#but it isn’t. It’s prediction

[princetonuniversitypress]

AI and democracy

An up-and-coming writer churned out poetry, fiction, and essays with unprecedented speed, and several new visual artists have been generating other-worldly images and portraits. These artists are not people but artificial intelligence systems that appear, on the surface at least, to actually be intelligent.

It looks like understanding, like watching an original author in action, but it isn’t. It’s prediction, an exercise in mimicking. Even some of the most complicated “AI” systems out there are actually powerful forms of machine learning in which algorithms are learning to predict particular outcomes from the patterns and structures in enormous datasets.

This matters because most of the real harms these systems can cause—but also the opportunities they can afford—are nothing to do with robots taking over the world or self-generating AI systems. They are to do with what, how, when, and why we should use powerful predictive tools in the decision-making systems of our political, social, and economic organizations.

Author Josh Simons explains what it means to put democracy at the heart of AI governance.

[stationed-radio]

Every You Every Me - Placebo

[theminecraftbee]

incidentally for the people who aren’t zedaph watchers I have to express just HOW MUCH the crevasse is a step forward for zedaph building. season six he. didn’t have a base really if I recall correctly. in season seven he had an undecorated cave he put silly machines in. season eight he at least DECORATED but it was sure still a hole in a mountain. season nine it was a base he did a BUILD with! still a hole in a mountain. season ten is a STEP UP it’s a hole with NO MOUNTAIN REQUIRED,

[mollywog]

Okay so we know Maysilee was the previous owner of the Mockingjay pin,

BUT

There is no mention of the pin as Katniss and Peeta watch the 2nd Quarter Quell footage (I don’t think this is an oversight on Katniss’s part: At this point she has an inkling that the mockingjay is connected to the rebellion and wouldn’t she (or Peeta) be hyper aware of it, especially while watching its previous owner?!?!) - leading me to believe that the pin was not her token and never saw the inside of the arena prior to 74th.

So

What if we discover that Maysilee was in fact wearing it and all footage of her with the pin was erased after the initial airing?

[transgendercastiel]

idk if anyones ever spoken about this before, but when I watch community I’m kind of under the assumption that Abed, while much more in touch with the narrative than the average character, isn’t actually capable of seeing the show as it happens or truly breaking the 4th wall. While that’s super interesting as a perspective to use while watching, I do think that he is doing the on screen equivalent of someone irl “looking into the camera”. As in, he loves television and uses it as his major method of interacting with the world, and acting like he’s in a tv show is something he does because it helps him, not because he knows he’s in a tv show. In fact, when we see Abed’s version of “community” it’s a multi camera sitcom with a laugh track, not an accurate representation of the real thing. In contemporary American poultry, Abed asks Jeff not to do a “special episode” about him, apparently not aware that he’s already the focus of the episode. It always felt to me that Abed acts like he’s in a television show because he wants to and it just happens to line up with the show sometimes (eg when he “lays low for an episode”). Obviously there’s nuance here, and he obviously has as much if not more influence over the show’s actual presentation as Jeff, but I think it might be diminishing to say that he’s truly aware of the narrative he’s in.

[phoenixmetaphor]

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selkie au - take what the water gave me - part 1: spots

OKAY TRUST ME, this is a selkie au. that’s why leon has the prominent spots. it’s his tell.

my intention was for this to be a comic about how selkie au!leon has some skin markings, but then it became how selkie au!leon has some skin markings and ptsd. you know how it goes.

anyway it’s all @thebrandywine’s fault for giving me selkie brainrot. this is what you get for feeding me.

also on ao3 (requires login)

[louferrignojrofficial]

if i got the chance to interview oliver stark about 911, you bet your ass i wouldn’t waste a single question over something like ‘will tommy be jealous of buck and eddie’s friendship?’ after we have seen multiple times he isn’t, and most recently in the new episode. not to mention we’ve seen even eddie isn’t jealous of buck and tommy’s relationship, and we were shown that yet again in the premiere. there are so many more interesting things you could ask about buck’s actual relationship and that story, or even buck and eddie. but no.

