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- Comment on Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up, Internal Files Reveal 1 week ago:
At least they’re consistent in their exploitation.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 1 week ago:
The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.
Meh. I find that the rhetorical urge to reduce a dichotomy to absurdly general commonalities is the pseudointellectual’s version of a slur.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 1 week ago:
Except here you’re not dehumanizing as much as working against anthropomorphization.
- Comment on What "AI" debates have to do with alchemy 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry to be the bringer of terrible news. If these people aren’t actual accelerationists, they put on one hell of a convincing cosplay.
- Comment on What "AI" debates have to do with alchemy 1 week ago:
Did you know about Yudkovski’s Harry Potter fanfic that apparently doubles as the
sex cult“rationalist” movement’s onboarding material? - Comment on What "AI" debates have to do with alchemy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah yeah, let’s skip to the part where Yudkowsky (the “AI guru who Sam Altman thinks deserves a Nobel prize”) dropped out of eighth grade and is now running a sex cult 🙄
All of those TESCREAL loonies need a hard wedgie before they are permanently cut off from our attention.
- Comment on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else 4 weeks ago:
Fault? I’d say you dodged a bullet by not getting that job.
- Comment on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 4 weeks ago:
They’re both on the fediverse at dair-community.social 🙂
Give 'em a follow if you’re so inclined.
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- Comment on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else 4 weeks ago:
10/10, no notes 👏
- Comment on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else 4 weeks ago:
So, how is that pivot to “AI” working out for you, Shopify?
- Comment on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel 4 weeks ago:
Fair distinction, and a good point about broader disinformation spreading.
- Comment on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel 4 weeks ago:
cultinvestorsThere, fixed that for you 🙂
- Comment on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, I just wanted to preempt any “well akshually, nuclear power is perfectly clean” discussions.
The “if something goes wrong” is certainly part of my reservations. There’s been more than one example of that happening in my lifetime, and one was too many.
Another concern is that we have no better idea to dispose of the nuclear waste than burying it really deep. That sounds like a good recipe to have it come back and bite future generations in the ass.
So yeah, clean and sustainable would mean solar/hydro/wind energy in my mind.
- Comment on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel 4 weeks ago:
clean tech
nuclear fuel
Sorry, I know there are various perspectives on how “clean” nuclear power is, but those two just don’t rhyme in my mind. Especially not to the tune of “let’s extract uranium from sea water”.
- Comment on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works 5 weeks ago:
If you run up against Wired’s paywall, there is a link in the first, readable paragraph to 404 Media’s openly available article, based on a joint analysis of the hacked Flock material.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have any idea what the issues with “AI” are. It’s about relevance and threat models:
His proposal for banning “superintelligence AI” isn’t going to do a lick of difference against data centres causing shortages of drinking water and droughts; or against pollution skyrocketing globally because suddenly it’s more important to keep the "AI"s running than keeping to the Paris accords.
Those are real things that will realistically happen very soon if we allow the tech companies to continue unchecked. A super smart “AI” destroying us… isn’t. It’s all hype designed to misdirect attention from the real issues.
If Sanders had called the techbros’ bluff, he’d have said “Nice Terminator fanfic, now let’s shut you guys down on factual issues, right now.”
- Comment on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, he’s sharp as a tack but also 85 years old. I can understand if he doesn’t entirely grasp the “AI” grift, or the real limitations of the technology.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons 5 weeks ago:
I’d honestly expected Sanders to form a more grounded, practical threat scenario of the “AI” industry. Less SciFi woo, more environmental impact and disinformation crisis. Those are among the present and concrete dangers that need to be regulated.
The proposed punishments sound fair, though. Whether the fancy ouija board develops a mind of its own…? Meh, not holding my breath for that one.
- Comment on EU tech chief backs global AI rules in wake of extinction warning 5 weeks ago:
Oh great, they’re going to make rules based on Coxon and the other TESCREAL doomers’ Terminator fanfic, rather than the foot long list of actual real world issues with the Magic Eightball.
- Comment on Another big James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats 5 weeks ago:
I’ll bet it’s more about the money and power aspects than anything religious.
- Comment on GoPro joins AI bonanza with pivot into data centers as shares skyrocket 40% 1 month ago:
The company will move into AI data center and defense markets.
Cool, cool. Burning the world while also joining the military complex. Good riddance, GoPro.
- Comment on OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident 1 month ago:
Sneakernets.
- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 1 month ago:
LOL, no. The “AI” peddlers have made these outrageous claims from the start that “this time next week, our crazy advanced autocorrect will be, like, starting WWIII”. It’s predictable hype, and complete lies.
Uncontrollable “AI” users, on the other hand? People are using these BS machines without a lick of responsibility. Be afraid of your idiot employer, not “AI”.
- Comment on New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name 1 month ago:
“We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product,” Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird’s cofounders, told Ars.
So a company. As a wise man once said, “It’s a trick. Get an ax.”
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 1 month ago:
It’s “stochastic”, if you want to be pedantic, and I get the feeling that’s all you’re here for. “In fact”.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 1 month ago:
If i could prove it, it would be proof that we do. Our brains aren’t logic machines, they’re a wet mess where cognition emerges irrationally.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 1 month ago:
I call BS. There is no sort of cognition taking place in an LLM. They calculate statistics, that’s all. No more magic than the cash register at the supermarket.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 2 months ago:
It was a rhetorical “why”, but sure. The most reasonable alternative would be not touching “AI” with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 2 months ago:
Oh hell no, why?