I cannot express how exhausting it is to work on AI harms/safety issues and have to vet everything to ensure we’re not supporting the EA/rationalist movement WHILE ALSO fighting AI companies and our own government. Though it’s always interesting to mention Roko’s basilisk and watch reactions.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 18h ago

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

Btw, all the AI company CEOs saying we need an industry-wide slow down because the technology is “too powerful” are lying. It’s not because it’s too powerful. It’s because adoption remains low, pushback remains high, and they still can’t make it profitable.

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

What is the weird alchemy of gas station parking lots and the most gorgeous sunsets you’ve ever seen.

Finally addressing the lack of public bathrooms, I see.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says they're starting excavation work on Trump's arch

I have received the group chat’s highest honor.

I can’t afford to keep throwing away groceries as more and more recalls come out, I’m going to just eat only Oreos, they’d never betray me.

I get very angry and cynical and despairing sometimes about the state of the world, but my very sincere thanks to Dolly Parton for being such a warm, generous, kind light that even the sadness of her passing is inspiring all of us to do our best to emulate her.

“The Democratic Party can only be saved by me, a man roundly rejected by democratic voters.”

We need a summer “save the goths” campaign. They’re not built for this. I just watched a teenager with about seven layers of all-black clothing on trudge across a park in 95 degree weather. Where is Sarah MacLachlan, this is inhumane.

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

futurism.com

Guess I’ll post about Elon here since I’m locked out of my twitter account, thus fouling my goal of finally annoying him enough to be banned. 😔

Techni-Calli@illleavenow.bsky.social · last mo.

Locked in my head are so many more swear words. My man looks like an albino Joe Rogan figurine got microwaved. He looks perpetually shocked that he can’t buy a sense of humor as easily as hair plugs. He’s all-in on AI because he’s hoping to find something more soulless than him.

Idk why I hate AI so much, must be something to do with my love of books, art, music, nature, knowledge, being unobserved, connection, justice, accuracy, drinkable water, breathable air, a future, the very concept of a soul…

Expert witness earning $475 per hour was spending a lot of those hours prompting ChatGPT www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

404media.co

I try really hard to make my critiques substantive but I truly don’t know how to describe the AI Elon short film as anything other than absolute dork-ass loser shit. Just loathsome pathetic trash that could only be published by the most cringe, insecure, pitiful kind of universally hated man-child.

My man, you can just stop doing the “remove your headphones” gesture to women and cultivate your own inner life, I’m not stopping my podcast because you’re bored and want my attention.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity | Stefan Stern

Aging is absolute bullshit. I used to cliff jump and play paintball in the woods and sleep on hard ground after downing shots and be FINE. Today I sliced open my lip because I was flossing my back molar too aggressively. Death is coming for me.

A totally normal evening of being furious about rich assholes, rage buying guillotine earrings, muttering about how that bitch, capitalism, got me again.

At this point, either: - they’re literally prompting the systems to do this - they’re cartoonishly inept at basic security or - this is all a bullshit PR scam

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last mo.

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Me to my child: you are a gift and a marvel and the sweetest, purest thing in the world, I would topple cities if anyone hurt you Also me to my child: if you do not go to sleep, I will locate the tallest structure in a 15-mile radius to fling myself from

“So you just stuck with what you wanted to be as a kid?” My guy, my childhood career choices were vampire, lighthouse keeper, and hermit-author. Though I guess there’s a loose privacy thread running through those.

Just watched a wildly unsober man practice seduction on a light post and I still 100% prefer a relationship between those two crazy kids over AI “relationships.”

Friend, showing me a picture of some famous man: is this guy hot? Me, being too honest: to someone, probably

There absolutely is a marginalized, persecuted group in this situation and somehow, the cis, straight, white billionaire has convinced herself it’s her. I’d like to blame this on the mold, but I fear she just is genuinely awful.

The richest man in the world spends his time suing for the right to make porn of strangers and children, one of the richest children’s book authors in the world spends her time furiously obsessed with the existence of trans people, YOU’RE DOING WEALTH WRONG

Genuinely, what is the possible “good” use case for this? I see a million ways this goes horrifically wrong and zero benefit.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I understand people mixing up my name with Kelly or Kayley, but I draw the fucking line at the one who called me Kili earlier today. I’m way more likely to go full hobbit than be Smaugging about or wooing elves.

Dear Australia: Do you accept applications, I am willing to conquer my fear of spiders for this. I’ll even throw in a shoey.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo ago

Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027

Paredes is extremely welcome to fuck himself for that bullshit (if you grab a man’s throat and start throwing punches after the final whistle is blown, pretty sure that’s straight-up assault, my guy).

JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Leandro Paredes with a red card after the final whistle

"Could a brick feel pain?" "What if the electric drill has object permanence?" "Mightn't vacuum cleaners have a concept of zero?" this is how these headlines sound.

Aram Zucker-Scharff@chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 2mo ago

No. Very clearly no. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...