Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺

So... y'all know... slurs are used to signal in-group & out-group membership... by members of the in-group asserting their membership to other people within the in-group.

So everyone knows who is "Us" & who is "Them".

The target of the slur doesn't need to hear it. The intended audience is peers.

Im Beschäftigunsregal des Uniklinik-Warteraums liegt ein 1.500-Teile-Puzzle und ich frage mich, wie lange das hier normalerweise dauert.

Who is "you guys"?

Agree, too strong a word. But I don't get the negativity towards things using language that would be derogatory towards humans. It's a thing, it doesn't feel.

Neither did I say LLMs. Using language that is hateful desensitivizes people to hateful language.

I’m currently blocked by almost a quarter million users, mostly due to block lists asserting I’m a spammer (I am not), “AI bro” (I am not) or Generative AI user (I am not). There appears to be nothing I can realistically do if my time has value.

Research on desensitivization seems to confirm that you should avoid using hate speech - for purely selfish reasons. Idk., maybe social media in general is a bad idea, the hypothesis that being nice is a generally a good idea should not need this much defending.

[PDF] Exposure to hate speech increases prejudice through desensitization | Semantic Scholar Three studies are the first to elucidate the effects of exposure to hate speech on outgroup prejudice and find that the effects were mediated by a lower sensitivity tohate speech, and not by lower sen...

www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Exposu...

Exposure to hate speech deteriorates neurocognitive mechanisms of the ability to understand others’ pain - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Exposure to hate speech deteriorates neurocognitive mechanisms of the ability to understand others’ pain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Saying “fuck you” or “you’re a piece of shit” to someone, brigading a person’s posts, and all the rest is some truly unhinged antisocial behaviour that wouldn’t fly for even a second in a normally regulated social space

Yeah the analogy seems right to me re someone who spends a lot of time gleefully simulating torture of a barbie doll and, like, I think I wanna avoid that person and not because I am confused about whether or not the barbie is actually feeling pain.

its physically impossible to own too many knives.

Ok, I laughed.

Peacehammer 40K: Fyve playeres supervise massive groupes of miniature curators as thei create the most fantasique museum yn the galaxye. Special rules for how everyone doth become friendes. Critical success on roll to respecte colleagues.

With half of people below median in most things, that might not be as bad as it sounds.

The Trump administration is making harder by the day to disprove the argument that comparing it to a literal fascist regime is an exaggeration

you are missing the point. the point isnt that the computer can feel cruelty, the point is that the hater is using the computer as a proxy for their cruelty. it trains us to be cruel. it accommodates us to certain behaviors. like stomping on a bed of wildflowers.

Yup. the "please" and the "can we?" "what if?" is for the sake of our own humanity, not for the robot's benefit.

The one being the asshole. The language we use does something to us. You can’t, for a prolonged time, use asshole language without becoming one fully. Even when it comes to things.

Post from Terence Tao: “I was able to use an extended conversation with an Al (link) to help answer a MathOverflow question (link) I had already conducted a theoretical analysis suggesting that the answer to this question was negative, but needed some numerical parameters verifying certain inequalities in order to conclusively build a counterexample. Initially I sought to ask Al to supply Python code to search for a counterexample that I could run and adjust myself, but found that the run time was infeasible and the initial choice of parameters would have made the search doomed to failure anyway. I then switched strategies and instead engaged in a step by step conversation with the Al where it would perform heuristic calculations to locate feasible choices of parameters. Eventually, the Al was able to produce parameters which I could then verify separately (admittedly using Python code supplied by the same Al, but this was a simple 29-line program that I could visually inspect to do what was asked, and also provided numerical values in line with previous heuristic predictions).

Another victim of AI psychosis. Really sad 😔

Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.

Manhattan. As it turns out, it’s surprisingly good for identifying similar orders.

Useful tool

The latest iteration of the war on AI has convinced me to join the war on the side of AI

It is genuinely fascinating how timeless and trans-cultural some autocratic motifs are. The idea that the emperor was working tirelessly at all times for his subjects was a common Roman theme; most famous for Justinian who was constantly depicted as the ‘sleepless emperor’ by imperial propaganda

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Wigner, 1960. But admittedly, I know the second iteration („Unreasonable effectiveness of data…“) much better.

Vor Monaten kam nach einer Veranstaltung eine Schülerin auf mich zu, mit fantastisch klugen Fragen über Quantenphysik. Wir haben lange diskutiert - jetzt schreibt sie mir, sie hat tatsächlich ein Physikstudium begonnen. Ich freue mich wirklich sehr. Das sind die Momente, für die man das alles macht.

TGIF!!! #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #WeAreCommodore

Sadly no. I have something of the opposite, Kahans beautiful article about, amongst other topics, the beauty of pocket calculators for mathematical experimentation. people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Math...