A PID loop is "AI".

3 Neurons: differential, integral, proportional. Has a training phase and a recitation phase.

And yes, you use it. Its everywhere control systems are used.

Spellcheck was OHHHH SCARRRRYYYY AAAAIIIIII in the late 1980's. Now? Its just spell check. Nobody cows about AI with that now.

K-Nearest-Neighbors is multidimensional linear regression. Same with training and recitation.

Even Word2Vec and tokenization was theorized by Leibniz (you know, that OTHER calculus founder), as a way to do calculus with words.

"AI" only means scary unknown thing until we understand it.

The #MastodonHOA will still manufacture bullshit reasons to find you in contempt.

Remember, we're not permitted to have sane discussions of LLMs and other types of machine learning on Mastodon without the HOA's ire. It's all 'evil', going alllllll the way back to Eliza and spellcheck.

I mean, fuck. Even Ned Ludd realized that technology wasn't evil, but the centralization of the means of production to the owners was evil.

"There is literally no difference between you and a corporate product -- wait why are you booing me"

How far we’ve fallen from anticapitalism where a self described “communist” promotes the idea enriching existing monopolists through rent. What a fucking tool!

I still remember that the information wants to be free.

Sorry, I don't do things the normie's are talking about.

( Ok, seriously, that's actually kind of neat, and hopefully folk are doing testing about it, but I'm guessing she'd win anyway. )

Yes. I would support this even if it was a declining effort. Because I would want to, and that's pretty much the same reason I would support any other effort. (there are a bunch of other "low value" projects I support, including a bunch of artists, musicians, programmers, and others. I'm weird that way. I like to make other folks happier.)

I'm not "investing" in the platform. I'm not looking for any down market reward. It's a goofy project that a bunch of folk find either fun or useful.

Look, I'll acknowledge that the people who insist on pushing their opinions onto people who don't want them are sad.
I'll also say that Mastodon has a long, deep HOA inspired history. Both things can be very true.

It's almost as if it's made of people, who have their own opinions and ideas, who are gathered together, but are allowed not to hear things they don't like and more of the things they do. People are like that. They do that sort of thing. It can be both positive and negative.

That said, the fediverse is under no obligation to grow. It can exist just fine as the niche place a bunch of weirdos hang out and share cat pictures because the folk that like to do that are the ones footing the bills.

If I'm not able to find my audience, that's not your problem. I wouldn't expect you to want to sit through a weird mix of cryptography, systems operational discussions and bad puns unless you enjoyed that sort of thing, and even then, I'd worry about you. I post here because it's an outlet. I'd do it even if I had zero followers. I also enjoy the fact that @tante and other folk post really interesting things, so I like discussing those topics with folk, but I also understand those folk have zero obligation to listen to me and always have the option to either mute or block me.

But even if we think it's a public effort, do we want it to be a declining one? Perhaps only for right-thinking people?

I know, right? How will Mastodon ever be profitable and return positive value for it's shareholders.

( Sorry, I promise I'll stop laughing soon. )

Deepseek and Qwen are no exception.

But if the platform is shrinking at the same time as people are putting out purity requirements, maybe not.

The top post I replied to is obviously a purity test.

What if he's a mainstream technology observer, and what if Mastodon is in the process of divorcing themselves from the mainstream?

That's where I'm putting my bet for what it's worth.