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pls read the entire thread

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

Some people just brag different 😂

"Le Gusheshe lakho wemfowethu lingikhumbuza iqhawe lami uMahawukela"... ❤️🔥

I think Iceman benefitted a lot from Drake splitting up R&B and the techno/dance/reggae tunes into 2 other albums. Usually he tries to appease every audience of his music on 1 project which gives it a playlist feel. Iceman is super cohesive in my opinion

And when you’re proven wrong, what follows after that? If you participated in smearing his name and reputation before hearing the final verdict, will you help clearing his name afterwards or will you just continue with your life? These are people’s lives okes 🤞🏾 The best thing to do is be neutral and hear all the facts before publicly defending or shaming someone. You don’t know what happened and you weren’t there. The details are murky.

Tbh, Kendrick fighting his ego like Ichigo was fighting his hollow side in Bleach season 3-7 is probably one of the most human aspects of him and his art imo and I like how he directly speaks about it. “I wanna be humble, but I really really REALY love shitting on these niggas”

You guys forget that Zuma inherited a great economy, he didn’t create one

There’s crack in Janice stfu. What a song.

ke nako ya manigga.

It’s wild how many yanos stars came from hip hop 😂

The degree of projection in this paper is genuinely insane. Your regular reminder that Anthropic was the first AI frontier lab to actively work with the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies to help them with their global surveillance program. Back in 2024 already, they partnered with Palantir "to make Anthropic's Claude models available to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies" (axios.com/2024/11/08/ant…) And remember the whole story earlier this year on how they refused that their AI be used for “mass domestic surveillance”? Notice something there? By definition it means that they agree with *NON-domestic* mass surveillance, meaning Anthropic has absolutely no problem with the U.S. military-industrial complex using their AI to surveil all 8 billion inhabitants on Earth, provided it excludes the 340 million Americans. And even the latter can be surveilled, just not in a “mass” way (whatever that means). Which, incidentally, is actually merely a restatement of U.S. law. Mass domestic surveillance of Americans is prohibited anyhow by the Fourth Amendment, and mass foreign surveillance is authorized under FISA Section 702 and Executive Order 12333 - the legal architecture Edward Snowden exposed in 2013. So Anthropic’s so-called “principled” stance is them actually supporting very same legal architecture that, back when the Snowden revelations broke in 2013, was rightly condemned as the most sweeping surveillance regime in the world (which it factually is). Which means that them warning that China's AI may be used for surveillance, and as such is dangerous, is literally them taking everyone for complete idiots. All the more due to the fact that, because China's AI is largely open source, you can use it in a way where you keep complete control of your data - unlike Anthropic 🤷‍♂️

@gronewalk84 @cartisburner__ This shit’s fire, man. But even if I thought it was whack, I appreciate when rappers at least try to think of something different instead of the same derivative stuff

i don’t even know how souljaboy came up with this

I think it’s more that explaining in of itself is it’s own, separate skill, that also doesn’t let you signal fake competence. You can be super smart and not be able to distill concepts down; mostly because you’re taking language shortcuts that let you convey information really quickly. If you’re talking with work colleagues, conversations can be highly compressed when everyone has the same domain knowledge. The danger / meta here, is that *some* people use domain vocabulary to fake competence, without actually knowing the underlying field. It’s not that hard to “sound smart” just by using the right words. The way I’d put it, is *if* someone is able to distill a difficult concept to a lay audience, you can have high confidence that they actually understand the field. If someone is *not* able to distill a difficult concept, they probably understand the field, but there is a non zero chance (maybe ~10%) that they are just signaling via language without real domain knowledge.

People who think like this in the humanities and social sciences shouldn't be surprised when their ideas have zero impact on society and the masses keep regurgitating, and acting on, straightforwardly written propaganda.

We should think more seriously about what we choose to build. Pushing people into debt, fuelling gambling addiction, and feeding endless dopamine loops cannot be the highest use of our talent and ambition.

Y a des gens persuadés qu'ils en ont + pour leur argent avec 100h de grind/exploration apathique que 20-30h de storytelling finement orchestré. La boussole de la plus-value personnelle est complètement cassée pour une part importante du publique et ce n'est pas exclusif au JV.

@NicholasCraven_ I’m people and I just trapped in…sorry man, The LOX carried that record lmao

people will look you dead in the eye and say “swizz beatz sucks” while never having heard “fuck you” by LOX

a man completely dedicated to getting better at their craft & even more undedicated to people's opinions was how he entered icon status.

The question of possible AI consciousness is deep and complex. Understanding how LLMs work is necessary, but obviously not sufficient. One problem is that many people make categorical claims without even having that basic understanding.

We lost one of our best lyricists because hip hop wasn’t paying😩