Komma Chameleon

Oh yeah. The act of creating current AI models is a kind of imperialism in itself. I think if there wasn't such a wealth disparity between Western countries and the Global South, they wouldn't find cheap enough data labelers / RLHF.

Plus efforts towards "non-bias" mean a bias towards status quo.

When, in reality, it's possible for something to be simultaneously evil and foolish.

Yeaaaah I don't think there's any way we treat a Hitler as a model of rational thinking and good decision making.

I think there's a "mad scientist" fallacy. Like "non-ethical acts are the ones that would otherwise be most effective; non-scrupulous actors tend to have an advantage over others."

My best understanding is that these arguments have an unstated assumption that an entity smarter than humanity would soon obtain practically magical powers for getting and doing whatever it wants. (e.g. your arbitrary matter converters, your mind control drones, your perfect predictors)

House cat

Simple render drawing of KomodoDad’s Peggy Patterson looking rather exasperated in her fatigues, having a smoke in some space in between.

Peggy is done with everything right now.

Commission for @komododad.bsky.social

A panel from the IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Microseries comics of Alopex, a white arctic fox mutant with purple face markings and ninja clothing, crouched in a snowy forest, staring at a normal arctic fox in the foreground that stares back at her.

Girl

A vintage-style monochrome cartoon illustration of an anthropomorphic badger baseball player leaning on a craked baseball bat and flashing a cocky grin.

Batter up! 🦡⚾️
For @dukebadgerart.bsky.social!

#konqi

[Talking to the Star Trek TF computer] Computer! Me, squirrel, gray, hot.

art of a bunny dude in a night sky, glowy and with bright orbitals around their head

dreamwalker
#art

Grayscale rendered drawing. Lizard sitting laid back with one leg up and his tail wrapped under him

grayscale practice

Rendered drawing. Red anthro lizard (Ribbon) wearing a transparent vest and black pants with a yellow vest, a big black metal ring, headphones and a black cap. He's holding his vest looking proud

🦎 ✨

[flashing, sound]

PARTY'S OVER

the new album by conelrad

After a 17 year gap and 3 years' work, the followup to lauded album Sure is the Risk Made.

Listen free to the whole thing in your browser (and buy it if you want to keep it) at bandcamp! Not on streaming!

>>> conelrad.bandcamp.com

✦Commission for vcwolffe (FA)

I swear I must have irreversibly fried my brain, or something

remember, anyone could be a stand user.

Shinobi for Genesis

The whole city is right at your fingertips

Sketchpage of a cartoon squirrel engaged in various acts of a squirrelly nature

I've been called "hyperactive" and "food-motivated" but honestly I couldn't tell you why

(go follow 🎨 @bluescale.bsky.social who did an incredible job on this!!!)

ublacklist.github.io/docs Highly recommended

a tumblr post reads "been listening to the knuckles raps from sa2 while pretending to not know the music is from a video game and i highly recommend the experience. really good from the perspective of a normal rapper who talks about ghosts trying to kill him and his ability to telepathically detect gemstones in the earth" a reblog reads "i did this once while driving a classmate who knew nothing about sonic to college and she said in full seriousness 'it's so sad that he feels like he can't depend on anyone but himself'"

doing this with the cave story rap

Labor specialization?
Don't mine if I do~

this is fucking FASCINATING

Universal BASIC Income is such an old-fashioned idea. We need Universal JavaScript Income these days

need to stop timberborn and try to do some actual thing-building

I think it would be quite fun to work as an insurance claims verifier in TF world

An adorable raccoon.

vintage

do they have to keep veterinary staff on standby so the losers aren't just dying off?