Micah Warren

Micah Warren

@micah541.bsky.social

Math 5 11 Liberal apologia

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I'm for increasing acceleration Does that make me a jerk?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

I told my wife, who works in the mental health profession, that there's all these people who believe AI models can feel pain. She immediately responded with "are these people who struggle to identify their own emotions?" I think she hit it with one shot

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I think if you start by taking OpenAI 100% at their word, the phrase "inspired by these rumors" still announces "we did something fairly slimy by trying to scoop priority." Maybe it doesn't read as slimy in the social world they inhabit, but it would in mine.

True story - I was one of the fireman Jesus was the other one

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

"Listen I hate fascism as much as the next guy, but is it worth fighting it if we have to share the country with people fry their falafel in beef tallow? Ick. "

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

I don't want to start deprogramming them. I want them to go away.

I mean, yeah, sure, there is some deep anthropological thing going on when humans are communicating with other humans but also yesterday I had one AI agent communicate to another AI agent and information was communicated and acted upon

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively. >>

Do these Republicans senators just get absolutely obliterated by their grahdkids when they play Uno? Like all it took was three of you to say no to Ken Paxton and you have leverage.

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Surveillance pricing is good actually I pay $1.39 for beans. Other people pay $2 dollars for beans Why? Because I've signaled to them with my behavior that I don't pay more than $1.50 for beans!

It's not great that all the discourse is about the discourse

James Ball@jamesrball.com

Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.

Really hard to tell how significant this stuff is. Was at a conference last week with many prominent names in geometric analysis and nobody in geometrical analysis has made any real progress with AI yet. Not for lack of trying.

Easier for senior people to just trust but still

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

I'm using Opus 4.8 Asked about a stability result for a nonlinear flow based on estimates I had written in another paper and estimate for a rescaled flow. Abstract and theorem were promising- dug into proofs -all based on linear methods.

The bitcoin wallet story is salient but sad, many real people hurt, but if you really want to go for "best practices are fake and gay" style Schadenfreude I would read up on Situational Awareness - unclear if real people were hurt or not