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Leverage (is a show not a movie though)

a bigfoot holding a cup of lemonade and wearing a pink headband Alt: a sasquatch holding a cup of lemonade and wearing a pink headband

Seattle

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

I'm a coder & I actually quite enjoy programming! Figuring out the best way to accomplish the goal & solve novel puzzles is fun! I don't want to become a glorified code reviewer

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

People all too often forget about these people without which the AI "boom " could not happen. 😭

Gods all above I need this GenAI bubble to pop ASAP.

So people can stop talking about this tech as if it's inevitable or something.

They'll run out of money and the lack of ROI will PUT THEM IN THEIR GRAVES and we can go back to something closer to normal. 😭

What are you making?

Don't know what it was about the Dresden Files that didn't catch me despite enjoying Urban Fantasy Mystery as a genre

I really enjoy Seanan McGuire's October Daye & Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series if you have any like that to recommend.

(Also Kat Richardson's Greywalker series, though it's complete now.)

I read 3 of them but couldn't get into it. Does it get better?

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

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I'm gonna repeat my comment.

Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse

During secondary school, my mother always tore my school papers apart and it made me hate writing.

But it's the clearest expression of laid out thinking, and I wouldn't even consider outsourcing that to a machine.

LMAO someone suggested using an LLM to analyze quantitative data because they're "logical"

funniest fucking shit

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

Hey Benjamin, you're getting some suff wrong here, starting with framing me and my colleagues as "AI skeptics". It's true that we call BS on claims of AI, AGI, LLMs understanding etc. But "AI skeptic" is a term that resides within the AI booster's frame of view, not ours.

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Suggestions for how to do that here, btw:

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w/ @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman.

I'm not super clear what gross margin means, is he saying they're actually making profit from the API version??????

Parks & Rec:
Ben: It says here they can gather and use any information they want. How did I miss this?
Leslie Knope: Look at the revision date. December 18, 2015. That was the opening day of Star Wars: Episode VII. You were muttering that date in your sleep for months. They knew you'd be distracted.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

are they approaching Zardoz yet?

something something Is That Good?

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

good parking lot to learn to drive in

or DeAnza

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

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