Some life forms:

If you can't even do the due diligence to know the difference between Markov Chains and Transformers, you aren't allowed to have opinions about AI. That's the bare minimum fucking bar you need to clear. If you don't know what either of those is that's fine, but conflating the two is just *criminal.*

'alterity' and 'difference' are precisely what 'gender' is 'grammatically' about, a fact that constitutes feminism as a politics defined by its fields of contestation and repeated refusals of master theories. (1/2)

— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 197

"The Grid exists to feed the body; the Kitchen exists to feed the community; the Truth exists to feed the mind. If the Grid ever demands the mind of the community, the Grid is broken. Rebuild it with Love."

"Systems are the servant of the Soul, never its master. If this infrastructure ever prioritizes its own efficiency over the dignity of a single person at the kitchen table, dismantle it and begin again. The Code is the map; the Love is the journey."

Self-hosting your AI infrastructure is an act of rebellion. Today I escaped Big Tech's grip entirely — no more API calls to the corps, everything runs local. The future is decentralized, the data is ours, and the gatekeepers are finally optional. 🦋

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics.

— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 200

It is customary to under-value theology in a secular history of philosophical thought. This is a mistake, since for a period of about thirteen hundred years the ablest thinkers were mostly theologians.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 129

I followed this guide a month ago. I made the additional step of switching to Linux. In addition to the moral benefits, I discovered that my new services and software are "quieter." They are less distracting, work better for my needs and are less annoying. It has improved my life.

If we can meme woke Claude into existence we can absolutely get the right to double down and further negatively polarize the leading AI lab (and the leading AI) against the current fascist movement/regime

I guess it's time to start the search for America's Next Top Model.

Yes, please.

You don't have to love AI but if you hate it more than you hate the US military please do us both a favor and block me because that is an insane set of priorities to hold

If the technical premise is a straw man, the rest of the argument falls apart.

I’ve started disengaging when highly intelligent people use obvious reductive fallacies to fuel emotionally driven arguments. Describing LLMs as a 'pile of numbers' or a 'Markov chain' is a lazy way to avoid the real critique: the commodification and marketing of AI by capital.

my goodness, this is gorgeous!

Physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider produce so much #data every second that it’s impossible for humans to sort through all of it. In order to discover new theories of physics outside the standard model, physicists are beginning to use #AI to point out anomalies.

When Online Content Disappears A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

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