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@joeyvazquez.bsky.social

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really just here to explore different worldviews and refine my own | budding social entrepreneur as I *finally* finish my MBA/MPH | over-thinking neurodivergent complex trauma survivor

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Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · Aug 24

Social entrepreneurism
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agentic AI tech
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for-profit benefit corporation cash cow to fund an Incubated Collective Impact network reinventing how complex trauma survivors are supported in society

We can absolutely use generative AI technology for good just like they use it for evil.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 23h

It's really wild to see such irrational moral panic coming from my side of the political spectrum.

Reminds me of all the holy rollers screeching about the internet in the 90's - "they want to teach our kids to with the same interwebs that has all the free nudie pictures? END TIMES ARE HERE!!!"

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

* grins in divorcé *

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 3d

Today is my wedding anniversary what should I get my wife

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

If only you all had the intellectual capabilities to keep up then engaging here wouldn't be so painfully tedious.

Enjoy your desperate search for echo chamber of validation!

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

The Dunning-Kruger of anti-AI ableists...

Cold Elmo 🥶 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it's because that's what it's used for and the material it steals to be trained on

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

Secondly, I'm not talking about creating anything. I don't understand why you're fixated on that but it's probably because you're some sort of a creative who feels threatened by the technology - and THAT'S why you've embraced ableism.

Fear and ignorance are the foundations of bigotry.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

I already did and I'm not repeating myself. You had your chance to act like you belong at the adults table, but it's time for you to run along and go touch some grass now.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

"who's gatekeeping what?

Ok, so you're an ableist sea lion. I appreciate your help with my project but you've provided all that you're capable of. Be good!

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

If you don't understand why ableists and other clowns should be stopped from gatekeeping effective assistive tools for neurodivergent and disabled folks, then you're just not the kind of human worth interacting with.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

You just said you're not going to be convinced so why should I bother?

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

For the anti-AI ableists still stalking me, I have all I need from you.

Thanks for donating your time and pathologies to facilitate our future advocacy work to help neurodivergent and disabled folks overcome your gatekeeping, shame campaigns, and mob attacks to access AI-powered assistive tools.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

That's such a good idea, especially for a neurodivergent household / life like mine.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

Now how does the math specifically power the LLM bot? I don't know that anymore than a paraplegic understands how electricity powers their motorized wheelchair. Because neither of us need to know that, we just need to know how to use the tool.

Do you want more examples?

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

One of my specific cases is task initiation overwhelm. The bot I configred takes a huge project description - like how to develop a 100% remote training system for in-home pet care providers - and break it down into phases the specific objectives and then generate a step-by-step plan.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

First, probabilistic math doesn’t directly fix executive dysfunction (which is why your question doesn't make sense, especially coming from someone who supposedly works with LLMs). It powers the LLM's capabilities through an interface and then produces the assistive effect.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

So it feels like you are just conjuring up a bad faith situation with what you believe to be a gotcha question. But let's see, and I'll use my personal example of using an LLM tool to deal with various impacts of my neurodivergent executive dysfunction...

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

If you work with wheelchairs, then you wouldn't ask a paraplegic to explain how electricity makes a motorized wheelchair move. It's just not the kind of thing that someone who works with wheelchairs wouldn't already know or expect a motorized wheelchair user to know.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

More importantly, if you did want to know and really do work with LLM models then you wouldn't need we're probably even want me to tell you, you'd prefer to access more authoritative sources - because I'm not a tech bro anymore than a paraplegic is a motorized wheelchair designer.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

To ask how the underlying substrate (probabilistic math) will directly be assistive is to misunderstand everything that happens from the substrate to the outcome - which indicates you fundamentally don't understand how LLM tools work.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

You keep adding in these weird qualifiers and constructs that indicate you don't quite understand it.

Asking "how does probabilistic math provide functionality otherwise unavailable" is akin to "How does electricity uniquely move a paraplegic from point a to point b that's otherwise unavailable?"

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

How do you "work with LLMs?"

I ask because the very way in which you ask the question indicates you absolutely do not. Someone who genuinely understands gen AI tech in general and LLM tools specifically would understand the problem with that question.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

But if you genuinely want to know, I'm happy to help - but first you have to agree to set aside the bad-faith ableist anti-AI echo chamber BS and all of its talking points, memes, and other assorted adolescent dumbassery that goes along with it.

Yet given past history, I won't wait.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

It's also why I don't bother providing you with sources for you to see just a few of the myriad use cases for generative AI and LLMs as assistive tools.

I could explain how institutional adoption of LLM tools perfectly fits the social model of disability - but why bother if you don't want to know?

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

But you clearly haven't done that search, and the most rational explanation for why is because you don't want to know. And the most likely explanation for not wanting to know is because you don't want to accept your current worldview being wrong.

And all of that is bigotry 101.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

You are a simple Google search away from finding many examples of not just assistive tools created by companies, but examples of LLM bots that have been configured by folks like me to deal with our particular challenges - executive dysfunction, in my case.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3d

Thirdly, you just proved your bigoted willful ignorance because you genuinely have no idea how generative AI and LLM tools have already been life-changing assistive tools - and the possibilities are still unimaginable at this point.

And it's because you don't want to know.