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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Ban on pregnant women: Twisted, disgusting, and sadly probably doable for a fascist hellstate like MAGA is trying for.

    Forced sterilization of all foreign visitors: So ludicrously stupid as to be laughable. This person (derogatory) has a truly unhinged seven-point plan which is not only completely impossible, it’s in a bonkers order:

    1. Nullification (red states stop issuing birth certificates to Undesirables)

    2. Pack the court (hilariously showing that the right has no new ideas)

    3. Ban on pregnant women entering the US

    4. Ban on women entering the US

    5. Forced sterilization of tourists (the women you’re not allowing in? You want to sterilize no one?)

    6. The union is dissolved (why would you sterilize random people before you just went full Confederacy? Surely you could be even more cruel if you divested yourself of the pesky Constitution and its annoying Bill of Rights first!)

    7. This is where it gets really unhinged: then he wants to amend the constitution. For a country that no longer exists, to stop women who are incapable of reproduction from illegally entering the US in case they’re illegally pregnant because the packed court you hand-picked can’t be trusted not to validate the birth certificates that states aren’t issuing.

    Even if you take this as a list of options instead of an ordered plan, the fact that a constitutional amendment is considered the last option just boggles the mind. These are an unserious people; toddlers making pouty-faced pronouncements and whining about people touching them.



  • Gonna need a source for that, boss–

    1. Wikipedia’s intense scrutiny of sources and requirements for reliable citations are actually one of the reasons that Sanger started his malformed crusade.

    2. If there’s actual, provable lies about a notable person in the encyclopedia, then there should be actual, provable truths to combat it; and any Wikipedia editor can update the article in question to correct the record. If an edit war emerges, a community discussion can take place wherein the person in question can have their say. Wikipedia isn’t the wild west, and any reasonable argument that it is died twenty years ago.

    –but even if those two things weren’t true–it’s literally impossible to remove misinformation from AI models. I’m not saying that to be dramatic or overstate the problem. When a model is trained with misinformation, the misinformation becomes a part of the model; the entire corpus of everything it was trained on is baked into the neural network on a fundamental level, and humans can’t manipulate it manually. Which means you can’t remove any datapoint from the model without excising it from the training data and then retraining a whole new model.

    So now not only are you drinking your dog’s urine, you’re claiming that the tap water is too yellow. Even if your assertion’s true, your alternative is demonstrably worse.


  • Not sure if troll or…

    …ok, I’ll bite. This is maybe the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. You know that Wikipedia comprises one of the largest publicly-accessible sets of meticulously-curated natural-language data on the planet, right? And so when you’re training up a new model, you’re naturally going to start with that massive, freely-available repository?

    Every major AI model has been trained, at least partially, on Wikipedia. This insane viewpoint is essentially saying that you don’t think Wikipedia is reliable, but if some linear algebra chews it up for a few minutes, then it’s ok. You’re turning up your nose at tap water, but drinking your inside dog’s urine.