[counting-stars-gayly]

They’re not going to rebuild Castle Byers because Will can’t rebuild his childhood, which is the reason he destroyed Castle Byers in the first place. He’d been trying to hold on to a level of carefree ignorance that no longer existed for him. The problems Castle Byers saved him from have been replaced by new problems that are bigger and stronger than a child’s fort. He needs to face them differently. Thank you and goodnight

[joltning]

is it so heinous to wish for a youtuber who does recap reaction content to watch all of rvb and make a video about it losing their mind or a deranged youtuber to make an insane theory video about the series that only someone who hasn’t melted into fanon could concoct in the year 2024

[chloepleasestopdying]

I very obviously love LiS to death but people who say it’s objectively better than True Colors are wrong and I will freely admit that.

Like. I’m sorry. True Colors has better written powers, a story that was actually planned, and minor characters that aren’t forgotten in its Act 3. Despite consequences being this huge thing in LiS, there aren’t any because the game makes you pick between two choices and that’s it.

Now, I like LiS more. I personally like Max and Chloe more but I can admit that True Colors is better in general.

[crocodilenjoyer]

here’s the thing. about zolu. puts myhand on your shoulder Here’s the thing. luffy? aromantic. zero interest in romance. zoro? gay. very low interest in romance. has two braincells and they’re both devoted to thinking about swords. they are not dating. it is not romantic. it’s not sexual either because luffy, much like his views on romance, could not give less of a shit about sex. maybe if they both feel up to it at the same time, but that’s rare and when it does happen it’s more of a physicality and, to a lesser extent, affection thing than anything else. occasionally it’s a “hey wouldn’t it be weird/funny/fucked up if we [insert some david cronenberg-type shit]” thing and the other one goes “haha yeah do you wanna try.” but i digress.

however. HOWEVER. they Have A Thing. what that Thing entails is a mystery. luffy is both incredibly straightforward and frustratingly cryptic whenever he’s asked about it and zoro just kinda shrugs. they’re just luffyandzoro and zoroandluffy. the king and his lionheart. drift compatible. partners. captain and first mate. the sailor and the north star. sun and moon. they simply Are. what does that entail? well brother. they hang out

[pikolswonderland]

some Chapter 6 sillies because yes

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[lucimiir]

Oh my god Robert’s reaction to the whole Thomas and Jimmy situation is “if I had screamed bloody murder everytime someone tried to kiss me at Eaton I would have gone hoarse” I FORGOT that and that is INSANE

[r0semultiverse]

Calling it now, we’re gonna have a parody of [S] Game Over but with Jane and her Crocker death laser as the batterwitch with her laser beams.

[lannisterdaddyissues]

bros ur never gonna believe this but guess who just got a 999 on her health assessment HESI examination today 😎✨

[disneyprincesssinhogwarts]

Ok maybe unpopular opinion here and spoilers for the season finale of Agatha All Along.

Can I just say I’m so glad they didn’t bring Wanda back in the finale. Like there were so many people who were just absolutely convinced that this show was going to be marvels way of bringing her back even after Billy kept saying she specifically wasn’t his mother and I’m really glad that isn’t the direction the show went. Like am I a Wanda hater? Yes. Is that the only reason I didn’t want her to come back? No it was the main one I won’t deny that but it’s not the only reason. If she had come back I feel it would cheapen Billy’s relationship with his “adopted” parents and the relationship he had with Tommy. Tommy being his goal really accentuates that He was the reason Billy was doing all of this in the first place and that he meant that much to Billy. Like give me the my siblings mean the world to me over I want the parents I’ve never met any day.

Also that entire section of episode 9 with Agatha and Nicky made me sob so kudos to all the people involved in making this masterpiece honestly.