Humans vs AI

The most visionary speech. JFK on Education at Vanderbilt University, 1963 youtu.be/8GrddTNaOIY via @YouTube

@DavidSacks This is exactly the point. AI needs government oversight because they are elected. At the moment the guardians are tech executives who are not accountable to the users and stand to gain financially.

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984? This is the real alignment problem. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians? “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.

@DavidSacks Brought to you by the same people who said that the subprime crisis was overblown...

Yes

@BowesChay Who invaded who?

Russia has just warned "foriegn Citizens and Diplomats" to leave Kiev. It looks like a red line was crossed in Starobelsk when Zelenskys Nazi adoring crime syndicate murdered 21 young kids.

@JohnCleese John, you have become a bore. Anyone can do this with any religion. it is not difficult to find deranged extremists. Write a screenplay. it will be better for everyone.

All you have to do is get yourself killed while killing infidels and you can fuck your brains out with things that look a bit like women, but aren't I'm sure there something about spirituality in there too What an offer !!!

@JohnCleese Mayor Kahn is correct

As I have tried to persuade people before, not wanting your country to be taken over by a mediaeval woman-hating religion is not a 'far right' position More like self preservation And certainly not 'Islamophobia', a word that deliberately suggests that any criticism of Islam is irrational

@KinnisonRobertW @ChrisMurphyCT Objectively the US is in a worse position than it was in 2016

@ChrisMurphyCT So let me get this right Trump is bad if he ends it and Trump is bad if he continues it? Did I get that right buttercup?

If this deal with Iran is real, I will welcome it because every day this insane war goes on, America gets weaker. The priority is to end the war - now. But make no mistake: these are Iran’s terms. Our nation emerges humiliated. 1/ A 🧵 on what we know about the deal right now.

@MarioBojic a) there are Neo nazis in every country. b) there doesn't seem to be many of them. c) Ukraine has always had a Neo-Nazi fringe.

🚨🇺🇦Ukrainian Nazis gathered today in Kyiv, shoutint "Sieg Heil." Can someone explain this to me, how is something like this even possible in the 21st century?

@JohnCleese By using these nutters to prove a point you are simply straw-manning the argument.

It's hard to believe she's in favour of child marriage and clitoral surgery and the beating of wives and stoning of adultresses Perhaps she's talking about Buddhism ?

@DD_Geopolitics So after 4 years of Russia bombing Kiev and other civilian infrastructure, you are complaining about....

🇷🇺 Ukraine's attack on a Starobelsk college has killed 12 children, wounded 41, and left 9 still buried under rubble... and Western media is nowhere to be found. BBC officially declined to visit the scene. CNN is "on vacation." Maria Zakharova confirmed it. Nothing to see here. Literally — they made sure of it.

You make a fair argument Louis but to say that Alex Karp and Peter Thiel have opposing political views is in itself disingenuous. How much of Karp's Manifesto does Thiel disagree with? The problem is Palantir is no ordinary product - it can be used to target people militarily and surveil people domestically. If the executives at Palantir are even slightly right-wing in their decision making you could see some civil liberties consequences further down the road. Joe Lonsdale is a major GOP backer, as it Thiel. They both have views that sit on the fringes of the Overton window.

A fair challenge, but i think it rests on a category error. The politics of a founder or an executive are not the politics of a company. Palantir’s founders - Karp and Thiel - famously hold opposite political views on many issues. Our employees hold every view in between. Which of them is Palantir’s politics? Or - worse - are we to assume the politics of our customers are ours, simply because we work for them? That every elected government we serve confers its politics on us in turn? Palantir is political, but not in the partisan sense your point implies. Palantir’s politics is a commitment to the West, to liberal democracy, and to the rule of law. That is precisely why neither of the above tests work: the moment a company’s politics is read off the views of its founders or its customers, we have left the world of objective standards and entered one of subjective association - exactly the test the Mayor’s office now proposes for public procurement. Public procurement decisions should rest on objective standards, not subjective tests of “values”. That is a principle I think is worth defending, particularly under pressure.

I think this is slightly disingenuous from Louis - Palantir gets singled out bc it’s a very political organisation. It published a manifesto, its founder wrote a book called “the technological republic” and it has three of the most politically vocal founders in the world. This is not true of any other major tech company that works with the uk government.

@EthanLevins2 Probably because Russia has been doing this for years and this might be the only way to stop them

Ukraine has bombed a college dormitory in Russia. 86 children are under the rubble, with multiple casualties confirmed already. Why is the EU silent?

@EnglishMason66 @DeadlineDayLive @David_Ornstein @Matt_Law_DT Are you a bot?

@DeadlineDayLive @David_Ornstein @Matt_Law_DT Actual English players are omitted for Africans. Tuchel really is making us look like France

🚨 Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, Adam Wharton, Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw have all been LEFT OUT of the England World Cup squad. ❌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (Source: @David_Ornstein / @Matt_Law_DT) Thomas Tuchel doesn't give a single F**K.

@Geordie_grandad @afneil Are you a bot?

@NickSmallman @afneil Nothing complex about it. Billionaires produce things, that how they get rich, taking risks, investing, starting companies. The leftists find it hard to understand and the jealousy takes over common sense.

The economic stupidity/ignorance of the Left is reaching new heights of absurdity.

@highbrow_nobrow It just goes to the mindset of these people. There is a part of their brain missing - the bit that produces Empathy

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Explains Why He Believes AI Is Better Than Human Workers: "[AI] never gets drunk. Never gets sick. Never gets depressed because his girlfriend broke up with him. Never files HR complaints." x.com/Overlap_Tech/s…

@Neccccy All religions at the extreme are drawn to terror

Do you agree with Douglas?

@rustyrockets Stop this fealty to a man who is a know-nothing. You find a home in the modern GOP simply because they are ok with men who transgress with women and are bible thumpers. smooth.

Trump saw the UK free speech crisis coming.

@toadmeister My God man! for an intellectual you don't half talk a lot of shit.

"Only 35% of secondary school teachers are male, and that falls to just 15% in primary schools. The whole education system is now female-dominated. And boys are doing badly. If this were the other way round, there'd be uproar." Joanna Gray on the Sceptic. Full episode👇

Congratulations to Arsenal. Amazing achievement and in particular to Mikel Arteta. Watching how he has changed the culture and improved the players is a joy. A great leader and a great example.