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1996 | they/them software developer, parent, philosopher, artist professional systems dev. hobby game dev. on the web at https://cubething.dev

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It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. [...] So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness -- Give it up, Sub-Subs!
Siri von Reis Quasi-stellar Object A candidate for a quasar has been detected by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite: IRAS 14348-1447 is the brightest, most distant object in the Bright Galaxy Survey. The strength of its emission is consistent with a pattern of violent collisions (molecular clouds in gas-rich spiral galaxies that lead to rapid star formation) and establishment of a dust-enshrouded object whose raiment ultimately will be blown away by stellar winds, by supernovae explosions, by pressure from within the object itself. For now, the shroud conceals much of the energy generated by its spectacular, ultraluminous source.
Soft bullshit, by contrast, captures only Frankfurt’s negative requirement – that is, the indifference towards truth that we have classed as definitional of bullshit (general) – for the reasons given above. As we argue, ChatGPT is at minimum a soft bullshitter or a bullshit machine, because if it is not an agent then it can neither hold any attitudes towards truth nor towards deceiving hearers about its (or, perhaps more properly, its users’) agenda. It’s important to note that even this more modest kind of bullshitting will have the deleterious effects that concern Frankfurt: as he says, “indifference to the truth is extremely dangerous…by the mindlessly frivolous attitude that accepts the proliferation of bullshit as innocuous, an indispensable human treasure is squandered” (2002, p343). By treating ChatGPT and similar LLMs as being in any way concerned with truth, or by speaking metaphorically as if they make mistakes or suffer “hallucinations” in pursuit of true claims, we risk exactly this acceptance of bullshit, and this squandering of meaning – so, irrespective of whether or not ChatGPT is a hard or a soft bullshitter, it does produce bullshit, and it does matter.
Zed code editor, catpuccin macchiato text highlighting pub struct Rc4Stream { i: usize, j: usize, state: Vec<u8>, } impl Rc4Stream { pub fn new(key: &[u8]) -> Self { assert!(key.len() > 1 && key.len() < 256); let mut i = 0; let mut j: usize = 0; let mut state = (0..=255).collect::<Vec<u8>>(); for count in 0..=255 { j = (j + key[i] as usize + state[count] as usize) % 256; state.swap(count, j); i = (i + 1) % key.len(); } Rc4Stream { i: 0, j: 0, state } } } impl Iterator for Rc4Stream { type Item = u8; fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> { let i = (self.i + 1) % 256; let j = (self.j + self.state[i] as usize) % 256; self.state.swap(i, j); self.i = i; self.j = j; let t = (self.state[i] as usize + self.state[j] as usize) % 256; self.state.get(t).cloned() } } pub fn rc4(key: &[u8], plaintext: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> { let mut stream = Rc4Stream::new(key); plaintext .iter() .map(|byte| stream.next().unwrap() ^ byte) .collect() }