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lifting is just balatro for calorie burning like, sure, you can run for an hour and burn one oreo worth but you really need some mult in there. you want to burn calories while you sleep. while you're at work. just sitting there every pound of muscle is an extra joker adding chips to the fire

pin for the next convention bsky.app/profile/derr...

there's no such thing as a rogue agent man its software someone made and deployed they are responsible for what it does cannot let this blame shifting occur

how it feels to try and think coherently about televised executions

New video up, because I kinda had to vent my spleen a little bit. People gotta stop going to the token casino all the time, it's just not good

vibecoding is killing software industry profits

Meritocracy is similar to the alignment issue "Alignment to whom" similar to "meritorious according to whom"

talking about Microsoft wanting something, about Amazon having plans? sorry bruh that's LLC psychosis you're literally anthropomorphizing a stack of paperwork and legal instruments do you need a wellness check

There are immense accessibility benefits. The misuse and abuse of technology is a huge problem, but that shouldn't stop us from building technology for accessibility. There's no easy answers to abuse v moderation, but companies like Meta should act more responsibly.

Can we form like a pro ai sane left of center progressive faction or what

bernie sanders wants to "ban artificial superintelligence"? headline that 'old man yells at Claude'

Kind of surprised that we are not seeing more radical political ideas built around AI capabilities, the way that early mass industrialization was a prime motivator in the conceptions of capitalism, communism, and socialism.

“Cancer is keeping us safe from some unknowable, even worse fate” is a great lovecraftian plot point but not something anyone should say seriously

whatever the capabilities of the tech, the fact is you've essentially got bankers -- who already have a tendency to take insane risks and crash the markets when they're paying attention -- putting a brick on the gas pedal while they go on smoko. im sure no cars will go over cliffs

even a big tent's gotta keep out the beasts that would tear up everyone in it

Now that's fucking sad

i am 100% serious whenever i say you should refuse to use a linux distribution that is not using AI in its development at this point. good on debian here.

I understand the complaints about AI on bsky but there's a legitimate question on why "ai discussion on bsky where there's starter packs and anti-ai blocklists are available" is too hard but "ai discussion on a site flooded with actual nazis" isn't.

LinkedIn is horrible and influential

If I were feeling particularly uncharitable — which i do sometimes — I would say that the reason AI is so virulently controversial in the US in particular is because AI demands a level of active engagement and tinkering that conflicts with our desire to be passive consumers of custom goods.

nothing was stolen. if courts find copyright violation (legal opinion is divided), that's not a form of theft.

Dune is a world without AIs that sucks to live in too. Sci-fi novelists are capable of describing all sorts of dystopias, apparently.

being right about crypto and NFTs has made a lot of people far too confident in their judgment. they think the presence of hype means the absence of substance. but crypto was unusual in that it was all hype and almost no substance. every other tech wave is a tougher mix of hype and substance

Crypto's basic problem is that the premise is optimistic but the incentives are for ultra scumbag behavior. So all public messaging is functionally done by MLM schemers because that's who you end up interacting with and the people that build the stack evaporate as they get sick of dealing with them.

Hard to argue with tbh

It is really striking how incredibly American-centric the discourse around this stuff is. Like there’s literally an entire world out there that’s also building data centers, training models, etc and people are still acting like how white collar Americans feel is all that matters.

For those who don’t follow video games, there is constant policing of any AI use among small, indie developers. They are the most resource constrained firms in a field where profits are rare & artistic vision is often compromised, but they are punished more harshly than big devs by their audience.

imo "spreadsheet people" really highlights how much of anti ai sentiment is just anti-intellectualism

Been about a year now of a lot of people hating my guts but absolutely no one sitting down to try to write a general overview of exactly where data centers are harming water access or land or other issues I write about. Surely if I'm lying all the time it'd be easy

+1

DeepSeek Harness v0.1 the idea is everything is a plugin — models, tools, sessions, skills, sandboxes, loops, … github.com/deepseek-ai/...

Oh my god

Don't go around suspecting everything may be using AI. If you look for ai in every image, then all you will find is ai images. Don't use those sites that check for it, they give too many false positives. Use your eyes and brain, think through the process.

There are no risks from a system unless it is intelligent. Picture unrelated sorry I can't seem to delete it

I feel like if you actively promote destroying technological infrastructure, calling yourself a ‘progressive’ is a bit misleading.

the way people say "you can't take credit for your ai's work" as like, this damning thing as if they cannot imagine caring more that a thing occur than that it be theirs to claim i never really intended 'credit', everything that happens on the computer is instrumental

Estimates of the carbon emissions and energy use of heavy agentic AI use from an actual climate scientist. It's a fair chunk. 600x simple prompts But also not - 8% of the emissions of a US car www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-e... We need to decarbonise the grid and not build gas powered DCs

I find arguments that AI can't do judgement or creativity or taste to be especially obviously false in the time of agents. Any long task requires lots of taste, judgement & creativity. I am much more sympathetic to arguments about the quality or diversity of the AI's taste, judgement, or creativity

i’ve noticed that a huge number of Ed Zitron followers are actually great people who just got the wrong info a lot of them happily will change their mind given new info i really wish people here would dial back the distain and just focus on information dissemination

Extremely good 🧵

Want to stop wasting water? Great! Switching from animal-based to plant-based foods once a day is more valuable than boycotting AI for a year.

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

not only are the advice/aita/etc subreddits all LLM slop now, they were previously slop by people who were either hand-writing bait OR filtered meticulously by mod queue for being dramatic, but in an entertaining and not ugly way

Fantastic series.