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Luke VanderHart@lukev.bsky.social |
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Kelly Barnhill
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Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.
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Luke VanderHart
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That's a pretty big disconnect. A due date can be got wrong... but reporting he actually reported...?
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Luke VanderHart
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As someone with (regrettably) the same ancestry as this dude, and a figure that trends in that direction if I don't keep on top of it... His physical shape is the least unattractive thing about him.
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Tyler King
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It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.
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Luke VanderHart
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Not ones that can handle the ambiguities of natural language well.
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Luke VanderHart
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As a software developer, I'm pretty keen on using them to build systems that can handle a level of ambiguity and fuzziness. That's a pretty cool new capability that computers haven't had until now. Anyone who expects me to read LLM-generated prose can die in a fire.
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Molly White
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code's haunted
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Luke VanderHart
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In other words I don’t think that prospect was unalluring to Tolkien. It was the mechanisms to obtain it.
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Luke VanderHart
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Look that makes sense, but from a Tolkien lore POV every single character had a much longer-than-the-average-human lifespan.
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
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Also thinking about how there’s a billionaire Tolkien fan who names all his stuff after Tolkien things, and wants to extend his life unnaturally and funds weapons and the surveillance and centralized/corporatized authoritarian control
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Luke VanderHart
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But definitely withholding a vote for Biden will Teach Dems an Important Lesson.
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Luke VanderHart
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If you add a "fun to operate" axis, hot air balloons make a little more sense. And motorcycles become the clear winner 🙂
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Kevin M. Kruse
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No other nation has ever prosecuted a former leader, except for about half of them, so you can see why this is so outrageous.
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anthony
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From LinkedIn; it’s what we’ve all been thinking. No strategy, just a panic to be first to market. For a product category next-to-no end user even wants!
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Cat Randall
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As far as I'm concerned, Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig can keep making Benoit Blanc Mysteries until he's up there with Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, you know? We need at least 5 of these. 8 to 10 would be divine.
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Luke VanderHart
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If more software people had a background in philosophy, not only would we have far fewer tech-caused social problems, but we'd also have far better and more capable systems.
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
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I work on climate professionally. Django is right.
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Luke VanderHart
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The trend has been underway since the industrial revolution. Technology lets us produce more value with less effort. Without UBI, the benefits of that accrue only to owners, not workers. If the benefits of technology were evenly distributed we would all be working 10 hour weeks already.
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Luke VanderHart
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I mean if he’s coming out as advocating for UBI, sure. I’m all about that luxury automated communism. Somehow I doubt that though.
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Luke VanderHart
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Optimistically, It's possible that this is the beginning of the end of social media. Once the field is completely flooded, people might finally begin to abandon it. Optimistically.
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Elizabeth
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People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.
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Luke VanderHart
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This doesn't even make sense according to his own (incorrect) premises. If you're going to chop down the forests, you may as well build something useful with the wood, which would sequester it even better than the ocean.
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Luke VanderHart
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I mean I'm excited about it as a tool for building systems that can automatically translate between structured and unstructured data. As *language models*, I think they're pretty neat. I totally agree with you with respect to calling it "AI" and shoving generated text in human's faces.
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Luke VanderHart
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I wouldn't even credit them with being beliefs. I see these people as having taken sides in a cultural conflict, and they are happy to use "free speech" as a bludgeon for their cultural opponents. But I'm not sure they ever believed in it for its own sake.
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Luke VanderHart
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This makes no goddamn sense even from a purely technical perspective.
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Luke VanderHart
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Previously I'd have said no, but what with some of the adaptations that have come out since Christopher passed, who knows? Shoot your shot. I'd totally read a "Heirs of Shelob" trilogy.
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Ultraklystron 🏖️ Karl Olson
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Oh this is a way better way of putting it:
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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄
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There's a comic where the Joker can resist Wonder Woman's lasso because his troubled mind has no concept of true or false. It's the same with ChatGPT.
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Luke VanderHart
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I agree completely with respect to published and distributed works. Text-to-voice AI itself is a completely valid and useful application of the technology for texts that don't have a human-read version for whatever reason. But they should be generated on-demand for free, not sold as audiobooks.
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Ohio University Press
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Congratulations to Han VanderHart, this year's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize winner! Look for their book, Larks, in April 2025.
We're now seeking submissions for next year's prize. Please visit ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize for details.
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social #poetry
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Luke VanderHart
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Or is it a fire in a theater sort of situation
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Luke VanderHart
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Isn’t that a government restriction on the wife’s first amendment rights?
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Luke VanderHart
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If you thought 50 first dates was bad I do NOT recommend 250 first dates.
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Luke VanderHart
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Fun story about that movie. Once I was on a cross-country bus ride in Kenya, and they played that DVD on the crappy ceiling TV. Then we got stuck for 8 hours so they made the choice to play it on repeat. 5 times in a row I watched that movie, and not by choice.
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Luke VanderHart
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Longer term, I wonder if Ds need to do anything. "Life begins at conception" has been hammered into the skulls of every evangelical since the 80s. I wonder if it's possible to enter a situation where a R who supports a 15wk ban can't win a primary?
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A. Ninja
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Fenrir! You spit that out right now!!
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Luke VanderHart
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As someone educated in the humanities who now builds software, I think it boils down to the fact that the techbro mindset is fundamentally arrogant, and that it does not value or acknowledge what it does not understand. The entire culture is built around the principle "I can do it better"
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Luke VanderHart
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I don't think I said no limit: I just think there's a moral line you cross, and that it's way too easy for IDF apologists to say "well we were after a bad guy so it's ok" and forget that it's never "ok"; it's always a tragedy that morally implicates the perpetrators. Even if "necessary."
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Luke VanderHart
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All wars are evil and fighting a defensive war is sometimes necessary. Doesn't mean you get to absolve yourself of the horrors of it.
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Luke VanderHart
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Because you seem to be arguing for the contrary position that we should feel just fine about killing innocents as long as we get some bad guys too?
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Luke VanderHart
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Because if you believe that it's always evil to kill an innocent person, you're more likely to avoid situations that will force that choice on you. Instead of the situation we have now where there are mass civilian casualties but, oh well, can't be helped, it's for the greater good.
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Luke VanderHart
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Sometimes you have to pick the lesser of two evils. But that doesn't mean it's not evil.
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Luke VanderHart
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I don't find that makes it worse. The problem is that these people have made the moral choice that they will end innocent lives to achieve their goals. That is where the evil starts. Everything after that is just a matter of degree.
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Luke VanderHart
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It's so disheartening that the *starting point* of their reasoning is that collateral deaths are fine as long as there was actually a bad guy.
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Luke VanderHart
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There's a math-shaped hole in every human's heart 💔
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Katie Tightpussy
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as an atheist, the advent of religion has always confounded me, but after seeing tech bros turn relatively conceptually-simple linear algebra into a religion: i get it now.
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Luke VanderHart
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The sad part, as a software dev, is that it's actually kinda cool that we trained a dog to talk. That's new and cool! And there's some interesting applications for learning more about dogs! CEOs and VCs out here ruining all the good computer science.
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Max Kennerly
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He's right. "Originalism" is about stringing together a collection of words to support a predetermined outcome. There's no need for fidelity to facts, reliable description of source material, nor even logical consistency. It's one of the few tasks large language models could do.
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Luke VanderHart
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oooh I do enjoy a good tone at a live show though. Especially in certain genres. Russian Circles or Sunn O))) live is ALL about tone.
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