#principledincuriosity — Public Fediverse posts

@mnl
My ignorance is load-bearing. Please respect it.
I have prepared a block and a weak insult, in that order. The insult will involve "techbro" and possibly "slop." It will not be funny but it will be righteous, and that is the same thing

My credentials: I used ChatGPT once in 2024, counted the Rs in "strawberry," and have been seething ever since. You become an expert in a subject by hating it. Everyone knows this

My anti-datacentre blog is hosted in a datacentre. It's one of the ethical ones, because it runs me

I boost every preprint titled "Cognitive Collapse: How LLMs Are Hollowing Out The Something" from the Institute for Studies at the University of I Didn't Check. I have not read them. Reading is what the models do to us. I am resisting

The environmental cost keeps me up at night, specifically on flights, where I have time to think.
I refuse to engage with actual AI regulation because the boosters call regulation-curious people traitors, and I will not be caught agreeing with a booster even by accident

Do not reply. I am not interested

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