Taylor Beauvais

"VC firms are hiring partners whose only job qualification is that they’ve murdered Black people on the subway. And an industry that senses its own decline is now stuffing every product and service we’ve adopted with slop like slop is the only lifesaver left on the Titanic."

This goes hard:

"[Tech] CEOs are handing out lucite to fascists. Companies are building massive surveillance networks to make kidnapping our neighbors easier. The world’s richest idiot has turned Twitter into a child pornography factory."

I mean, it's this, or we just send chatbot-written e-mails back and forth to each other forever

idk maybe I'm the silly one but it feels like someone who funds AI starts up for a living might not be an objective arbiter of AI abilities.

Is there a word for performing-concern to semi-covertly signal business opportunity and obfuscate corporate job cutting decision as tech inevitability?

"Oh no! The tool is too good (wink)! We need more layoffs (wink wink)! We had no choice! BTW, the tools kinda suck lololol dont trust"

The field of AI successfully co-opting the concept "thinking" and claiming their python code can do it is an massive failure of critical thinking about tech in education and media.

I'm begging people in power to at least try to understand the epistemology behind AI outputs. It's just mildly fancy math, and that is a horrible way to make most decisions, including but not limited to nuclear holocaust.

"AI" has a long history of game play where complete annihilation is the goal (Chess, DOTA, StarCraft). Winning to AI is a positivist calculation of reducing their numbers to 0 while keeping its above 1. Preemptive nuclear holocaust does that. You can't "play" war according to math.

AI "decision making" is based on statistics and positivism. Its gameplay is binary win/loss (like chess). Of course its pro nuclear annihilation.

Given the choice it's likely pro-genocide.

This isn't a story about scary AI existential risk, it's about how ill suited this tool is for most tasks.

Shoshana Zuboff wants to abolish social media | The Observer The Harvard professor believes that Silicon Valley’s business model must be outlawed. Her new film about the tragic case of Molly Russell explains why

"She wonders how we could have “[killed] privacy in favour of universal surveillance, for the sake of the banality that is targeted advertising?"

Social media was a mistake.

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A reporter to me: but AI people are saying this tech will help address the climate disaster. Me: I think we already know, after many decades of research, how we need to deal with that and a resource-intensive industry that uses fiction as propaganda is not it.

I want to send this rebuttal to reviewer 2 who requested more data from a horrendously annoying data collection

NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax – Ketan Joshi A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change

So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.

Super worth reading and sharing around.

This could be a whole series...

On today's episode of *is this AI person exceptionally silly or straight up lying*

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Time to fire up some lidar systems and take a quick lap around the neighborhood to fry all of these damn things.

Meme with anime character, labeled “journalists,” looking excitedly at a butterfly labeled “unexpected behavior in an LLM.” The character asks, “is this… intelligence?”

Felt timely

Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy.
#SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪
Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

I received reviews on a paper this past week that told me I must be citing and engaging with a certain author and paper.

I was surprised I'd never heard of them or the paper and quickly looked them up ... Completely made up.

I'm about ready to just give up publishing.

Do you think he knows there are entire PhD subfields dedicated to being critical of AI? 😂

I'm on a conference panel in March, in Washington DC, dedicated to critical politics in AI!

🫧🫧🫧

Positivists everywhere in shambles.

The question of if we can use pure math to do social labor is pretty well resolved now. Many tech nerds appear willing to crash the economy before admitting they're wrong about it though...

IDK man we've seen enough to easily conclude AI has no inherent ethics, concrete philosophy, or creative writing abilities. The most compelling use of AI does computational biology at an okay level. The most widespread use is likely in computer science. I think AI is a humanities job market miracle

Students today have no respect for internet history 😂

I had a student ask me what Y2K was like and another insisted that it was disinformation and didn't actually happen.

I read Yuval's book about AI and it starts by accepting the entire premise sold by OpenAI's marketing team, and then launches into a declaration that capitalism is pretty much over and we will trade knowledge as currency now.

Just exhausting stuff

The disparity between fields and rigor of peer-review is wild. I've been scrutinized for citing the wrong edition of a particular book, meanwhile some people are just having AI write the whole damn lit review apparently.

"Licensing" is just code for going around the world to beg septuagenarian policy makers for a trillion dollars after showing them a sassy chat bot that summarize omnibus bills in more detail than they were going to read them.

Fine, we'll submit it to arXiv and drum up some hysteria for it on LessWrong! 😂

AI’s Sociological Era - Jenny L. Davis, Mona Sloane, 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a social structure cloaked in technical blackboxes and polarizing narratives. Sociology is the study of society from a structura...

AI industry folks desperately need to read this.

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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...