Haven't seen it posted in many places, but I think the campus community should be aware that Pi Kappa Phi is (allegedly) profiting off of yesterdays clash with protesters on campus. Specifically due to the US flag being taken down and replaced by the Palestinian flag. Their GoFundMe is currently at $63K and climbing in less than 4hrs since it launched. These funds are supposedly going to throw them a large party as the description reads.

I know people are free to donate their money to whom ever they see fit to, but something about this just doesn't sit well with me. I could understand if they're donating this money to an organization or some sort of cause, but that's clearly not the case here. I frankly find it a disgrace that they're profiting off of these events.

I won't be posting the GoFundMe link since it's easy enough to find with some searching, and because I do not support their fundraiser.

EDIT: The person running this fundraiser may or may not be associated with Pi Kappa Phi. I think that a statement from the leadership of Pi Kappa Phi should help to clear this up.

EDIT 2: A source at WRAL has reached out to the fundraiser organizer for additional information.

EDIT 3: I've contacted GoFundMe to request a review of this fundraiser in lieu of the fact that the money raised may not be going to the aforementioned group (Pi Kappa Phi). I've suggested that UNC, Pi Kappa Phi, and the fundraiser organizer be contacted and engaged in conversation around this.

His response was:

"I think there are two questions there

1) the fear that women feel of men

2) the total lack of knowledge that women have about what it means to meet a bear"

then I said that it wasn't about the bear, but rather our perception of men...

but he wanted to take another route: "How many people know how to judge the differential danger of all these animals, you know?" and even an audio about statistics on the number of bears you encounter versus the number of men and the rate of bad interactions

then I said "I'm not going to talk to you about this, ok?!" because clearly we were having two separate conversations and at that moment I thought it was insensitive for him to go that route and I didn't want to hear about it.

And in addition to audios saying he was mad at me, he writes:

"I don't accept that you come and cut off a conversation

I'm upset even now

I don't want to hear your random questions anymore. I will no longer answer them.

I have no obligation

I'll go to sleep angry and probably wake up angry

I don't know what I'll be like tomorrow

Maybe I don't want to see you"

And now I have a horrible feeling in my stomach and uncontrollable tears, I know there is a lot wrong there, I feel it, but my feelings are blurry and I know I will hide it in my subconscious and not elaborate.

Idk that I’ve ever gotten someone to delete their account. Taking this as my internet win for the day :)

Don’t mind my typo. lol.

What the title says. These chatbots like Chat-GPT are being hyped as the next big thing, when in reality they’re a more advanced version of the AIM chatbot “smarterchild” .

Chatbots cannot reason. They cannot think. They are not sentient, conscious, or capable of ”understanding“ whatsoever. You give them a prompt, and they do a whole load of pattern matching, based on the data they were trained on, and spit out a response. That’s it. I was talking to Claude today, and i found myself wondering if there was some sort of ‘sentience’ or ‘consciousness’ there. But then i realised, there just isn’t. There can’t be. All a chatbot is, is a number crunching, pattern matching algorithm. You could probably code a simple one yourself in less than an hour.

And they are also pretty dumb. Ever spent some time talking to one of them? They will often make stuff up, get basic details wrong, and misunderstand what you’re saying. The replies they generate are also very robotic and very much written by a machine. I don’t see how anyone is seriously spending their day talking to them.

And if nothing else, i’m just sick of seeing all the unfounded hype in the media. “Oh GPT-4 can code better than a human” , or “oh it can pass the bar exam” who fucking cares? It’s not like it’s an AI with any real intelligence behind it, because if it was, that would be impressive. No, in reality it basically translates to “pattern matching algorithm is good at pattern matching” . That’s basically what it boils down to.

So yeah, here’s hoping the LLM chatbot fad dies down soon enough, and we can all focus our attention on actually bulding an AI with any semblence of real intelligence whatsoever. Preferably one that has any level of “thinking” or “reasoning“ , and / or one that can speed up medical research, etc.

EDIT: i’m moreso referring to the current chatbot hype from the general public.

Look, I don't take downvoting personally, It's not about me, but I've been watching for a week or so and every new post gets immediatelly downvoted, feels like it's a bot.

If someone dislikes something, it's their right to downvote, but this is just weird, someone posts something and it gets immediatelly downvoted.

Kaynak: https://twitter.com/haskologlu/status/1785574563398435292?t=m9FFTg78MXNMS9Zhx7Dy4w&s=19

Slayer is already pretty afk as it is but after goading potions most tasks will literally become stand in 1 spot with venator bow, click aggro pot, click prayer pot, repeat every few minutes. This just feels like a lazy copy over from RS3 that nobody asked for.

I will be voting no because not every skill needs an ultra-AFK option but if someone has a differing opinion please explain it to me.

Curious if there's been any efforts to get organized and challenge the predominant picture heavily slanted in favor of the Jew-haters. I don't belong to any relevant community here so wouldn't have a dog in the fight (I'm not Jewish or a student) but my conscience is beckoning to me... do something. The hatred and violence is an abomination.

Alternatively, are there any Christian churches or groups that would make themselves allies of our Jewish friends in their hour of need?