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2 days agoWhat was the last non-gibberish thing Altman has said?
I feel like he has been playing the “you can only speak in gibberish” improv game for as long as I can remember.
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err, you sound like an FBI agent trying to provoke people into saying wild shit…
Na, let’s not talk about casually bombing media outlets, it only normalizes things further in a dark way.
9·2 days agoWhat bootlicking nonsense.
8·3 days agoKEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.
It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces-ulysses-1531186
And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.
Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/06/13/kevin-birmingham-ulysses
The real problem in this Sept. 8 decision is that the Supreme Court justices are now saying the quiet part aloud: Brown skin is a problem to be policed. And that leaves us with a dangerous question—can a country built on such contradictions hold together when its highest court openly sanctions racism against millions of its own people?
I don’t think it can or maybe it is that I don’t want to think about a preservation of so much suffering in an unnatural state of cruelty because it is too cynical.
No, the AI was most certainly trained on the same stack overflow posts as humans would manually search out in the past.
Thus the effective difference is precisely that between an active attempt to understand and blindly copying since the AI is specifically there to introduce a stochastic opaqueness between truth (i.e. sufficiently curated training data) and interpretation of truth.
There is a context to stackoverflow posts and comments that can be analyzed from many different perspectives by the human brain (who posted the question with what tone, do the answers/comments tend to agree, how long ago was it posted etc…), by definition the way LLMs work they destroy that in favor of a hallucinating-yet-authoritative disembodied voice.
Are you aware of a little thing called the climate catastrophe that is unfolding as we speak?
This is beautiful.
These are truly lyrics, they are begging for a banger of a pop music video.
71·7 days agoI’m curious—how do you see AI shaping the future of healthcare?
Exactly the way United Healthcare uses AI, as a way to obscure culpability in mass murder through rejection and divestment from essential healthcare systems so that human experts can be replaced with bullshit that constantly fails, hurts and eventually kills vulnerable people.
The AI functions solely as a tool to rationalize the dehumanization and devaluing of human life for profit.
No this is a contraction of the commons
“deadly strike” is how you describe the attack of a poisonous snake, this was indiscriminate murder, it is an act of state sponsored terrorism (even if there had been drugs on the boat it wouldn’t change that).
Well I am all for them and other similar cancers being litigated more then!
More chances for me to celebrate!
Never been so happy for or felt so much hope from a successful copyright infringement case before what a weird inversion of circumstance.
Fuck AI.
Now the bubble just needs to pop already :)
yes and it occupies the lands of an amazing diversity of indigenous peoples too :( may they prosper in the ruins of this empire!
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When did I blame all of my problems on the West?
Do you think when I stub my toe that I proclaim “Damn you judeo-christian western european values!!” in anger at the sky?
I mean, yes in so far as you can generalize, of course I am jealous of that!? You think I like being stuck at the bottom of a cruel hole lined with gold and bullet casings?
What I am saying is open your eyes to your own history and recognize it is part of the same system and process whether or not the locus of power is currently within your empire or not.
I don’t make this argument as a form of nihilistic relativism or try to rope other countries into the miserable complicity in yet another genocide the US has condemned itself too participating in. The US deserves FAR MORE blame than Germany, the UK, France or any other European country does.
My point however is, don’t lose focus of the fact that the US is a cancerous reflection of the same tendencies towards empire, fascism, ethnic cleansing and xenophobia European history is full of. US history unfolds directly out of the worst parts of European history, you cannot deny it and if you continue to do so you hamstring your capacity to understand the coming threat to Europe that will eat away at everything your society holds dear in the name of fear of terrorism and the silhouette of an immigrant threatening to join your community and become your neighbor…
The US deserves the vast majority of the blame here (along with Israel of course). The truth is though, for many in Germany and the UK including those at the highest levels of power they are if anything jealous to be missing out on the colonialism and genocide. Again, the US is absolutely the primary problem but… really? You are going to act like the US isn’t just following in the footsteps of the brutal colonial empires of England and Germany?
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday defended his characterization of Israel’s airstrikes on Iran as “dirty work,” saying his remarks received widespread support despite some criticism.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with state premiers in Berlin, Merz stood firmly behind his earlier comments that Israel was doing necessary “dirty work” for Western nations through its military actions against Iran’s nuclear program.
Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley though, he is on a whole different level of hallucinatory nonsense that powerful people at the top are enamored by.