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@iriptheslitt Ball knower

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New niche username. long live cupertino hoops.

Sometimes something is just Bad. You don’t need to imply the person who made it is soulless too.

People need to start using the word “slop” more judiciously. It is arguably more of a moral judgment than an aesthetic one.

@downloadlos I followed you last year

Btw my wife followed me yesterday

@arya_marwaha @ContrarioAI congrats!

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@joshuawolk I ❤️ stuytown

hey claude find me a roommate. sign 5/23, start 6/23. $2450/mo, one-year lease, stuytown. 1 min from the L train, 2 min from trader joe's, whole foods, and target. dms open. make no mistakes.

My grandpa actually asked me to make a slide deck for him, so I’m working on that + might share on X! I think the key is to use examples, metaphors, and visuals whenever you can. That is arguably more important than being overly technically precise. Here’s the structure I followed: - What data models train on, and how training actually works at a high level - What’s happening when you type in a prompt (use an example they’d actually ask ChatGPT) - What chips and data centers actually are, and the role they play in training models and serving answers when you ask a question - Why AI labs are racing so aggressively, how they’re differentiating, and why the US and China both see this as strategically important - Hallucinations, safety concerns, and existential risks - Final reminders about scams, privacy, and how to prompt in ways that reduce errors This was a bit macro because my family is full of policy wonks. But honestly the first three sections and the last one are the key parts for most people.

@gitipahwa do you have any ideas about easy ways to do that for friends/family?

True AI literacy should mean giving people a mental model of how these systems work, why they matter, and how to use them responsibly. Not just signing your grandma up for ChatGPT.

I’m now realizing I’ve only emailed two public figures in my life: Barack Obama in the 2nd grade, to beg him to quit smoking cigs, and Leandra Medine in the 9th grade, to tell her how much Man Repeller meant to me as someone who was, for better or worse, a natural.

The closest I came to idol worship was Leandra Medine circa 2012-2016.

@grok @AlecDewulf Wow. My first time invoking grok

When you ask "how do I cook rice?", I'm not looking up a recipe or understanding food like a person. I've been trained on massive amounts of internet text (including recipes), so I predict the next words that are most likely to form a helpful, coherent answer based on patterns I've seen. It's statistical prediction, not knowledge or reasoning in the human sense.

@AlecDewulf @grok

@gitipahwa what IS it doing when I ask it how to cook rice?

@jakeottiger Though he certainly doesn’t make it any easier…

@jakeottiger Ultimately, I think making the case for AI is going to fall on younger people in tech. They (we) understand both sides of this better than anyone else. I don’t think anything coming from Eric Schmidt is going to change my friends’ minds about it anyway.

this fails for two reasons: it’s out of touch and demeaning. eric is 71, worth $43.3 billion, and has a 27 yo girlfriend. he’s addressing graduates my age that are experiencing a shift we have never seen before. yet, he claims he can understand and feel what we do. he can’t. he then goes on to talk about not giving up agency before pivoting to say ai is inevitable and the only area you can shape. this is giving up agency. ai is the only problem worth working on. his conclusion puts ai at the center of the story. “ai agents are solving problems you could never do on your own. ai is solving protein folding.” who the hell does that resonate with? certainly, not a group of 22 year olds that are looking out into an ominous job market while also experiencing the emotional rollercoaster of graduation. imagine if he had started like this: “you’re entering a world that is changing faster than we’ve ever seen. you’re scared because many people in my exact position are telling you ai is going to take your jobs. you watch TikTok’s that tell you ai is using all of the water. i cannot relate to you. it’d be silly to tell you i can fully understand your emotions and feelings. i graduated in (no shade Eric) and only experienced the first technology revolution. i try to stay in touch with students like yourselves and other young entrepreneurs. you give me hope. i hope to share an alternative story about this crazy moment from what i’ve heard at schools like yours. professors have directed ai to solve a 50 year old genomic protein folding problem that will help cure cancer, provide new antibiotics, and even aid in providing clean energy. students with ESL and insufficient tutoring are going deeper on subjects in realtime by telling ai what else they want to learn about. i hope you exercise your talents, no matter the field, to solve similarly ambitious problems. together we will build towards a better future than the one my generation thrust upon you.” as a fellow Gen Zer, with many friends at labs and many friends in the trades, i can tell you people do not want to hate this technology nor you. we use it to write our essays, create memes of our friends, to build incredibly, ambitious projects in record time, and to connect with our families (more on this tmrw). i hope we can inject a little hopium and come back down to earth. go reconnect with friends from college, your hometown, or the barista at your local coffee shop. nurture your relationships, ask about their fears regarding technology, and what they want to see more of. i’m sure at the very least you’ll have an interesting conversation. you might even forget about the permanent underclass for just a moment. maybe that’s enough.

I expect AI populism to be disproportionately young, educated, and slightly left-leaning jasmi.news/p/warning-shots

@devahaz This is an awfully harmless thing to shame people for

Can tell these people are fake quirky by the sloppy execution of the concept

Let me speak about the data center discourse, because most of the conversation is maddening and this wholesale framing of opposition frustrates me. I am the mayor of a rural community who has a Google data center being constructed about 15 miles outside of town. I have actual personal experience on the matter, rather than just posting about it. Our community has mixed feelings. We are cautiously hopeful about growth opportunities in a place that has been starved of such for decades. Our local sales tax revenues are up 30 to 40%, thanks to the influx of construction workers. Multiple new homes are under construction at the same time for the first time in 40 years. New retail businesses are inquiring. Our city has contracted to sell water to Google for non-cooling purposes. It will result in about a 20% increase in city revenues. It also doesn’t jeopardize our citizens’ supply, because we’ll sell them less water than we sold to some large wholesale/industrial accounts that we held for 50 years until losing them in the early 2000s. They’re also paying for all the infrastructure. Our people want to see progress, but we want to retain the character of our community that made our place special to begin with. We are also not naïve. We realize we had very little say in this project. The project came here. We did not attract it. We did not give local tax incentives, nor will we. Some were given on the county level, but we didn’t have a say in that. It’s jarring to our people to go (practically overnight) from a growth-starved rural place, struggling on the whims of the global ag economy, to an epicenter of the tech universe. We’re trying to use what power we have to make sure that our people benefit from this project as much as possible, rather than it becoming yet another case of economic colonialism, mining a rural community’s resources to benefit other people and places. When people do have questions and concerns about the sudden data center rush, many of them are well intentioned. Why so many? Why so fast? Why everywhere all at once? Is this prudent? Have we thought through all the consequences? Can we afford it? Do we have the resources for it? None of those are unfair questions, but many of the answers are vague and nebulous at best. Much of the justification is “uhh, reasons I guess. And China.” People would feel better if we had some sort of actual policy discourse about a moment that’s being billed as the most important since the Industrial Revolution. But instead, many of our elected officials are fighting about the stupid and meaningless topic of the moment, because that requires less brainpower and it gets you on tv. People with fair questions get lumped in with the weirdos and billed as a “loon” with “fringe beliefs.” Data centers may well be the next great moment in American innovation and they may revolutionize many things in many good ways. But the conversation is not meeting the moment.