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gen AI is an attempt to industrialize knowledge work. Luddites keep coming up in this discussion, because it's incredibly relevant. A short thread, I guess

Is this anything?

"outdated notions of privacy" 🫩 Anyway, the dark forest was a threat, not a warning

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

Holy shit.

In case anyone wanted a ~3 page explainer of how your chatbot works, starting from tokens It's really not as mysterious as they make it out to be. If you made it through high school geometry, you're fully equipped to follow along. jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-to...

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

I still think the biggest threats from software automation have very mundane human origins, and the claims of looming superintelligence both misrepresent the tech's capabilities for marketing purposes and to provide ethical distance for company responsibility

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It's neat that every once in a while bsky will just decide that a bunch of my old notifications are new

so, if I understand correctly: it's the normal people on here who need a safe space so they can quietly talk about AI amongst themselves without being harassed about the subject by a weird cult? ok

World of Warcraft (derogatory) Don't get me wrong, i played it off and on for a few years, and enjoyed it for most of that time. But at some point I noticed the Skinner box, and then I couldn't stop noticing it. And that spilled out into other games, too

I know this is a wildly radical idea but what if instead of worrying about the welfare of models, we worried about the welfare of humans

Adult convert to catholocism, seeing his second in-group signal: I'm getting a lot of nicene creed from this yard sign

If you are trans and are raising money for your own needs, post the link below and I will share. If you are cis, choose one to donate to and share this thread.

Good thing I've never wanted to open a post and see it in context as part of a discussion, because that basically never works on bsky dot app

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Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Cake Most of the time it's just bad. And even when it is okay, it's still the worst dessert

as always, every bit counts; it's a continuum, not a binary, etc. but nice to have good news for once, ESPECIALLY on this front where it's almost unheard of

They should invent a kind of tv where you get more of it on a regular basis

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HAPPY PRIDE, ESPECIALLY TO THE DOLLS AND BLACK FOLK!

happy pride moth everyone

Dudes will literally try to reinvent contract work from first principles to brute force hiring and firing instead of figuring out what the hell they expect of people and need to do to support them.

Can't make this bit funny? Dril issue

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

We need to take a moment to talk about what the administration’s immigration policies and “enforcement” actions are doing to children and families. Be aware, some of this reporting is devastating to read. 1/12

AFAICT, a "bubble" in social media is any space that is missing exactly 14 words. Hope that clears things up

#shareGoodNewsToo

Sharing some Black joy as one of the most revolutionary acts against supremacy, in all its form...this highlights the lie that is the myth of white supremacy. Because no group of people, in this country, has more reason to be joyless in the face of ongoing harm...and we're not! youtu.be/f5l7xy7VkPM

Since they're already gutting the voting rights act, we clearly know what trajectory they're envisioning

everyone is pointing out that he doesn't pay taxes, so doubling that is still zero. Which is true, insofar as it goes. But the federal government also massively subsidizes his businesses. His effective tax rate is negative. And if you double that, it's still bad for the "teacher in Queens"

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One thing I am absolutely certain of is that Gen z is "redefining truth" or w/e exactly as much as millennials were killing whatever industry was having a bad quarter all through the 2010s