ChaoticHuman

Just a little update on that post: I recently also deactivated my Mastodon account as I generally didn't really use it and the only reason I still occasionally checked it was merely about news around Chatcontrol, etc. which are now also already covered here on the ATmosphere.

What is it suddenly with Bluesky sometimes hiding replies by a user to their own skeets? Ok, I've only seen that once so far but still.

The USA’s failure to punish Trump for Jan 6th was just an historic betrayal of global democracy. What a shameful, abject and total failure of institutions and civil society.

I really, really hope stuff like the Anthropic IPO and folks like Miyamoto coming out in defense of AI can help us proceed to a point where more of us can work together to solve the drawbacks of this incredible new technology rather than have half the people who should help pretend it'll disappear

so you’re saying you need software that is natively multimodal, good at conversions, can work in iterative verification loops, and is good at navigating complicated proprietary formats with intuitive prodding? Hmm

from a certain perspective it almost starts to look like you actually enjoy existential risks, if we're just laying all our cards on the table

sorry, but it's very hard to take your warnings of existential risk seriously when you are simultaneously throwing up to $120 billion at Elon Musk

And writing means I can have pieces of ancient human cognition in my mind now. Wild. So now we have a way to synthesize cognition to an extent. Great. Where's the problem?

The human mind stopped being a thing inside a human skull with the creation of the first stone tools. It became a system of interacting systems. It got progressively more muddy with language, where does my mind end and your start?

I absolutely do not care about plagiarism, slop and spam. Not real problems or not new ones. As for cognitive surrender, that's been the norm since we started making tally marks on bones 35k years ago, 6 times older than civilization, it's how human cognition works. We externalize it habitually.

Ok, slight correction about that point: the problem with Opencode was actually that a leading developer of it has close ties to that Nazi and not that they donate money to him. Still would like to look for an alternative that doesn't work with that Nazi in any way.

my wishcast is that middle and lower income countries can leverage ai and renewable energy to leapfrog the west and sever the last vestiges of colonial dependence

the internet is real now. there is no "offline". the virtual and the real have intertwined intimately to become the hyperreal

Vucic defeated Bolsonaro Jr. defeated Now let's do Netanyahu & the GOP control of Congress

why are they continuing to cover this up by saying no one's affected

If no evidence was collected before the battle with Blue and Yellow, the annoying dog appears as the only evidence.

sounds like they, and they specifically, should be stopping to prove their good faith

Anthropic: *warns of "catastrophic, existential risks to humanity"* Also Anthropic (mentioned only one skeet below the quoted skeet): *spends over 120 billion dollar on Nazi Musk's corporation that made/tries to make "Mechahitler" Grok*

*ANTHROPIC AGREED TO SPEND UP TO $120.5B ON SPACEXAI DEALS - for you @ed3d.net

*ANTHROPIC WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC, EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY

individuals. if they made this calculation and are shocked at this then they do not understand how politics works, for all their performance of pragmatism.

again, when you get fired from the coalition it is a tactical choice being made on their end that your vote quantities as a bloc weigh less than what they might pick up otherwise. thus, it is logical you are freed from the obligation to vote as a bloc and you can instead decide how you wish as

sorry but if they're dangling your right to exist as something on the table then you don't have to give them the dignity of the honesty of your intention. if they're running on misinformation to put you on the chopping block then simply make their life difficult even if voting tactically.

correct. you aren't supposed to hold your nose and Respectfully "vote blue no matter who" you're supposed to make your political candidates terrified and desperate that they may lose your vote Even If you're going to secretly vote for them anyway. psychological warfare. etc

A news article about Rockstar Game's union demands said "no AI, no layoffs, no crunch". But the "no AI" part of the headlines is over-claimed. Instead, they demanded that no employee should be replaced by AI. I think that's a lot more nuanced, and a lot more agreeable than the headline first implies

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

I do not think that we should have democratic control over every aspect of our lives. The point of human rights and limited government is a stronger guarantee than simply "Currently a majority of the populace thinks I should have them". This should not be a hot take.

would bluesky like claude if she looked like this

They appear committed to being a racist, insular club for their existing participants, which is the absolute antithesis of the welcoming, inclusionary culture I know and love in OSS.

In addition to the abject racism, the rest of the new rules make clear r/opensource is committed to being a highly insular, exclusionary community. Projects posted must be successful long-term projects with active communities. The person posting must be a long-time active Redditor.

AI is good actually. Centralized corporate control of it is bad, but that's true of almost everything.

Oh great, looks like the moderator responsible for that (Wolvereness) already had some negative history. In 2014 he DMCA'd Bukkit and Spigot, both of which are popular modding APIs for Minecraft servers.

“AI is intrinsically fascist and hegemonic!” I scream as I eject all people who aren’t able-bodied English speakers who can employ their own teams of artisans from my community

People get mad when I call these folks reactionaries 🙃

Looks like only one of the moderators of that sub actually made the call. The rest either have some combination of speaking other languages or running projects that allow translation. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

secondary to the xenophobia, how do you propose having a forum for open source software… while implementing rules that would ban all discussion of linux?

r/opensource is banning all mention of projects that use AI. let’s dive in and see what else they are banning. …ah. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

If you zealously ban nuance in order to create a more solid united front... you end up reactionary and parochial af.

There's also the phenomenon where people will mass review bomb games they didn't buy or play simply for having an AI disclosure. This is punishing people for honesty! That's super fucked!

This is confounded by the fact that people send you death threats for using AI

Fight how? Refusing to use AI isn't fighting, it's laying down and accepting defeat. It's literally the local models that you consider an afterthought that are literally eating into the investor theses now. Open weight IS the only way you "fight back".

species-affirming HRT really needs to exist goddamn

AI can produce slop (fucking stop it!). It can also be an accessibility tool for non-native speakers and neurodivergent people. If you reject everything AI touches without reckoning with that, you should know how privileged and exclusionary you come across.