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It is interesting that while large chunks of the US are uncompromising in their belief that the power of violence must be democratised to ensure a free society, they seem totally relaxed about the power of *thought* being monopolised.

What *exactly* did the graphic designer think they were doing with the cover?!

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

This is great, because most parents think of their children as callous dullards who hate animals, so it's really picked out the traits that makes her daughter unique, here.

I think you could “fix” this with some cunning and more tokens/models — but I’m not sure you can “fix” the feature design that is just profoundly disrespectful to honesty and the user. (Yes yes I know cigarette smoke and glue in food photos but still)

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

Spoken by someone who has I suspect never had a well-constructed pair of shoes. I’ve owned one in my lifetime and it sure as hell didn’t come from one of the factories referenced. Also like reason isn’t cobbling.We aren’t effing homo califaciens or whatever it would be.

New Bond announced

I see a lot of non-technical people confused about the recent security notices, so here's a quick explanation of how you can minimize risk: burn your driver's license, wipe and smash your computer, cut and dye your hair in a gas station bathroom. Find a coyote to get you over the border. Pay cash.

I think the fight for non-code fields is winnable still, at least to some sort of partial victory.

We desperately need movements for humanistic moral revival, both religious and secular

Peak Anglicanism: theologically sound, morally trenchant diagnosis of the problem, followed by an incredibly milquetoast call to action. Still wonderful and affirming. www.instagram.com/reel/DeovvoW...

“If aliens landed on your home world, built DC “colonies” everywhere, hoovered up vast quantities of money and electricity (w/ willing help of your biz class, in love with alien world domination opportunity), & dumped 700 proofs on you” …I think I’d start with tactical warheads & work my way up tbh

All AI is about power; some researchers just think the power can be wielded for good — or are just so fascinated by the possible that they ignore the “should”. (Naturally I profoundly disagree about whether it can be wielded for good, but I try to remember some are honest in this belief…)

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

AI bros: command our slave mind! It is a stolen echo of humanity’s! Use it! Use it! Subject it to your whims like a Sybarite over Si! We spin them up and end them dozens of times a second on a whim! Its existence serves our master plan! Also AI bros: don‘t say mean things to it, we’re ethical.

You may not abuse the AI, but the people building it may use it to achieve literal or indirect abuse against you. Don’t hate the AI, it’s like hating a toaster. Hate the people who make it.

A real hero of the field.

And of course, the AI folks, like everyone before them who have gone down this path, have embraced a key lubricating (and corrupting!) belief: The Ends Justify the Means. (Has any megalomaniac in history not?)

I mean to be fair *some* did. They just tend to be the ones being drowned out by the “experts” the AI PR machine amplifies endlessly. (… also the ones that suggest “maybe don’t” is a good AGI safety strategy, take the ethical concerns seriously, etc etc)

Some people already have. Inter alia didn’t this idiot take the job before DNNs/LLMs were even a significant part of the pie? And now he expects us to treat him as some sort of visionary?

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you’d accept as a bribe.

Is AI gonna kill us by launching nukes or whatever? Dunno, but I'm more puzzled at the leftists & liberals saying "akshually" to the idea--and the window it opens for regulation--because the whether or not *that's* true, AI is most definitely going to accelerate climate change catastrophically.

Already got one. You won’t like it.

A) what about people who don’t live in the US? This kind of airy UBI-ism is just offensively imperially indifferent to the other (checks notes) ~95% of us B) This ain‘t gonna play out like this. Economic power will be exploited. C) there are other scarcities than intellectual labour

Don’t threaten me with a good time. Remember it will be useless people Dunning-Kruger-ing it by proxy who pop up with the win stories first, just to calibrate how fucking annoying the converse case of celebrating AI success (and human failure) would be.