James

Trans activists: “Just call people what they want to be called. It’s basic decency.” OK, maybe this is fine in personal interactions. But, at a policy level, the denial of biological reality becomes a civilizational threat because it obliterates one of the most fundamental realities of human existence and replaces it with a requirement that we affirm the disordered thinking of a small percentage of individuals.

@bubsycapone @deanmckee757 @elonmusk It’s self preservation. If others are going to have AI, we need to have it too. And by “we” I mean the West, and really I mean the USA because it doesn’t seem like the UK is getting anywhere much.

if you read my other comments you will know, i use ai every day. i actually have a subscription with most models. out of necessity. i agree with you on that i have a few points here 1. if those making ai; chinese, american, european, etc, would not listen to the world in a vote against ai, it cant be considered in service of humanity interests from a democratic perspective. it would be a self conceited dictatorial idea they would be taking it upon themselves to gamble with. if the poll occurred, and everyone voted to stop it, we all know they would keep going. it is an important distinction because it demonstrates motive. they arent doing it for us, they are doing it because they are practical people who cannot fathom the advice of seemingly unhelpful abstract thoughts. i can actually hear elons brain reading this thinking "pointless," just like all of you thought immediately. perhaps the greatest folly of man is the inability to take the advice of the products of abstract thought. it would prevent literal world wars. 2. the market selects ai out of necessity, not out of free choice. I pay for ai, and would instantly destroy it, everyone i speak to in real life shares the same sentiment. so money spent on ai does not count as votes. 3. this is not the same as any prior industrial revolution. dismissing me as a luddite is naive. it is more equivalent to a second nuclear revolution. no prior technology has eroded,or could have ever eroded, how we all understand and relate to meaning. no prior technology is on a trajectory to eliminate the concept of art, the concept of relationships, the concept of purpose, across all demographics, occupations, and hobbies. when people have ubi, and no reason to pursue anything with their free time because ai does it better, they will resort to insane ideological meaning, it will turn violent, it will lead to hell. i believe you are seeing the beginnings of this in the hopelessness and violent thinking of todays left leaning youth. 4. a true conservative would not be excited about ai, because the changes it will make are radical and unpredictable. the opposite of conserving the status quo with careful progression. instead they are enthusiastically going as fast as they can with reckless abandon. 5. if the vote occured, globally, id bet something like 70-80% of people would say kill it. this becomes apparent when you look into the majority of people who dont live on twitter and worship elon. 6. none of this should be excited. we shouldnt be happy about speeding up. 7. i actually like elon, i think he is a net positive. i actually think he probably saved the world on that last election, and i admire how he lets conversations like this occur on his platform that dont really benefit him... this isnt a personal attack on him per se. more all ai developers, regardless of nationality

Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come. Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release. This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.

@bubsycapone @deanmckee757 @elonmusk The point is that AI is an arms race. Have you ever heard of “the Game”? You’re always playing the Game. Even if you don’t want to, even if you try to stop, even if you don’t know it exists. If you stop playing, the others win. You’re always playing the Game.

@deanmckee757 @ActualJC @elonmusk Actually sir I am a stern conservative. Conservativism means to conserve the status quo that works, and to hesitate with any radical changes that we don’t know the outcomes of. You should go to blue sky.

@bubsycapone @elonmusk If the vast majority didn’t want it, there would still be a market to serve from the minority who did want it. Besides, what are you going to do about the Chinese labs?

@elonmusk If you ran a poll and it was clear the vast majority did not want ai on this planet, would you or Altman listen do you think? Or just keep going anyway?

@cassiemoans_ Silence is not consent. This is something a man like you should learn.

As a trans girl, I use the woman's bathroom when I'm out & about. I have for a bit over three years now.. I thought id take the time to share a list of all the times other woman have had a problem with me being there, 1. They havent.. not once.

@AngryEddie1 @wundt_vil Gender is a synonym for sex. There is no such thing as non-binary.

@wundt_vil While I hate the guy, he hasn't told lies about his sex. His gender is non-binary. Sex is not the same as gender.

Privately educated upper middle-class Indian bloke pretends he’s a poverty stricken gender-less peasant. Who would’ve guessed that someone who lies about his sex would also lie about his upbringing. Wadhwa 2.0 thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@peterrhague Fair.

