antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Discord have a new questionnaire up, to determine how their users think about “ai”: https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Breconstruction

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine how many electrons those space air conditioners must be using!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Sounds like a way to identify people who think of power requirements as energy going in, rather than energy that also has to be dissipated. Wonder how circular the Venn diagram of electron guys vs space datacenter guys is.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A pal: “I take back everything I ever said about humanoid robots being useless”

And… same

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Impressive side fact: looks like they sent him an unsolicited email generated by a fucking llm? An impressive failure to read the fucking room.

Not like that exact bullshit has been attempted on the community at large by other shitheads last year, but then originality was never the clanker wankers’ strength

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 4 weeks ago

Here’s a substack post (sorry) with a quote I found both neat and pretty funny:

Integrity comes from the Latin "integer," meaning whole or complete. A person with integrity is "whole" in the sense that their words, actions, and values are unified rather than fragmented or contradictory. They understand themselves; they have integrated the warring parts of themselves; and they respect and act on the values that their parts can agree upon.

Rationalists in shambles

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Something intensely satisfying seeing this the same week as id software becoming a union shop.

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

Workers organizing against genai policies in the workplace: http://workersdecide.tech/

Sounds like exactly the thing unions and labor organizing is good for. Glad to see it.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re doing eugenics ads on the nyc subway https://hexa.club/@phooky/115640559205329476

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Yup that’s one of them. The cryptonomicon protagonist no-nut-Novembering all the way to the ww2 treasure is another special fave

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Lmao imagine reading a Stephenson book and being peeved that it ends

(His sex scenes are far far far worse than his endings, those are a mercy)

 

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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