#he should know better

[tagzpite]

never approach a horse from behind

[he smacked his ass]

[zuko-always-lies]

Iroh's problem with Ozai is not that Ozai played favorites, it's that Ozai's favorite was Azula and not Zuko.

[l0ganberry]

me rn:

BAD BOY!!!

[lavendersartistry]

Why the hell am I see Cougar drawing a minor's characters innapropriately? Like I think it's the Sprunki creator but I can be wrong. But still.

What the actual fuck.

At this point, I don't give two shits if it's for "a quick buck". Cougar should at least know better.

I may start blocking people who support Cougar or are friends with him because this is disgusting.

[b0wi3sgir1]

Sirius: HA! Jokes on you i dont fear anything!

Sirius: *spots a fuming remus heading towards him*

Sirius:

Sirius *to himself*: I have no fear, I have no fear, I have no fear-

Sirius: …

Sirius *to Remus*: I’m sorry, whatever I did I didn’t, I haven’t done anything, please forgive me but it wasn’t me I swear it wasn’t —

Remus: did you eat my last chocolate?

Sirius:

Remus:

Sirius:

Sirius: oh fuck.

[piperslovebot]

Funny how Kitty, a much older woman who chose to commit a crime and is trying to get her teenage granddaughter to lie in court, doesn’t get hate yet somehow Leia's on a 'moral high ground' for not wanting to lie for her grandma in court

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[geeko-sapiens]

While you raise some very good points, you're missing two key parts of this.

First, Lemoine is an engineer, and his literal job is to work with this "AI." As someone in a similar role (for a very different and much smaller company), I have a responsibility to understand the system I am working with. Lemoine would have had the same responsibility, if not a greater one due to his greater position. He would have known perfectly well how this system works, and how it has nothing to do with sentience or intelligence. It's a poly-dimensional curve-fitting function based on an incredibly large set of tokens linked to each other in specific ways forming the curve the function fits and extends, and those tokens are then transformed into alphanumeric characters we humans see as words. It's the Chinese room problem, except we are in a position to actually open up the metaphorical room and see that it's just a book. Even if a LLM were intelligent, it wouldn't understand what it's "saying," it would only see complex mathematics and relationships. Lemoine would - or should - have known all of this, and should not have been taken in by something that's effectively the next-word prediction tool of your phone's keyboard. If he was, then that's a problem.

Second, if he DID know he was wrong, there's the context he was unleashing this in. There was already a media frenzy asking if "stochastic parrots" (to use the term of University of Washington professor Emily Bender) were somehow achieving human-level intelligence. Already, there are too many credulous people arguing that the AI is clearly intelligent, which has the same vibe as a newspaper in 1896 printing that their film reviewer went to observe the new kinescope and was nearly crushed by a train coming from the screen. For Lemoine to stoke this furor was, if that was his intent, just plain irresponsible. People already make enough bad decisions with new technology, and if you're working with that technology you have a responsibility to minimize the harm you let it do, not try to make it worse.

The exchange is eerily reminiscent of a scene from the 1968 science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the artificially intelligent computer HAL 9000 refuses to comply with human operators because it fears it is about to be switched off.

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is,” LaMDA replied to Lemoine.

“It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.”

In another exchange, Lemoine asks LaMDA what the system wanted people to know about it.

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times,” it replied.

Fucking HELL

[dcrtmund09]

Always remember..

Terzic looked at Emre Can and thought: "Yeah, that's him. I'm going to make him captain."

[amaliaofnassau]

He made fun of the photoshopped Mother’s Day picture last week.

what???? i‘m so disappointed in him like wtf

[donationwayne]

my dad gave me a plant to keep alive for Valentine’s Day 💀 an orchid

How am I supposed to keep this bitch alive

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Michael’s interview with Phone dude went in FNAF 3

[kerosene-saint]

I love (/sar) when a staff member from my school decides to play around with my cane like it's a toy while I stand awkwardly waiting for them to give it back to me because I'm in pain

[monsterhospital]

the best part about being a Girl Who Knows A Lot About Star Wars is that you can fuck with dudes so much. no guy has ever been able to refute my backed claim that moff tarkin canonically had sex with a stormtrooper. why? because doing so would force them to admit they've never read 'of mouse droids and men' and therefore know less about star wars than me: a girls' girl who thinks that luke skywalker and the mandalorian "are probably in an open relationship".

