@Grady_Booch “coherency without understanding, confidence without truth, assistance without empathy” is great, well expressed.
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Not only a man of science—a man of hope. Software primate and UI designer at the Toyota Research Institute. I fight for the users. More fox than hedgehog.
Arlington, MA Katılım Aralık 2009
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The cult of Trump demonstrates that there is some non-small percentage of Americans who willingly celebrate ignorance and incompetence while simultaneously surrendering their humanity.
In the context of the rise of LLMs this is particularly disturbing, because such systems are precisely the kind of opiate that offers coherency without understanding, confidence without truth, assistance without empathy.
Matters are further exasperated when such systems are promoted by rapacious sociopaths such as Altman, Musk, Andreessen, and Thiel.
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@xavier_urban @StatisticUrban Roads? Is that what these are?
Also I instantly recognized your avi, excellent choice.
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@StatisticUrban + some of the best historical sites in the US
- the worst roads
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- Highest median household income of any state ($120k)
- Best education system in the US
- Advanced knowledge economy, a ton of white-collar jobs
- 4th lowest homicide rate
- A major walkable city + cute coastal towns
It's not flashy, it's cold, and it's expensive. But I get it.
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there are close to zero sincere libertarians on the right, just people who abhor state power in the hands of their enemies and relish it in the hands of their friends
Meagan Day@meagankday
The nightmarish vision of federal tyranny that radicalized an entire generation of the Right after Waco and Ruby Ridge is finally coming to life in the streets of Minneapolis. And most on the Right will forget overnight what animated their politics for thirty years
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These are your words of the week
Martin Luther King Day
GPS
magnetosphere
hegemon
tickety-boo
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This is so genuinely offensive, recreating a famous photo of workers with the enemies of workers
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
Jeff Ewing@ReelJeffEwing
This is so genuinely offensive, recreating a famous photo of workers with the enemies of workers
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Current metaphors for thinking about AI will completely miss its most important consequences, just like thinking about cars as horseless carriages and other analogies to "things we know" completely missed the mark of how steam engines actually transformed society.
- from @zeynep 's keynote at #NeurIPS
More profound than the simplified scares of "it will kill us all" and "it will cause us all to lose our jobs", it will fundamentally change just the way we understand authenticity, accuracy, effort, sincerity and the nature of humanity.
For me, the talk’s most profound insight is that AI’s impact will be heavily shaped by the infrastructure that we have in place.
In the absense of that infrastructure actively being conceived and constructed, the consequences will likely default in a way severely to our detriment, e.g. universal surveillence etc, in the absense of societal trust.
Consequently, the imperative for AI researchers is specific: to shift toward designing the necessary technical infrastructure specifically to shape our future.
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What would be the big concern prompted by “LGBT ideology”? Too many tastefully decorated apartments?
John-Henry Westen@JhWesten
In his talk with the Orthodox in Turkey, Pope Leo raised three major issues of concern. Abortion, euthanasia, and LGBT ideology? Just kidding. It was peace, ecology, and AI — of course.
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@Iwillleavenow I’m exuberant about AI … and for the inevitable Butlerian jihad
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"Hey, people overwhelmingly don't like this thing you're making, any plans to adapt your approach or product?"
"We've carefully considered the feedback and concluded that people need to change their goddamn attitudes."
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
The CFO of OpenAI says people aren't exuberant enough about AI bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"no Shakespeare yet -- only syntactically correct Bash scripts"
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@AriDrennen Trying to remember who it was who fought the ACA (and its predecessor) at every turn, resulting in it becoming such a twisted version of a bill … rather than working on it in good faith to make it better.
Maybe the same people who can’t even get other people's names right?
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Republicans will really remove the subsidies that make the healthcare system remotely affordable, claim it's the worst thing ever, and then blame the party who tried to fix it.
Bonchie@bonchieredstate
Democrats will really pass a horrible healthcare bill, claim it's the greatest thing ever, and then a decade later blame the party that voted against it for it failing miserably.
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@TheMaineWonk Appropriate that’s he’s depicted in an AI-generated ruin
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This national park can do both
brit@booritney
the first time i heard "big naturals" i thought it referred to major outdoor landmarks such as the grand canyon, or the great barrier reef
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I forget who it was who said that slashing USAID, dooming tens of millions to preventable deaths as a culture war exercise, was a practice run for doing the same thing at home, but they were spot on
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Hold music on a 30-second loop should be covered under the Geneva Conversation
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One of the defining features of totalitarianism was how its leaders made war on experts, like the Soviet bureaucrats who boosted Lysenkoism. Dictatorial regimes *hate* experts, because experts reach conclusions based on evidence, not political expediency.
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