New piece from Brian Merchant: De-democratizing AI, which is primarily about the GOP's attempt to ban regulations on AI, but also touches on the naked greed and lust for power at the core of the AI bubble.
EDIT: Also, that title's pretty clever
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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Beff back at it again threatening his doxxer. Nitter link
Unrelated to this: man, there should be a parody account called “based beff jeck” which is just a guy trying to promote beck’s vast catalogue as the future of music. Also minus any mention of johnny depp.
Also minus any mention of johnny depp.
Depp v. Heard was my generation's equivalent to the OJ Simpson trial, so chances are he'll end up conspicuous in his absence.
what a strange way to sell your grift no one knows what it's for. "bad people want to force me to tell you what it is we're building."
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More of a notedump than a sneer. I have been saying every now and then that there was research and stuff showing that LLMs require exponentially more effort for linear improvements. This is post by Iris van Rooij (Professor of Computational Cognitive Science) mentions something like that (I said something different, but The intractability proof/Ingenia theorem might be useful to look into): https://bsky.app/profile/irisvanrooij.bsky.social/post/3lpe5uuvlhk2c
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Not sure if satire. https://carebestie.com/
Personal rule of thumb: all autoplag is serious until proven satire.
Satya Nadella: "I'm an email typist."
Grand Inquisitor: "HE ADMITS IT!"
https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3lpazsmm7js2s
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Recently stumbled upon an anti-AI mutual aid/activism group that's being set up, I suspect some of you will be interested.
That Keeper AI dating app has an admitted pedo running its twitter PR (Hunter Ash - old username was Psikey, the receipts are under that).
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Local war profiteer goes on podcast to pitch an unaccountable fortress-state around active black site (what I assume is to do Little St James-type activities under the pretext of continued Yankee meddling)
Link to Xitter here (quoted within a delicious sneer to boot)
Building a gilded capitalist megafortress within communist mortar range doesn't seem the wisest thing to do. But sure buy another big statue clearly signalling 'capitalists are horrible and shouldn't be trusted with money'
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if you saw that post making its rounds in the more susceptible parts of tech mastodon about how AI’s energy use isn’t that bad actually, here’s an excellent post tearing into it. predictably, the original post used a bunch of LWer tricks to replace numbers with vibes in an effort to minimize the damage being done by the slop machines currently being powered by such things as 35 illegal gas turbines, coal, and bespoke nuclear plants, with plans on the table to quickly renovate old nuclear plants to meet the energy demand. but sure, I’m certain that can be ignored because hey look over your shoulder is that AGI in a funny hat?
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Quick update on the Conover Catastrophe: the man's making an attempt to recover his dignity:
I will be watching with great interest. it’s going to be difficult to pull out of this one, but I figure he deserves as fair a swing at redemption as any recovered crypto gambler. but like with a problem gambler in recovery, it’s very important that the intent to do better is backed up by understanding, transparency, and action.
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