antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago

They might want to put themselves in the ocean first, but great idea: sea water is famously friendly to machinery and accessing things on the sea is very easy and cheap at all times of the year.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

Vindicate Tanenbaum in the greatest Usenet thread in os development: make it a microkernel.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Oooh, I hope we get to see a lot of experimental-sounding puberty blocker and hormone replacement trials.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

In positive news, Darius has found a way to build an ethical chatbot https://tinysubversions.com/ethical-assistant/

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Look, the goat said I was having great ideas ok

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[takes a deep bong hit] Tokenomics

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Great idea, let’s seastead a data center next to some low income sea steading communities.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

All y’all still don’t get it: the singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

I’m sure this guy uses the ai quite a lot (and so would the guy in Married With Children)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

How can we, as a community, talk about the existential risk of climate change or the benefits of adopting renewable energy or cheer the development of ever-more-efficient power consumption

Well I have a good/bad news thing about that one

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

The “I will piledrive you” guy has a new post about working in an ai-pilled world now, and it’s pretty decent I find: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Favorite framing is that everyone is under enormous pressure not to commit heresy against the ai pilling, especially because you just don’t shit talk your customers.

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

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