Posts by Bertitude
What'd I say?
SLOW DOWN and always— ALWAYS— start from the ground position that any claims made by any spokesperson for any "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is an instance of them lying to you to hype their product and get your money.
If she wants it she needs to step up now and be a leader. Work is there to be done. People need to see her lead without a position dangling over her head
his dark materials was a parable for kids to be openminded and curious. which is more important than any kind of "intelligence" that sam altman and his homunculi ilk value
The article spends a lot of time glazing the new model with ZERO journalistic or academic rigor yet is given a headline and lede framed like fact.
They have to do better in how these opinion pieces are presented
While I am starkly aware that these tools could potentially do this(I used Claude to find malware in a site that was scraping card info). I have to ask.
Where is the independent confirmation of these claims? This is what peer review is for.
Original post: techhub.social/@Techmeme/11...
Our finance bros here been playing fast and loose but:
1. Why is the government so obsessed with this under-regulated pyramid/gambling scheme?
2. Why is this a national priority worth taking up the Finance Ministry's time?
Came across this thread on the "Stock market sandbox" and... isn't this just the process that should go into any company listing?
xcancel.com/mcewan_janie...
AMERICAAAAAAAA
The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh
*gestures at post*
Immigration laws are 75% racism and 25% iterating on past racism
Pardon my dust for the next 48 hours. I'm connecting my writing up to here.
This is going to end badly. It's a 3 card scheme involving government AND pension funds.
AND it's going up against OpenAI's supposed IPO. It's all an ego circlejerk and I would caution everyone to get on the phone to their various 401k/Pension/investment reps and say no to all of this.
I yearn for the solitude to be tormented by my thoughts.
God save the Queen
Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has expressed her disappointment with IOC President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women's events at the Olympics.
Played whackfuck with my knee and the washing machine earlier. The effects are just showing up
Can't wait to see the VFX pipeline for that scene in Ted Season 2.
"AI" is gonna be the same thing as "No VFX"
Do folks know that literacy and reading comprehension aren’t just gonna snap back?
Like it’s gonna involve a pedagogy
Asking this because I know the origin of the phrase but haven't parsed the broader cultural context.
Is "...pound of flesh" (whatever variation) anti-semetic? Has the cultural context moved beyond Shylock?
Wholly agree. As with every example of this in history, the tool was never the issue, it was the men who were making the decisions. Technology will change but humanity tends to repeat the same kind of decisions in new contexts
These would also give more legs to the reactive side (the other prong) of the law. It would let the harms that do slip through get caught and the better penalties and enforcement options.