BOTS CAN'T THINK. BOTS CAN'T FEEL. BOTS ARE CONTROLLED BY HUMANS. BOTS CAN'T THINK. BOTS CAN'T FEEL. BOTS ARE CONTROLLED BY HUMANS. BOTS CAN'T THINK. BOTS CAN'T FEEL. BOTS ARE CONTROLLED BY HUMANS...
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Her Majesty the King She/They Lurker Medievalist Painfully awkward I do the security stuff. I'd rather be on stage in a unicorn suit because I'm shy.
The systems were given instructions, they didn't "know" these things. And because they didn't "know" that—because they were following instructions—they were incapable of "caring" one way or another. Lacking agency and thought changes the entire perspective here
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 4d agoCertain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
"Unflinching"🙃 I beg your *finest* fucking pardon?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7d agoAn increasing number of Democratic leaders have begun to push back against their party’s unflinching support for the transgender community this midterm season. The shift comes after years of Republican-backed attacks against Democrats on the issue of transgender athletes.
If I wanted to watch a talk written by a robot, I’d ask the robot
"but everyone around me seems fine" then you're in a privilege bubble and your task is to pop it or have it popped for you also, i don't believe you every week, whether it's ppl irl, online moots or randos all in different locations talk about "mysterious health conditions" ppl are not fine
It looks like he pissed in several bottles while ripping bong hits. Sure, push that shit to Prod, bro.
✨[redacted]✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2w ago“hello would you like to try the AI designed schizophrenia treatment i synthesized in my garage?”
"You can't outsource the work of community to machines" LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 👏👏👏
Ash, apparently@arreffbee.bsky.social · 2w agoWe get a lot of papers submitted with LLM-generated literature reviews and it's exhausting Finding out where your work fits into the broader conversation is how we grow knowledge as a community I don't know how to tell people that you can't outsource the work of community to machines
DEATH YOU RAGGEDY BITCH! COME OUT AND FIGHT ME!!! I'm so fucking over this year. Hug your people.
So... this is a BAD implementation. Training to accept QR codes is 😬 I also got a reCAPTCHA prompt but without the QR code at that site on a mobile browser. Not sure what got implemented there but Google takes credit for the behavior specifically with QR codes for mobile. Utter #clownshoes 🤡👞
Phil@pi8you.bsky.social · 3w agoNo. Absolutely not. Fuuuuuuu-
Step 1: Create a massive problem. Step 2: Convince the rubes that only YOU can save us all from your massive problem. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻@k8em0.bsky.social · 4w agoWhile I agree in general, this open letter from frontier models and tech companies is giving some heavy AI adoption vibes openai.com/collective-c...
the AP published a completely baffling review of Coyote vs. Acme Like what the fuck is wrong with you bro? that premise is golden. archive.is/XB7mn
Tell you what, I’ll worry about the imaginary oppression of robots in the future when you worry about the real oppression of humans right now
These people work themselves to the bone to support Cleveland communities. Libraries are one of our last social safety nets! Please sign if you're an author or publisher. These folks deserve so much better.📚📖
Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 4w agoI've signed onto an open letter of authors (and publishers) who support the striking workers of the Cleveland Public Library system. If you're an author or publisher and want to sign on too, there's information about how to do so! Tell your friends, etc. tinyurl.com/cplsolidarity
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune
I hope every last golf course in Arizona dries up into dust.
CNN@cnn.com · last mo.Arizona, California and Nevada will be forced to make deep cuts to the water they draw from the imperiled Colorado River under a new two-year operating plan published Friday, intended to help stave off an escalating crisis in the beleaguered waterway. https://cnn.it/4hJ94rH
I cannot overstate how much the revolution needs kind, reliable, people who show up when you need them and does not need drug-addled cut-rate Hunter S. Thompson impersonators.
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
Regardless of the job, your motto should always be "Fuck you, pay me." Don't ever give your labor away for free.
✨[redacted]✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · last mo.i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
