Adriano D'Alessandro

misogyny, the only narrative available to them as they try to desperately make their lives coherent.

the sort of data that is most lucrative to the apps and we spend our lives interacting with a torrent of data on those apps. And, because of this we find ourselves living in this perpetual and flattening present, without any connection to the past or future. It is not surprising that men turn to

I've been reading a bit of Byung-Chul Han, recently, and I'm starting to think the male loneliness epidemic is just a byproduct of digital ecosystems destroying our ability to form coherent narratives about our lives. Dating is reduced to listing of algorithm friendly facts. We convert ourselves to

Paper idea: Adversarial images but for people. When shown this image of a real sand sculpture, organic intelligence tends to identify it as fake.

I think fondly of that giant pile of sulfur. The shoreline wouldn't be the same without it.

I did. I disagree with it. But I'm specifically responding to the point that zero Palestinian lives have been saved. It's an extremely cynical outlook based on something unmeasurable and so it's just vibes. And those vibes are revealing.

by. If no one was looking the far right religious ethnonationalists in power would have already killed or displaced every single Palestinian.

We should take an active and moral opposition to the people who permit or engage in genocide irrespective of a cynical utilitarian exchange. We should engage in this opposition because genocide is bad. Full stop.

But also her calculus is wrong. There IS a permissibility structure that Israel abides

The downside of West 4th is that there is almost no public greenspace. Lots and lots of foot traffic but the area is built almost exclusively with cars in mind. Previous Khats festivals have been a bit rough because there's no tree cover on 4th and the road turns into a griddle if the sun's out.

Maybe have an LLM that checks for review quality before a reviewer can submit? I.e. check if the review makes specific/ measurable claims and provides references to support the claims. I feel AAAI is going the wrong way by having LLMs provide reviews but I think LLMs can be quality controls.

cultural atmosphere that emerges from this fact. Gen AI can only rehash approximations of the past, and that too is a problem for us because it reduces our ability to imagine novel futures. And given how pervasive these tools are already, it guarantees a complete collapse of horizon for change.

We need to focus on all deleterious effects because generative AI will impact culture at the same scale that the internet did. There are many people I know who filter all thoughts and decisions through ChatGPT, and given that AI is simply an approximation of past data, we will see a new pervasive

an accelerated, pervasive and imperceptible perpetual present where people are completely stripped of any subjecthood. And alongside labor replacement, humanity itself will be without any narrative.

He's talking about periods in music but it reminded me a lot of the current role of ChatGPT across all industries. The thing is, deep learning by definition requires training on the past. And thus it only reproduces a statistical approximation of the past. My fear then is that modern AI will create

On deep learning and late capitalism: I was listening to a talk by Mark Fisher on the "Slow Cancellation of the Future" and he makes this point that the internet has made the past available in a decontextualized way where it becomes an aesthetic choice rather than anything coherent and organized.

Damn 😥

and "freeing Israel" has the same solution -- afford sovereignty, self-determination, and the right of return to Palestinians. You will probably eventually need reparations, as well.

There is no freeing Gaza from Hamas because Hamas is a symptom. You will often see militant groups emerge when there is a struggle for sovereignty against an occupying power. Consider historic sovereignty struggles in Ireland, or present sovereignty struggles in Kashmir, Kurdistan, etc. Freeing Gaza

Elevated heart rate? Focus in shambles? Ah, yes, it's decision day for #ICCV2025 🤢🥶

Bill Clinton was elected as governor at 32 years old and president at 46.

You need one more sad rejected person to match the typical acceptance rate.

The predictive power of the 20 year nostalgia cycle is unparalleled.

Labubu? B-2, too

two people are standing in front of a blue circle that says ' o ' on it ALT: two people are standing in front of a blue circle that says ' o ' on it

Running through all the rituals hoping the ACs let my borderline paper through 😬

Interesting! Is this shared between conference committees? Like, do openreview profiles have a hidden reviewer score?

What are they collecting the information for? Just to get a general sense of review quality?

Either way, if qualified authors will be expected to review in the future it may be valuable to provide feedback to them!

Will reviewers get to see this? I'd love to have feedback on my reviews.

o4-mini-high doesn't know about "Loss"

in our society and relating to ChatGPT to "improve" our productivity puts us in a new history decided by the owners of LLMs.