antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 2 days 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 week 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.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

The right to bodily autonomy includes doing incredibly dangerous/untested shit to your body that will hurt you until you die; but it does not include posting through it (that is that secondary right to free expression, which also allows us to point and laugh).

Anyway, gg Johnson, maybe one day you’ll realize we are all tiny sparks trapped in decaying bags of flesh and the only thing that matters is what we do with that.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

But it hurts our minds all the same

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

Oh don’t worry, it’s slop-generated anyway. You can ask the LLM to summarize it for you.

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

If you let openclaw do everything else, why not also let it register a domain name

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

This kind of humanity-affirming infrastructure work is illegal in most western jurisdictions

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I choose to read this as “you have to choose which to destroy”

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

~~Ah, so I guess the reports of increased datacenter water usage driven by AI deployments ... weren't a lie?~~

~~Jeff Bezos, quoted in MSN:~~

~~Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down~~

Ah, apparently this quote is a fabrication that doesn't appear in the transcript. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/davidcrespo.bsky.social/post/3mootuvppjs2c, Transcript with correction: https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/

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

Gotta love it when people who try to cause problems for others run into the consequences of their actions and then try to make these consequences everyone else’s problem.

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

Someone saw the infinite orgasming shrimp idea and decided to pivot.

 

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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