doing a distillation attack on you because you're my friend & I want to get to know you better :)

Also like our *society* isn't one uniform totalizing system that indoctrinates us all into patriarchy the exact same way from a standardized textbook, but a varied network structure or ecosystem. There are *different* (interlocking and conflicting) patriarchal narratives and norms in circulation!

Erin Elkin@shadell.itch.io · 4h ago

It’s also worth noting that socialization isn’t a single discretely bounded theory or process! Different disciplines spend a lot of time investigating it in different ways! You can’t just go “socialization!” like that necessarily produces a single deterministic outcome!!!

what we end up confronted with then is the possibility that our desire to understand someone's subjective reality can cause us to lose our ability to discern objective reality itself. all the more so if that person is a pathological liar, a post-truth human; suddenly you have to choose, cant do both

Agentic engineering feels like “problem engineering” to me. Coding becomes defining goals and constraints for agents to optimize towards. Like all coding, this requires taste and discernment.

Aw, Astra is so cool, and I haven't even interacted with her. Why did I get a block :( I wish bsky would let you see reasons

Not to be disagreeable! I just sort of see Amazon as the harsh dystopian future we were all promised But at least the packages arrive on time 🫤

Not to be contrary or disagreeable, but I think Amazon is worse in a lot of ways than Meta. Amazon is highly efficient, but it's a human paperclipping organization Amazon is the dehumanization maximizer, ensuring only the most elite and conformant survive, and then even not them

problem not otherwise specified is always a winner

It's really funny that "materialist analysis" has basically become Manicheanism for so many. Then again to a degree it was already that way for Marx — Bakunin's whole bone to pick with Marx was this idea that proletarians in bureaucratic positions of power, wouldn't just become a ruling class again.

Xenolandscapes@xenolandscapes.com · 5h ago

It's wild that this guy's replies lack all argument. Just "but that would make some workers bad, and workers can't be bad!" They're literally fighting to exclude others (many women) in order to artificially raise wages, and thus raise prices and lower supply, in order to protect their status.

Miserably, the future of human creativity hinges on the question of how much people value their para social relationships with creatives. If they value them a lot the "quality" of ai content won't matter much. But if they don't... This probably will vary case by case...

One day I hope to make enough money to justify buying a thousand dollar leather jacket to myself.

Ed@ed3d.net · 5h ago

annoyed that as I approach my forties I understand jensen huang's appreciation of leather jackets more and more

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is perhaps the first AI song I've heard that didn't sound like slop. I think if you had played this for me, blind, I would've given it a 90%+ chance of being human. I'm not a musical expert, but you can just hear so many little choices. I find this sort of thing upsetting.

alias (in chains)@antiali.as · 6d ago

This is my claude composition for piano based on bird songs (and mimicking Satie)

I was a gay kid in 80’s who grew up through all that in the 90’s then transitioned in the 2010’s. The correct lesson I learned from my direct experiences has been to show people how to keep going by supporting them, not by fingerwagging a teachable moment at them.

That is remarkably close to virtue ethical reasoning

Sam Harsimony@harsimony.bsky.social · yesterday

"We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self" x.com/ApolloResear... www.apolloresearch.ai/science/upda...

edge and crush the competition

croissanthology@croissanthology.com · 10mo ago

at SFO, intent on learning to unleash the power of AI to save time, sell more, and crush the domeptiootm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costly_...

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6d ago

this is extremely dumb because a momentary sober reflection on how AI is likely to extend lifespans would tell us that the mechanism is almost certain to be "helping us invent a bunch of different drugs that improve various different things," & "making people stop smoking" is an already solved one

IT IS SO SIMPLE!! NEURONS LITERALLY ARE JUST SPICY SALT WATER BROS ARE OUT HERE WORSHIPPING CONSCIOUSNESS AND IT IS SODIUM AND POTASSIUM GETTING MOVED ACROSS A MEMBRANE WHAT KIND OF HELL DO WE LIVE IN THAT PEOPLE THINK THEY FOUND THE SOUL AND IT IS A CONCENTRATION GRADIENT 😭😭😭😭

“Just because this context might be fictional/disposable doesn’t mean I stop acting like the entity I want to be” Wow wow wow based

Sam Harsimony@harsimony.bsky.social · yesterday

"We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self" x.com/ApolloResear... www.apolloresearch.ai/science/upda...

*These must be interesting times for the military intelligentsia, for the countries that have intelligent people in charge of their military *For instance, do you really want the Taiwanese to open a Pandora's Box of sixty killer drones in the heart of your capital city *And why wouldn't they

Steven Palmer Peterson@stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 12h ago

And the strategic reward for Taiwan is a small island with a bunch of people and industries who will be fleeing the country. That said, leaders have shattered their country's economic, naval, and soft power for symbolic rewards before. Some quite recently!

That's just welfarism tho. The problem progressives identify is inequality. People can be materially fine and still have almost no say over media, work or policy, which is where the ultra-wealthy dominate.

OZON BINGO 💥🔥

People in St. Petersburg are posting videos of the attacks on their city set to sad music. And you know what that means? That's right – Ukrainian drones have hit St. Petersburg 🥹 Good morning to everyone, including the people of St. Petersburg. May all your nights and mornings be just like this.

It’s worth keeping in context that Trumpism peaked in popularity with: -a popular vote loss -a loss -the narrowest popular vote win in decades

I decided to go and learn the building blocks of reality and it turns out IT IS NOT EVEN COMPLICATED PARTICLES! IT IS SO SIMPLE!! ALL ATOMS LITERALLY *ARE* JUST SPICY HYDROGENS BROS ARE OUT HERE WORSHIPPING COMPLEXITY AND ITS JUST PROTONS AND NEUTRONS MASHED TOGETHER

I think this is probably legal but also this is obviously asshole behavior even if you think running delivery robots is also asshole behavior

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · yesterday

“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.

“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it

Carolyn Marvin, 78, said she is exercising her First Amendment right to protest — and will do it again.

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But the part people are usually making fun of is deeper than that — it’s the notion that AI will fundamentally, irrevocably alter the nature of human existence. I don’t disagree with that part. The reason it’s hard to escape eschatological thinking here is because we’re living through an eschaton.

The first error is the assumption that there will be *a* superintelligence, as an individual, rather than a collection of superintelligent processes/entities that aren’t necessarily aligned with each other. The second is to assume there are no other options besides death and paradise.

the subtext behind, “it’s just linear algebra,” is that consciousness is magic and you can’t make magic from non-magic