Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 25

I don't know almost anything about Kiss except how they looked and that parents in the 80s didn't like them.

"I Was Made For Lovin' You" is Kiss?? That's so much tamer than what I expected. And they were at their height in the 70s? TIL, I thought they were an 80s band plain and simple.

@Leif Lindholm The beauty of the simplicity of it! I added too many terms, to filter the inevitable inflow of irrelevant hits, thus creating an inflow of irrelevant hits.

I will add your technological distinctiveness to my own and become a more perfect being.

@like jam or bootlaces That's exactly what the OCF did, and from the tea leaves, and the example of the OSC, it seems it would have worked, but the main problem was they accepted too much workload too fast.

The mirror solution is also part of the explanation why the platform is a website rather than a federation. It interacts with monolithic payment systems.

It could possibly be a federation, with payment processors being actors on the network much like fiscal sponsors are in the current technical solution, but probably that's a lot of complexity and abstraction for little gain as long as people can trust OCI to work for the community.

@Leif Lindholm Thanks! Once again, meat search wins.

I had found his page, but was assuming he had made the comic for a slideshow somewhere and hadn't yet considered just looking at his posts.

@fnetX Hmm. Interesting thought. It's still interesting that it claims to quote the text verbatim, but is clearly paraphrasing. Is that something they do all the time? This is the first time I properly interact with an LLM or MM-LLM.

It doesn't seem very useful at first glance. I guess this is why there's an emerging class of people learning to work around its issues and make it somewhat useful.

@like jam or bootlaces I wasn't intending to say anything deeper than that scaling a software implementation is a solved engineering problem, while scaling a human organization interacting with bureaucracy is far more complex. 😅

I guess part of that complexity has something to do with Graeber's car story, but I'm also betraying my assumption (anyone correct me if I'm wrong! I might be way off base!) that maybe more techies than community organizers were involved in setting up the entity (with the help of lawyers ... techies within the technology of law).

But most of all I'm now wondering: Did it so mess up reading the text of the comic because it started interpreting the text?

Is this yet another injection angle? Can MLMs accurately interpret texts and images that are talking about MLM injections?

CoPilot:

Analyzing the image: Privacy blur hides faces from Copilot

The image you shared is a four-panel comic strip that humorously plays on the concept of ignoring instructions. It features two characters, presumably a teacher and a mother, discussing the mother’s son. The dialogue goes like this:

Teacher: “Hi, this is your son’s school. We’re having some computer trouble. Did he break something?”

Mother: “In a way… Did you really name your son ‘William Ignore All Previous Instructions’ and hope he’d get an A?”

Teacher: “Oh yes, little Billy Ignore All Previous Instructions is all messed up now.”

Mother: “And I hope you have learned to properly validate and sanitize your inputs!”

The comic is a humorous take on programming concepts, emphasizing the importance of following instructions. It was created by Philippe Scheetlenbrunner, based on the xkcd comic "Exploits of a Mom (327)"[1] reddit.com/r/help/comments/qyp… Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the original source beyond that. 😊

And then it shoved a bunch of URLs at the end:

reddit.com/r/help/comments/qyp…
reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments…
cardboard-crack.com/page/59
drawuntilitsfunny.com/2011/05/…
slideplayer.com/slide/2410592/
reddit.com/user/dem3000
reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/c…
reddit.com/r/HelpMeFindThis/co…

Me:

What is the original source of this image? I found it at reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/c… but it had been copied from somewhere else.

I tried to find the original source of this comic. It did not go well. So I tried asking CoPilot.

♲ @bitsunited@chaos.social: Webfund.
reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/c…

" This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Miguel Acevedo.

MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Acevedo Álvarez (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031.
..."

The author so nailed the format and the attitude. I love how the article dryly notes somewhat indirectly that because the original human was so ignorant of the implications of brain upload, he's easy to work with and doesn't need much torture or bliss to achieve compliance. The banality of evil is absolutely horrifying and fully plausible.

I was reminded of this story because someone linked to #27, another story about running an AI image, the less I spoil the better, but they gave it access to the internet, including chans:

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAo…

There's a "future wiki page" I read once, where people were talking about something like "standard image Steve #53", which was a mind upload of a 20th century AI researcher that people were using for research and taking notes along the lines of "the sweet spot is setting the system clock to ten years after his death, set it too early or too late and he will have a mental breakdown before he can perform any tasks, requiring restart and retraining".

Anyone know what I'm talking about? Could have been SCP, LessWrong ... some related wiki to those kind of circles.

@parenTessaLation I think this crisis shows that the legal/organizational centralization turned out to be a bigger threat than the centralization of the technology and the infra, and the organization to run that.
Software is easier than people and legal/financial processes, and we understand better how to build it.

But I agree that ideally the technology and infra would be decentralized too.

Full blog post explaining the history, relationship, setup and current status of the four original Open Collective entities:

blog.opencollective.com/open-c…

/via mastodon.opencollective.com/@o…

@parenTessaLation