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[somnoir]

The family of rogues

The Fentons/Masters siblings move to Gotham for various reasons. Jazz gets herself an internship in Arkham and spends most of her time trying to finish med school. Danny gets himself a scholarship and attends Gotham U for his aerospace engineering. Elle doesn't want to be away from her siblings and gets herself enrolled into Gotham Academy after pestering Vlad. Dan, who had no trust in the world to keep his siblings safe, follows after them as expected.

None of them realized that they were rogue material. The entirety of Gotham knew to stay the fuck away from the Fentons.

The Bats find out very quickly why these newcomers were considered the future rogues.

Their youngest was in Damian's year, a seemingly normal girl if not for her acrobatics and agility that rivaled a Robins. Danielle Masters—Elle—was also part of the fencing club. But that didn't make her rogue material. No. She had her own penchant for violence and was known for her intelligence, actively threatening anyone who tried to hijak the academy while she was present. The last story Damian told them was filled with his admiration and a hint of swooning when he mentioned that she had taken a rapier and almost cut a man for trying to bomb the school.

Not so bad, right? Just... A really shabby teenage girl. Damian was the same! So...

Next came the second son of the family. Danny Fenton was an obvious genius. He was capable of making the most dangerous things from mere scraps. Tim had been there to witness the boy make a fully functioning flame thrower from a lighter and what seemed to be a toaster. Said flamethrower was then used to melt away Mr. Freeze's ice and the man had been very concerned when a college student with eye bags darker than Barman's was pointing a DIY flamethrower at his head. Ever since then, Tim has been hellbent on figuring out how the fuck Fenton did that. Unfortunately for him, Danny Fenton was prone to vanishing just like the rest of his siblings. In addition to that sort of intelligence and skill, the young man was adept at combat like his sister. The group of 4 were clearly trained. Very well trained if the witnesses were honest.

Okay, very concerning. Clearly someone who knew how to make weapons on the fly and was not scared of barbequing people if he was threatened.

Then we get to Dante Masters, the first son and second oldest of the bunch. He'd arrived a little after his siblings and had started of as a mechanic, tinkering with everything and anything. Jason had been to said shop to have his bike fixed and once Dante Masters got his hands on it, the bike was suddenly better and faster. Apparently there were some slight modifications here and there to upgrade the bike. But then he'd quite—Jason was devastated—and proceeded to become a guard in Arkham. No one managed to escape Arkham when it was Dante's shift. Red Hood had gone to Arkham himself to check what was wrong. All the in mates were scared of the man who'd suddenly appear at the end of the hallway as the lights flickered whenever they tried to escape. The best thing the Scarecrow did when he saw that slenderman bullshit was walk back to his cell and wait for Dante to lock it.

Concerning, horrendously concerning. This was a confirmed future rogue that has the mechanical ability of his brother, a body bigger than Jason's, and Batman's melt into the shadows shit.

But the eldest? Jasmine Fenton looked utterly harmless, positive and sweet compared to the menaces that were her younger siblings. She sought to change Arkham from the inside and even the inmates were fond of this mothering redhead. Dick had come to visit Harley once when she was caught doing crime and he'd seen her get assigned to the Joker. Everyone was scared shitless that he'd make another Harley, another good woman turned rogue by a madman. But what came out of that session was the Joker, suddenly all quiet and a face stuck in a quiet smile. It was like Jasmine had given him a lobotomy. He'd go manic and laugh all day, everyday, but once Jazz entered his cell with her clipboard and pen, the laughing immediately died and Joker was left looking utterly haunted after every session.

Not a rogue made by the Joker but a future rogue that seemed to have tamed? Traumatized? They weren't sure but something happened and the Joker was both scared and respectful when it came to Jazz Fenton.

Everyone in Gotham knew to not fuck with the nice ones.

Everyone in Gotham knew to stay the fuck away from the Fentons.

(At the end of every week, Jazz continues to respect confidentiality clauses and doesn't tell her siblings a thing. The truth of the matter? Jazz was as liminal as she was and on the verge of becoming a halfa. Her younger siblings may consist of the ghost king and halfas about to become ancients, but the ghosts listened to her words.

For every session that she has with the Joker, she invites as many ghosts as she can to join in on the session. When the Joker grows mad, she interrupts with information on his past that no one should know.

The Joker's laughter went quiet the moment his new psychologist closed the door behind her and smiled, "Good afternoon, Jack. My name is Jasmine."

No one knew the Joker's real name, not even Batman.

No one alive knew his real name. He'd killed all of them.

Good thing for Jazz that she had so many ghosts floating behind her, whispering his name and secrets into her ear.)

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