs. I've mentioned being hilariously bad at interviews before, and I did interview at an AI lab a number of years ago and failed the phone screen (...) I don't benefit in any particular way if AI does well, except insofar as anyone who holds broad index funds benefits, but I do care about accuracy."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Futurology #Futurism #AISkeptics #AISkepticism #AntiAI
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"I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestimating AI's ability to displace humans from jobs. My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, "if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it's impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong".
One comment I've seen from a lot of AI skeptics when someone responds to an AI skeptic is that all of the people who are saying that AI isn't fake are self-interested liars. Personally (to my obvious detriment), I have no particular financial interest in AI companies. I own whatever the standard share of them is via boring index funds. I have some seed stage investments, but just due to the timing and what's gotten big, that part of my portfolio is underweight on AI. I don't work at an AI lab or a company that supplies AI labs. I've mentioned being hilariously bad at interviews before, and I did interview at an AI lab a number of years ago and failed the phone screen (...) I don't benefit in any particular way if AI does well, except insofar as anyone who holds broad index funds benefits, but I do care about accuracy."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Futurology #Futurism #AISkeptics #AISkepticism #AntiAI
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"I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestimating AI's ability to displace humans from jobs. My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, "if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it's impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong".
One comment I've seen from a lot of AI skeptics when someone responds to an AI skeptic is that all of the people who are saying that AI isn't fake are self-interested liars. Personally (to my obvious detriment), I have no particular financial interest in AI companies. I own whatever the standard share of them is via boring index funds. I have some seed stage investments, but just due to the timing and what's gotten big, that part of my portfolio is underweight on AI. I don't work at an AI lab or a company that supplies AI labs. I've mentioned being hilariously bad at interviews before, and I did interview at an AI lab a number of years ago and failed the phone screen (...) I don't benefit in any particular way if AI does well, except insofar as anyone who holds broad index funds benefits, but I do care about accuracy."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Futurology #Futurism #AISkeptics #AISkepticism #AntiAI
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"I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestimating AI's ability to displace humans from jobs. My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, "if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it's impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong".
One comment I've seen from a lot of AI skeptics when someone responds to an AI skeptic is that all of the people who are saying that AI isn't fake are self-interested liars. Personally (to my obvious detriment), I have no particular financial interest in AI companies. I own whatever the standard share of them is via boring index funds. I have some seed stage investments, but just due to the timing and what's gotten big, that part of my portfolio is underweight on AI. I don't work at an AI lab or a company that supplies AI labs. I've mentioned being hilariously bad at interviews before, and I did interview at an AI lab a number of years ago and failed the phone screen (...) I don't benefit in any particular way if AI does well, except insofar as anyone who holds broad index funds benefits, but I do care about accuracy."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Futurology #Futurism #AISkeptics #AISkepticism #AntiAI
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"I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestimating AI's ability to displace humans from jobs. My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, "if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it's impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong".
One comment I've seen from a lot of AI skeptics when someone responds to an AI skeptic is that all of the people who are saying that AI isn't fake are self-interested liars. Personally (to my obvious detriment), I have no particular financial interest in AI companies. I own whatever the standard share of them is via boring index funds. I have some seed stage investments, but just due to the timing and what's gotten big, that part of my portfolio is underweight on AI. I don't work at an AI lab or a company that supplies AI labs. I've mentioned being hilariously bad at interviews before, and I did interview at an AI lab a number of years ago and failed the phone screen (...) I don't benefit in any particular way if AI does well, except insofar as anyone who holds broad index funds benefits, but I do care about accuracy."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Futurology #Futurism #AISkeptics #AISkepticism #AntiAI
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CW: CW: AI, strong language
Really, I have had quite enough of AI being shoved into every bloody thing.
AI is unethical. It kills jobs. It concentrates power and wealth in the hands of people who already have far too much of both.
And yet a certain type of person seems to fervently believe that the answer to every conceivable problem is: MORE AI.
My fridge has a door. It does not need a fucking chatbot.
Fucking clankers. 🙄
#AI #AntiAI #AICriticism #HumanWork #WorkersRights #NoToAI #TechCriticism #Clankers
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CW: CW: AI, strong language
Really, I have had quite enough of AI being shoved into every bloody thing.
AI is unethical. It kills jobs. It concentrates power and wealth in the hands of people who already have far too much of both.
And yet a certain type of person seems to fervently believe that the answer to every conceivable problem is: MORE AI.
My fridge has a door. It does not need a fucking chatbot.
Fucking clankers. 🙄
#AI #AntiAI #AICriticism #HumanWork #WorkersRights #NoToAI #TechCriticism #Clankers
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CW: CW: AI, strong language
Really, I have had quite enough of AI being shoved into every bloody thing.
