@cutterferry.bsky.social
Interested in mathematics, computer science, history, political thought, and the (lack of) "ethics" of AI. Anonymous because questioning AI is career limiting behaviour.
People, stupid: "I hate mosquitos!" Me, a genius: "Well I just imagined a mosquito that cures cancer. Checkmate."
Rings of power that will grant theorems, preserve the techbros of Lothlórien so they do not have to believe themselves mortal; build an unstoppable army to crush humanity at Helms Deep (“military advantage”), and massive carbon emissions over Mordor. Come on folks, take a look in the mirror here…
No. The belief that technical progress is to be worshipped uncritically is at best Futurist (as in the people who became fascists) and at worst actually Fascist. The belief that all change is a march of progress is Whig imperialism. The belief that good change is possible, *that’s* progressive.
If I thought Anthropic would stop at “coding“ this would comfort me. But really loving the blame the victim vibe. Was the intellectual puzzle of clearly structuring and ordering the expression of some algorithm your thing, maybe you thought PLT was interesting? You have a defective personality.
Ed@ed3d.net · 3d agopeople (not the mystery OP) willing to minimize themselves into “coder” or “programmer” boxes seem to be taking this whole thing real hard and, well, maybe a second personality trait or competency would have helped I guess
Exactly this. But I’m not sure I believe the last part. I’m concerned he’ll build something close-enough to still arrogate spectacular power and ruin a lot of people’s lives. He kind of doesn’t *need* to succeed *technologically* to succeed *economically* and *politically*.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 7d agoThis is actually a fucking chilling thing for a longtermerist to say. "Broadly benefit humanity" = "fuck everyone alive right now, it needs to create the future that I believe in" The only comforting thing is that he's not going to do number one, because he's a liar.
The failure, by contrast, by the effective “altruists”, transhumanists, boosters and love-of-the-gamers on the right, to recognise in good faith that the rest of us might have not only the means but the right to seriously constrain them is offensive and counterproductive to real discourse.
John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰@johngordon.bsky.social · 4d agoThe anti-ai Left world has migrated from denialism and IP to business-model critique to cancel culture. There are many reasons to fear ai but they all require understanding it’s not going away. The cancel culture prevents thinking about all the true risks. Similar to climate and the right.
Oh well, a *decisive* one! That will be different then, bet they’re kicking themselves for not remembering To make it decisive before
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d agoUS Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP
Glasswing is basically DDoS blackmail against the SW industry. “Here’s an inhumanly large number of security bugs, no we won’t tell you the FPR or how many _really_ matter” “golly that will take a while” …
On the Northern Line from ctl London while both Piccadilly & Central lines are down & could not support this more.
Ruin a book by adding a word Capital Letters in the 21st Century
ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️🌈@ryanthomasriddle.com · 6d agoRuin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher.
Sure it looks like multiple horses, but it's actually the same horse travelling backward and forward through time. Read a book!
When the death drones come to kill us all some people will still be writing articles about how being blown apart by an automatic face-seeking flying hand grenade will never match the artisanal elegance of being shot by a human. In the meantime we can microdose the feeling here.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6d ago🟡 Print Edition: Yes, Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep Peter Jukes explores how the hallucinations of AI reveal that machines can never match the power of the human unconscious Read the full story below.
It is not “failing,” because the reason it exists is so Meta can say “look at all our efforts to eliminate harassment content.” Their so-called policy exists to insulate them from criticism. They have been doing this for as long as the company has been in existence. It’s chapter 1 in the playbook.
Meta's Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing
Creeps are continuing to film themselves harassing women with Meta smart glasses, racking up millions of views on Instagram.
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Ummm... we have seen your first wish, and it directly harms humanity. In fact, your first thousand wishes have all harmed humanity.
He’s a fantasist but this is a genuinely powerful tech and their first wishes will not (are not!) benefitting us. If you don’t want to be a powerless subject to the techbros’ whims and visions, you need a theory of resistance more muscular than “wait for it to implode.” It won’t on its own.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
And because your jokes are *definitely* funnier when you footnote them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-ele... Ok thanks folks I’ll see myself out
One-electron universe - Wikipedia
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@cutterferry.bsky.social · 7d agoOne horse, but moving backwards and forwards through time. Zebras are just horses moving backwards through time. (The fascinating question is why there aren’t infinite horses. Physicists are hopeful that the replacement for the LHC will reach energy levels sufficient to ask it.)
One horse, but moving backwards and forwards through time. Zebras are just horses moving backwards through time. (The fascinating question is why there aren’t infinite horses. Physicists are hopeful that the replacement for the LHC will reach energy levels sufficient to ask it.)
InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?
You can’t even tell me it was a net positive for wellbeing!
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · 7d agothe dumbest argument about this is "new technologies produce increases in wellbeing that aren't easily captured in economic metrics", which sure, but you can't tell me facebook increased wellbeing more than electricity
"A quarantine for socialists" is a very good description of the Irish presidency
The basic challenge of watermarking is information-theoretic: it is by definition subperceptual, and therefore by definition the sort of thing good lossy compression can, shld, and eventually will clobber. Removal will _eventually_ be easy. This is just very clever manipulative PR from Google.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last wk.While labeling AI content is a good policy for tech firms, it probably won’t save the rest of us who have to deal with its outputs.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
"Structurally clean of modern poisoning tools" You mean like the poisoning tools that you're feeding with books so you can continue to do more poisoning? You want unpoisoned books so you can poison them?
“What I failed to recognise was the very thing experts have been loudly warning about for years and probably should have been a subject in my book”
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work
This is an unintentionally fascinating headline if you’ve been keeping a weather eye on physics: www.ft.com/content/e76f... — how much info about the economy *can* you reconstruct from market prices?
Beware the shimmer of holographic markets
Tokenised securities are mirror images of the real thing but pose new risks
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Occasionally I think Kubernetes is nicely designed, and then I come across BS like “projected” volumes that are actually kinda the opposite and remember that no, it’s all a product of the dark side…
In a hilarious juxtaposition, the immediately previous post in my feed was someone extolling hope for an AI utopia driven by a ”political superintelligence” They didn’t specify whether it would offer to fist anyone.
If you want a beat by beat recreation of the Odyssey exactly as Homer wanted it, I know a book that can do this for you