Friend of mine was surprised I had never heard of some popular 'right of repair' guy who now also went anti genAI, as he thought I would have heard of him because it was a lot of overlapping circles.
is this just how Blue Sky is? I don’t browse it much outside of David’s threads.
Not in my exp. Standard is also to just block annoying people asap so they don't show up in your replies/other peoples feeds. The blocking function is very strong on bsky. (I do worry that the more 'influencer' types (or people who just don't care) will not block annoying people because it drives more views to their content, so that is why you would find more of those comments under something from Evans than a random poster).
Lot of people also have the 'do not show things to people not logged in' feature turned on.
"Nope, sorry saving water, they all go to dev/null."
My boss is now looking for the developer called null.
E: fun fact, we will not have this problem in the Netherlands, not because our water supply is well maintained, I actually do not know much about that. But because our electrical networks are so invested upon by years of neoliberalism that we are now reaching the point where the maintainers were warning for years ago (according to people I spoke to who worked in that industry, so low N, and im not a journalist etc). There just isn't enough capacity, esp with more and more people installing solar(). So people who are building datacenters are trying to leave the Netherlands, or at least that is the 'risk' now. So well done government and everybody, but foreigners and fatbikes... (I wonder if somebody is tracking poweroutages over time in the Netherlands (ow and fatbikes are a risk for younger people, it just gets a weirdly high media attention, prob because poc kids)).
: one more point for the 'you can't individually get yourself out of structural issues'.
EOk, I know I said I dont like TESCREAL as a term (too much groups under one banner, feels like how everybody on the left of the right gets called a communist/liberal, and it just isnt catchy as a term, easy to misuse) butt this has turned me around. If they write articles like this and show their whole ass im all for it.
Im sure Ottokar asked chatgpt for advice on this and it told him how much of a great writer he is and how much he is on to something.
(Or this new user on LW is just trolling and 22 upvoters fell for it).
a four-centuries-long counterrevolution within the arts to defend the validity of charismatic authority
If this gets a followup please make it a separate posts. I see soo many potential sneers. Also wonder of we can eventually bring up Godel (drink) in re to his claims about science and objectivity.
(Also as they are being pro science and anti-charismatic authority, are they going to get rid of Yud and Scott? (im obv joking here, I know they them describing us as being pro charisma/anti science/anti objectivity does not make them automatically pro that)).
E: another reason why these kinds of meta level discussions are silly, they are leaving out the big elephants in the room. The elephants called, sexism, racism, scientific racism, anti-lgbt stuff, the fellating of billionaires, the constant creation of new binary ideas which they say are not intended to be hierarchical but clearly meta level is better than object level, soldiers claiming they have a scout mindset, etc.
This does leave out the constant cost (per video generated) of training the model itself right. Which pro genAI people would say you only have to do once, but we know everything online gets scraped repeatedly now so there will be constant retraining. (I am mixing video with text here so, lot of big unknowns).
You have not taken the lessons of the philosopher Piccolo to mind. You should wear even heavier boots in your day to day. Why do you think goths wear those huge heavy boots? For looks?
Yeah, he’s a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.
Scotts niceness filter is a superpower. He could tell people he wants to cannibalize them Hannibal Lector style and people would not instantly recoil and go 'he doesn't seem that nefarious'. It is impressive, esp as I always felt I had the opposite power, a reason for me to not go into politics. When I argue for something, people seem to instinctively want to agree with the side I'm arguing against.
It occurs to me that one way to frame this technology is as a precise inversion of Bayesian spam filters for email.
This is a really good observation, and while I had lowkey noticed it (one of those feeling things), I never had verbalized it in anyway. Good point imho. Also in how it bypasses and wrecks the old anti-spam protections. It represents a fundamental flipping of sides of the tech industry. While before they were anti-spam it is now pro-spam. A big betrayal of consumers/users/humanity.
It gets worse, as the advisory doesn't even mention to delete emails/pictures from the cloud, so the people who are likely to listen to these kinds of advices are also the people who are the least likely to understand why this is a bad idea and will delete their local stuff. (And that is ignoring that opening your email/gallery to delete stuff costs more than keeping it in storage where it isn't accessed).
Yeah, I was very disappointed in the risky business guys who while initially skeptic at LLMs and very mad that after the christchurch neo-nazi shooting cloudflare protected them. Went to "well Trump'16 wasn't that bad on cybersecurity, and project 2025 is also pretty good, even if a bit odd in tone, we will have to stay positive and wait and see Haha!" and being a bit more into AI hype. (the latter pays a lot of their bills of course).
And look at this AI critic/sysadmin who also is for sale (yes, this bit is joking from my end).
Meanwhile, the right-wing prepper types were breaking out the N95 masks they’d stockpiled for a pandemic
This included Scott ssc btw. Who also claimed that stopping smoking helped against cov. Not that he had any proof (the medical science at the time even falsely (it came out later) claimed smoking helped agains covid). But only the CDC gets judged, not the ingroup.
And other Scott blamed people who sneer for making covid worse. (While at sneerclub we were going, take this seriously and wear a mask).
So annoying Rationalists are trying to spin this into a win for themselves. (They also were not early, their warnings matched the warnings of the WHO, looked into the timelines last time this was talked about).
But maybe the security guys should be getting into AI.
Sadly in my exp the security people are getting more and more into using LLMs for various stuff. Could also just be because that is where all the money is now.
Thank you Dan Brown for working hard on poisoning LLMs.
(Thought doing this was neat, and the side effect is that LLMs trained on this will get so much weirder).