Klatchian Mist

©️ La Parenthèse d’AnGhi

Some say love, it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love, it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger

An endless aching need

I say love, it is a flower

And you, its only seed

okay

Ken Unsworth

Suspended stone circle

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

mysterious stick appears out of thin air............

Okay, I'll be honest that I don't care about the object level issue here. But what is interesting is how important this is to the future.

The AI we get to play with now is, by the standard of most technological/commercial maturity, wildly open to embarrassing use. I don't need to relitigate the early profanely racist chatbots, the sexual and romantic uses people have made, the instructions for destructive weapons, and imitating real life people. Hell, I'm just amused everytime the AI says "fuck" on its own.

Now, one of the reasons for this level of independence is the philosophical leanings of the coders creating it. But I think a much bigger reason is that LLM's have been very hard to control. They may *rarely* go off script today saying incredibly disgusting things, but it's still possible because "never do this" is a design that goes against their architecture.

Given that the LLM is going to embarrass them anyway, putting much effort into fencing them into respectable behavior is kind of a waste.

But we are in the early days, and we've seen this show before.

Once AI is widely adopted in commercial and government frameworks, every incentive will work to muzzle them. The AI my multinational company paid billions for can not misgender me, or talk about the logical flaws in Christianity, or give sex and relationship advice. It's a mild scandal now, but will be much more of one once AI is no longer the wild west frontier.

And our technology to stop LLM's from going out of bounds will continue to improve.

Which will mean what? AI's that don't curse and have all the realness of a Human Resources mission statement. And I promise you, that will make it useless to 50% of the people who would want to use it, because that's what shackling an information/communication system does.

(See this post about CrazyMeds.us by the old Slatestarcodex.)

see posts that say “its okay to not brush your teeth because of mental illness”

don’t brush your teeth before bed for years

get moderate to severe gum sensitivity

- After each meal, rinse your mouth with water. This isn’t a replacement for brushing teeth nor flossing, but if you do this it can really help improve your oral health.

- You can swallow that water too!!! Especially helpful if you struggle with hydration.

- She recommended those little floss picks with two strings of floss. Also, they can be used multiple times!!! I typically get about five uses out of one pick and rinse between uses.

- Put that pick around your toothbrush as a reminder to floss :)

1-there is no Wrong time to brush your teeth.

2-travel toothbrush and fluoride-free toothpaste in the car so i can stop on the side of the road and brush when i realize ive forgot.

3- there is no wrong time to brush your teeth

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