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Data : knowledge :: corpse : person

You can always ask yourself, “do I want to share this thought with Peter Theil directly? Would I want to ask Sam Altman this specific question? Is Elon Musk the guy I would want advising me about this issue?” If so, type it into the little box, have fun

well, you see, dna is like a code. just like natural languages are like code. just like traffic patterns are like code. how educating young people's brains is like coding. how relationships and dating is like designing code. the way the weather behaves like code. these are basically solved problems

The opportunity cost of what has been poured into LLMs would be a generation-defining tragedy even without the primary harm of LLMs existing and being used

Who would want to purposefully destabilize the internet at this particular moment in time? Is there anything important happening that could be hampered by comprised technical trust and degraded societal communication?

We are mad, my guy. We've been mad. sorry we have so far failed to topple a megacorporation about it. hope the air is nice up there on your high horse though

I would not notice. And then six months later I would think about how everyone around me seemed so well-spoken, creative and full of life lately

😆 Markov Chains Mar•kov Chains [mɑːkɒv ʧeɪnz] noun Being enslaved by probability theories, statistics, and contemporary AI models. reverse-contradictionary.net/words/markov...

Do you think she has an LLM extrude a 26 word tweet for her or do you think she just spends so much time on them she thinks this is what English sentences sound like

I think OpenAI should accept some bad things happening for the sake of sophisticated recording device technology

just a reminder the next time you consider arguing with a person who is demanding you prove AIs aren't alive: it's not your job to prove a negative. it's their job to prove the affirmative of their argument. you are arguing with a brick wall

A literal fascist propaganda rag can make a post with the lede "can you believe we're letting these piggies vote" and the brave defenders of democracy on this website will eat it right up and ask for more

"Ban violent video games" comes around again except this time we're also banning ones where you're mean or something

If we were to graph the value of these programs to society, one axis would run from asbestos to radium and the other would run from Enron to the consolidation of the textile industry.

Yeah, the pretty clearly measured and sensible perspective here is basically total rejection of this technological imposition and uprooting of the legal framework that has enforced it. The boosters are frankly delirious from propaganda and groupthink, and the media is bought or full of fomo.

Simon Stålenhag is the best www.instagram.com/p/C3j9F6kq6p5/

I know I KNOW this is the least bad thing about the Fully Automated War Crimes Cockference but why do they have their pants hemmed to show off their entire novelty socks all the way up the calf

If Gavin Newsom is the Democratic Presidential nominee I will go to the polls, get out my phone, and shred my ballot live on TikTok

JCO is a virtuoso of The Tweet as an expressive form, which doesn't mean that the thing she's expressing necessarily isn't dogshit

How do these people manage to construe "I let predictive text decide what I can and can't read" as a flex

Half the big tech oligarchs apparently can't spell their own full names and Dario Amodei looks like he almost tore the paper forming the "D" exactly like they taught him in second grade before pivoting to scribbles

It is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws.

I wish people who want to write articles about how college education isn’t actually that important a part of college education would demonstrate this point by quitting their jobs in college education

We should have killed the internet with hammers

Damn it's almost like lack of consent is baked into the entire worldview that makes it possible to build or conceivable to use AI as we have it today