@ActualJC Unfortunately the aims of SpaceX are a bit too out there for a lot of conventional finance types. If your job is making sure a pension fund is solvent you probably haven’t read the literature on asteroid mining or AGI

It’s a problem I can’t seem to find reasonable critical views on SpaceX. Nobody reading the S-1 and saying “yes it’s a solid business with good growth potential but I think it’s overvalued for ”. It’s all histrionic accusations of fraud, sneering at the very idea of space colonisation, uninformed AI doomerism. Where are the measured takes? Guess they don’t get clicks.

The entire security architecture of MacOS / iOS has been under relentless attack by ever-more-sophisticated tools and techniques for decades. Anything Apple do in that stack is entirely intentional and will have been carefully justified on its own merits, not as an historical artifact.

@ActualJC @MIDIDesigner @0x45o Define “core code”. Large chunks of the XNU kernel, userspace, VFS are straight from BSD. The GUI and apps are all NeXT and Apple.

why does my mac need 3x longer to realize my password is wrong than when I type it correctly

@heffejeffe78 @MIDIDesigner @0x45o Components, but not the core code.

@ActualJC @MIDIDesigner @0x45o Mac OS has tons of BSD components in Mach and the network stack.

@LeHeresiarch @AvaLovelaceX “Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace” No he’s not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovel…

@AvaLovelaceX Wait, you're an actual descendant of Ada Lovelace? That's awesome.

I inherited the name Lovelace from my ancestor, Ada Lovelace, who literally invented programming. What kind of feminist doesn’t know the name of the most influential woman in tech history? This proves TERfs know nothing about feminism. Without my ancestor you wouldn’t be able to be transphobic on the internet. Be grateful.

@ShannoMenk @MIDIDesigner @0x45o It totally is the kind of thing that gets rewritten occasionally.

@MIDIDesigner @0x45o Linux does it too, and has since I first installed Red Hat in 1997. Given MacOS' BSD(ish) roots, I wouldn't be surprised if they use the same password code. (Which probably goes back to the 70's. It's not the kind of thing that gets rewritten once it's been paid for.) --Shannon

@heffejeffe78 @MIDIDesigner @0x45o It’s true about the delay, and true about the BSD backstory, but at this point I would be astonished if the MacOS auth still has any actual BSD code left in it. MacOS does this because a delay is a good security posture, not because it’s what BSD does.

@MIDIDesigner @0x45o Mac OS is based on BSD, a kind of Unix which has strict security for passwords, including a timeout if an incorrect password is entered.

@Chalbiwsk @louisvarge Ever occurred to you that you’re not the good guy?

@ActualJC @louisvarge fuck off james

i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad? back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income. i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from? what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?

@DavidPaisley All men have access to the same care as you, including trans “women”.

So about 15 years ago I attended the breast screening clinic as I had a lump that had appeared in my chest. It turned out to be benign breast tissue growth (gyno) and nothing serious. Weird how I, a cis man, was able to attend this kind of service, but trans women now can't.

@Chalbiwsk @louisvarge Racism is bad.

@ActualJC @louisvarge i never said racism is bad

@Chalbiwsk @louisvarge “It’s coz of racism” -> proceeds to label all members of a race “little bitches”.

@louisvarge It’s coz of racism. Before world war 1, only europeans had the means to travel the world, hence it was booming. Today, blacks and browns can do so, and whites are insecure (like the little bitches that they are) hence they restrict immigration

@louisvarge opposition = number of migrants / ( cultural proximity * skill level )

@bencsmoke It is that deep and you know it. It’s a political statement - “we believe truth doesn’t matter and we want to take a performative stance on it”. It’s awful.

if you don’t need them, don’t use them, it’s not that deep is it

@NCyotee @toomuchtimeonx @lauriewired Video playback on phones (and consumer devices generally) is only practical because the CPU has dedicated hardware for it. Your example of multiple cores is less relevant. What do multi cores actually do for a consumer?

@NCyotee @toomuchtimeonx @lauriewired The average person watches youtube on their phone, don’t they?

How many technologies are stuck in a local optima? Big loudspeakers basically peaked in the 1970s. Obviously we’ve gotten somewhat better, but it’s a lot closer to: “a couple % more accurate” than “the average person immediately notices the +50-year technological progress” Miniaturization has improved a lot, so has digital signal processing, amplification. But take a high end setup from 50 years ago, sit in the sweet spot at the same volume…it won’t feel radically different. I’m trying to think of other fields where the underlying principles were so mature that half a century of progress in materials/software/electronics is underwhelming. Camera Lenses seem like a good candidate. Non-electronic instruments is another; it’s not like cellos have gotten that much better in the last ~300 years.