Jeremy Littau

This is staggering. Even in the social media startup era of the early Aughts, nobody had losses anywhere close to this as they tried to work their way to profitability.

Even if you believe we can’t afford to lose the AI race, a company isn’t making those losses back without dominating the space as Facebook did w/social. A functional monopoly, owning and controlling what we see and know. What AI company has earned that kind of trust? We are living a cyberpunk novel.

“Is this a church of love or fear? / Have we made God feel like a stranger here?” Second new single on the upcoming album that takes the American church to task for helping usher in our current wrecked state.

Visually it's hard not to see this as a bookend to Joshua Tree, an album that leaned into the paradox of America being so flawed and yet offering such great promise and hope to people outside of it. …

“Is this a church of love or fear? / Have we made God feel like a stranger here?” Second new single on the upcoming album that takes the American church to task for helping usher in our current wrecked state.

Swear to god the Democratic fundraising strategy right now is to cherry-pick one bad poll from a month of really good polls (in a very Dem-friendly environment) and act like the bottom will fall out of their campaign if I don’t chip in $5.

Dropped oldest off for his homecoming dance. On the way I kept peppering him with ‘90s band requests to give to the deejay: “Springsteen! INXS! B-52s!” “Dad, stop. You’re embarrassing.” “They’re gonna call you Unc!” “DAD, STOP!” So I just started blasting Love Shack in the parking lot.

"White Bear" episode about media spectacle, public vengeance, shame, and criminal justice was already on the watchlist for my Black Mirror class this spring, and I really need these fools to stop giving me more things to assign/cover.

One reason I teach students to scratch the surface below benign-sounding labels like "longtermism." What Altman is saying here is really just how you implement the definition, the meaning distilled from neutral-sounding wordplay. AI elites hide behind labels because the meaning is toxic in democracy

Because if you put to the voters the question of "should we accept mass environmental destruction, economic chaos and the possibility of AI hijacking critical systems without human oversight as a bet on a better long-term future?" most voters would say hell no.

One reason I teach students to scratch the surface below benign-sounding labels like "longtermism." What Altman is saying here is really just how you implement the definition, the meaning distilled from neutral-sounding wordplay. AI elites hide behind labels because the meaning is toxic in democracy

Headline looks worse than the actual study (link: tinyurl.com/4xj4hm2f), in that AI systems allegedly are neutral but still elicit same old biases. In my human-centered AI classes I take the approach that thinking about sentient AI misses the point. How we use these systems is the revealing thing.

And for the TESCREAL folks who are worried about how we treat AI because they think they're creating life, worth noting a lot of them have done a lot to make it hard for women and folks from underrepresented groups to exist in their companies, let alone within tech companies writ large.

Headline looks worse than the actual study (link: tinyurl.com/4xj4hm2f), in that AI systems allegedly are neutral but still elicit same old biases. In my human-centered AI classes I take the approach that thinking about sentient AI misses the point. How we use these systems is the revealing thing.