AI is unethical. It kills jobs. It concentrates power and wealth in the hands of people who already have far too much of both.
And yet a certain type of person seems to fervently believe that the answer to every conceivable problem is: MORE AI.
My fridge has a door. It does not need a fucking chatbot.
Fucking clankers. 🙄
#AI #AntiAI #AICriticism #HumanWork #WorkersRights #NoToAI #TechCriticism #Clankers
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CW: CW: AI, strong language
Really, I have had quite enough of AI being shoved into every bloody thing.
AI is unethical. It kills jobs. It concentrates power and wealth in the hands of people who already have far too much of both.
And yet a certain type of person seems to fervently believe that the answer to every conceivable problem is: MORE AI.
My fridge has a door. It does not need a fucking chatbot.
Fucking clankers. 🙄
#AI #AntiAI #AICriticism #HumanWork #WorkersRights #NoToAI #TechCriticism #Clankers
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Zohran Mamdani announces an AI policy for NYC public schools. He mentions that children need teachers and human connection to learn and grow. Zohran wants to implement a 1 year moratorium on AI from 2k through 8th grade.
https://bsky.app/profile/headquartersnews.bsky.social/post/3mukccffrh32a -
Zohran Mamdani announces an AI policy for NYC public schools. He mentions that children need teachers and human connection to learn and grow. Zohran wants to implement a 1 year moratorium on AI from 2k through 8th grade.
https://bsky.app/profile/headquartersnews.bsky.social/post/3mukccffrh32a -
Zohran Mamdani announces an AI policy for NYC public schools. He mentions that children need teachers and human connection to learn and grow. Zohran wants to implement a 1 year moratorium on AI from 2k through 8th grade.
https://bsky.app/profile/headquartersnews.bsky.social/post/3mukccffrh32a -
"DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT AI
I WILL KILL MYSELF"#fuckai
#banai
#antiai
#fuckbillionaires
#jailbillionaires
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"DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT AI
I WILL KILL MYSELF"#fuckai
#banai
#antiai
#fuckbillionaires
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"DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT AI
I WILL KILL MYSELF"#fuckai
#banai
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Anti Techbro - Part 1: https://youtu.be/cxR_EUJzu2o?is=SljfG4tCbydAsR5W
“Techbros reservieren Bunker in den Schweizer Bergen, während sie uns Scheiße vor die Beine werfen.“
[Jetzt auf allen Streaming Plattformen…]
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Anti Techbro - Part 1: https://youtu.be/cxR_EUJzu2o?is=SljfG4tCbydAsR5W
“Techbros reservieren Bunker in den Schweizer Bergen, während sie uns Scheiße vor die Beine werfen.“
[Jetzt auf allen Streaming Plattformen…]
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Anti Techbro - Part 1: https://youtu.be/cxR_EUJzu2o?is=SljfG4tCbydAsR5W
“Techbros reservieren Bunker in den Schweizer Bergen, während sie uns Scheiße vor die Beine werfen.“
[Jetzt auf allen Streaming Plattformen…]
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Anti Techbro - Part 1: https://youtu.be/cxR_EUJzu2o?is=SljfG4tCbydAsR5W
“Techbros reservieren Bunker in den Schweizer Bergen, während sie uns Scheiße vor die Beine werfen.“
[Jetzt auf allen Streaming Plattformen…]
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Anti Techbro - Part 1: https://youtu.be/cxR_EUJzu2o?is=SljfG4tCbydAsR5W
“Techbros reservieren Bunker in den Schweizer Bergen, während sie uns Scheiße vor die Beine werfen.“
[Jetzt auf allen Streaming Plattformen…]
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When the #TrainBubble and the #AntiAI bubble collide 🫧
https://chitter.xyz/@JennyFluff/117194929691976076
Watching this made me sad, just really sad!
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When the #TrainBubble and the #AntiAI bubble collide 🫧
https://chitter.xyz/@JennyFluff/117194929691976076
Watching this made me sad, just really sad!
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When the #TrainBubble and the #AntiAI bubble collide 🫧
https://chitter.xyz/@JennyFluff/117194929691976076
Watching this made me sad, just really sad!
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When the #TrainBubble and the #AntiAI bubble collide 🫧
https://chitter.xyz/@JennyFluff/117194929691976076
Watching this made me sad, just really sad!
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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If we don't understand it, we can't do it
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If we don't understand it, we can't do it
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If we don't understand it, we can't do it
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Pictured: the region of the anti-AI lake that falls under the umbrella of #bobbleheads
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/bobbleheads
Thankfully, not everyone who's anti-AI is a bobblehead. Still, the bobble-headedness of the worst of the bobblehead mob causes a person to drown in their bobbles far more often than is permissible.
