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Joe Auerbach

@joeauerbach.bsky.social

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Professional nerd. Hobbyist nerd. Biological nerd? he/him I think I wrote a book? It was sort of an accident, but it's in my linktree: linktr.ee/joe.auerbach

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · Jan 3

If you're a radical leftist, a progressive, a liberal, or even just a plain old Democrat, I'm probably on board with your politics.

But in this political climate, that shit doesn't matter because we're not even in the ballpark.

So until the room changes a LOT, I'm focusing on other shit.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 11h

That thrussy

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 11h

Similar mouth shape and apart from that I've only ever really seen her in the glasses.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not an expert, but it's close enough that if you told me it was, I wouldn't question it.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 11h

Wut

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 12h

Can confirm.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 12h

We're deeply fortunate that these people are so I'm stupid. If they were competent this would have been over immediately.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

I imagine being out west helps a bit. I'm in the bung hole of America, but also I have plenty of privileges that makes me an unlikely target, so I'm here for a little while at least.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

Draw Steel for sure. Also, Exalted, but it's a LOT to wrap your head around. Scion is better on that front and even more epic, if that's possible.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Ada Lovelace day.

Remember that meme from a few years ago where women asked men to name a woman and they all named like family or porn stars?

I said Ada Lovelace because she's awesome. well, she Was awesome. She died in 1852, so she'd be a bajillionty years old now.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

Maga chumps, get out.
Maga folks, cough cough.
Alt right guys, bye bye.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, correct

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah that's exactly the process. Bugs Bunny was comparing Elmer fudd to nimrod ironically, but nobody remembers who Nimrod is anymore. So now the word basically means a dumbass.

The only reason that hasn't happened with Einstein is that enough people still remember who he was.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 16h

Also yes.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 16h

Sadly, they never seem to learn that lesson. Seems that we just keep learning it for them.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

That's a kid with good taste.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

Pst. That magical ceasefire was already violated. Shocking.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

But eventually people are going to notice that even when we fix the systems, we can't use these models to get the results that we want because the results that we want are not in there.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly, the only reason we're not noticing how terrible the results are yet is that our results using standard systems have been pretty bad for a while now due to outside influence like shitty politics.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

They're treating it like an iPhone feature instead of what it actually is, which is a computer that makes things up at the cost of all of our energy, all of our intellectual property and our entire environment.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

The vibe I get with these large models is that people are doing no critical thinking about them whatsoever.

Big companies have said they're going to be the next big thing and so everybody just starts knee-jerk adding it into everything they do.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

These are outstanding categories.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 20h

How truly surprising.

a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

Alt: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

media.tenor.com

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 21h

What do you call a thing you've written that's like 5-800 words? Still a short story?

I wrote a thing that's like 600 words and I don't think it's a short story. It feels like a moment. There's not really an arc.

I'm calling it a sketch or a still life, but I'd love a better name if it exists.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 23h

I said I would compile the videos and I did.
One long furby of a video.

the LONG antimatter video

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 23h

I love that he spent so long calling everyone else a liar and now everyone all the way up to the supreme court knows that every single word that comes out of his rancid mouth is a heap of shit. I think that's lovely.