Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

5/8/2025, 11:27:54 AM

Public

My reply:

The AI doesn't have access to your internal thoughts to translate from.

If I ask an AI to translate a book, but I keep the book closed, and it can only look at the cover, it can't translate it unless it already knows its contents.

It can guess, but that's not the same.

https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lonsg4gxps2k

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@dustyweb.bsky.social)

The AI doesn't have access to your internal thoughts to translate from. If I ask an AI to translate a book, but I keep the book closed, and it can only look at the cover, it can't translate it unless it already knows its contents. It can guess, but that's not the same.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

5/8/2025, 11:29:44 AM

Public

So, it's true that communication is largely, even primarily, translation between different mediums of information. Even your thoughts to the words from your mouth is translation.

But it's fully strange to say that AI generating thoughts "for you" is "translation" from a source material you cannot examine.

This is like the weird thing of an "AI representation of a deceased defendant" appearing in court.

What absolute, dangerous nonsense. Complete misunderstanding of life, ideas, communication.

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