Steve Turner

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

The fact that computer science is highly connected with Epstein should surprise exactly no one at this point

Silicon Valley is a cult.

Not something that looks like a cult, but an actual, literal, non-figurative, end-times death cult with direct historical ties to the maniac fringe of 20th century charismatic religious movements.

Clippy Designed To Just Tell People What They Want To Hear in 'telling dangerous, abusive people who harm others that they're right to do so' shock

Threads is what happens when you make Instagram influencers use more words than pictures.

This is a ludicrous hypothetical. I mean, what if I could fly to the Jupiter, or become invisible? Why do you think AI will just make everything magically wonderful?

A major issue with “the left refuses to engage with AI” is that, at heart, the industry wants complete deregulation and zero safeguards, and there’s no meaningful way for the left to engage with that. Engaging with the technology itself is a secondary or maybe even tertiary issue.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."

And.

Yup.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

But the idea these techbros have that they'll be able to input a book, comic, script, or even a string of prompts, and AI will pump out something remotely watchable (turning them into a FILMMAKER!) is a fever dream had by absolute bucketheads who have zero idea how movies are actually made.

'Greatness Never Dies': Adam Sandler, Viola Davis, and More Honor Robert Duvall Robert Duvall's co-stars, including Adam Sandler, Viola Davis, and Michael Keaton, are sharing tributes to the legendary actor, who died at age 95.

“A titan.” Stars from Adam Sandler to Viola Davis, Walton Goggins, Marisa Tomei, and more are honoring Robert Duvall following the actor’s death yesterday at 95.
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Duvall with cue cards on his chest while James Caan and Brando rehearse

& always a team player, as seen in this Godfather outtake shot, where he's the cue card man for Marlon Brando

What a wonderful way to remember a legendary actor.

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

And the complaints like this are always leveled at the small creators who really can’t afford to just “give their work away”. Do they whine about say the NYT in the same way?

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.

The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.

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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.

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Thank you for providing a specific example! So much of this conversation has been super vague.

You can also go into the Mail app, start a new message, tap the paperclip attachment option and then have options to scan text or Scan document, one of which should be good for what you need, saves scan as PDF file. Email to yourself or whoever.

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Everything is damaged by social media now.

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Russians paid crypto to restore Starlink. Ukrainian hackers took the money – and the data Fake registration channels collected data on Russian units, contacts, and terminal locations.

Ukrainian hackers say they set up fake Starlink activation channels - and Russians fell for it.

They collected 2,400 data packages on Russian terminals, pocketed $6,000 in crypto, and passed it all to Ukrainian authorities. Every identified terminal was permanently disabled.