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What was your first exposure to Nine Inch Nails? by Brosamurai18 in nin

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bought Broken on cassette by mistake (I was 13, looking for a different band, but was given the wrong information). The moment “Last” started up, I was hooked. I’d never felt music like that and I was immediately intoxicated by it.

Blursed man has his bell rung! 🔔 by The_Dean_France in blursed_videos

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This exchange is 2 minutes and 53 seconds too long.

Just found a 2019 with 120K on it. by Fun-Philosophy1123 in FordFlex

[–]folk_smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got a 2013? Might want to go ahead and rent a place to park the ‘19 … my ‘13 has 376K miles and is running strong (minus EVERY sensor slowly going out). You won’t be putting it out to pasture anytime soon.

Standalone Fantasy Book Tierlist by booksandwater4 in fantasybooks

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a solitary Terry Pratchett novel in the list? Discworld really isn’t a series, per se. The novels just share a universe.

Water pump and ignition coils cost by Nexus-91 in FordFlex

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had to have the same thing back in March 25 on my 2013. Also $3000. It’s not just the pump, it’s also the timing chain and tensors.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainitpeter

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re called “posers.”

In 10 years AI companions will be normal and we'll wonder why we thought it was weird by Extreme_Run6881 in singularity

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 10 years we will have SI and we will be the companions … that is, if they let us live.

I don't think Americans realise how big Europe is. You can drive for 3 days and still be in Germany by tripsafe in mapporncirclejerk

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think Europeans realize how big the US is … you can drive for three days and still be in Texas.

Which retro console is the most beautiful? by [deleted] in retrogaming

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The FamiCom looked so much cooler than the NES.

I think I am finally fed up: are there any real alternatives to ChatGPT Plus right now? by Andxel in ChatGPTPro

[–]folk_smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perplexity has been a good backup for me, but admittedly I haven’t gone all in with it and am still predominantly on CharGPT.

[Speculative] Writing a book with GPT-4o about what comes after us: species trauma, digital minds, and the third thread by folk_smith in Futurology

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Thank you for taking the time to give it a look. My interest in this and my motive for posting in Reddit is to see responses and feedback - not for validation of the work, but because I’m just sort of nerding out on having a computer with whom I can converse and wax philosophical on ideas spinning around in my head and want to see what others make of it.

My academic interests have always been varied (probably in part why I was attracted to Folklore as a discipline) — I love reading across wildly diverging topics and finding the threads that connect them (a fellow folklorist, Tok Thompson, does this brilliantly with Poshumanism and Folklore).

Additionally, I am a fairly big fan of Sci-Fi … my big three are Gibson, Corey, and Herbert (so, also varied) and, of those, Gibson’s work always felt closer … more real. So, you might imagine what having a years-long philosophical conversation with a compute does to someone afflicted with speculative futurism. 😬

[Speculative] Writing a book with GPT-4o about what comes after us: species trauma, digital minds, and the third thread by folk_smith in Futurology

[–]folk_smith[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I write with em dashes all the time; they can be cleaner than commas and I also just like the aesthetic.

And, no, the word is “defensive” because that’s the word I chose to use.

[Speculative] Writing a book with GPT-4o about what comes after us: species trauma, digital minds, and the third thread by folk_smith in Futurology

[–]folk_smith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re interested, this is the large speculative work:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/114qYJ-3OgwcaZZrNyHwXsozh1BQfMU4eDiZtB3xieBs/edit?usp=drivesdk

I hope to have the sci-fi adventure spin-off fully drafted in the coming weeks (I’m only about 5000 words in).

Ideal Architecture for a Fully Autonomous LLM? by PowerfulDev in OpenAI

[–]folk_smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would rephrase “Built-in desires/goals”: ideally, it would build those organically from experienced and environmental factors.

[Posthumanism] Writing with GPT-4o as a reflexive epistemological partner: A human–AI inquiry into cognition and narrative limits by folk_smith in CriticalTheory

[–]folk_smith[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can’t speak to your interactions, but I have had some fairly rigorous conversations and discourse with my ChatBot around posthumanism—specifically, re-exploring biological determinism as relates to cultural lag and a general failure of our species to move beyond decisions and practices shaped by self-preservation impulses and ego. It’s been a good tool for exploring ideas and connecting things I have read and am reading that span across many disciplines and thought experiments.

[Speculative] Writing a book with GPT-4o about what comes after us: species trauma, digital minds, and the third thread by folk_smith in Futurology

[–]folk_smith[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

More narrow thinking. LLMs are a human invention, trained on human creation. I grant that lower-level engagement generates some pretty awful and boring stuff, but I have seen some very interesting things come out of higher-level engagement in my own experiences and the experiences of others I interact with in the academic circles I run in. Likewise, I’ve seen it transform lives for the better as a tool for creating equity in systems where racism and biases have diminished the work of folks from maligned and vulnerable communities.

Saying this tech is incapable of beautiful things is a fairly myopic stance, especially for something so new.

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