A tell tale sign that AI companies have no safety expertise is that they promote the idea of "general" safety. There's no such thing, safety is relative to the system, environment, and context and why a catastrophic accident in nuclear is defined differently from one in aviation.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 7d agoone wonders how they arrived at that “it’s ok to kill or injure 49 people, but 50 is right out” figure.
We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
Which of the handful of companies involved in this will abandon their current planned investments because interest rates rose? If they would, how high would their borrowing costs have to go? I think you'd have to raise rates until lenders simply deny them further credit. Incredibly painful
The thing nobody wants to say yet is addressing inflation would mean actually slowing down AI capex. If you’re not impacting capex you’re not doing enough.
Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’
One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago.
John Cluverius@johncluverius.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn 2024, Moulton said he didn't want his daughters, then 3 and 6, to be "run over on the playing by a formerly male athlete." the in-town soccer league they would have been eligible to play in WAS COED AT THE TIME. Oh, and he gave an absolute loser non-apology about it.
I am going to regret asking this but who or what is DHH
Of course, the "market" is just a contrived symbol in this dance; what we're really talking about is shaping themselves to the needs of power. First A16Z, and now OpenAI."
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
It is pretty funny that the main thing Abundance contributed to was creating bottlenecks in various input industries and raising electricity prices without restructuring electricity market governance to facilitate... abundance
Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 2mo agoremember abundance? that worked out well
AI (LLM) will not help combat climate change on any time horizon
Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis parallels my thinking about AI and climate change. In the near term, AI will make climate change worse. In the medium term, AI could make climate change a lot worse. In the long term, AI might help address climate change -- but it will be too late to matter. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...
Enjoyed this. As a layperson it was really educational on technical mechanisms of economic fallout, things I wouldn’t think about if not for this intersection. I feel it nicely says “these bits are wrong” without extrapolating to “your diagnosis is off - AI funding is secure - and EZ is an idiot”
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: In this piece I critique a recent piece from @edzitron.com comparing the AI(LLM) boom to the "Subprime" Mortgage Crisis (and implicitly the GFC of 2007-2009). The ? is:"How big of a macrofinancial threat is the AI(LLM) Boom?" www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...
If we understand fascism as the deliberate attempt by capital to destroy labor while annihilating dissenting ideas prevalent in art and culture, we can view AI and LLMs as the existential threat to democracy that it is
We need to get to 100% renewable energy, and the only way we're going to do that is by taking the Chevrons and the Exxons of the world out of our politics.
The plan to put half of AI company's equity into a "sovereign wealth fund" is like a parody I would unfairly make up to criticize socialists enamored with sovereign wealth funds in 2016.
Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt'd be nice if people actually read what Sanders' proposal is about: It's about putting half of the big AI companies' stock into an independent national fund. Independence really means designed to minimize the possibility of popular control. President nominates and senate confirms board members.
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Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt
This is exactly what they intended when they forced this onto trans Kansans and this is exactly what we all should've anticipated.
Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 4mo ago1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.
So the public first creates and stabilizes the banking system, then treats that system as an external market institution into which public money must be placed.
i would have rather america accelerated global electrification by building an unparalleled domestic green manufacturing industry but i'll take petrostate gangsterism scaring everyone into going green if that's the only option on the table
This is another reason why the only path forward is for Dems to bite the bullet and implement proportional representation via increasing the size of the House and mandating single multi-member districts. You can't have a constitutional democracy in a two-party system if one party is authoritarian.
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 5mo agoI've said this before, but the pervasive rot of bigotry and ineptitude in the GOP is a generational problem for the party. If we can manage to wrest our democracy back in any sort of serious way it's going to take them decades to rebuild.
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Wretched Jester Fuckup@jackalpants.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
Anti-Black racism has created "fact resistant Americans." I said what I said about people that complained that right-wing news or social media had *suddenly* brainwashed their parents into refusing to mask or get vaccinated. No. Nothing was sudden. They cooked their own brains slowly over decades
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last yr.If your parents get most of their news from right-wing news TV over the past 30 years, then they were more likely to believe that: * The election was stolen * Covid was a hoax " Ivermectin works * Vaccines don't * Portland was burned to the ground during BLM marches * Portland is a war zone today
A way to be an ally to Jews is to relentlessly point out that there are more Christian Zionists in the US alone then there are Jews in the entire world (many of whom are not even Zionists). The conversation about Zionism should be dominated by that rather than laying all blame at the feet of Jews.
It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.
The Nuremberg Caucus could even set dates for the trials of officials, with judicial calendars for each federal courtroom, starting on January 21, 2029. 15/
