Joshua Silva

Trying to regulate AI is going to end up like trying to regulate encryption. The genie is alreasy out of the bottle and so preventing regular people from using it won’t stop bad actors from using. The knowledge is already out there. The research papers have been online for years.

there's a particular style of grievanceposting where absolutely no interaction that isn't utterly submissive agreement is acceptable; even when i agree in principle with the grievance, it's immensely offputting because i know participation is neither expected nor welcome.

Some nice paragraphs on motivating exterior algebra from the master's thesis I never finished:

One thing I’ve long argued is that privacy advocates talk about the harm of targeted ads but can’t actually prove any harm outside of saying it gives them the ick. Now a court of law has said the same to the FTC. 😬 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/business/ftc-kochava-location-data.html

many people don't want this though. they want another alternative to elon, because having an authority figure means they can short-circuit grappling with the complexity of reality into "why didn't the ceo fix this already"

Staring at my reflection, shouting, increasingly agitated, "No, YOU'RE the mirror image!"

I nominate "bleets"

Lina Khan’s obsession with big tech continues to be an embarrassing blind spot. Weird to write an editorial framing AI regulation as a big tech problem when what happened is a scrappy startup, OpenAI, disrupted the industry while Google self regulated itself into being a has been.

Let's do a sheesh chain. That's a single reply chain where each reply has a sheesh with exactly one more e than the sheesh above it, all the way to the fabled 300-character sheesh. The timeline couldn't do it, can the skyline? I'll start: sheesh

Definitely going to try to onboard more math people onto here #mathsky

So much of the difficulty of complex analysis would be ameliorated by an ability to visualize 4 spatial dimensions...

An excellent post from the bird site

Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities Video posting capabilities

"Hello everyone, and welcome to CS121 Intro to Programming in C. I'm your professor and this is my TA, or as I like to call him, the preprofessor"

BLEET MAXIMALISTS RISE UP, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO BLEET HISTORY

need to start posting more math content on this app

i bet you're not actually going to become the joker anon

you wouldn't poast from Julia

@scott.hanselman.com did exactly that. Now to see if I actually use it...

so what exactly does bluesky do that's different from mastodon?

yes. there’s other ways to deal with even the worst actors. ignore, shun, humorously dismiss, refute. but “bullying” escalates cycles of confrontation that bring out the worst in people. i think bad actors sometimes thrive off the negativity too.

you will all be able to run your own servers soon, and set your own moderation policies at the server as well as the community level. but i need it to be calm enough for long enough that we can build out the rest of the system to give people more direct controls.

i do and i have but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”

can i just step in here to ask, in a moment of relative chill before whatever next week brings, that we - not make death threats - block more, bully less

https://youtu.be/D-7vSmTxAno